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IBM Extends Notes, Domino Reach

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:15:00 EDT

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 Designer tools available for free. Domino’s automatic synching for e-mail, contacts and calendar data now reaches the iPhone.

Wireless Logic Partners with Teldat

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:55:59 EDT

• 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 to integrate with existing router.

GSMA Announces Release 2 Service Specification

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 04:00:00 EDT

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 will encourage new and innovative ideas for future RCS-based services.

ITV Builds Efficient, High-Performance Online Broadcasting Site

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:30:00 EDT

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 SATABeast Xi. Using Nexsan's evolutionary AutoMAID (Automatic Massive Array of Idle Disks) energy saving technology, ITV.com has also dramatically reduced overall datacenter power consumption and cooling costs without compromising online editing productivity.

CallWave Announces the Commercial Release of Fuze Meeting

Wed, 27 May 2009 16:05:00 EDT

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 virtualization technologies, Fuze Meeting creates a business collaboration solution built entirely on an Internet-based model, or “in the cloud.”

Next Generation Mobile Enterprise Application Platform

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 10:30:00 EDT

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 device. It combines 4GL tooling and integration with standard development environments for quick development, deployment across heterogeneous devices and market-leading device management in a comprehensive platform to handle all of an enterprise’s mobile application requirements.

RFID Prospering at All Levels

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:00:00 EDT

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 Department in Poland. VeriFone has just taken an order for 20,000 readers for the Australian Cabcharge taxi payment cards.

iPhone 3G - MobileMe vs. Live Mesh

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:00:00 EDT

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 application, including Outlook on the PC and iCal, Mail, and Address Book on the Mac and iPhone. This also includes the old iDisk functionality which allows you to share files among all of your devices using file synchronization technologies. iDisk works, but don't ever try to code directly on an iDisk folder with Xcode unless you have a back-up. Hopefully this peculiarity has been fixed in MobileMe.

iPhone 3G and First Third-Party iPhone Apps

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:15:00 EDT

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 expanded the addressable market for the iPhone, such that it now has at least some claim to be a mainstream device. The big increase in available countries will further add to the potential market size, and Apple should now have no problems reaching its near-term goals for iPhone sales. The bigger question now is whether it will be able to keep up with demand.

Red Hat Named "Platinum Sponsor" of Virtualization Conference & Expo

Thu, 29 May 2008 14:30:00 EDT

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, and Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions, including the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite.

Steve Jobs Loses His Mind - Sues "The Big Apple"

Tue, 27 May 2008 21:15:00 EDT

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, including the iPhone and Macs. New Yorkers are pissed off! New York City, universally known as The Big Apple, is facing a lawsuit from Steve Jobs' Apple Computer Inc. for, of all things, copyright infringement.

Dell Unveils Virtualization Lineup

Fri, 09 May 2008 13:45:00 EDT

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.

Apple Buys PowerPC Chip House, Confusing Everybody

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:00:00 EDT

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 displace with its newfangled Atom processor.

Motorola Invests in VirtualLogix' Real-Time Virtualization

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:00:00 EDT

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. Cisco, Intel and Texas Instruments as well as Atlas Ventures and DFJ Esprit have also invested in the start-up.

Is the Silverlight Adoption Rate Artificially Inflated?

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:45:00 EDT

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. BUT, when you're looking for case studies, look for ones where the person or organization who adopted Silverlight did so of their own volition, without being approached by Microsoft. I'm interested in hardcore, unbiased opinions from people who have been in the trenches doing their own coding, not watching Microsoft consultants do the coding for them. There are plenty of case studies like that out there, you just have to look past the shiny bouncing balls that are the Olympics and the Oscars and all the other crap that probably cost Microsoft a hojillion dollars in marketing funds and incentives.

Adobe Reorgs: Mandels and Ramadan Gone, Lynch in Charge of the Whole Magilla

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:15:00 EDT

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 the whole magilla now. Gary Kovacs, VP of product management and marketing for the mobile and devices business, will be general manager of the unit, reporting to Lynch, replacing Al Ramadan, who is leaving.

Adobe Wants to Be on the iPhone and Will "Reorganize" Its Mobile and Device Business Unit

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:45:00 EDT

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 going to do what it takes to appease Jobs. It does want to be on the iPhone and needs Apple's help.

Zimbra Expands Mobile E-mail to Java-Enabled Devices

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:30:00 EDT

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) Open Source and Network Edition users worldwide with free access to the Zimbra experience with e-mail and calendar on mass-market Java-enabled mobile phones. This extends Zimbra's reach of services to the broadest range of devices available in the market and builds on Yahoo!'s e-mail and mobile Web services and as a key starting point for consumers.

Adobe Puts Out AIR for Linux

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 05:30:00 EDT

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 says Linux developers can use HTML, AJAX, Flash and Flex to build rich Internet applications (RIAs) that deploy to desktops across operating systems.

AJAXWorld Report: Inaugural iPhone Developer Summit in New York City

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 05:30:00 EDT

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 everybody else on the internet has no problem violating NDAs, when I click 'Agree', I know what I am agreeing to and I intend to stick to that agreement.

Windows Mobile Discussion During iPhone Developer Summit

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:15:00 EDT

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 with Windows Mobile.

Sybase Releases Secure Email at "iPhone Developer Summit" in New York City

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:30:00 EDT

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 Exchange enterprise email to iPhone users, in addition to a broad range of other mobile devices. Sybase iAnywhere?s unique approach to providing enterprise email support for the iPhone reduces potential security concerns while still providing a rich user experience utilizing native iPhone applications.

GETAC Introduces New PDA at ESRI Partner Conference

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:45:00 EDT

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 technology and features in a Fully Rugged package.

JSR Watch: Java Mobile and Embedded Spotlight

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 06:30:00 EST

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, I thought it would be opportune to focus on Java ME in this month's column.

Why is O'Reilly Condoning iPhone Hacking?

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 19:15:00 EST

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 those good old days, 'hacks' which appeared in O'Reilly titles were actually just low-level down-and-dirty nuggets of pure gold that geeks and admins loved but were all perfectly legal.

Java ME Is Dead, Long Live Java ME

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 08:15:00 EST

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 designing web sites. Java ME is going to keep on chugging, maybe even seeing a rebirth, for quite a while yet.

HP Goes with Mobile Thin Client

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:00:00 EST

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 other day looking much like HP's. HP's thing, which starts at $725, has no drive or fan or any moving parts at all; it's thoroughly solid-state including the 1GB flash module.

Does That Mean Nokia Won't Be Doing a Google Phone?

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:45:00 EST

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 its members with third-party access to the APIs, and not Google's flashier Linux-based Android effort. The acquisition is practically in the bag.

Java ME to Android Conversion Offerings

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:00:00 EST

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.

How to Display Safari Address Bar on iPhone v1.1.3

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:30:00 EST

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 looking for changes in Safari that might impact iPhone web application developers. One that I noticed right away is that Safari is no longer fooled by the 1-pixel scroll trick. In case you're not familiar with this trick, the way it worked is that under previous versions of the iPhone software, if you scrolled the web page slightly, then the address bar would hide itself. iPhone web application developers took advantage of this to make their applications look a little more 'native' by using JavaScript to simulate a user scroll of just one pixel.

Popcorn + TiVo + Macbook Pro + iPhone = Hell Yeah!

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:15:00 EST

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 addition of a fairly cheap piece of software (Popcorn) to the hardware I already own, I was able to add a lot more value to my TiVo recordings. From TiVo to iPhone took me about 40 minutes for an episode, but that's because the TiVo is wireless and the Macbook Pro is admittedly not the fastest at video encoding. Either way, if you have a TiVo and an iPhone, you need to go buy a copy of Popcorn.

Intel & OLPC Split-City

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:30:00 EST

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 green-and-white widget, the thing that was supposed to cost $100 and currently costs $188. Intel only took the board seat and promised millions of dollars in financial aid last July after the head of OLPC, Nicholas Negroponte, complained about Intel's interference with his brainchild and its potential third-world buyers on television's '60 Minutes.'

New Device Development Features in Visual Studio 2008

Tue, 25 Dec 2007 19:30:00 EST

Roughly two years ago, when I was writing an article on 'New Features for Device Developers in Visual Studio 2005' that was published in the August 2005 issues of this magazine, our program management team was already busy shaping the next release of the product, which is soon to be released as Visual Studio 2008. We spent a lot of time talking to our major customers and reviewing the feedback we got on blogs and questions on forums on newsgroups to identify what enhancements/features would be most useful to our device developers. One thing that surfaced was that device developers needed more help when it came to testing their applications efficiently. Whether that meant testing on multiple devices or under varying conditions or simply being able to write unit tests, they clearly needed help getting applications to market faster by reducing the testing time.

Perforce Software to Manage Software Development for Symbian Smartphones

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 08:15:00 EST

Perforce Software announced that Ixonos Plc, headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, has chosen Perforce, the Fast Software Configuration Management (SCM) System, to manage software development projects for its leading smartphone customers. Ixonos' telecommunications business unit specializes in the development, verification, maintenance and project management of software applications and information systems for licensees of the Symbian OS and smartphone manufacturers.

Open Web Developer Summit to Take Place April 21-22, 2008 in New York City

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:45:00 EST

In keeping with the longstanding SYS-CON tradition of being at the very forefront of software development with all its online and offline resources, SYS-CON Media & Events jointly today announced a double whammy, launching both 'Open Web Developer's Journal' (http://openweb.sys-con.com) and 'Open Web Developer Summit' (http://openweb.sys-con.com) - to be held for the first time in New York City April 21-22, 2008.

Motorola to Be Taken Over by RIM, HP or Dell: CNBC

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:00:00 EST

CNBC reported on Monday at 'Closing Bell' that Motorola maybe a logical take over target by Dell, HP, or Rim, at $21-22 per share target price. Motorola CEO Ed Zander's chair wasn't even cold yet when the company's CTO Padmasree Warrior, with the company for 23 years, suddenly decided to 'pursue other opportunities' and was out the door. Twenty-four hours later she turned up at Cisco as CTO, reporting to CEO John Chambers, who called her a 'visionary.' Obviously the move has been in the works for a while. The Wall Street Journal says she's into 'seamless mobility,' where multiple devices share the same video, voice and data. It jibes with Cisco's vision.

SMobile Predicts Spike in Mobile Viruses Once Google Phone Hits the Market

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:00:00 EST

According to SMobile Systems, the launch of Google Phone platform will be among the most positive transformational moments in mobile communications history by further merging computers with mobile devices. But while millions of people will now be able to 'compute on the run,' those same consumers will be a high-value target for hackers, spammers and others intent on hacking the new phones.

Sauers Technologies Releases Public Beta of BundleWorks Application Management Tool

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 13:30:00 EST

For building applications, BundleWorks includes ant tasks and command line tools to allow developers to build standard bundles for both custom and third-party applications. For testing, BundleWorks allows a developer to create and manage multiple environments to test multiple versions of applications. For deployment, BundleWorks supports local and remote deployment and provides a library of functions to handle common deployment tasks. For maintentance, BundleWorks tracks all bundle actions and configuration changes providing a complete history of activity.

Is Motorola the Next Sun? Thanks to Ed Zander

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:15:00 EST

Since Ed Zander led Sun into the valley of the shadow of death back, what? over five years ago now, it has never recovered. And there's a good chance the same thing may happen to Motorola. With a year left to run on his contract, Zander quit yesterday and clearly not a moment too soon given the events of the last year or so. There are people who would have gladly ridden him out of town on a rail months ago and it's assumed he's resigning now to avoid getting fired. Zander, whose telecom experience consisted of answering the phone, was brought in four years ago to narrow the lead in phones between a first-place Nokia and a second-place Motorola. Motorola is now in third place, losing ground to both Nokia and Samsung, its market share sheered from 20.7% a year ago to 13.1% now.

An Incredible New Device to Charge Your iPhone and Blackberry

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:45:00 EST

Mitch Randall, the company's founder and Chief Technology Officer, adds that 'With the recent introduction of our first products, we made a step towards eliminating the need for consumers to regularly lug around multiple bulky chargers, adapters and cords for every battery-powered mobile device they carry, or to struggle with congested outlets and power strips.' Randall advises that 'our products offer true environmental benefits. By eliminating the need for each device to use its own wall plug, our products reduce standby electricity drain when devices are not actually plugged in. Our products further minimize the need to dispose of used AC adapters and chargers when consumers upgrade to newer models of mobile devices, as they regularly do.'