By Ian Thain  It came to me whilst watching the London 2012 Olympics and after reading Eric Lai's blog last week, that mentioned Mobile Apps used during the Olympics, that not only is London 2012 aiming to Inspire a Generation but the Mobile age that we are in now will also have the same effect. We ... Aug. 6, 2012 08:57 AM EDT Reads: 2,185 |
By Pat Romanski  Salesforce.com, the enterprise cloud computing company, released the results of a study it commissioned with WSP Environment & Energy, which estimates that customers of salesforce.com's cloud computing services produce 95 percent less carbon, on average, compared with running equivalen... Mar. 3, 2011 02:00 PM EST Reads: 5,537 |
By John Funnell  The telecoms industry is once under attack from falling stocks with Verizon Communications and AT&T Inc both seeing drops of 1.5 percent. Is this a true reflection of how the industry is progressing?
Despite low figures the latest Intel acquirement of McAfee adds a new dimension to th... Aug. 24, 2010 04:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,008 |
By Dominique Jodoin  Does it seem like everyone is ganging up on Adobe these days? Apple and Microsoft have made some bold moves lately in an attempt to prevent Adobe’s Flash technology from transferring the same dominance it has on the PC onto mobile devices.
At the recent Mobile World Congress exhibitio... Apr. 9, 2010 10:30 PM EDT Reads: 7,074 |
By Ian Thain  Today, only three days after the iPad hit the streets, Sybase has announced that Sybase Afaria will support security and management of the knock-out device. Business specific apps will be developed that allow the Mobile Information Worker to take full advantage of the new device. These... Apr. 6, 2010 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 4,936 |
By Lavenya Dilip  Black Duck Software, which provides comprehensive open source software services, reports that mobile open source thrived in 2009 even as the rest of the high-tech industry lagged behind on account of the recession.
The software company also powers Koders.com, a code search engine for ... Mar. 16, 2010 02:59 PM EDT Reads: 4,136 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Sometime this year the slate HP demo’d at the Consumer Electronics Show is going to go into competition with Apple’s newfangled iPad.
HP is kinda ticked that Apple is stealing its thunder. It’s been working on the dingus for five years and says it could have put it out two years ago ... Mar. 12, 2010 10:00 PM EST Reads: 7,649 |
By iPhone News Desk  AppGate Network Security, a company within The Cryptzone Group, will in the next version of its Security Server support Apple's iPhone as a client platform. Now, users of the iPhone will be able to securely login to their company network to safely gain access to corporate information, ... Mar. 11, 2010 05:50 AM EST Reads: 5,033 |
By Maureen O'Gara  IBM says it’s putting Notes and Domino collaboration software on mobile and web-connected devices such as the iPhone, Nokia smartphones, thin clients, laptops and desktops used to access corporate applications and business processes. In search of market share it will make Domino Design... Oct. 9, 2009 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 4,862 |
By NeonDrum News  • Standard fixed line routers transformed to provide failsafe back-up when networks fail • Cost effective 3G back-up for remote locations and without internal coverage issues • Wireless Logic integrates SIM technology within Teldat 3GE Routers • First available wireless back-up system ... Sep. 21, 2009 09:55 AM EDT Reads: 3,216 |
By Wireless News Desk  The GSMA, which represents the interests of the mobile communications
industry, today announced the release of the next set of Rich Communication
Suite (RCS) service specifications, RCS Release 2. The GSMA has also launched
the RCS DevChallenge, a competition for developers that ... Sep. 21, 2009 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,147 |
By Joe Austin  Nexsan, a leading provider of energy-efficient, long-term disk storage, today announced that ITV, the biggest commercial television network in the UK, has increased the storage capacity and performance for its online broadcasting site, ITV.com, by 20 percent with the high-density SATAB... Jul. 16, 2009 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,892 |
By Wireless News Desk  CallWave has announced the release of Fuze Meeting, the company’s online conferencing and HD collaboration service. Fuze Meeting provides desktop sharing and HD video collaboration on any desktop, netbook and on select mobile devices. By embracing the recent breakthroughs in virtualiza... May. 27, 2009 04:05 PM EDT Reads: 4,048 |
By Ian Thain  Sybase Unwired Platform is Sybase’s next-generation architecture for Mobile Enterprise Application Platform Development. It provides a set of comprehensive services that allow customers to mobilize appropriate data and business processes for enterprises using virtually any mobile devic... Mar. 27, 2009 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 5,675 |
By Peter Harrop While the RFID orders for half a billion dollars grab the headlines, RFID is in fact prospering at all levels. Consider the flood of orders at the one million dollar level, spread across the world. On Track Innovations has just supplied 1.5 million RFID cards to the Warsaw Transport De... Sep. 5, 2008 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,917 |
By Kevin Hoffman  So how does this relate to MobileMe? MobileMe is, according to Phil Schiller's keynote, 'Exchange for the rest of us'. What this means is that using MobileMe, you will receive push contacts, push e-mail, and push calendar notifications. This will work with any MobileMe-aware applicatio... Jun. 12, 2008 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 17,793 Replies: 1 |
By Jan Dawson  Up to this point, the iPhone has been a device for gadget fanatics and big spenders, while shortcomings like the price and lack of 3G have limited the addressable market considerably. By adding 3G, GPS and enterprise support and lowering the starting price, Apple has just dramatically ... Jun. 10, 2008 09:15 PM EDT Reads: 15,878 Replies: 1 |
By Pat Romanski  Red Hat is a trusted open source provider. Red Hat offers enterprise customers a long-term plan for building infrastructures on the quality and innovation of open source. Combining open source operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with applications, management... May. 29, 2008 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 47,206 |
By Salvatore Genovese  Friday morning the local Fox television station in New York City broke the news - Apple was suing New York City. Six out of 100 of their viewers thought Apple had the right to sue the City, but 94 out of 100 viewers are now calling for New Yorkers to drop Apple and its products, includ... May. 27, 2008 09:15 PM EDT Reads: 32,271 Replies: 2 |
By Virtualization News  Dell announced its broadest lineup of dedicated virtualization solutions ever. More than a dozen new servers, tools, and services simplify the deployment and management of virtualization in Enterprises of any size. May. 9, 2008 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 13,492 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Apple has finally bought PA Semi, the fab-less low-power PowerPC start-up that supposedly swooned when Apple switched from the PowerPC Intel. What Apple's going to do with it now become fodder for the speculators. The iPhone uses an 32-bit ARM-derived chip that Intel would love to disp... Apr. 28, 2008 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 11,711 |
By Maureen O'Gara Motorola, which needs all the help it can get, has invested some undisclosed amount of money in VirtualLogic, the company that can put multiple operating systems concurrently in embedded devices like cell phones and infrastructure equipment complements of real-time virtualization. Cisc... Apr. 22, 2008 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 8,906 Replies: 1 |
By Kevin Hoffman  Silverlight 2.0 is a freaking phenomenal RIA development environment and I would actually, at this point, put the development experience in Silverlight 2.0 above and beyond Flex. I can do more faster and have it look better and run more efficiently in Silverlight 2.0 than I can in Flex... Apr. 21, 2008 05:45 PM EDT Reads: 36,056 Replies: 5 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Told ya Adobe was gonna reorganize and put its mobile/devices operation in with its platform operation in the name of moving to a single technology platform and runtime for PCs, handsets and consumer devices. Adobe's new CTO Kevin Lynch, the creator of AIR, is basically in charge of th... Apr. 10, 2008 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 23,167 |
By Maureen O'Gara Rumor has it that in the next few weeks Adobe is going to 'reorganize' its Mobile and Device business unit where its Jobs-criticized Flash Lite lives and send the engineers to go work with the larger platform effort and Flash proper, which Jobs has also criticized. Presumably, Adobe is... Apr. 7, 2008 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 26,308 |
By Java News Desk Zimbra announced the availability of its ZimbraME (Java Mobile Edition) client and source code for businesses. Users of any Java-enabled mobile phone will have access to the industry's most complete collaboration solution. The ZimbraME client provides Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) O... Apr. 4, 2008 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 15,755 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Adobe has put an alpha pre-release of AIR for Linux up in hopes, it says, of getting feedback from the community, not to mention winning adherents. It's English-only. The company also joined the Linux Foundation to encourage the growth of RIA technologies on Linux, it said. The company... Apr. 4, 2008 05:30 AM EDT Reads: 18,816 |
By Kevin Hoffman  I want to thank everyone who showed up to share my enthusiasm for the iPhone as it is, what I believe, the mobile development platform to target. I also want to thank those people who tolerated my evasiveness and lack of detail during the SDK session. As I've said before, just because ... Mar. 30, 2008 05:30 AM EDT Reads: 24,757 |
By Kevin Hoffman  During the Q&A period after one of my sessions at the iPhone Developer Summit last Thursday, there was someone there from Microsoft Competetive Intelligence. She asked myself and some other folks who were lingering nearby to describe, in our unbiased opinions, what we thought was wrong... Mar. 25, 2008 11:15 PM EDT Reads: 24,679 Replies: 1 |
By iPhone News Desk  Sybase iAnywhere announced availability of support for Apple iPhone during the first international iPhone Developer Summit, colocated with AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2008 East. Information Anywhere now enables IT organizations to provide secure delivery of Lotus Domino and Microsoft E... Mar. 25, 2008 07:30 PM EDT Reads: 22,818 |
By Wireless News Desk  As an ESRI Corporate Hardware Partner, GETAC will demonstrate the Fully Rugged handheld PS535E on Sunday during the GIS Solutions Expo. Also on display will be the just-introduced GETAC E100 tablet, the workhorse M230 laptop, and the convertible V100 - all of which offer the latest tec... Mar. 13, 2008 06:45 PM EDT Reads: 9,985 |
By Patrick Curran  As I recently spoke at the Java Mobile & Embedded Developer Days conference at Sun's Santa Clara campus, and the yearly Mobile World Congress conference was held in Barcelona in February, and the majority of the JSRs that have been active in the past few weeks are in the mobile space, ... Feb. 29, 2008 06:30 AM EST Reads: 14,010 |
By Kevin Hoffman  So is O'Reilly actually condoning the hacking of the phones? O'Reilly has had a long and prestigious history as being the ultimate source for *nix manuals, including many books that became so dogeared I actually bought multiple copies, including dozens of 'in a nutshell' books. Back in... Feb. 16, 2008 07:15 PM EST Reads: 21,307 Replies: 7 |
By Barbara Ballard  4 of our 6 first quarter projects have major components in Java ME. These are new applications, from companies who understand the porting issues and the complexities. This quarter is not particularly different from other quarters: we get far more work designing applications than design... Feb. 15, 2008 08:15 AM EST Reads: 14,785 Replies: 1 |
By HP News Desk  HP is about to put out a novel 1GHz Celeron laptop it calls a mobile thin client, its first, apparently the result of its acquisition of Neoware. Wyse, the other remaining thin client maven, beat HP, now the market leader, to the punch a few months ago and added two more models the oth... Feb. 5, 2008 12:00 PM EST Reads: 12,391 |
By Maureen O'Gara Nokia is buying Trolltech, the publicly traded Norwegian open source ISV, for roughly $153 million cash. Gee, and Trolltech just joined the LiMo Foundation, the anti-Nokia/anti-Microsoft mobile consortium that's building a middleware-focused Linux handset platform that can be shared by... Feb. 4, 2008 03:45 PM EST Reads: 16,264 Replies: 1 |
By Java News Desk Tira Wireless unveiled new development and porting services that extend its mobile platform support beyond Java ME, BREW and smartphone platforms to include the Android platform built by the Open Handset Alliance. Jan. 22, 2008 04:00 PM EST Reads: 16,960 |
By Kevin Hoffman OK OK, so I admit I'm already running version 1.1.3 of the iPhone firmware. While I think it's fantastic that I now get the ability to add web icons to the home screen, and that the home screen has multiple pages, I usually spend my first few minutes on a new version of the firmware lo... Jan. 18, 2008 03:30 PM EST Reads: 15,459 Replies: 1 |
By Kevin Hoffman I plugged in the iPhone and now I've got several episodes worth of 'The Universe' that I can watch in the palm of my hand while I'm on the train. I'm sure everybody reading this has already realized how cool this ability is, but I'm new to the whole video conversion thing. So with the ... Jan. 17, 2008 11:15 AM EST Reads: 11,744 Replies: 2 |
By Maureen O'Gara  You have perhaps heard - given the amount of ink spilled on the story - that Intel quit the One Laptop Per Child board last week rather than get thrown off for badmouthing and competing against the altruistic non-profit and its cute little kid-friendly, customer-shy, AMD Geode-based gr... Jan. 12, 2008 12:30 PM EST Reads: 15,054 Replies: 1 |