May 2009

Moving Beyond Wireless Enablement (Canada)

SAP sponsored an IDC White Paper available for download here. This report analyzes Canadian organizations’ readiness to incorporate mobility into their enterprise application strategy.  IDC’s data on current and future adoption of mobile solutions indicates that the majority of organizations have wirelessly enabled their workforce, but have not yet begun to embrace mobilization. The distinction [...]

May 22, 2009 Read the full article →

The Smartphone is dead… long live the Smartphone

Twitter folks I follow (as @mstrat)  pointed me to this new paper from Forrester:  The “Smartphone” Is Dead: Long Live Smart Phones And Smart Gadgets. Similarly there are other folks around the web writing about it.  It is quite surprising that it is such a big deal for Forrester to declare the smartphone moniker to [...]

May 19, 2009 Read the full article →

Access SAP CRM from your BlackBerry

SAP and Research In Motion announced two days ago the availability of an integrated solution that provides customers with anytime, anywhere access to the SAP® Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM) application on BlackBerry® smartphones.  It is now available from RIM and you can check out the ‘campaign’ section over at the BlackBerry site here. which [...]

May 15, 2009 Read the full article →

BlackBerry Professional Software and BlackBerry Unite! … are dead?

I know this is late and if you are an enterprise user this will not apply.  However I have been reading some posts around the web about BlackBerry Professional Software and BlackBerry Unite! both coming to an end with the release of BES 5.0.  Although the RIM website is still showing the BlackBerry Professional Software [...]

May 14, 2009 Read the full article →

Mobile Banking. Set to take off… again!

Daily we hear news of how mobile banking is either about to take off … or has taken off already.  I am sure you have seen the same news items and this is nothing new to any of us. I do have a problem however… I have a problem with what is called mobile banking [...]

May 12, 2009 Read the full article →

Google Apps Connector for BlackBerry Enterprise Server

I am a Google Apps user.  I use it for my own business and have set it up and manage it for other places (like my church).   So yesterday’s news is good news for me and I assume for a lot of other small business operators running on Google Apps.  Of course, you may be [...]

May 5, 2009 Read the full article →

BlackBerry Surpasses iPhone in First Quarter 09

Press Release from The NDP Group: RIM Unseats Apple in The NPD Group’s Latest Smartphone Ranking PORT WASHINGTON, NEW YORK, May 4, 2009 – According to The NPD Group, a leader in wireless industry market research, an aggressive “buy-one-get-one” promotion by Verizon Wireless helped RIM’s BlackBerry Curve move past Apple’s iPhone to become the best-selling [...]

May 4, 2009 Read the full article →

RIM Launches BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0

Below is the Press Release from the BlackBerry site. Next Generation Mobility Platform Delivers Rich Set of Advanced IT Administration Features and Smartphone Controls Waterloo, ON – Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM, TSX: RIM) today announced the availability of BlackBerry® Enterprise Server 5.0 – the next generation of RIM’s secure, push-based server software for [...]

May 4, 2009 Read the full article →