I’ve decided to yet again refocus my blog on leadership, business operations and business strategy. I’ll probably blog very little about mobile telecommunications technology for the time being.
Siri was purchased by Apple and we have not heard much from them since. You can still download their application on their website although I’m not sure if it’s been updated. However, Siri’s technology is clearly innovative and extremely user friendly. So now it begs the question, will it make a resurgence?
I’ve recently been asked, numerous times, how to add an iCal calendar (ics extension) or CSV calendars to a BlackBerry calendar. If you’re on an enterprise activated BlackBerry or use Outlook to sync calendar items to your BlackBerry, then it’s quiet easy. However, if you’re one of the many people who don’t sync their calendars, what can you do? I’ll give the general solution and then give a specific example of how to do it for Toronto Raptor fans who want the season schedule in their calendars.
Can the Smartphone market sustain all the different platforms that currently exist or will the platforms be forced to converge? The most common view is that the platforms with the most applications will survive. Although, I tend to agree with that view, I think there will be another factor.
A public battle began between Apple and Adobe related to Flash support on the iPhone. What started with Apple putting terms in it’s Developer License Agreement that prohibit flash usage in iPhone apps, resulted in a top adobe developer telling Apple to “Screw off” and then a response by Mr. Jobs letting us know his thoughts on Flash. Ignoring the rumours that Apple is working on a Flash alternative themselves, I’d like to concentrate on the main points Mr. Jobs made and give you my thoughts.
Recently, we’ve seen the introduction of a few consumer products with twitter integration such as Withings Wifi Scale. What’s different about this scale is that it boasts Twitter support allowing you to tweet your weight. So this got me thinking, what other home appliances and consumer products can we add Twitter support to. I came up with 10 ideas…
So there is a lot of talk about how the future of the Smartphone technology and market is going to pan out. There are many thoughts on the subject and I’ll let you browse the net to find the popular ones. I’ll be honest I haven’t read them all mostly because I like to formulate my own opinions…
Finally some innovation has been brought into our midsts by Swype. An innovative new technology that aims to dramatically improve the virtual keyboard user experience.
Today, Palm lowered their revenue guidance for Q3 and FY10 due to slower than expected consumer adoption. In other words, the Pixi was a flop and the Pre didn’t sell enough units. So what shall we make of this news.
Apple has removed upwwards of 5000 applications from it’s AppStore and the move is not that far fetched if you consider the possible future of Apple