Apple News & Articles

IBM (news, site) shows it can keep up with the Enterprise 2.0 in-crowd, launching Lotus Notes Traveler -- a new iPad software app squarely targeted at mobile enterprise collaborators.

Working in a mobile environment has become much more prevalent in the past few years, so much so that the act of managing it has its own acronym, MWM or Mobile Work Management. Yet, while working out in the world has become easier, employing a functional tool to manage all the work, has not.

Squiz (news, site) breaks away from its normal monthly update news to bring breaking details about a bunch of updates, adjustments and improvements to both MySource Matrix and MySource Mini.

Mary Laplante from Gilbane Group moderated a discussion at the Gilbane Conference San Fransisco on the complexities and options for building and effectively managing multilingual sites with an emphasis on strategies for making local sites compelling and attractive to users based on local preferences.

Though Google thought they could tear us away from our beloved e-mail accounts last summer with Wave, our convictions remained true. This season Big G's e-mail is back in the spotlight with contextual apps for bringing information directly from the Marketplace to your inbox. Meanwhile, Microsoft apparently got a wild hair up their you-know-what and decided to bring Hotmail back from the dead.

Microsoft vs IBM; Atari vs Commodore; Firefox vs Internet Explorer -- the biggest battles in computing pale into insignificance compared to the spat between Apple (news, site) and Adobe over Flash.

Taxonomy managed in another tool outside of the SharePoint environment may be imported into SharePoint 2010 (news, site). Although Terms and Term Sets can be created manually using the functionality provided by the Term Store Management Tool, a significantly simpler approach to taxonomy creation is through importation.

SAP is making agreements all over the place these days. The latest is an expanded reseller and integration agreement with EMC (news, site) to deliver a well rounded set of solutions for Financial Services Institutions.

If KickApps (news, site) failed to catch your attention before, perhaps their partnership with Adobe will do the trick. The combination of these social media and creative technologies has yielded the Open Source Media Framework (OSMF) App Studio, a cloud-based, drag-and-drop media player solution. 

Android-powered smartphones kicked Apple’s iPhone to the curb in the first quarter of this year, according to a new report from market researcher The NPD Group.

This week in the enterprise, leaving Microsoft for a competitor like Google got way complicated, both the Federal Trade Commission and U.S. Justice Department made an angry face at Apple, and SharePoint 2010 got a B- on its E2.0 platform test. 

Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen have been publicly debating Apple’s decision to exclude Adobe Flash as a platform that developers can use to build applications for Apple’s mobile devices (iPhone, iPod and iPad).

This decision has both frustrated and enraged many in the application development community since some argue it makes cross-device application creation and maintenance harder and more costly. Adobe now faces some hard decisions since this move could significantly damage the platform’s relevance for mobile developers.

What’s a week without an iPad story? This week we approach the iPad from two perspectives -- from the purview of the mobile advertisers and magazine publishers. Both stand a great deal to gain from both the iPad itself and its proposed advertising model, iAd.

The Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice are looking into the prospect of launching an antitrust inquiry against Apple (news, site) following the company’s ban of developers using non-Apple-sanctioned development tools, according to a story in the New York Post. Filing an inquiry doesn’t necessarily mean that charges would follow, the NYP reports.

HP’s (news, site) rode to Palm’s rescue and said after the markets closed yesterday that it would buy the struggling smartphone maker for about US$ 1.2 billion.