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MyFax let us know that they have launched an app that lets users access and view faxes from their BlackBerry. The app also lets you list your faxes, identify which ones are new, view your faxes, and get fax details including sender CSID, date and time received, and number of pages. The app requires you have a MyFax account and seems to be geared towards more small-to-medium sized businesses as the price point for the service is around $10 per month.
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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Google Apps has been an incredible cost saver for SMBs and the Google Apps Marketplace is a great place to discover productivity tools that will help your business. One of those productivity tools is Tungle.me, which is now available to companies who want an easy way to schedule meetings internally or with clients.
Kompass for BlackBerry is a mobile site that is optimized for smartphones including BlackBerry. The fact that it’s a mobile site offers some advantages and disadvantages, and this review aims to highlight each aspect of this choice. Basecamp is a project management platform used by many businesses, and considering the number of SMBs on BlackBerry, it’s surprising a native app hasn’t yet been developed. Let’s take a look at the Beta version of Kompass for BlackBerry, after the break.
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One of the value propositions of BES Express was that corporate users would be able to use their BIS data plans on a BES, thus saving the company money on data plans and a BES license. It turns out Verizon will be requiring all users on BES Express to upgrade their data plan to the corporate rate. It seems RIM may have been unaware Verizon was going to do this, as they said “This means if you can browse the Internet from your BlackBerry smartphone today you are already on a service plan that can be used with BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express.” This is now technically incorrect.
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Back in May, I wrote a article about what to expect from App World in 2010. Basically, the idea is that App World is a consumer portal, but there are plans to build it as a portal for business as well.
Since then, I’ve learned that App World is going to feature a category called something like My Company. The My Company category will be a portal for your organization to populate with apps that your company has deemed important to the success of each department.
For example, sales teams would click on the My Company category (will be called something else) and browse to their sales team section. From there, they will find a list of applications that the company wants all their sales force to have such as a CRM application. Human resources would have a similar tab, where they might download the LinkedIn application, or the company’s own in-house HR tools. New employees might be able to find training software and video in their section, improving an organization’s ability to get a new hire up to speed.
The above is all very much rumor and I’m only speculating on pieces taken from various sources. The major details missing here is how exactly companies will plug into the custom App World. Also, as this is very much in the early development stages, by the time it launches it may function differently, even though the concept will be the same.
I’m not sure on a launch date for all of this. It could come as late as the next BlackBerry Developer Conference or as early as WES 2010.
What do you think? Is this something your organization could benefit from?
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