FinancialForce Launches Timecard App for the iPhone on Salesforce’s AppExchange Mobile

FinancialForce.com, the cloud applications company, today announced it has launched a new mobile app on salesforce.com’s AppExchange Mobile, extending the marketplace built for the social enterprise. FinancialForce Timecards for the iPhone is among the first apps to leverage AppExchange Mobile, tapping into the power of the proven Force.com platform, salesforce.com’s social enterprise platform for employee [...]

Top 10 Strategic Technologies 2012

The top 10 IT trends and technologies that are going to be most important for you in 2012, include:   (click image to download larger chart)     STRATEGIC IT Technologies – in Detail 1. Media Tablets and Beyond. Choose between various form factors when it comes to mobile computing. No single platform, form factor [...]

Media Tablet: 75% of US Ultra-Mobile Device Sales

AbiResearch today released new research findings today, in a report called “Media Tablets Cannibalizing Netbook Spend with 75% Share of US Ultra-Mobile Device* Shipments in 2011”   Ultra-mobile devices (UMD) are mobile computing devices on a continuum, bordered by laptop PCs and smart phones.  This market has 4 segments: ultra-mobile PCs (UMPCs), mobile Internet devices [...]

United Planet Helps Businesses to Benefit from the ‘Bring your own Device’ Initiative

Ye Olde debate on whether companies should issue all IT equipment including laptops, tablets or mobile devices is an everlasting argument. Perhaps employees should use their own personal device, and charge back the company a fixed sum on a monthly basis? I know many procurement departments who would be thrilled with this idea with less [...]

Oracle Unveils Oracle Virtual Desktop Client App for iPad

Highly Secure and Mobile Access to Virtual Desktops and Enterprise Applications Further extending its comprehensive desktop virtualization portfolio,Oracle today announced Oracle Virtual Desktop Client App for iPad is now available on the App Store. Oracle Virtual Desktop Client App enables users secure access to virtual desktops managed by Oracle’s Sun Ray Software and Oracle Virtual [...]

Amazon Cloud Drive, 5Gb free, Tip to Save $20 for 20Gb

The Cloud world is getting saturated with online Cloud Services.  You can use Google Docs, Microsoft Azure, or even Drop Box and Box.net just to name a few.  You can even be creative and use a WordPress.com account for several Gb of free storage (i.e. poor man’s hot link solution). You can buy backup or [...]

Google Docs Alternatives: Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office

Truth is stranger than fiction. I’ve been using Google Docs for years, and I love it.  I never have to worry about my 2 biggest pet peeves in document collaboration:  (1) sending HUGE attachments by email and (2) version control of multiple edits by multiple people. But the problem is I can’t convince people to [...]

DaaS, Desktop Virtualization as a Service – The Next Killer App?

One of the final frontiers missing in the Cloud world of Saas, Paas and Iaas is Desktop Virtualization as a Service (Daas).  Yes, I am referring to VDI, or the virtual desktop infrastructure. The obvious applications that has already been “webalized” are E-mail, CRM or project management, just to name a few .  But what [...]

2012 will be the Year IPv4 Addresses will Run Out

After reading literally hundreds of articles on the Top 10 reviews of 2010 and Analysts forecasts for 2011, I am surprised no on has mentioned  IPv4 running out.  See The Next Y2K Project: The End of IPv4 Yes, with 4.3 billion addresses (some are reserved), we are going to run out. As of January 4, [...]

5 Trends in Mobile Computing for 2011

This article will not focus on the apps that run on mobile computing (such as iPhone apps, Chatter, productivity and social media applications) but rather the overall trends in mobile computing. 1. Mobile Advertising I worked for a webhosting and ecommerce company way back in 1997.  Web hosting back then was expensive, remember? But it [...]

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