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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)
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)
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.
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What people want, HP CTO Phil McKinney says, is a whole multimedia-capab... (more)
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)
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)