Posted on November 23, 2010, at 6:46 PM .
Should companies allow their employees to use LinkedIn? By allowing your employees to use LinkedIn, you are allowing them to advertise themselves to other companies for employment, and leaving a point of contact so they can receive an offer. On the other hand, social is here to stay and you should be confident enough in your company to keep employees from being poached.
Today’s news that RIM is losing enterprise sales staff to Apple, as seen on LinkedIn, really seems to drive home the fact that a more open and social ecosystem leaves your employees open for poaching. According to the news from the WSJ, it looks like RIM has lost a number of sales staff over the past 1.5 years, including 5 recently.
These sales execs will surely have their work cut out for them. Who would want a job selling a device that is only a touchscreen to enterprise? That’s like trying to sell coffee with only an espresso available.
Posted on November 3, 2010, at 12:33 PM .
The BlackBerry PlayBook is due to arrive in Q1 of 2011 and a lot of developers are plugging away at the SDK and thinking about what apps they’re going to build. At the BlackBerry Developer Group meeting here in Ottawa, Canada last night, we got a demonstration of the SDK by Anthony Rizk, founder of Zeebu Mobile and author of Beginning BlackBerry. The SDK looks incredibly simple and if your application is very graphics heavy (as is the case with BabyGO!), then porting your app to the PlayBook looks like a breeze. According to Anthony, writing the BabyGO! app for BlackBerry took about 2 weeks of development time, compared to about 4 hours for the PlayBook. Also, this 4 hours includes learning how to use the Flash tools which he had never used before.
But will BabyGO! be the type of app that users will be looking for when the PlayBook launches? Consider this: the PlayBook is launching after Christmas when most consumers who are interested in a tablet will have already purchased one. Those who are going to pick up a tablet will most likely be in enterprise, since it’s BES ready and a lot of employees who were normally locked out of the tablet market due to IT policies, will be able to bring their PlayBook on the network and start playing. A lot of these devices will still be locked down and in some organizations they may not be able to use any apps at all. There will also be a huge segment of users who don’t care about the iPad and are waiting for a PlayBook because they know their gadgets and they’re confident they’re buying a superior product.
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Posted on October 8, 2010, at 4:11 PM .
Antenna has announced the availability of a collection of business apps called the AMP Approvals Suite. The suite features core administrative and operational tasks used daily by executives including the submission and approval of purchase orders, travel and expense reports. Antenna describes the apps as Web apps, and it’s not clear if they run through the web browser of if they’ve taken the time to bundle them as native apps using the WebWorks platform.
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Posted on September 30, 2010, at 5:51 PM .
Dexrex Gear, maker of IM, social media, SMS capture and archiving platforms, has taken its BlackBerry SMS archiving software for consumers and reformulated it for enterprise. This new version integrates SMS, MMS, and PIN messaging for companies operating in a BlackBerry environment.
ChatSync Mobile Enterprise provides customers with a one-stop application for the capture, storage and management of text-based communications data through all endpoints. ChatSync can operate as a stand-alone solution, or as part of a larger communications and compliance management system.
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Posted on September 16, 2010, at 5:27 PM .
TELUS is offering pre-orders of the BlackBerry Torch but it could be just for enterprise customers as the notice went out to business clients and the form connects you with a “solution specialist”. There are a lot of small businesses that are going to love the Torch, because it’s a great combination of fun and business. With the Torch, you get the easy navigation of the Storm, with the productivity and keyboard of the Bold. We’re expecting the TELUS Torch to launch on September 24th.
Head over to TELUS to pre-order the Torch.
Read our review of the BlackBerry Torch.
Posted on August 18, 2010, at 3:34 PM .
Seregon is looking for beta testers for their latest produced called dragonRAD – a tool for developers who are looking to build native, cross-platform mobile enterprise applications for BlackBerry, Android, and WinMo devices. dragonRAD accelerates mobile application development, simplifies the deployment and maintenance, and connects to any database and web service. The tool is targeted at developers who like quick coding and prototyping and hate porting their applications to other platforms.
Sign up for the dragonRAD beta now because August 31st is the last day to sign up.
