Was reading the New York Times online and saw that AT&T are going to be streaming videos to certain phones.
Awesome, first they lock-in the iPhone, and now they are going to set a standard for how NOT to provide mobile content.
What I mean is that AT&T  is planing to not only run advertising in the [...]

Read Full Post »

This article in today’s Wall Street Journal raises some interesting caveats and opportunities presented with the adoption of the iPhone within corporate America.
When first released, the iPhone was simply too expensive for American businesses to adopt as a sound alternative to the Blackberry. But despite security concerns, adoption remains high, and represents a perfect example [...]

Read Full Post »

The power/service outages that both RIM and Salesforce.com suffered the past week are nothing new. Both companies have dealt with these well-publicized events in the past, both because of technical issues or upgrades.
SaaS providers have always claimed non-disruptive upgrades are an important reason why customers should buy online, but as is often the case, the [...]

Read Full Post »

Manoj Javadevan, SugarCRM’s senior director of product marketing, outlined some of the hot announcements that partners, customers, and the media can expect to hear from SugarCRM over the coming year.
At the top is Sugar Data Center Edition (DCE), a new product offering built on top of the Sugar 5.0 framework. DCE will be a standalone [...]

Read Full Post »

The Nokia/Trolltech deal is interesting, and I will see what comes of that. I like how Linux and open standards in general are penetrating more and more of the mobile world – it is important since the kinds of technology visions – even here at SugarCRM – will benefit in the end if users can [...]

Read Full Post »

Virgin Mobile made a notable open-source splash yesterday when they announced they implemented MySQL to run their text-messaging SMS database. The announcement carries significant weight, as it shows that support for MySQL, the LAMP stack, and other open source infrastructures, is continuing to grow within the enterprise segment.
The volume of database queries that Virgin Mobile [...]

Read Full Post »

TechIQ just released a list of 10 OSS companies it feels will dominate in 2008. (I guess without writers for Letterman – this will have to suffice.) The list is pretty interesting – and its always nice when your company gets a nod – but I found it somewhat disturbing.
A lot of the companies are [...]

Read Full Post »

In a new Forrester report, analysts Benjamin Gray and Robert Whiteley served up 10 reasons why the iPhone isn’t ready for corporate America. Forrester argues, that while Apple will gain some penetration into the road warrior market, it will be primarily a result of osmosis, as some enterprise employees will purchase them and begin demanding [...]

Read Full Post »

Just read a report from IDC about the top IT trends they expect to see in 2008. (Click here to see a press release that outlines the key points.)
Essentially, the report notes that things like social networking, mobile platforms, online delivery methods, “web gadgets,” and appliances will be finally taken up en masse by larger [...]

Read Full Post »

I am warming up more and more to JetBlue. After moving to California and making all my elite status and flyer miles from Continental all but obsolete, JetBlue has been a nice find — roomy seats, satellite TV (which came in handy when watching my Eagles knock the smug grin off Tom Brady’s face, even [...]

Read Full Post »