Since its introduction less than six months ago, there has been more than 200,000 downloads of Citrix Receiver for iPhone. Users have ranged from Doctor's to Lawyer's to Systems Admin's, all with a common desire to get their job done whenever and wherever they are.
Did you miss the SYS-CON iPhone developer Summit EAST in New York City which happened June 22-23 2009? Shame on you if you were not there, but do not worry as the guys at SYS-CON.TV recorded an interview with Senthil Krishnapillai of Sybase iAnywhere.
WhitePages now reaches more than 2 million mobile users through its iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, SMS and m.WhitePages.com mobile offerings. With popular features like caller identification and reverse phone lookup, click to call, GPS-aware directory services and directions, WhitePages mobile applications are achieving significant adoption.
When it comes to defining Cloud Computing I typically take the stance of "I know it when I see it". Although I'm half joking, being able to spot an Internet centric platform or infrastructure is fairly self evident for the most part. But when it comes to an "OpenCloud API" things get a little more difficult.
Sunday night Apple dropped the price of the Apple TV by $100 for the 160Gb model - this brings it down to $229. The smaller 40Gb model is now MIA - so long, little white Apple TV. The Apple TV area as a whole is an odd one for Apple. When you hear Tim Cook and Phil Schiller talk about the Apple TV you get the feeling that Apple wants to do more with this device, but are not sure how.
Have you heard of Grand Central Dispatch? If you’re a Mac addict, then you might know that it’s Apple’s new easy-to-use tool for parallelizing code. If you’re not a Mac addict, then the first thing you should know is that GCD is one of the most exciting innovations in software development in years. The second [...]
Sybase's Mr iPhone... Mr iThain ;-) has been in Sydney this week & I have been keeping an eye on the Australian devices and checking out the Sydney Apple store. This has been totally accidental, as the main deal this week was to Evangelise about Enterprise Mobility in general and epecially where Sybase fits in the big picture, at Wireless World 2009.
My last week has been hectic, to say the least... but hey that is just 'par for the course' of an Evangelist, especially an Enterprise Mobility one. Mobility in itself is an exciting place! I left a cloudy London on Friday September 4th in the evening and arrived in a sunny Sydney on Sunday August 6th, very early in the morning.
Just finished my presentation at FITC Mobile 2009 in Toronto. And it went very well! I had lots of questions and was able to answer all but one. The presentation was about building native iPhone applications using JavaScript and HTML instead of Objective-C. I’m currently using Titanium Mobile to does this. I’ve posted a slide share of the [...]
With a breakout session that will have special emphasis on separating historical trends from the current state of cloud security, the CEO of WhiteHat Security, world-renowned Web security expert Jeremiah Grossman, is one of the many leading CEOs, CTOs and Senior VPs who will be speaking at SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, being held November 2-4, 2009, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Grossman's session will draw from the latest WhiteHat Security Website Security Statistics Report - information pulled from more than 1,000 real-world websites - to introduce the most prevalent software flaws putting data at risk in the cloud.
Rhodes is a great option for allowing developers to write their smartphone apps one time and have them run natively on all devices. After being out for a while several competitors emerged and now we have a product category known as the “smartphone app framework”, with several participants. We believe that our first mobile Ruby, [...]
SOA Industry Analysis and Advisory Firm ZapThink launched a topic site on Ulitzer. ZapThink is an IT advisory and analysis firm that provides trusted advice and critical insight into the architectural and organizational changes brought about by the movement to XML, Web Services, and Service Orientation.We provide our three target audiences of IT vendors, service providers and end-users a clear roadmap for standards-based, loosely coupled distributed computing - a vision of IT meeting the needs of the agile business.
iPod touch is a great iPod for enjoying music, television shows, movies and podcasts. iPod touch has incredible features for music fans such as Cover Flow(R), Shake to Shuffle(TM), and access to the legendary iTunes(R) Store. And now, the new iPod touch supports Genius Mixes, which automatically creates up to 12 endless mixes of songs from your iTunes library that go great together. Movies and television shows look great on the gorgeous 3.5-inch widescreen display. iPod touch customers have the entire iTunes Store catalog at their fingertips, giving them instant access to the world's largest catalog of over 11 million songs, TV shows and Hollywood movies to purchase and download directly to their iPod touch.
Apple introduced the new iPod nano(R), adding a video camera, mic and speaker to the world's most popular music player. Music lovers can now shoot video wherever they are, view it on their iPod nano and use their computers to easily transfer their videos to YouTube. The new iPod nano features an ultra-thin and sleek design with a larger 2.2-inch color display and gorgeous polished aluminum and glass enclosure. iPod nano also features a built-in FM radio with live pause and iTunes(R) Tagging, as well as a built-in pedometer. The new iPod nano is available today in an 8GB model for $149 and a 16GB model for $179, and comes in nine brilliant colors including silver, black, purple, blue, green, orange, yellow, (PRODUCT) RED and pink.
The one's that have caught my eye are the deep discounts on the iPod Touches, particularly the iPod Touch 32 Gb - $120 is more than 25% price cut. There are rumors that Apple is having supply problems. The current slashed prices are probably to appease customers until the new, and more expensive Touches hit the store shelves in a few weeks. What do you think of the price cuts. Do you think you will be an iPod at this price - or wait for a better, sleaker model?
Roll Up! Roll Up! Make your guess for the Apple event!! Yes, it is that time, the night before an Apple event, where we all take a good guess as what will come tomorrow. What do you think? If you troll through the rampant speculation (and it is speculation as noone really knows) then there are some common threads. So, just to show you I am a gambling man here are my thoughts for tomorrow:
Media Dojo speaks with Roambi, a cloud-based data visualization application for iPhone. Roambi transforms numeric data such as Excel, PDF and others into unique visualizations that are specifically designed to be viewed on an iPhone. The solution runs completely in the cloud, tying into SalesForce.com as well as other enterprise systems such as SAP and Oracle.
There is no secret that I love my iPhone. I really do - I written several articles about how cool it is. So why am I thinking of getting rid of it. The answer: AT&T. Bit-O history here. I was one of the first few idiots who purchased iPhone 1.0 the same week it came out. Yes, I shelled out $600. I thought it was a good deal as I was writing about the phone and could (in my head, not so much my wife's) justify the cost. I also had to purchase the $85/mth plan from AT&T. So, now it is over two years later and I still have the same phone and I am still paying $85/mth. And I want to stop paying the man.
This is from an Apple fanboy blog, so they are particularly filled with glee about this latest boo-boo involving the new home to the Dallas Cowboys football team. First the punter drilled one into the LED board that wasn't as high as it apparently needs to be. Now the ribbon board meant to whip up fan excitement instead beats up on Microsoft, all at no cost to Apple.
It's one thing to have your computer crash. It's another to have it crash in front of thousands of sports fans. This latest humiliation took place Saturday at the pre-game festivities for the Oklahoma/Brigham Young game at the at the brand new $1.15 billion Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Reader Jeff tells us that they had a breakdown on the scoreboard screens: first, the screens went blank, then displayed some odd ASCII gibberish, then announced to the assembled crowd that things weren't going so well in Microsoft land.
Jeff was there with his trusty iPhone to capture the moment for us, and we present it to you on this day when you're not working, either.
Oh, bother.
According to Cameron Bahar, Founder and CTO of ParaScale, hundreds of definitions from swarms of providers "have created confusion and devalued the cloud storage landscape." At his breakout session at SYS-CON's upcoming 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, being held November 2-4 in the Santa Clara Convention Center, Bahar will he says skip to the real questions, who is using cloud storage and why? His session will detail cloud storage customer examples and the benefits achieved by leveraging this technology. "No boring definitions or hand waving technology pitches, instead real-world use cases complete with lessons learned and best practices," adds Bahar.
Recently, I came across an article, 4 reasons websites are becoming irrelevant by Adam Broitman for iMediaConnection.com. Many things the article says are true, but when it comes to innovative new services like the AR app, the author offers no solution to the fragmentation problem we all face in mobile. Only companies that aim to have a extremely innovative, first mover kind of image, will go this way, because those apps won’t reach beyond the platform they were created for (e.g. iPhone). Of course, the iPhone has reached a critical mass in some markets (mainly US), but I’d share Google’s analysis, that even Google won’t be rich enough to support apps for all the different platforms out there.
Salesforce.com has poached Cisco mandarin Doug Dennerline, the head of Cisco’s Collaboration Software Group, the repository of its WebEx widgetry and its cloud and SaaS ambitions – like the idea of taking on Microsoft’s $60 billion Office franchise with some Google Apps-like mojo that could be shared through WebEx – and made him head of enterprise sales in the Americas, reporting to worldwide sales chief Frank van Veenendaal.
Since he returned to work in June from his liver transplant, Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been micromanaging the development and positioning of a new widely rumored tablet device and apparently driving his staff nuts, according to the Wall Street Journal, whose reporter got Jobs to e-mail her back saying “much of your information is incorrect.”
Apple said its Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6 upgrade would go on sale Friday, August 28, at its retail stores and authorized resellers, a tad earlier than expected and two months before Windows 7 is supposed to be generally available. Apple’s online store started accepting pre-orders Monday. The operating system, thin on new features and more focused on fine-tuning, has built-in support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, which means Mac could theoretically replace PCs with Mac OS X Mail, Address Book and iCal being used for e-mail, calendars and contacts.
SYS-CON Events announced today that Tranxition, a leading provider of PC personality management, was named "Wireless Network Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 7th International Virtualization Conference & Expo (www.VirtualizationConference.com), which will take place on November 2 - 4, 2009, Santa Clara Convention Center, in Santa Clara, California.