By Matt Cowan and Adrian Bathgate LONDON/WELLINGTON (Reuters UK) - Apple's AAPL new iPhone made its hotly awaited debut on Friday, with buyers storming stores in Asia and queues forming in European cities. Sales of the device, which combines a music and video player, cellphone and...
It's official. Google is now a big time software developer. How can we tell? Its largest software development project ever — the Google Android smartphone platform — will officially be delayed. When Google announced Android in November 2007, it said that Android-powered phones would be available by the second half...
This white paper by Frost & Sullivan presents an ROI model that can be used to build a business case for the deployment of Palm Treo smartphones. Smartphones combine the features of wireless handsets with the flexibility of PDAs. They enable mobile employees to: Use their time...
This case study discusses the wireless connectivity needs of workers in the building trades and explains how Palm® Treo™ smartphones are meeting those needs for the construction professionals at Webcor Builders. Previously, salaried employees of the California construction firm carried these four devices: Palm handheld Laptop computer...
Find out how Palm® Treo™ smartphones and Good Technology's Good Mobile Messaging service are enabling employees of the District of Columbia to provide better government service to the citizens of Washington, D.C. This case study highlights the benefits that employees are realizing through the smartphones, including the ability to: ...
When the San Francisco law firm of Hanson Bridgett needed a wireless solution that would give its attorneys access to data from any location at any time, it chose Palm® Treo™ smartphones with Good Technology's GoodLink service. Among the solution's major selling points: Combined PDA and cell phone functionality...
Read this case study to find out how Palm® Treo™ smartphones are enabling Public Works field staff in California's Contra Costa County to expedite services for the county's taxpayers. The paper highlights the advantages that California's ninth most populated county has gained by being able to send and receive numerical,...
I've been catching some buzz among the salesfolk community that they're in love with their smartphones. Today's smartphone (whether Iphone, Blackberry or whatever) is now capable of reasonably-sized emails, CRM support, contact management, and even simple presentations (fed through a monitor, natch.) ...
By Wojtek Dabrowski TORONTO (Reuters) - Research In Motion RIM RIMM on Wednesday posted a profit outlook that fell short of analyst expectations, sending its shares 8 percent lower, even as the maker of the BlackBerry smartphone posted quarterly earnings that...
ZARAGOZA, Spain (Reuters UK) - Telefonica TEF chairman Cesar Alierta reiterated the group's guidance for 2008 on Wednesday, despite the economic slowdown in Spain. "Telefonica is used to swimming against the current and we're on course to meeting our guidance for 2008," Alierta told reporters...
Can't find the instruction manual for your BlackBerry? Your old HP LaserJet? Adobe Photoshop? Head to SafeManuals, an online repository of instructions and user guides for a whopping 900,000 products. (Okay, the actual count is 883,542, but still.) You can browse the guide database or search for...
Unless you were on Mars yesterday, you no doubt heard that Apple unveiled the iPhone 3G. The big news: 3G connectivity, GPS-powered mapping, Exchange support, and an App Store. All that and lower prices: $199 for the 8GB model, $299 for 16GB. Not too shabby -- but is it enough to...
I'm attending the Nantucket Conference, where the East Coast entrepreneurial community gathers to talk about the state of the business. It's all off the record though I can negotiate to post specific comments with the speakers. Perhaps because of that, the conference has a kind of intimacy that's unusual...
The Research in Motion vs. Apple smartphone face-off makes for a good story, but the companies present an interesting business strategy question: Is it better to start in the enterprise and then go consumer or vice versa? In an interview with me at SAP Sapphire all resources...
Windows Mobile smartphone users, suffer iPhone envy no more: Makayama's TouchBrowser brings finger-operated Web browsing to your device. As you can see in the above video, TouchBrowser effectively duplicates the iPhone browsing experience on Windows Mobile handsets (touchscreen models only, natch). Well, partially: You don't get multi-touch...
SharkLinks for the Palm OS lets you add Web favorites directly to your smartphone's application screen. Normally, to visit a bookmarked site, you have to find and run the browser, tap the favorites icon, and sift through your selections until you find the desired favorite. SharkLinks turns any...
You already know you can get driving directions via Google SMS, but what if you're on foot in a big city and want to get around via public transportation? Enter HopStop, a free service that lets you access subway and bus directions using only your cell...
Not looking forward to the Ides of April? A new startup called Sexat ("Taxes" backwards, get it?) has worked out a deal to let you SMS your 1099s and W2s directly to the IRS—no H&R Block schmoe needed. All you have to do is follow the simple guidelines on the...
Feel like you're drowning in a deluge of phone calls? If you're a Windows Mobile smartphone user, you can block unwanted calls with Call Firewall. Compatible with Windows Mobile 5 and 6, this utility lets you configure your phone to handle calls in several different ways. For...
As a general rule, Windows Mobile devices and Macs don't mix. Eltima Software bridges the gap with SyncMate, a free tool that syncs your Mac's calendar, address book, documents, and more with your Windows Mobile PDA or smartphone. You read right: SyncMate is...
