Mobile News & Articles

Seattle-based Software as a Service provider Ingeniux Corp. said today the company is licensing 51degrees.mobi's mobile Premium Device Data and will use the technology as part of its mobile solutions package. The software will be integrated with its CMS web content management and Cartella community and collaboration software, allowing developers to target content delivery to most mobile devices and accelerate advanced feature development.

SAS has upped the game in business analytics again with the release of its in-memory business intelligence product that offers easy visual representations of Big Data analytics quicker and more efficiently than its competitors -- at least, that’s what it’s saying.

Previously, we talked about the social e-commerce network, gotradelive and its aim to give businesses the freedom and flexibility to set their own terms for sales and deliveries. This week it announced the launch of its service in the US.

This week, Zoho announced that it was expanding its portfolio of mobile applications including Zoho Docs, OpenText extended the reach of its enterprise CMS for SAP, we took a look at whether Office 365 is good for your business, Cabinet NG releases WebSync and NovoDynamics launches NovoDocufier.

Zoho is bringing its impressive lineup of Web-based office apps from the desktop to smartphones with the arrival of Zoho Docs and Zoho CRM for Android (available now) and. Zoho Projects for Apple's iPhone, which will be available shortly.

Cisco is upping its game in the collaboration and unified communications market, bringing its Jabber video and TelePresence offerings to new platforms and broadening users mobility and connectivity options to encourage wider enterprise adoption.

Competition in the smartphone and tablet market is getting tougher between Apple and Google. Apple is reportedly reducing its dependence on Google in various online and mobile services, and with recent reports that Baidu will soon be a default search engine for iOS mobile devices in China, Google might just lose its already weak hold in this market.

We're in the middle of a series showing how to create a streamlined, standardized project management system with Office 365. In last week's post we created a document library on a project site accessible by all team members. Today we'll see how to add your document library to your team’s Outlook clients.

Mobile computing is definitely at the forefront of the Consumerization of IT (CoIT) trend. The evidence? Look around you and employees are literally voting with their devices, showing a preference for designed-for-the-consumer tools like the iPhone and those that have been inspired by Apple’s leadership in this space. These often feature beautiful interfaces for accessing and sharing information like Flipboard, Path and Instagram.

Rigorous test results released this morning from DisplayMate Labs, run by Dr. Ray Soneira, conclude what some in the Apple support community are already discovering about their new iPads: the battery life indicator is displaying 100% charged when in fact it is really at about 90%.  

The Kindle Fire, the only other really successful tablet in the market, is getting a revamp according to reports. And, while Amazon is really only interested in selling its own content rather than challenging Apple in a technology war, the next Kindle tablet could have a bit more kick.

The iPad has made social magazine apps in fashion, with the likes of Flipboard and Zite. Zite earlier launched a variant of its social reader for smaller iOS devices, and Flipboard now makes its grand launch for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

Tools and platforms were at the tops of our author's minds this week, trying to solve problems such as how to pick the right tools to meet your enterprise's needs, how to create intranets that make employees happier and more productive, and how to best reach your target audience with a multi-platform approach.

Jump in, the water's fine.

 The very jumpy Seesmic outfit dumps its enterprise focus and goes hunting in the social space with more work to come on cross-service messaging platform, Seesmic Ping.

The looming post-apocalyptic future for Apps and AppStores aside, there were still a cornucopia of app launches at SXSW this year. Alan Cooper nailed it when he said that one of the biggest trends he has seen as technology has changed is how the differences in deployment models and computing devices have shifted the strategy and goals of people designing and creating software.