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Minority Report: 10 top iPhone 2.0 apps
Photo Both apps also link to geo-tagged Flickr and Panoramio galleries. The iPhone is a surprisingly large place to be in, lots of data, phone numbers, email, apps and websites and the free Google iPhone app does an admirable job of letting the user sift... [15 Aug 2008]
SAP: Time's up for TomorrowNow
News TomorrowNow staff have little contact with Oracle but have detailed knowledge of the apps they work on - such as PeopleSoft, JD Edwards and Siebel - with many having experience of working for Oracle. SAP is now working with more than 225 customers... [22 Jul 2008]
Taylor Woodrow heads for the cloud
Case Study Taylor Woodrow has moved its 1,800 staff onto Google Apps for email and other services, estimating it will save £1m per year in the process. The construction division of Taylor Wimpey has embraced software as a service by adopting Google Apps... [10 Jul 2008]
Name that tune...the rise of Shazam
Comment As operators look to innovative third-party apps to help power a brave new era of mobile services, Fisher argues Shazam, with its community of users, is ideally placed to help them and build its own business in the process. [12 Jun 2008]
Building soc buys Experian mortgage engine
News The implementation has prompted the building society to upgrade its Summit back end systems, supplied by TietoEnator, to make sure integration is successful, indicating the level of investment for the project to be significant. [10 Jun 2008]
iPhone 2.0 - ready for business?
News He told silicon.com: "If we look at the sorts of apps that business users want from their phone wireless email is right up there at the top of the list, and BlackBerry - RIM - has been doing a fantastic job without 3G for a number of years. [06 Jun 2008]
Cheat Sheet: QR codes
Cheat Sheet However, not all phones are compatible with these apps - so be prepared to be disappointed. Some phones have barcode scanning software pre-loaded (again, much more likely if you live in Japan, but Nokia has also shown an interest in barcode readers... [28 May 2008]
SAP apps to show up on BlackBerrys
News Much in the same way that BlackBerry smart phones handle email, it will be possible to use SAP's enterprise applications even without coverage, with updates queued on the handsets and back-end servers automatically transferring when the phone has... [06 May 2008]
Microsoft smartens up for enterprise mobility
News Microsoft also announced the launch of System Centre Mobile Device Manager (SCMDM) 2008 to enable businesses to offer more sophisticated mobile apps and features. The company is in talks with operators AT&T, O2, Orange, TaTa Teleservices and... [02 Apr 2008]
Facebook for BlackBerry racks up a million hits
News The availability of 'sophisticated' free mobile apps offering features such as social networking, videoing and messaging is helping to drive app development and user activity in the mobile space, according to mobile apps aggregator GetJar which... [02 Apr 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 14.03.08
Round-Up The SDK allows developers to create applications for the formerly closed platform, so expect the usual mix of useful, productivity apps and complete and utter toot (see photos of the launch). Until now, developers have had to be satisfied producing... [14 Mar 2008]
Cheat Sheet: Google Android
Cheat Sheet An apps free-for-all eh? In Google's words, it's a "complete software stack" for mobile phones, built on an open Linux kernel (Linux version 2.6) - so that's an operating system plus all the middleware and key apps you need to drive a mobile phone. [12 Mar 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 07.03.08
Round-Up Fielding questions from his chaise-longue at the CeBit trade show in Hanover, Turner told the assembled masses (the Round-Up imagines them angrily waving CDs with printer drivers and redundant security software) that the company was not at all... [07 Mar 2008]
Poll: And the next killer app for mobiles is...
News The other options listed in the poll were: video/TV, music, games, email, access to corporate IT apps and social networking. Corporate IT apps are also not going to be flogging handsets on their own, according to readers - just 11 per cent said... [04 Mar 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 22.02.08
Round-Up Microsoft has also warned that the list of apps is not comprehensive. Just why the astronaut couldn't use the built-in radio in the helmets as they did back in the days of the Apollo landings is beyond the Round-Up and certainly isn't going to stop... [22 Feb 2008]
