Mobile News & Articles

Will we look back at 2010 as the year of mobile content management and collaboration? At least two market researchers think so. And to prove it, a number of companies are already in the game with tools that put enterprise collaboration platforms into information workers' pockets.

Web content managers now have a wealth of mobile web cms functionality available through WebKit, a layout engine designed to allow web browsers to render web pages. WebKit takes the content of a web page, and lays it out according to how a web page’s source code specifies.

H3 Solutions, creator of Mobile Entrée (news, site), a mobile application framework for SharePoint, has announced some new capabilities which include support for the upcoming SharePoint 2010 and its new Business Connectivity Services.

One day the mobile interface will influence everything from the way we collaborate, communicate and design. According to Gartner’s five social software predictions for 2010 and beyond, the mobile web will change the way we think about user engagement, work spaces and the PC-based web.

There was a lot about managing data in the retail sector this week with the launch of a new customer relationship management tool from Autonomy and a survey that shows the public is ready to go paperless . Also, HyperOffice makes data mobile with HyperSynch beta.

The mobile space is always ready for a good dust-up, will Microsoft's (news, site) Windows Phone 7 be the one to shake the Apple tree?

The Interactive portion of SXSW kicked off today and we start our coverage with the UX of Mobile. Thanks to the iPhone we now have a whole new benchmark on the user experience of smartphones.

Here’s a fun Friday thought: Mobile social networks that are private, targeted to niche groups and location-based.  

"Go mobile young man" is the cry as a top Googler (news, site) echoes his bosses sentiment on the smartphone being the way forward.

The desperation with which corporations are trying to throw together Facebook-like solutions for their internal teams is certainly astonishing, but is it wise? Most of you would probably assume so, but Larry Dignan of ZDNet, SmartPlanet and TechRepublic is so against the idea that he compares Facebook for the corporate world to crap. Literally.  

XML-based technical authoring tool provider MadCap (news, site) is back with a pretty sizable load of updates. In addition to the newest releases of their product suites—MadPak and MadPak ML (multilingual)—their publishing software, Flare 6.0, has added support for authoring to mobile devices.  

The wired world is jibber-jabbing nearly non-stop about iPhones, iPads and the next generation of publishing. Open source web content management vendor eZ Systems (news, site) aims to keep its customers on the edge with the release of a new iPhone and iPad content delivery product complemented by services designed to facilitate custom application deployment to the Apple application store.

It seems like just about everyone offers some type of solution that integrates with SharePoint (news, site). But for every potential integration, it seems like there's another vendor out there that offers a solution designed to replace SharePoint.

And there are a number of alternative solutions to SharePoint on the market today. Not all are identical in capabilities, not all claim to be SharePoint alternatives -- even though they are.

We took a look at some of these "SharePoint Alternatives" and let you know what SharePoint functionality they replace. Here's what we found.

SiteExecutive (news, site) packs in the foot-soldier friendly features with a new update to make things more accessible from the road.

Apparently Google’s shopping bug wasn’t squashed when it acquired social search startup Aardvark last week. The company has gone and bought up another email-based startup called reMail, but this time the focus is on mobile capabilities.