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- Mobile access to your SIS
- Several student information system SIS vendors offer to sync data with a Palm Pilot or Windows Mobile PDA. This is a handy feature for teachers on field trips, assistant principals stalking the halls, etc. It's fairly limited in it's utility, though since it generally only provides a static...
- Tags: Mobile, SiS, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- A look at risk-reward: Apple may nuke apps on your iPhone remotely
- A look at risk-reward: Apple may nuke apps on your iPhone remotelyMicrosoft already canAll MS has to do is flip a bit on their WGA servers and the next time your Vista logs in, you get a "not validated" message and can't do jack squat with your entire machine.The ONLY...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Apple iPhone
- Discussion threads 2008-08-07
- A bad day for Garmin; Wall Street hammers stock
- It's been one tough day for Garmin. The stock was hammered, down almost 22 percent to close at $35. 19, a drop of almost $10 in regular trading. Its quarterly earnings missed Wall Street's expectations, the company announced a delay of its smartphone and the outlook for the rest of...
- Tags: Mobile, Stock, Garmin Ltd., Mobile App, GPS, Smart Phones, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Financial Accounting, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Hardware, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-07-30
- The App Store's buggy update process
- The App Store's buggy update processI got mine to updateBasically when it gave me that "find all the updates" screen, I would just look for version numbers that had changed (this is easy to do now that everything is 1.0 generally, it will only get harder as time goes on,...
- Tags: Desktops, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., App Store, cryptic error message, Apple Macintosh
- Discussion threads 2008-07-22
- Google losing cellphone battle?
- Google losing cellphone battle?Well, the idea is that CUSTOMERS will choose their phone, just like theychoose their PC. Dell does not need to do deals with internet service providers for instance. But, YES, right now, the carriers are the ones that select the phones that you can use with their...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Tea Vui Huang, Google Inc., phone, LiMo Foundation, Linux, carrier, cell phone
- Discussion threads 2008-05-14
- Hints of Apple's new strategies in its Q3 financial call
- Setting aside the news of a very strong quarter — stronger than predicted and accomplished in a consumer market worried over the emerging economic slowdown aka recession — Apple revealed renewed strength in some key segments and geographies. At the same time, executives gave a hint of Apple's vision of...
- Tags: Strategy, Financial, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Notebooks, Desktops, Sales, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-04-24
- Is Apple going back to the PowerPC?
- Hardware independence as a strategic weapon The Forbes magazine scoop that Apple is buying P. A. Semiconductor, a Silicon Valley company that designs high-performance, power-sipping PowerPC chips - the very chips Apple just migrated away from - raises a host of questions. But the people who need to worry...
- Tags: Apple Inc., IBM PowerPC, Intel Corp., Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- Mobile enterprise? you gotta be kidding!
- Mobile enterprise? you gotta be kidding!'True' Mobile Enterprise: Nokia Mobile Web ServerIf it doesn't run as an app on a mobile's web server, then it isn't Mobile Enterprise. That's the future. See [url=http://www.forum.nokia.com/main/resources/technologies/mobile_web_server/] and a sample of it running on my mobile server [url=http://dietrich.mymobilesite.net]here[/url]Nokia: [url=http://nseries.com/open]Open to Anything[/url]'True' Mobile...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, mobile, Mobile Enterprise, Formotus
- Discussion threads 2008-02-13
- Google wants to own your mobile: Not going to happen. Yet.
- Last week, Robert Scoble wrote: So, every month that Microsoft and Yahoo will be stuck in some courtroom arguing out why this is a good deal means money in the bank for Google as they close mobile phone deal after mobile phone deal. Forget the courtoom thing for...
- Tags: Google Inc., Mobile, Yahoo! Inc., Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-02-06
- Ballmer outlines Microsoft's eight long-term growth bets
- While Wall Street doesn't want to talk about anything Microsoft-related other than Redmond's bid to acquire Yahoo, Microsoft has lots of non-Yahoo-specific investments in its future. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer outlined Microsoft's top eight growth targets during his annual "Strategic Update" for Wall Street analysts in New...
- Tags: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-02-04
- Are so-called anywhere applications getting somewhere?
- Customer relationship management software, particularly from Salesforce.com, has come the closest to being an "anywhere application," but other enterprise tools still need work, according to a report by the Yankee Group. Even though anywhere enterprise applications need work, technology managers need to prepare for them even though...
- Tags: Software, The Yankee Group, Application, Mobile, Advertising & Promotion, Tools & Techniques, Marketing, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-01-04
- Microsoft outlines what's coming in Windows Mobile 7, 8
- Microsoft isn't offering up any dates or final product names, but it is breaking with Windows Mobile tradition and is talking about future features. It's not hard to see why Microsoft's Windows Mobile team is uncharacteristically willing to share its roadmap. The Apple iPhone has all the...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Microsoft Corp., Gizmodo, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Handhelds, Software, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-12-17
- Google must woo mobile app developers
- Google must woo mobile app developersAndroid isn't for current mobile developersThe opinions of people currently developing mobile apps are not the ones we should be interested in. The point of Android is to recruit the vast body of desktop Linux developers to develop mobile apps and not for existing...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Cellular phones, Scripting languages, Programming languages, developer, mobile, Google Inc., cell phone, mobile app, mobile app developer, Java
- Discussion threads 2007-11-08
- Google outlines the Open Handset Alliance; Will it succeed?
- Google outlines the Open Handset Alliance; Will it succeed?OSS rules the handset marketThat's the dawning of a new era in software that will spell trouble for proprietary OSes.I Go With the Least Expensive-Not GlitsiestI did not buy an iPhone because I refuse to pay $60 a month for cell phone....
- Tags: DVD, Wi-Fi, Consumer electronics, OSS, Google Inc., Open Handset Alliance, carrier, Blueray, phone
- Discussion threads 2007-11-05
- Sprint+in+talks+with+Google+on+mobile+apps%2C+says+source
- Sprint+in+talks+with+Google+on+mobile+apps%2C+says+sourceSprint in talks with Google on mobile apps, says sourceSprint would be making a deal with the devil should they do anything with Google. I'm sure the deal goes something like this:Google: Let us spy on your users personal info so we can harvest it and sell it back...
- Tags: Sprint Communications, Google Inc., office toy
- Discussion threads 2007-10-31
- Why a gPhone (Google Phone) is a lovely... no, an awful.. no, a lovely idea
- At last count, "consumers" was the No. 1 answer to Dana Blankenhorn's survey question asking who a Google Phone gPhone will help the most. Some are speculating that the gPhone will get announced along with some other news that Google is releasing on November 5. I...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Phone, Mobile, Google Maps, YouTube Inc., Apple Inc., Experience, Truth, Service, gPhone, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-10-16
- Google CEO tows Google line at D5
- Google CEO Eric Schmidt may have had closing honors at the D5 All Things Digital Conference in San Diego, but he didn't seize the moment to break new Google ground.By all reports, Schmidt offered his standard conference circuit pitch.1) On allegations of "massive copyright infringement" aka Viacom $1 billion dolllar lawsuit.Schmidt: "We follow...
- Tags: Google, CEO Interviews
- Blog posts 2007-05-31
- New OSGi spec eases Java use in runtime
- The OSGi Alliance has released the latest specification for Java SE/EE, promising enterprise users the same agility and management capability that mobile apps have had since last fall.OSGi Service Platform Release 4 Core Specification Version 4.1, the result of JSR 291, provides a framework for packaging Java applications as independent...
- Tags: Developer Tools, Eclipse, Enterprise Java, IBM, Java, Mobile, Open Source, Software Development, Software Infrastructure, Web Services
- Blog posts 2007-05-31
- NYC on 2 Nokias a day
- NYC on 2 Nokias a dayA Cry for HelpIt's a sickness for which I have not found a good support group, and the condition is only exacerbated by reading Marc Orchant blogs.Oh no--It wasn't good enough to have an N800, Nokia keyboard, Moto E815, and Moto bt headset. It went...
- Tags: 3G, Cellular phones, Handhelds, WIRELESS, Wolfie, N95, T-Mobile, Palm Treo
- Discussion threads 2007-05-26
- LoanExpert Plus (exe)
- LoanExpert is your complete loan and mortgage calculator and analysis tool for Palm OS handhelds, Pocket PC or Windows Mobile handhelds, and Windows PCs. Calculate interest rate, price, down payment, loan length, and interest only loans. Save scenarios for easy loan comparisons. Keep track of multiple loans and mortgages. Generate...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Mobile, PC, Palm Inc., Amortization, LoanExpert, Pocket PC, Handhelds, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Mortgages, Palm OS, Hardware, Software, Finance, Capital Structures
- Software downloads 2007-04-20
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