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Could Twitter become the next PayPal?

"Twitter's not going to make their money with advertising. So how can they be a Billion Dollar Company in a year?", writes Nate Westheimer over at Silicon Alley Insider. The answer, he says, is for Twitter to get into the P2P mobile payments space. by Steve O'Hear

Tags: Mobile Messaging, Payment, Mobile, PayPal, Twitter, Advertising & Promotion, Operational Accounting, Marketing, Finance, Steve O\'Hear

Blog posts 2008-07-01

A Study in Mobile Messaging

Mobile messaging technology is evolving rapidly to provide multiple services and applications to today's subscribers. With the continued delay of third-Generation (3G) deployments and migration to fully packet-switched networks, coupled with the demand for fast-to-market data applications over existing wireless networks, mobile operators look more than ever at their short...

Tags: Mobile Messaging, Mobile, Network, Mobile Messaging Technology, Advertising & Promotion, 3G, Cellular Phones, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

White papers 2008-01-01

Key Issues in Messaging Mobility

This Osterman Research white paper discusses key trends in the mobile messaging space and the variety of challenges that organizations must satisfy for their growing base of mobile messaging users. This paper also identifies the significant benefits connected with working with USA.NET for a full messaging solution that includes both...

Tags: Mobile, Messaging, USA.NET, Mobile Messaging, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2007-10-01

Good Technology Professional Services Aids Russell Investment Group With Unique Challenges for Seamless Switch From iAnywhere's OneBridge to Good Mobile Messaging

Russell Investment Group, a global leader in multi-manager investing, offers a full range of investment services to retirement plans, foundations, endowments, and investment plans of all types. Russell Investment Group wanted to seamlessly replace iAnywhere's OneBridge with Good Mobile Messaging on over 500 Palm Treo smartphones worldwide with little or...

Tags: Mobile Messaging, Good Technology Inc., Mobile, iAnywhere Solutions Inc., Professional Services, Investment, Palm Treo, Smart Phones, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware

Case studies 2006-10-24

George Mason Mortgage Replaces BlackBerry With Good Mobile Messaging and Good Mobile Intranet to Increase Productivity and Enhance Customer Service

George Mason Mortgage, LLC, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cardinal Bank. George Mason Mortgage wanted to compete in the ultra-competitive and rapidly changing mortgage business by improving employee productivity and enhancing customer service. The company deployed Good Mobile Messaging and Good Mobile Intranet with carrier service from Sprint running on...

Tags: Mobile Messaging, Customer Service, Mortgage, Mobile, Employee Productivity, RIM BlackBerry, Intranet, George Mason Mortgage, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2006-08-22

Allen Boone Humphries Robinson Improves Efficiency and Exceeds Client Expectations With Good Mobile Messaging

Allen Boone Humphries Robinson LLP ABHR wanted to equip attorneys with a reliable, integrated device to allow them to be productive away from the office. The challenge was to provide real-time access to the firm's more than 10,000-name contact database in ProLaw and display the caller's name and phone number...

Tags: Mobile Messaging, Phone, Mobile, Motorola Inc., Allen Boone Humphries Robinson, PDAs, Telecom & Utilities, Handhelds, Hardware

Case studies 2006-07-31

Gates Corporation Replaces BlackBerry With Good Mobile Messaging to Support Company-Wide Productivity Initiative

Gates Corporation wanted to improve worker productivity, increase the efficiency and effectiveness of Gates' Worldwide IT Group and provide a significant return on investment for the company. The challenge was to provide the functionality, manageability and security required to replace BlackBerry. Gates Corporation deployed Good Mobile Messaging running on the...

Tags: Mobile Messaging, Mobile, ROI, RIM BlackBerry, Worker, Motorola Inc., PDAs, Roi/Tco, Handhelds, Hardware, Finance, Managerial Accounting

Case studies 2006-07-05

District of Columbia's Citywide Messaging Program Relies on Good Mobile Messaging for Secure, Reliable Wireless Communications

Government of the District of Columbia wanted to meet the new administration's mandate to modernize, consolidate and unify disparate technologies across all of the District of Columbia's mayoral agencies. The challenge was to provide an emerging yet proven wireless messaging technology for the district's citywide messaging program. Government of the...

Tags: Mobile Messaging, Mobile, Wireless Communication, Messaging, District Of Columbia, Government, Groupware, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2006-06-14

TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft IT Implements Exchange Security (Level 300)

Exchange Security Guides provide the best recommendations for running a secure Exchange environment. This webcast explains how Microsoft IT applies and manages these recommendations in its Exchange ecosystem. Focusing on specific examples from Microsoft's internal messaging environment, we discuss a variety of messaging security topics. Topics include email hygiene, securing...

Tags: Mobile Messaging, Security, Webcast, Information Technology, Environment, Messaging, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft TechNet, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software

Webcasts 2005-08-30

Mobile Messaging Provides the Cure for Disconnected Field Staff

ZLB Behring AG in Bern, Switzerland, has introduced a mobile messaging solution to meet the demands from front-line management and salespeople for better out-of-office communications. The project allows travelling staff to use Web-enabled mobile devices to gain secure access to e-mail, calendars, and contact lists via the Internet. Forecasts show...

Tags: Mobile, Messaging, Microsoft Corp., Mobile Messaging, Advertising & Promotion, Groupware, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies

Additional Resources

Geek Sheet: A Tweaker's Guide to Solid State Drives (SSDs) and Linux

Is 20th century conventional Winchester multi-platter, multi-head random-access disk technology too quaint for you? Want to run your PC or server on storage devices that consume far less energy than the traditional alternatives? Want a portable or mobile storage unit that will never fail due to G-forces or "crashing?". Looking...

Tags: Linux, Disk, File System, Solid State Disk, Kernel, Mandrake, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-07-25

1.4 bln Internet users in 2008

Roughly 1.4 bln people ill use the Internet on a regular basis in 2008. This number is expected to surpass 1.9 bln unique users, or 30% of the world’s population, in 2012, according to IDC. Users will access the Internet through more than 1.5 bln devices worldwide in 2008, including...

Tags: Internet User, Mobile, Internet, NB

Blog posts 2008-07-25

GMail adds "https:"-only connections but still not by default

Google has added a new "Browser Connection" feature to GMail to allow users to force e-mail sessions to always use the more secure "https:" protocol but, strangely, this is not turned on by default. In the Settings tab, at the very bottom, GMail users can now select...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Gmail, HTTP, E-mail Providers, Cloud Computing, Internet, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Rumor Mill: iPhone to get copy, paste and better navi in firmware 2.1

The most exciting thing around the watercooler today is the rumor that Apple has seeded iPhone firmware 2.1 to developers. MacNN sources tell them that they've found references to cut, copy and paste in the Localizable.strings entry under English.lproj. Woot! According to the story the...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Radio, Apple Inc., Firmware, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-07-25

How OpenDNS, PowerDNS and MaraDNS remained unaffected by the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability

The short answer is being paranoid about tackling a known vulnerability. It's 2001, and Daniel J. Bernstein DJB, author of the then popular djbdns security-aware DNS implementation, is applying basic math principles to raise awareness on what's to turn into the "sky is falling" critical Internet vulnerability in 2008, in...

Tags: DNS, Vulnerability, Anomaly, Attack, OpenDNS, MaraDNS, NSS, Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-25

10 essential gadgets for students

I chose these from personal experience, but also from asking many friends from around the world who are involved in technology and study at the same time. Some gadgets come with a recommendation, whereas others don't; things like laptops and cell phones can't be selected for everybody, it'd be ridiculous...

Tags: Headphone, Phone, Cell Phone, Laptop Computer, Lecture, Notebooks, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-07-25

News to know: 'Spam king' dead; Microsoft's cloud; Dell;

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicide CBS Denver Video: 'Spam King' Inmate Dies Along With Wife, Daughter Mary Jo Foley: Ozzie foreshadows 'Zurich,' Microsoft's elastic cloud Microsoft to get more 'Apple-like' in PC,...

Tags: Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Google's $10M, no, $100M Android Challenge

So does Google have anything up its sleeve, when it comes to the Android mobile communications platform? It better have. Because expectations keep getting lowered. And Apple keeps raising the ante, at least in getting attention for new mobile applications. According to a Forbes.com...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Developer, Google Inc., Phone, Mobile, Android, Advertising & Promotion, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Samsung INNOV8 S60 mobile device with 8 megapixel camera revealed

The Nokia N96 was revealed back in January and should be hitting the streets in the next couple of months. I guess I haven't been following the S60 rumors closely enough lately and was a bit caught off guard by the post that Ricky made regarding the Samsung i8510INNOV8 S60...

Tags: Mobile, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Mobile Device, Camera, 3G, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Ballmer seeks to justify Microsoft's bottomless-pit online spending

Ballmer seeks to justify Microsoft's bottomless-pit online spendingBallmer Justifies Bottomless PitIt's called his STOMACH.Where is the return on these investments?They are no closer to competing with Google than before Ballmer started this spending spree. When people think "search" they think Google. It's that simple. No one thinks Yahoo or...

Tags: Financial accounting, Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer, 3M Co.

Discussion threads 2008-07-24