By Jennifer Rung  Do you have digital camera? Do you record special events around you? Publish them on your website with the fast conversion without duration limit. Flash Video MX Std has been updated with better support to HD videos like AVCHD (MTS, M2TS), MOD, TOD formats. Nov. 6, 2009 02:45 PM EST Reads: 245 |
By Carmen Gonzalez  The first "Ulitzer New Media Power Panel" took place today at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California. Streamed live to 60,000 viewers via SYS-CON.TV, the panel was moderated by Jeremy Geelan. Geelan's guests in the first power panel were Ian Thain and Tim Crawford... Nov. 5, 2009 07:45 PM EST Reads: 429 |
By Ian Thain  This week just saw the SYS-CON iPhone Developer Summit come to the West Coast on November 3rd. Along with the unseasonal warm weather... it was a HOT event! The sessions were well attended by a good number of professional developers etc who were eager to learn, discuss and take the iPh... Nov. 4, 2009 09:00 PM EST Reads: 322 |
By Lars Hartkopf  Whether or not they know it, most hotels already have a presence on the mobile Web. Potential guests who pull up hotel Web sites on their cell phones often find poor displays and usability rather than a site specifically designed to meet their needs -- and convert them to bookings.
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By Open Source News  Funambol, a provider of open source mobile cloud sync and push email for billions of phones, today announced it has acquired Zapatec, Inc., a leader of AJAX web 2.0 frameworks. The acquisition enables Funambol to uniquely address the industry pervasive device fragmentation challenge th... Nov. 4, 2009 07:01 AM EST Reads: 371 |
By Cloud News Desk  Telcordia, a provider of communications network software and services for IP, wireline, wireless and cable, is enabling enterprises and government agencies to take advantage of the opportunities now available through the wide-spread adoption of cloud computing technologies. Telcordia i... Nov. 2, 2009 10:00 AM EST Reads: 330 |
By Marketwire .  The International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series is the world's leading Cloud-focused event and is held three times a year, in New York, Silicon Valley and in Europe. Over 200 corporate sponsors and 10,000 industry professionals have participated in Cloud Computing Expo since... Oct. 31, 2009 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 618 |
By Ian Thain  We are now only 5 days away from SYS-CON's iPhone Developer Summit in Santa Clara, CA. On Tuesday November 3rd the Santa Clara Convension center will be the place where you can hear nine presentations, most related to developing and using the iPhone in the Enterprise. Oct. 29, 2009 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 474 |
By Symbian News Desk  Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. (QuIC) and the Symbian Foundation today announced that QuIC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, has joined the Symbian Foundation and has been appointed to the Symbian Foundation board of directors. QuIC will support the Symbian Foundat... Oct. 29, 2009 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 466 |
By Ian Thain  I published an article in July 2009, which stated my thoughts and findings on Mobile Application User Interface design etc... Traditionally the actual GUI design Phase has probably been about 25% of the whole project time, but now with the iPhone and the nature of the beast that is the... Oct. 27, 2009 11:01 AM EDT Reads: 424 |
By Ian Thain  Following on from my articles on thoughts and findings of Enterprise Mobility, I have decided to delve a little deeper into the area of development. In particular I thought it would be fun to put down what I believe could be the skill set or attributes, of an Enterprise Mobility Develo... Oct. 26, 2009 08:50 AM EDT Reads: 492 |
By Liz McMillan  Carl Icahn announced today that he had informed the Board of Directors of Yahoo! Inc. that he was resigning as a director of Yahoo!. Mr. Icahn told the Board that in his view there was not a need at this time for an activist director at Yahoo! Mr. Icahn indicated that there are a numbe... Oct. 23, 2009 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 866 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Microsoft and Danger, obviously its most dangerous unit, were up at the crack of dawn Tuesday morning saying that they were ready to start restoring the Sidekick user data that Danger came ever so close to losing forever in the last couple of weeks. They sensibly started with personal ... Oct. 23, 2009 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 721 |
By iPhone News Desk  SYS-CON Events announced today that Rhomobile, Inc., the makers of the Rhodes smartphone development framework, will be Exhibiting at the 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, taking place November 2-4, 2009 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA. At the e... Oct. 23, 2009 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,162 |
By Ian Thain  This is the last in a series of five initial articles, in which I'm going to put my thoughts and findings on the subject of Enteprise Mobility. For this final article I have decided to sum up the thoughts and findings of the previous articles to form an initial set of 'Steps for Succes... Oct. 23, 2009 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 697 |
By Ian Thain  Online classes from ‘Sybase Mobile University’ will provide you with the knowledge you need to make your organization’s mobile projects a success. Let our top instructor bring you up to speed on the latest mobile application developments and how to overcome common pitfalls. There is no... Oct. 22, 2009 06:15 PM EDT Reads: 543 |
By Ian Thain  This is the fourth in a series of five initial articles, in which I'm going to put my thoughts and findings on the subject of Enteprise Mobility. For this penultimate article I've decided to raise the Risks to be aware of before and during implementation of an Enterprise Mobility Strat... Oct. 20, 2009 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 771 |
By Ian Thain  This is the third in a series of five initial articles, in which I'm going to put my thoughts and findings on the subject of Enterprise Mobility. For this article I've decided to discuss the Opportunities that lie in front of companies that undertake an Enterprise Mobility Strategy. Oct. 16, 2009 06:30 AM EDT Reads: 666 Replies: 1 |
By Maureen O'Gara  You have, perhaps, heard about the failure of the T-Mobile USA Sidekick smartphone – known for its remote data storage and the fact that (gad!) Paris Hilton is a devotee – and how Microsoft’s $500 million 2008 Danger acquisition, which invented the thing, managed to permanently lose wh... Oct. 15, 2009 07:30 PM EDT Reads: 635 |
By RealWire News Distribution  A joint development by SpinVox and Mutare Software, Mutare EVM with SpinVox Speech-to-Text, also known as Visual Voice, is an application implemented in Enterprises as a server-based software solution, it merges voice and data into one unified messaging experience and is compatible wit... Oct. 15, 2009 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 397 |
By Ian Thain  This week I had my attention drawn by a few interesting articles that seem to suggest that the increase into Enterprise Mobility has not occured yet. I am stating... 'Come into the Light of the Mobile Age or be DOOMED!', that is my call to the Mobile Luddites. Oct. 15, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 651 |
By Ian Thain  This is the second in a series of five initial articles, in which I'm going to put my thoughts and findings on the subject of Enteprise Mobility. For this article I've decided to tackle the way that Business is now viewing Mobility. This has definately changed over the last few years a... Oct. 15, 2009 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 594 |
By Bill Roth  BlackBerry recently pushed out another update of the OS for the BlackbBrry Bold, and it appears that wireless upgrades are still a problem. BlackBerry maker RIM has just posted another update for the phone, 4.6.0.297, that appears to be a set up patches on top of the previous upgrade. Oct. 15, 2009 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,022 |
By Jennifer Moebius  The Sidekick is made by Danger, a company acquired by Microsoft in 2008. As one of T-Mobile’s flagship mobile phones, the Sidekick was one of the first and most popular consumer smartphones. Featuring a real keyboard, it offered an instant messaging application at a time when many ph... Oct. 14, 2009 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 760 |
By Maureen O'Gara  You may have heard about the failure of the T-Mobile USA Sidekick smartphone– known for its remote data storage and the fact that (gad!) Paris Hilton is a devotee – and how Microsoft’s $500 million 2008 Danger acquisition, which invented the thing, managed to lose what looked for a whi... Oct. 14, 2009 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 749 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Cisco, which just plunked down $3 billion to buy Tandberg ASA, makers of videoconferencing gear, said Tuesday morning that it’s going to buy nine-year-old Starent Networks for $2.9 billion, a 21% premium.
Starent supplies mobile and converged carriers with IP-based mobile infrastru... Oct. 13, 2009 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 513 |
By Wireless News Desk  Market research firm, In-Stat (www.instat.com), believes we are entering a very critical time for smartphone OSs, as exemplified by four major smartphone announcements on October 6 from AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Palm, and Microsoft. “With Android on the upswing, Palm’s Web OS starting to... Oct. 12, 2009 01:01 AM EDT Reads: 870 |
By Maureen O'Gara  AT&T is reportedly going to offer a Dell Android-based smartphone to U.S customers of its cellphone network next year, according to an unconfirmed piece in the Wall Street Journal. Reuters says the thing will be a version of the Marvell Technology-designed oPhone “prototype” Dell showe... Oct. 9, 2009 04:30 PM EDT Reads: 633 |
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: 811 |
By Ian Thain  This is the first in a series of five initial articles, in which I'm going to put my thoughts and findings on the subject of Enteprise Mobility. For this article I've decided to tackle the Economy, which is effecting us all in various degrees, according to your geographic location. Oct. 9, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 542 |
By Ian Thain  W. David Gardner who writes for InformationWeek has a very interesting article here. He states the J.D. Power's study of smartphone satisfaction, which reports that the Apple iPhone topped the Blackberry and other devices. Oct. 9, 2009 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 671 |
By John Funnell  I was quite brazen at first, I just logged straight in not fully understand the ramifications. No thought of what could happen if.......? Within Days I was affiliated in magazines, aggregated on global sites, people were creating RSS feeds of my content, the whirlwind grew as my page ... Oct. 8, 2009 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,782 |
By Ian Thain  Today Samsung Mobile and Sybase announced collaboration plans to deploy, manage and secure Windows Mobile® powered smart phones for enterprise customers. The project will provide mobile knowledge workers with advanced access to business-critical applications. Oct. 8, 2009 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 382 |
By Cloud News Desk  Best Buy Mobile, the mobile specialty retail unit of Best Buy Co., has announced the launch of mIQ, a new Web-based service that will transform the way customers use, manage and engage with mobile content and smartphone features. The mIQ service allows smartphone users to take the info... Oct. 5, 2009 06:30 PM EDT Reads: 924 |
By GovIT News  "Can the Enterprise Cloud make infrastructure operations faster, easier, cheaper, and safer while also unleashing the transformative creativity of the workforce?" will be one of the questions asked by Jill Tummler Singer, Deputy CIO of the Central Intelligence Agency, in her Opening Ke... Oct. 5, 2009 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,511 Replies: 1 |
By Robert Demmer  While mobile Internet is a prime growth market of the future, the medium is not as simple as it looks. In contrast to web developments for PCs, developers using the mobile channel are confronted by a virtually limitless number of hardware and software platforms. This fragmentation migh... Oct. 5, 2009 01:14 PM EDT Reads: 403 |
By Linux News Desk  NETGEAR, Inc., has announced the launch of RangeMax Wireless-N Gigabit Router with USB (WNR3500L), a full-featured Wireless-N router offering high-performance wireless range and speed along with Gigabit Ethernet ports and ReadyShare(TM) USB storage access. The RangeMax Wireless-N Gigab... Oct. 5, 2009 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 808 |
By Wireless News Desk  Cisco and Openet today announced that Turkcell, Turkey's leading communications and
technology company, has deployed a combined solution to provide a flexible
charging system for its general packet radio service (GPRS) mobile data
network. The joint solution from Cisco and Openet, w... Oct. 5, 2009 03:15 AM EDT Reads: 734 |
By Wireless News Desk  In response to a growing demand for advanced security solutions among mobile device users, VeriSign, Inc., is putting its VeriSign® Identity Protection (VIP) strong authentication into the hands of millions more users. VeriSign today announced that the latest release of VIP Access for ... Oct. 2, 2009 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 841 |
By Inday Vinas  There are more than 20 typhoons each year in the Philippines, on average. But Ondoy broke all records for the amount of rainfall in a short period of time. Hundreds of people were killed, hundreds of thousands made homeless, and millions directly affected. I was lucky that Typhoon Ondo... Sep. 30, 2009 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 4,802 |