Mobile app developers to get their own professional organization
Paul Krill, ComputerWorld, 1/3/2012 The Application Developers Alliance would enable collaboration and provide education, cloud access, and lobbying efforts Mobile application developers are set to gain an industry association that would promote their interests, enabling collaboration and product testing while offering education, cloud hosting, and governmental lobbying on their behalf. Led by Jon Potter, former [...]
In: Android, Blackberry, iPhone, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: Cloud
HP throws WebOS to open source community
Iain Thomson, The Register, 12/9/2011 HP will bite the bullet and dump the WebOS operating system on the open source community. The company made the announcement, as expected, that it would no longer sell the software and instead will transfer the source code, along with the ENYO application framework for WebOS and the remaining components [...]
In: Android, iPhone, Mobile Technology, Palm (HP) · Tagged with: Cloud, HTC, Samsung
New WiFi Routers Managed in the Cloud
David Strom, ReadWriteWeb, 11/15/2011 Two announcements in the past month show that the wireless routing marketplace is getting cloud-savvy, with the ability to use the cloud to manage widescale deployments. The advantage of this is clear for companies with several branch offices that want to maintain a single wireless and wired network across their entire [...]
In: Mobile Technology · Tagged with: Cisco, Cloud, WiFi
RIM links with Microsoft for cloud services
Iain Thomson, The Register, 10/25/2011 RIM has begun a beta of BlackBerry Business Cloud Services, a system designed to manage its users’ devices remotely and allow access to Microsoft Office 365 applications online. The open beta, available in 30 countries, will see RIM hosting the service that lets users synchronize data with Microsoft Exchange Online’s [...]
In: Blackberry, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: Cloud
Appcelerator Announces Open Mobile Marketplace, the AppExchange for Mobile Devs
Dan Rowinski, ReadWriteWeb, 9/19/2011 Mobile cloud platform Appcelerator is having its first-ever developers’ conference this week in Mountain View dubbed CODESTRONG. At the conference the company is announcing the “Appcelerator Open Mobile Marketplace” that is essentially a Salesforce AppExchange-like marketplace for independent software vendors and cloud providers. Appcelerator’s marketplace is the first ever to bring [...]
In: Mobile Technology · Tagged with: API, Cloud
Citrix Brings GoToMeeting App to Android
Dan Rowinski, ReadWriteWeb, 9/7/2011 Cloud and virtualization company Citrix is releasing its popular GoToMeeting application for Android devices. Citrix sites stats from The Telework Coalition that 58% of companies consider themselves a virtual workplace while 67% of all workers use mobile and wireless computing devices. Combined with the fact that Android controls more than 40% [...]
In: Android, Blackberry, iPhone, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: Cloud, Motorola, VoIP, WiFi
Will HTML5 kill the mobile app?
Mark Sullivan, PC World, 7/20/2011 With a powerful new upgrade to HTML now emerging, developers may opt for apps that run in mobile browsers For a couple of years now, we’ve been talking about apps for a multitude of purposes. Mobile apps continue to be the preferred way to deliver new services or content to mobile [...]
In: Android, iPhone, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: 3G, 4G, Cloud, HTML5, WiFi
xCloud – an iCloud solution for BlackBerry
Ryan Blundell, CrackBerry, 7/14/2011 So Apple will be releasing their iCloud this fall. This iCloud will store your documents, media and pretty much your life in a cloud (as long as it fits into a space of 5GB) and will automatically push them to their iProducts or PC. Earlier in the year, a company called [...]
In: Android, Blackberry, iPhone, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: Cloud
Alibaba plans own cloud-based phone OS
Electronista, 7/4/2011 Alibaba, best known for its e-commerce sites, is now working on developing its own cell phone operating system, an anonymous source close to the matter told the Wall Street Journal on Monday. The software will offer cloud-based services, unlike current popular operating systems such as Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android, which requires users [...]
In: Android, iPhone, Mobile Technology, WinPhone · Tagged with: Cloud
Citrix Backs Mobile Cloud Technology Startup
Robin Wauters, TechCrunch, 6/21/2011 Citrix this morning announced an investment in mobile technology company Core Mobile Networks, marking the third funding commitment for the company’s Startup Accelerator, its Silicon Valley-based seed investment initiative which debuted in December 2010. Core Mobile Networks correlates information from enterprise IT systems with content in the cloud, and delivers it [...]
In: Android, iPhone, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: AT&T, Cloud, Sprint, Verizon