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Here's the BIG difference between ATT's iPhone and BlackBerry Pearl launches

Briefly emerging for air from AT&T Wireless' iPhone launch reality distortion field, I've been thinking back to another launch less than a year ago- the BlackBerry Pearl on ATTW predecessor Cingular.Even though the launches were by the same carrier, that's about all they had in common. I can offer...

Tags: Uncategorized, Case Histories, Carriers, BlackBerry Pearl

Blog posts 2007-06-30

Before the world knew: insider's diary of BlackBerry service shutdown

For two hours before the BlackBerry email outage two weeks ago, the Zenprise BlackBerry service monitoring system in place at the County of Alameda (Cal.) data center in the 1.5 million-populaton county seat of Oakland "gave us some indications connectivity was intermittent," senior server engineer Paul Hinsberg told me...

Tags: Uncategorized, Outages, Case Histories

Blog posts 2007-04-30

Dershowitz uses his BlackBerry to fight anti-Semitism

You may have heard of famed attorney Alan Dershowitz. Hes one of the top lawyers in the country.Dershowitz is featured in the April issue of BlackBerry Connection newsletter, which I received via email yesterday.A self-described "technophobe," Dershowitz says he uses his BlackBerry to communicate with his law students as...

Tags: Uncategorized, Case Histories

Blog posts 2007-04-06

Additional Resources

So about this SIF thing

Difficulties in implementationLong before I retired from being a computer coordinator for our district, SIF was in the news.The reality for my district was changing Student Information Management software three times in 10 years (and a fourth since '06 when I retired). In each case, the transfer of data from...

Tags: Text messaging/SMS/MMS, Cellular phones, SIF

Discussion threads 2009-10-23

Finally! A Three-Cornered Consulting Service for Enterprise 2.0

Its not too often I endorse a new service - in fact, I never have without a lot of due diligence and at least some production history.   So, for the first...and potentially only....time ever, I'm telling you that I'm truly excited about the launch of Pragmatic Enterprise 2.0.  I'm...

Tags: Socialtext, Enterprise 2.0, Framework, Pragmatic Enterprise 2.0, Michael Krigsman, Ross, Blogging, Strategy, Internet, Management, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-10-20

Driving Enterprise Software Financial & Business Value

While my day job is very much designing social business design with my colleagues at the Dachis Group, today we're announcing a loose federation of experts we've named 'enterprise advocates'. The intent, as outlined on the site, is to be advocates for the...

Tags: Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-10-06

Is Microsoft stalling on its GPL Linux drivers?

Can't we all just get along?[nt]He has no right to be upsetThis is code that is being released [b]for free[/b] to the Open Source community. It will be released on MS's timeline and not some arbitrary timeline specified by someone who is on record as hating MS. No other open...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, GPL v2, kernel, Microsoft Corp., open source, open-source community, GPL, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-09-10

Microsoft granted stay of Word injunction

RE: Microsoft granted stay of Word injunction Still thieves not "innovators".failed to live up to his role as "gatekeeper"...In English, that translates to "We lost, therefore somebody must have cheated." Microsoft as a company clearly believes that it simply can do no wrong. They must have attended the...

Tags: Word processors, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Word, I4i, Word injunction

Discussion threads 2009-09-04

Strategic Thinking before Operational Actions: The Enterprise 2.0 Tool Cargo Cult Problem

Three posts about 'failure' in the 'Enterprise 2.0' space in the last few days from Sameer Patel ('Five ways to avoid Enterprise 2.0 failure' guest blogging on Michael Krigmans' 'IT Failure blog here on ZD Net), Dion Hinchcliffe (14 Reasons Why Enterprise 2.0 Projects Fail) and now Dennis Howlett (Enterprise...

Tags: Enterprise 2.0, Strategic Thinking, Dennis, Morten Hansen, Morten, Superstructure, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-08-27

When Collaboration is Literally Life or Death...

For those who think collaboration technology simply breaks down rigid command and control management hierarchies, consider the origins of the term: the military. The US military have had a significant online presence with various online forums for rank and file, commanders and other...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Network, Leader, Forum, CC, Case History, Software As A Service (SaaS), Collaboration, Groupware, Managed Hosting, Social Networking, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Software, Software, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-08-03

Consumer Watchdog blasts Google over privacy

Consumer Watchdog blasts Google over privacyWow. No real surprise there[i]it certainly doesn?t seem that scary to me[/i]Of course not, you've proclaimed that you "Love everything Google does" and think the world of them (but would you fall on your sword, too?)[i]subscribe to the idea that Google collects information to make...

Tags: Government, E-mail, Google Inc., privacy, Consumer Watchdog

Discussion threads 2009-07-11

Belkasoft Forensic Studio 1.04 (Windows)

Tool for forensic professionals that eases their work on analysing Internet Messengers histories, Browsers histories and Outlook mailboxes. Supported Instant Messengers: ICQ versions from 97a up to ICQ 6, MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, &RQ, Miranda, Skype, MySpace IM, SIM, QIP, QIP Infium, Trillian, AIM. Supported browsers: Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla...

Tags: History, Microsoft Windows, Belkasoft, Per-session Bookmark, Belkasoft Forensic Studio, Microsoft Outlook, Groupware, Web Browsers, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software, Internet

Software downloads 2009-05-31

Belkasoft Forensic IM Analyzer 1.04 build 48 (Windows)

Tool for forensic professionals that eases their work on analysing Internet Messengers histories. Good for parental control as well. No password required. Supports various IMs: ICQ versions from 97a up to ICQ 6, MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, &RQ, Miranda, Skype, MySpace IM, SIM, QIP, QIP Infium, Trillian, AIM. Belkasoft Forensic...

Tags: History, IM, Microsoft Windows, Belkasoft, Belkasoft Forensic IM Analyzer, Instant Messaging, Internet, Online Communications

Software downloads 2009-05-15

Oracle Beehive Activity Starts Buzzing

David Gilmour, senior vice president, Collaboration Technologies, Oracle. Oracle Beehive, which quietly launched a year ago this month, and was more noisily celebrated at last fall's OpenWorld, has some additional new functionality updates announced this week. "As organizations rely increasingly...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Oracle Beehive, Java Development Tools, Enterprise Software, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-05-05

Sharepoint's DisneyWorld Style Strategy

Dennis Howlett thinks the promise of Enterprise 2.0 is years away and feels Dion Hinchcliffe's ROI value accrual model is more evangelizing hand waving than evidence of any substantial uptake. From my perspective I think we're at a point where many of the...

Tags: Strategy, Environment, Microsoft SharePoint, Enterprise 2.0, Dennis Howlett, Business World, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-04-14

Psystar's at it again!

Psystar's at it again!RE: Psystar's at it again!Well, since the judge hasn't stopped them yet... I'd say they still have a business to run.The only thing that bothers me about the new computer is that the high end of the GPU options, isn't that great.This sounds like their version of...

Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Operating systems, Branding, Psystar, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-03-18

Getting Things Done - the art of efficiency, productivity & organizational clarity

I had the pleasure of attending the GTD summit last week: the inaugural conference arranged by The David Allen Company around the GTD methodology outlined in Allen's book 'Getting Things Done: The art of stress free productivity‘. GTD has gone on to sell...

Tags: Conference, GTD, David Allen, E-mail, E-learning, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-03-16

Yao and Artusio's Anesthesiology: Problem-Oriented Patient Management (Anesmgt) 11.0.4 (Mobile)

Yao and Artusio''s Anesthesiology: Problem-Oriented Patient Managementpowered by Skyscape Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Yao & Artusio''s Anesthesiology: Problem-Oriented Patient Management is designed to present a group of important clinical entities covering the most critical anesthetic problems. It is intended to provide logical and scientific fundamentals for individualized patient management.The...

Tags: Patient, Mobile, Skyscape Inc., Questions, Tools & Techniques, Data Mining, Databases, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2009-01-11

Classic Books Library in PDF format. Over 2,000 works by Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain & MORE (Mobile)

The largest PDF library for your computer, Sony Reader, iPhone, Smartphone, BlackBerry, or any PDA. Over 2,000 complete works by Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, Jane Austen, Edgar Poe, Conan Doyle, Dostoevsky, and more. PDFs have NO password security or other restrictions. The library is delivered as 29 collections, organized by...

Tags: Mobile, Adobe PDF, Library, MobileReference, PDAs, Handhelds, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-01-05

Yao and Artusio's Anesthesiology: Problem-Oriented Patient Management 11.0.4 (Mobile)

Yao & Artusio's Anesthesiology: Problem-Oriented Patient Management is designed to present a group of important clinical entities covering the most critical anesthetic problems. It is intended to provide logical and scientific fundamentals for individualized patient management.This latest update is based on the 2008 print edition with additional features, enhanced functionality...

Tags: Patient, Mobile, Skyscape Inc., Questions

Software downloads 2008-12-29