Mobile Enterprise Application Platforms

Mobile Enterprise Application Platforms on Ulitzer Over the last year I have been mentioning my thoughts on Mobile Developments and architectures. This week I have seen a great article by my colleague Willie Jow, published on Wireless Week, where he discusses deploying strategic and mobile platforms etc. In the article Willie provides some recommendations as to what CIOs should consider in a mobile enterprise platform, including managing and securing devices/data. Check out Willie's article here or his Sybase blog here For a recap, currently my thoughts are... Take a Strategic approach that can evolve and adapt, with innovations and opportunities that will happen in the mobile industry... For example look at the handset and OS market and one thing that you can say is, tha... (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... (more)

Will Apple Be Transforming Mobile Computing?

I have been totally excited since the booking of the Moscone West by Apple for January 27 and believe, like most of the industry followers, that Apple will be announcing their tablet/slate device. Whilst digging around I came across this great video that shows how fantastic such a device could be used in the areas of education and show some innovations that such a device could bring to st... (more)

Berkery Noyes Releases 2009 Online & Wireless M&A Trends

Online & Wireless Industry M&A activity exhibited mixed trends in 2009 with a volumetric decline but a rise in aggregate value. Volume declined by 12% from 720 deals in 2008 to 636 in 2009. Aggregate value increased by 5% from $24.68 billion in 2008 to $25.83 billion in 2009. This increase in value is due in large part to a significant increase in the aggregate value of deals done in the ... (more)

Artifex Software Accuses Palm of Technology Infringement

California Company Artifex Software Inc has filed a lawsuit against Palm over the smartphone company's alleged unauthorized copying and distribution of one of Artifex's registered technologies that is supposedly the basis of Palm Pre's PDF Viewer. Artiflex says that Palm has openly acknowledged using muPDF in its reader, but has failed to pay the licensing fee. According to Artifex, Pal... (more)