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Courts move to ban juror use of Blackberry, iPhone, Twitter and Facebook
If you think you're going to use your spanking new iPhone to entertain yourself next time you're on jury duty, think again. Judges are going to take an even dimmer view of jury member use of Blackberry, iPhone or other electronic devices as a judicial policy-setting group has told district judges they should Read more
10 fun facts about RIM and the BlackBerry
Alastair Sweeney's book BlackBerry Planet, released last year, tells you more than you ever needed to know about Research in Motion and its famous smartphones, but as a relatively new BlackBerry user I figured getting a good backgrounder would be useful.
TechDebate: iPhone or BlackBerry best for the enterprise?
Visitors to our site are chosing RIM's BlackBerry smartphones over Apple's iPhone as the enterprise standard by a 2-to-1 margin in our TechDebate poll.
The debate itself features Brian C. Reed, CMO and VP Products, BoxTone, for the BlackBerry, and Chuck Goldman, CEO, Apperian, for the iPhone. Click on the link to read, cast your own vote, and opine. Read more
IBM smartphone software translates 11 languages
Researchers at IBM say they have created smart software that that translates text between English and 11 other languages including Chinese, Korean, Japanese, French, Italian, Russian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Arabic.
Hosted as an internal IBM service since August 2008, n.Fluent offers a secure real-time translation tool that translates text in web pages, electronic documents, Sametime instant message chats, and provides a BlackBerry mobile translation application. Read more
Android Needs Google For Now
Android is a free and open platform. Device manufacturers can take the platform and put it on their own devices. Software developers can write applications for Android without concern about being blocked from publishing as they can always choose to self-distribute their applications. However, this freedom comes as a price. A price the end-users often end up paying: a fragmented platform with a fragmented market. Read more
Key Questions Any Good Mobile Application Business Plan Should Answer
Coming up with the right business model for your mobile application can be tricky. Here are some of the key questions any good mobile application business plan should answer.
What kind of mobile application am I building and why should people buy it? Read more
19 Ways to Make "Free" Mobile Application Pricing Profitable
When developing a new mobile application, you need to decide how you’re going to price it. This question is best answered early, while the application is still being designed. Wait too long and your choices regarding application monetization become limited. Read more
3 Most Important Announcements about Microsoft's Azure Cloud
Microsoft's Ray Ozzie significantly blew past the basic Exchange, SharePoint and SQL database hosting services with the Azure announcements at PDC 2009 yesterday. Read more
Some Thoughts on Mobile Application Business Plans
Over the past few weeks, we've been talking to a lot of mobile business professionals--some veterans of the mobile marketplace and many just getting started. With easy and accessible mobile platforms like Android, writing a mobile application is often the easy part, but monetizing your application can be a real challenge. We're going to be talking a lot about different mobile application business strategies this month, but we thought we'd kick this topic off with a few high level thoughts. Read more
Just How Much Is Riding on Windows 7 For Microsoft?
In a word, Windows 7 means "everything" for Microsoft's future. We can all talk about the insane number of SharePoint licenses sold, how well Windows Server 2008 has been put together, Bing's surprising rise in the search market, and exciting moves by Microsoft into Online Services for hosted Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint and Office Web Online. But the bottom line is if Windows 7 flops, it's a steep slippery slope to the bottom for Redmond, with lots of competitors from Google to Apple ready to further sling grease on the skids for Microsoft's fall. Everything. Read more
RIM job posting confirms plan for new Webkit-based BlackBerry browser
[This is slightly modified version of a news story posted elsewhere on NetworkWorld.com]
RIM is expanding its effort to redefine the Web browsing experience for BlackBerry users. In a recent job posting on LinkedIn, RIM an expert C++ programmer firmly grounded in the open source Webkit browser engine. Read more
If The Cloud Were Really The Cloud Then Outages Would Be Rare
Do we really have a cloud or just offsite Microsoft, Cisco and Linux hosting centers? I'm struck by what seems like a near constant barrage of news about cloud outages and service downtime. Read more
My 15 favorite smartphone apps - From TweetDeck to Math Blaster
I love gadgets, smartphones among them. The best part of today's mobile phones are all the cool apps. Here is my list of the smartphone apps that I can't live without. Have you got a favorite not on this list? Drop me comment or a tweet (@mitchellashley) and I'll check it out.
To quickly flip through this list, with screenshots of each app, check out the slideshow version of this article: 15 SmartPhone apps you shouldn't live without Read more
BlackBerry Loves U2 - But Why?
I was recently mildly surprised to see a TV ad proclaiming that "BlackBerry Loves U2", but with little additional explanation other than a reference to a Web site with similarly little value other than to tease a "U2 Mobile Album" which hasn't yet been released. Why is the king of corporate mobility hyping a rock band via the vaporware route? Read more
My 15 favorite smartphone apps
I love gadgets, smartphones among them. The best part of today's mobile phones are all the cool apps. Here is my list of the smartphone apps that I can't live without. Have you got a favorite not on this list? Drop me comment or a tweet (@mitchellashley) and I'll check it out.
To quickly flip through this list, with screenshots of each app, check out the slideshow version of this article: 15 SmartPhone apps you shouldn't live without Read more
RIM releases Eclipse and Visual Studio plug-ins for BlackBerry Web development
RIM has released plug-ins for two popular integrated development platforms, Eclipse and Microsoft Visual Studio, to improve development of browser-based applications for BlackBerry smartphones.
Details of the release and the downloads are available on the RIM site. Read more
It turns out most every technology 'is like crack'
What is it about technology that makes it not only addictive but so addictive as to be "like crack?" The question occurred while I was editing a story in which an industry analyst said: "Virtualization is like crack and people go crazy with it - for a while."
Recognizing hyperbole when I see it, I presumed that he meant virtualization is like virtual crack, but point taken -- again. This time, though, I felt compelled to do some research to see exactly how many different technologies are like crack. Turns out there are so many that the search itself became like ... well, let's just say it was hard to stop cold turkey. Examples:
"Programming is like crack," it says here, although you haven't hit bottom until you're hopped up on object-oriented programming. That stuff's "really like crack for these people."
"Blogging is like crack for academics." Read more
The iPhone continues to attract customers away from BlackBerry devices
Typically, the conversation surrounding smartphones centers on which new device is best positioned to challenge Apple's growing influence and success in the market. This point of view presumes that manufacturers will continue to churn out new smartphones that become increasingly feature-equivalent to the iPhone, and that it's only a matter of time before a device will come around and knock Apple off its feet. This perspective is somewhat misguided, and if anything, recent data suggests that it's not Apple who has to worry about losing momentum, but rather RIM who has to worry about the Read more
Convergence Comes to the BlackBerry
Agito Networks today announced that they've ported their mobile/mobile unified communications (convergence) client to the BlackBerry. This is a quite an achievement - the various editions of the BlackBerry constitute for many the very definition of a mobile enterprise communicator, and it will remain an important platform for the foreseeable future. Read more
Microsoft tells employees to stop expensing their iPhones
We can't fault Microsoft for this one. A report surfaced today from the Silicon Alley Insider that Microsoft has told employees it will no longer pay for iPhones, BlackBerries, the Palm Pre, or any other non-Windows mobile device submitted on expense reports. Read more
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