Content about smartphone

April 24, 2012

Supply chain: ERP

Craig Sullivan, vice president and general manager of International Products for NetSuite, outlines eight ways in which outdated ERP systems can damage your business.

Craig Sullivan, vice president and general manager of International Products for NetSuite, outlines eight ways in which outdated ERP systems can damage your business.

Over the past decade, technology has transformed the broader world of business and consumer applications. Workers interact through mobile devices and social media, with applications increasingly connected over the web. But many ERP deployments remain static in spite of these changes.

February 1, 2012

Marketing: Brands

Will 2012 be the year when brands deliver more value and less hype? Ayesha Mathews-Wadhwa looks at digital design trends through the consumer behavior lens.

Will 2012 be the year when brands deliver more value and less hype? Ayesha Mathews-Wadhwa looks at digital design trends through the consumer behavior lens.

January 23, 2012

Technology: Integration

Phil Lewis examines the evolution of enterprise software integration and suggests how a business can strike the balance between ensuring integration without becoming a slave to it.

Phil Lewis examines the evolution of enterprise software integration and suggests how a business can strike the balance between ensuring integration without becoming a slave to it.

Integration: noun,an act or instance of combining into an integral whole.

August 30, 2011

Operations: Going mobile

With more people going online using mobile devices, the PC is no longer the default mode of web access. As Boris Kraft of Magnolia CMS explains, this demands a significant attitude shift for any business running a website.

With more people going online using mobile devices, the PC is no longer the default mode of web access. As Boris Kraft of Magnolia CMS explains, this demands a significant attitude shift for any business running a website. If you don’t have a mobile internet strategy, then it’s important to give serious consideration to whether you should.

February 11, 2011

Microsoft and Nokia plan strategic partnership

Microsoft and Nokia today announced plans to form a broad strategic partnership to create what they describe as “a new global mobile ecosystem” to take on Google and Apple in an all-out phone war.

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop (who left Microsoft to join Nokia last September) and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer have issued an “open letter” outlining a summary of their plans. Here is the letter in full:

August 2, 2010

UAE announces BlackBerry ban

The United Arab Emirates has announced it is banning BlackBerry messaging, email and internet use.

The government claims the ban is due to security concerns because encrypted data sent on the devices is sent abroad, where it cannot be monitored for illegal activity. It says it is cracking down solely on the BlackBerry because it is the only smartphone that automatically sends users' data to servers overseas.

Analysts say this makes BlackBerry messages tougher to monitor than ones sent through domestic servers that authorities can access more easily.