I believe that we really do live in a Mobile World, which is driven by the latest and greatest Smartphone’s around. Lets face it, the majority of us love our gadgets and the more powerful the better! So to investigate my thoughts, against a larger community, I recently used the LinkedIn Poll facility. Here are the results I found, that reinforce what I thought.
Quickoffice, Inc., the leading global provider of mobile office productivity software, today released additional features for its iPhone application, increasing Microsoft Office functionality while on the go. Quickoffice's latest 1.2.0 update adds important capabilities to all four of its applications, which include Quickoffice® Mobile Office Suite, Quicksheet®, Quickword® and Quickoffice® Files.
SYS-CON Events announced today that Mark Fisher, Senior Software Engineer of SpringSource, will be presenting at the upcoming SOA World Conference & Expo 2009 East (www.soaworld2009.com) June 22-23, 2009, in New York City. His session will be entitled “Lightweight SOA with Spring Integration” Mark Fisher is a Senior Software Engineer with SpringSource and lead of the Spring Integration project. He is also a committer on the core Spring Framework project, where he played a central role in developing the annotation-based configuration features of Spring 2.5. He has provided consulting and training services for clients across numerous industries throughout North America. Mark speaks frequently on the No Fluff Just Stuff Software Symposium tour, at SpringOne in Europe and America, and has presented at several Java User Groups.
On June 22 I will be Chairing the iPhone Developer Summit from SYS-CON, in NYC. Along with me will be some great industry presenters and colleagues from Sybase/iAnywhere showing off the Enterprise capabilities they have for iPhone.
Thanks to the sizable impact that the Apple iPhone and its WebKit browser have had in the market -- and the lure of new business opportunities around mobile application stores -- the mobile Web has suddenly become more attractive and attainable for mainstream developers.
This is total speculation, but I believe it would be very possible for Apple to enter the cloud computing space. A recent article in the Charlotte Observer (found via a mac rumors artile) is claiming they are offering Apple a huge tax break to set up a billion dollar server farm in North Carolina.
A lot of buzz is in the air about what Apple is going to release (or not) at WWDC next month. As usual Apple has done a great job of keeping people guessing about what will be announced and when it will be available. Since the release of the Citrix Receiver for iPhone there has also been an increased interest in the iPhone for business use and how it can be utilized to be more productive (and have a little fun).
Having looked into his crystal ball, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster predicts that Apple will field a $500–$700 seven- to 10-inch touchscreen tablet based on a proprietary chip cooked up by its semiconductor acquisition PA Semi and running a Mac OS X variant that “could bear close resemblance to Apple’s iPhone OS” in the first half of next year. It would be Apple’s up-market retort to the netbook.
On May 6th 2009, after a few rapid cycles, iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 5 was released for general consumption, still within the iPhone Developer Program and under NDA.
Today I arrived in Bodrum for a long weekend. Divan Palmira kindly declined my reservation request after my 2007 review of the hotel. They were nice enough to recommend another boutique hotel in the area, so I checked in to Maca Kizi Hotel. My first half day here so far, the view from my room is fantastic. It is too early to write a formal review but if they don't royally screw it up between now and Sunday morning, this hotel has a potential to me my Bodrum summer stop going forward.
As consumers increasingly conduct mobile searches for maps and driving directions, YellowSpaces Inc., a local search engine focused on accurate searches, announced iLPS(TM) today -- a new local search application designed for the iPhone and iPod touch. iLPS gives users a hand-held Local Positioning System when they are away from their desktops or laptops.
Slacker has announced the availability of a new version of the Slacker Mobile application for iPhone, iPhone 3G and iPod touch. The free application is available at the Apple iTunes App Store and by visiting www.Slacker.com using the browser from an iPhone or iPod touch.
SunPower Corp., a manufacturer of high efficiency solar cells, solar panels and solar systems, today announced a monitoring application for the Apple iPhone(TM) and iPod touch(R) mobile devices. With the addition of this application to the SunPower(R) Monitoring System, a suite of monitoring services, residential customers now have three easy ways to access information about the energy generated by their SunPower solar systems.
After an announcement a few days ago from Apple, it seems certain now that Steve Jobs will not be giving the keynote at WWDC in San Francisco, rather this position will be filled by Philip Schiller...
From today, iPhone owners can download GyPSii directly from the popular iPhone App store and immediately start creating and sharing “geotagged” content in real time with friends, family, and the growing global community of GyPSii members. The places and experiences users create then become true Internet-searchable destinations, available for friends and communities to share and comment on, not only in GyPSii, but also across other social media such as Facebook and Twitter.
Citrix announced the formal release of the Citrix Receiver for iPhone 1.0, now available in the App Store. The new app allows instant access to company resources behind the firewall including apps, documents, and internal web sites.
With an ever-increasing number of companies now buying computing, storage, and networking power as they need it from the cloud, SYS-CON.TV recently invited four leading industry thought leaders to discuss how Cloud Computing brings the economics of the Web to Enterprise IT and where the move to the cloud will take the industry overall. The participants are Amazon.com VP & CTO, Werner Vogels; Rackspace CTO, John Engates; Booz Allen Hamilton Principal, Rod Fontecilla; and Sun's CTO of Global Sales & Services, Hal Stern.
Reducing resistance to iPhone in the Enterprise is happening and other blogs point in same direction! I was happy to see that Rachael King, who writes for Business Week has just posted two very interesting articles
The iPhone and devices that are following in its wake provide the best platform yet for enabling mobile advertising because they are optimised for rich media applications like video and also provide a genuinely good mobile browsing experience. This means the potential for better, more creative mobile advertising campaigns and of course a more engaging user experience. Another big plus for advertising on the iPhone is the kind of people that own them.
The New York Times has posted an article with the headline, “Apple iPhone Owners Don’t Use It For Work” – quite a bold statement... In response to the New York Times article, Robin Wauters wrote a blog on TechCrunch questioning where the survey stats were coming from and how the headline was misleading... I agree with both sides, though I side with Robin and I know that times, they are a changing! Its my opinion that you have to look at the broader picture of these devices...
AOL's MediaGlow has announced the launch of the free Pixcetera application on the Apple App Store. The app mirrors the functionality of the Pixcetera.com site, http://www.pixcetera.com, by allowing users to experience amazing photography in a variety of categories, including news, celebrities, lifestyle and nature, right on their iPhone or iPod touch. Key features of the app include high-quality full-screen images in either portrait or landscape, the ability to navigate through thousands of photos with the swipe of a finger, photo sharing, five daily featured galleries, plus thousands of galleries in more than 20 categories.
E*TRADE FINANCIAL Corp. has announced that E*TRADE Securities LLC has introduced E*TRADE Mobile Pro for Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch, expanding customer access to on-the-go, real-time investment, market and account information. The application provides many of the same interface, security, trading and banking features available on etrade.com to customers via their iPhone or iPod touch. The application is available at no additional cost to all E*TRADE Securities customers via the Apple App Store.
Intuit has announced its Quicken Online Mobile application is available on the Apple App Store. This free personal finance app for iPhone and iPod touch works directly with the free Quicken Online service which helps more than 1 Million Americans automatically track their spending and helps them know where to save.
I've always been interested in the Microsoft and Apple story. It amazes me what these two companies did and how they did it. Both started by young enthusiastic people. Honestly, I envy people like Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Bill Gates, Paul Allen and Steve Ballmer. They were at the forefront of something huge.
A co-worker brought this to my attention: http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/history/. It's a new video series on Microsoft Channel 9. It brings you back, via short videos, to the time when it all started for Microsoft. It's very inspirational stuff.
This is no lie, one of my favorite movies is Pirates of Silicon Valley. I know that it very quickly goes through the beginnings of Apple and Microsoft but it's still great to watch nonetheless.
The one thing that bothers me is that I didn't have the opportunity to get in on the action back in the 70's. Could you just imagine.
Booyah, a Silicon Valley start-up founded by former games industry veterans Keith Lee, Brian Morrisroe and Sam Christiansen, announced that the Company has raised a $4.5M Series A financing from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) as part of the firm’s highly sought-after iFund. After successful careers at Blizzard Entertainment, Activision and Insomniac Games, the founding trio has been working quietly on an innovative and compelling entertainment product, which will be revealed this spring.