Mobile Enterprise Application Platforms

iPhone Journal on Ulitzer What is so special about a Converged Mobile Device (CMD) or commonly know Smart Phones? The clue is in their name and if you have asked yourself that question, then you have either never tried a device such as an iPhone or have fallen off of the earths surface for a few years. CMD's are fully functional mobile computers, with orders-of-magnitude more computing power in them, that took man to the moon and back, as well as great hardware and operating system features. Today's CMD's, such as the iPhone and the soon to hit the streets iPad are fantastic devices that are being used by Enterprise Businesses and Consumers alike. These devices are able to connect to the internet, have the ability to run pretty complex applications and also store data locally. I can see the iPad becoming the 'darling' of the Mobile Information Workers... a great de... (more)

Sybase and Orange Business Services

On Tuesday I reported that at CeBit in Hannover, Germany... SAP & Sybase announced the first set of applications to Millions of Mobile Workers. This will extend the reach of SAP Business Suite Applications (including SAP CRM), to iPhone, Windows Mobile and other Mobile Device Users. Then on the next day came another great announcement that Orange Business Services will leverage Sybase’s enterprise device management platform (Afaria) to help companies tackle the challenge resulting from the increasing number of... mobile workers devices applications and ever-growing heterogeneity o... (more)

HP to Take On iPad

Virtualization Track at Cloud Expo 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 but it would have cost $1,500. Now it's got a cheap Atom processor, touch-aware Windows 7 and the idea that iPad is too limited. Register Today and Save $550 ! Explore Sponsorship Opportunities ! What people want, HP CTO Phil McKinney says, is a whole multimedia-capab... (more)

My Three iPhone Predictions For 2010

iPhone Summit at Cloud Expo Yeah, it's this time of the year. Again. Making predictions is so tempting... This year I'll cover just the iPhone. 1. Apple will let Flash Player on iPhone no later than October ’10. They don’t have a choice, if they want to stay competitive. Enough of a crippled Web browser already. 2. ActionScript won’t kill, but will seriously damage Objective-C as the language of choice for development of iPhone applications. The programs written in ActionScript will be a lot more entertaining and engaging than today's iPhone applications. 3. The next version of ... (more)

Developers Are Excited by the iPad and Plan New Apps

Last week I was able to get together a large group of iPhone Developers and I took the opportunity to question them on the newly announced iPad. Firstly a quick show of hands identified that approximately 30 of the group already had iPhone OS applications on the Apple AppStore, some of which had multiple apps. Cool... this was my starting point and a way to gauge actual community feeling. All of these developers were excited by the iPad and the mood amongst the group, was that this could be the start of a new app 'gold rush'. Over 90% were already looking into extending their cu... (more)