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 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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 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: 467 |
 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: 1,164 |
 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: 698 |
 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: 772 |
 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: 667 Replies: 1 |
 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 |
 Recursion Software is about to say that it’s ported its high-performance C++ Toolkit to five of the most popular mobile operating systems so programmers can finally write a single app that can run on any phone using those systems with virtually no modifications.
The Symbian release ...Oct. 2, 2009 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 845 |
 Sam Ramji, Microsoft’s open source defector, whose imminent departure from the company became widely known when Microsoft set up its own CodePlex open source foundation a few weeks ago, has turned up at five-year-old cloud start-up Sonoa Systems, where he will head product strategy and...Oct. 1, 2009 09:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,397 |
 "Other local search applications present the user with a fog of information. World Surfer totally avoids that fog, providing just the information users seek - quickly, reliably 24/7," explains John Ellenby, GeoVector's CEO. Initial US content channels for World Surfer include Google, M...Sep. 24, 2009 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 998 |
 Lars Kurth is Contributing Community Manager at the Symbian Foundation, based in London. A recent interview with him at OSCON in San Jose revealed a witty, experienced architect who is serious about community development.Sep. 23, 2009 02:43 PM EDT Reads: 500 |
 The development of a mobile portal is illustrated using a practical example. For this purpose, a popular Java web project will be created in NetBeans and is later connected to a Custom Application.
Sep. 15, 2009 02:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,440 |
 Nokia isn’t planning to customize its first-ever Linux Maemo phone, the N900 unveiled last month. It’ll be the same from all of the carriers it signs. The company told Reuters, “Very clearly Apple, Android…are a whole lot less about providing customization to the operators and a whole ...Sep. 11, 2009 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,392 |
 Stewart McKie launched today the Vizitag Mobile Tagging and Content Delivery topic on Ulitzer. McKie has 25 years of IT industry experience. His education includes a MSc in Organization Consulting and a MA in Screenwriting. He was the Technology Editor of Business Finance magazine duri...Sep. 5, 2009 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,644 |
 Mobile marketing has recently been blessed with 3 new technologies to leverage: Augmented Reality (AR), Mobile Image Recognition (MIR) and Mobile Tagging (MT). What are they used for? Can they co-exist? This introductory article aims to position the three technologies to help businesse...Sep. 3, 2009 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,645 Replies: 3 |
 VMware started chasing small and mid-size customers Monday with a beta of VMware Go, a free web-based service that automates ESXi installation and configuration so first-time customers can get started with virtualization. It’s supposed to “dramatically” simplify the process of virtuali...Sep. 2, 2009 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,330 |
 Linked Media Group to develop a customized version of their Social Media Platform, which will be marketed and sold under the Linked Media Group brand name. Enabling Linked Media Group to generate two new revenue streams via SaaS ("Software as a Service") Subscription and as a Services ...Aug. 27, 2009 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,065 |
 One of the major denominators of Web 2.0 is ‘online collaboration’. As Don Tapscott puts it in his book ‘wikinomics’: ‘The old notion that you have to attract, develop, and retain the best and brightest inside your corporate boundaries is becoming null. With the cost of collaboration f...Aug. 27, 2009 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 912 |
 Business leader, best-selling author and Hall of Fame speaker Scott McKain joined Ulitzer with his blog syndication at http://mckainviewpoint.ulitzer.com. Scott McKain is the Co-founder and Principal of The Value Added Institute, a think-tank that examines the role of the customer expe...Aug. 26, 2009 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,897 |
In a previous blog, I discussed ways in which mobile operators can offer win-win subscriber services that let users access the abundance of mobile internet applications while addressing the operator threat from services substitution and revenue-less traffic growth. One approach in mobi... Aug. 14, 2009 01:10 PM EDT Reads: 1,293 |
 Microsoft and its new best friend, erstwhile rival Nokia, still the world’s biggest smartphone maker despite Apple and RIM though maybe not as chi-chi, have cut a grand long-term global alliance that will see Microsoft support a mobile OS other than Windows Mobile for the very first ti...Aug. 17, 2009 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,509 |
 Mobile application uptake-it isn't only about iPhones. Sure Apple's App Store now offers over 65,000 applications, and users have downloaded more than 1.5 billion iPhone and iPod touch applications in the 1st year since launch.
But while getting a late start, other mobile applica...Jul. 28, 2009 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,706 |
 Annlee has brought-up interesting points around datacenter scaling.
The industry fact that wireless is exploding and wire line is shrinking and most of this is due to convergence.
The clear distinction between wireless and wireline is only at access layer rather than “core”. Th...Jul. 29, 2009 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,184 |
 Netbiscuits added many devices to their database within the last month: Three Skypephone S2 (Amoi 8709), Nokia 5730 (XpressMusic), LG LG265 (Rumor 2), Toshiba W62T,Sharp SH902i, Kyocera A5528K Sanyo A5522S and- Samsung GT-S8000 (Jet), among others.
Aug. 7, 2009 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 847 |
 Love the thought or loathe the thought, Google Latitude is now available for the iPhone in US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and I'm sure that those folks worried about privacy will be in the latter group. Google latitude runs in the iPhone's Safari Browser and can be saved as a B...Jul. 27, 2009 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,856 |
 This week I have been monitoring a few stories which all link together really nicely, with respect to the continued growth in Mobile Applications and developer education.
It is my belief that the level of Mobile Applications will increase... as Apple state, "there's an app for just ...Jul. 23, 2009 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,863 |
 Sybase reported historical Q2 records achieved in operating, income, operating margin, net income, EPS, and cash flow. Revenue and EPS exceeded first call consensus. Management raised full-year guidance for revenue, EPS, and cash flow.Jul. 23, 2009 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,316 |
 Whenever I speak or write (check out other recent articles) about Enterprise Mobility, I always express the necessity of Mobile Device Management, to cover all of the mobile devices that an Enterprise may have, in the very important areas of...Jul. 8, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,356 |
 Today Sybase iAnywhere announced that it had added add the Android framework to its growing list of Bluetooth ported products. This is part of a new version of its Blue SDK (Software Developer Kit)...Jul. 8, 2009 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,674 |
 Netscape wunderkind Marc Andreessen, now about to turn a demographically middle-aged 38, has officially turned venture capitalist, a counter-culture move since the dot.com bust trashed the sport.
Jul. 7, 2009 04:45 PM EDT Reads: 3,263 |
 Business users already heavily rely on their BlackBerry smartphones for telephone and wireless email communications. The OCS for Blackberry solution adds secure instant messaging and presence, to fill in the missing gap, and provide true remote connectivity and productivity capabilitie...Jul. 1, 2009 10:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,171 |
 Keane has entered into an asset purchase agreement with BearingPoint, Inc. to purchase a portion of the BearingPoint Public Services business in North America, which would include BearingPoint’s New York City practice. Finalization of this transaction is subject to customary closing co...Feb. 10, 2009 02:30 PM EST Reads: 2,450 |
 Today was the first day of SYS-CON's iPhone Developer Summit, in the Roosevelt Hote in NYC.Jun. 22, 2009 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,659 |
 Telecom expense management (TEM) can significantly reduce an organization’s telecom expense. But many companies are missing out on these savings for one of the following reasons. Leading TEM vendor Veramark Technologies offers 11 timely tips to ensure your organization isn't making any...Jun. 18, 2009 05:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,283 |
 Soon the smart phone world will be changed because of the of iPhone OS 3.0. and the possibility of the integration of applications with a wide number of 3rd party hardware accessories. We all love our iPhone’s and also all the applications available on it, whether it’s Shazam, Monkey B...Jun. 16, 2009 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,721 |
 IBM said Wednesday that it’s going to pour $100 million into cell phone research over the next five years. It’s thinking of services for the so-called “Next Billion,” largely the folks who have bypassed the PC for mobile devices to connect to the Internet. The money is earmarked for wh...Jun. 17, 2009 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,617 |
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 If you ever had the foresight in 1970 to wonder along what sequence of events wireless technologies would start penetrating society, you probably would not have started first with high quality voice networks, then followed with high speed data-networks and finally ended with low data r...Jun. 15, 2009 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 965 |
 Open Kernel Labs (OK Labs) has announced availability of OK:Symbian, a ready-to-run paravirtualized version of the globally-deployed Symbian smartphone platform. OK Labs Secure HyperCell(TM) Architecture enables the Symbian platform to be used as a guest operating system running in a s...May. 19, 2009 02:01 PM EDT Reads: 894 |
 In today’s financial environment, the demand to extract more value from IT has never been more important within the enterprise. The pressure to improve productivity and streamline processes has been at the heart of the first wave of Web 2.0 adoption, where teams have used collaborative...May. 15, 2009 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,422 |
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