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First HD Radio Accessory and Application

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:30:00 EST

iBiquity Digital Corporation, the developer of digital HD Radio Technology for AM and FM audio and data broadcasting, announced that with the Gigaware Navigation Control HD Radio Receiver accessory and the Gigaware HD Radio application, iPhone and iPod touch users can receive HD Radio FM broadcasts. The accessory and HD Radio application combination takes advantage of the iPhone 3.0 operating system and its ability to support external accessories. iPhone 3.0 allows application developers to utilize external hardware support. Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch models updated with 3.0 software, the application is available on the App Store and requires the compatible Gigaware accessory.

Mobile Software Companies and Their Online Marketing Strategies

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:30:00 EST

For many years I have developed and managed marketing campaigns for mobile software companies. I ran seminars, Pay Per Click campaigns, white paper distributions, email blasts, webinars, Web 2.0 strategies etc. As a result, I am very interested in seeing which mobile software companies advertise online. It costs money to place an ad on websites, blogs and on search pages. Many companies simply don't have the money to advertise these days.

Barcode Scans and Prices on Mobile Handheld Computers and Smart Phones

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:30:00 EST

Last week I wrote an article pondering the benefits of using my iPhone to capture the bar code on grocery store products, using the integrated digital camera, and then have my iPhone use its GPS coordinates to look at the prices of this product in other grocery store locations that are close to mine.

Want to Succeed In Social Media?

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:16:00 EST

Recently, I've seen a lot of studies about the lack of success of small businesses in social media. In one eMarketer article alone they reference not one but two of them: Small businesses are not hitting it off with social media, according to an August 2009 study from Citibank. More than three-quarters of US small-business executives surveyed did not find social networks helpful for generating leads or expanding their business.

Christophe Bisciglia Will Discuss Technical and Business Issues of Hadoop at Cloud Computing Expo

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:00:00 EDT

Many in the industry have heard of Hadoop, and in his session at Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, Christophe Bisciglia, Co-Founder of Cloudera, gets a little deeper. Hadoop is based on the same methods Google uses to store and process petabytes of data, but thanks to contributions from many in the open source community you can leverage these same methods to make sense of every increasing volumes of enterprise data. Bisciglia will highlight the technical and business issues that make Hadoop so powerful for large scale data processing.

Jill Tummler Singer of CIA to Present at Cloud Computing Expo on November 2

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:45:00 EDT

As the pressure mounts to meet more stringent budgets, CIOs need to find the proper balance between transforming IT and reducing costs. IT operational costs continue to increase as a percentage of overall IT dollars. At the same time, IT is being pressured to provide an innovative, competitive advantage for the business. Will the Enterprise Cloud support both? Can the Enterprise Cloud make infrastructure operations faster, easier, cheaper, and safer while also unleashing the transformative creativity of the workforce? Will the Cloud be both a strong efficiency play as well as the Infrastructure’s Ultimate Revenge by positioning IT to be the accelerator of corporate strategy instead of its bottleneck? All these questions, plus many more will be answered for you by Jill Tummler Singer during her session.

Competitive Business Innovations First Guest Blogger

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:16:00 EDT

Today I am delighted to introduce Mr. Rick Gordon, Managing Director at the Civitas Group, as Competitive Business Innovation’s first guest blogger. I am honored to have him blogging with us. The Civitas Group is a consulting firm specializing in the field of homeland and national security founded in 2003 as a joint venture between Stonebridge [...]

Boingo Wi-Fi Now Available for BlackBerry

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 06:05:00 EDT

Boingo Wireless, the world’s largest network of Wi-Fi hotspots, today announced the availability of its authentication software and Boingo Mobile service for the BlackBerry® platform. Available immediately from the Boingo Download Center, Boingo Mobile provides BlackBerry® smartphone owners with an alternative to cellular data through one-click, high-speed access to Boingo’s Wi-Fi network of over 100,000 hotspots. The Boingo Mobile application will initially be available for the BlackBerry® Curve™ 8900, BlackBerry Curve 8320 and BlackBerry® Bold™ smartphones. Boingo will announce support for additional BlackBerry smartphone models as they become available.

Who Is Your Brand Advocate Numero Uno?

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:00:00 EDT

I’m often asked in workshops, “who needs to be my number one brand advocate?” The guesses range from my current supervisor, a trusted mentor, a current client or a leader in the industry. Some, even after going over the ”18...

Disaster Management: Managing Emergency Communications with Marc Ladin

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:00:00 EDT

When the city of Glendale needed to quickly alert residents to lower their water and power use to enable fire fighters to gain access to critical resources, they turned to a local company, Everbridge, to reach citizens with real-time notifications alerting them to the emergency.

Gartner Identifies the Top Ten Strategic Technologies for 2010

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:00:00 EDT

Gartner has identified their Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2010 and Mobile applications have finally made it onto their radar. Fellow blogger Philippe Winthrop of Enterprise Mobility Matters brought up a good observation, that for some reason Gartner missed mobility completely last year and though they added mobile applications for 2010...

Introducing Posh-FourSquare

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:50:00 EDT

Those who know me, can attest that I'm a early adopter when it comes to social networking systems. The latest one I've been getting into lately is FourSquare.com.

FourSquare.com describes itself as 50% friend finder, 30% social city guide, and 20% nightlife game. They include ways to keep up with what your friends are doing as well as offering up some fun challenges to have you explore cities in different ways.

Once I've played around with a social networking site for a bit, my next step is to see what kind of API's they have exposed and see if I can build my own app to integrate with the site. It turns out that the FourSquare.com has exposed a public API in their FourSquare-API Google Group.

So, as I did with my Posh-Tweet, Posh-Bing, Posh-TwitPic, and Posh-Delicious libraries, I went ahead and wrote a PowerShell library of functions to access the FourSquare APIs.

The API is broken down into these categories:

Credentials

Get-FourSquare.Credentials - Get the credentials for your FourSquare.com account.

Set-FourSquare.Credentials - Set the credentials for your FourSquare.com account.

GEO Methods

Get-FourSquare.Citites - Returns a list of currently active cities.

Check-FourSquare.City - When given a lat/long, returns the closest foursquare city.

Switch-FourSquare.City - When given a valid foursquare cityid, changes the user's default city.

Get-FourSquare.Checkins - Returns a list of recent checkins from friends.

New-FourSquare.Checkin - Allows you to check-in to a place.

Get-FourSquare.History - Returns a history of checkins for the authenticated user (across all cities).

User Methods

Get-FourSquare.User - Returns profile information (badges, etc) for a given user.

Get-FourSquare.Friends - Returns a list of the authenticated user's friends.

Get-FourSquare.Venues - Returns a list of venues near the area specified or that match the search term.

Get-FourSquare.Venue - Returns venue data, including mayorship, tips/to-dos and tags

Add-FourSquare.Venue - Allows you to add a new venue.

Tip Methods

Get-FourSquare.Tips - Returns a list of tips near the area specified.

Add-FourSquare.Tip - Allows you to add a new tip or to-do at a venue.

Other Methods

Get-FourSquare.Status - Returns the string "ok".

Usage:

To use the API's you must first register on FourSquare.com. The username and password you use to create the account will be used in this API with the Set-FourSquare.Credentials method. After setting your credentials, you can call any of the other methods and start updating your status from the comfort of your PowerShell prompt. The following example will register the functions in the current runspace, set the credentials, query the available citites, and then checkin at the Cafe next door for lunch.

PS C:\> . .\Posh-FourSquare.ps1
PS C:\> Set-FourSquare.Credentials -user myuser -pass mypass
PS C:\> Get-FourSquare.Cities | Format-Table
id   timezone                name                    geolat                  geolong
--   --------                ----                    ------                  -------
56   Europe/Amsterdam        Amsterdam               52.3789                 4.90067
46   America/New_York        Atlanta                 33.7525                 -84.3888
42   America/Chicago         Austin                  30.2669                 -97.7428
58   America/Denver          Black Rock City         40.7693                 -119.22
24   America/New_York        Boston                  42.3583                 -71.0603
32   America/Chicago         Chicago                 41.8858                 -87.6181
43   America/Chicago         Dallas / Fort Worth     32.7887                 -96.7676
25   America/Denver          Denver                  39.734                  -105.026
47   America/New_York        Detroit                 42.3333                 -83.0484
48   America/Chicago         Houston                 29.7594                 -95.3594
49   America/Los_Angeles     Las Vegas               36.1721                 -115.122
34   America/Los_Angeles     Los Angeles             34.0443                 -118.251
39   America/New_York        Miami                   25.7323                 -80.2436
51   America/Chicago         Minneapolis / St. Paul  44.9609                 -93.2642
22   America/New_York        New York City           40.7255                 -73.9983
33   America/New_York        Philadelphia            39.8694                 -75.2731
53   America/Phoenix         Phoenix                 33.4483                 -112.073
37   America/Los_Angeles     Portland                45.527                  -122.685
38   America/Los_Angeles     San Diego               32.7153                 -117.156
23   America/Los_Angeles     San Francisco           37.7587                 -122.433
41   America/Los_Angeles     Seattle                 47.6036                 -122.326
59   America/Vancouver       Vancouver               49.259515               -123.103867
31   America/New_York        Washington, DC          38.8964                 -77.0447
PS C:\> New-FourSquare.Checkin -venue "Urban Cafe" -shout "It's lunch time!"
message : OK! We've got you @ Urban Cafe.  This is your 4th checkin here!
id      : 1398385
created : Mon, 05 Oct 09 12:50:00 +0000
venue   : venue
mayor   : mayor

Get The Source

The full source for the script is available from my blog at Posh-FourSquare.ps1

Enjoy!

-Joe

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Cloud Computing in Context

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 04:56:00 EDT

My presentation from Friday’s Future of Technology in Education (FOTE) conference in London is now on Slideshare, and reproduced here. Cutting through the Hype: Clouds in Context set out to question some of the preconceptions that many people seem to hold about Cloud Computing, and I suggest that the majority are less black and white than they initially seem.

Research In Motion Reports Second Quarter Results

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:45:00 EDT

Research In Motion Limited (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM)(TSX: RIM), a world leader in the mobile communications market, today reported second quarter results for the three months ended August 29, 2009 (all figures in U.S. dollars and U.S. GAAP, except where indicated).

WILS: The Concise Guide to *-Load Balancing

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:15:00 EDT

Understanding the various types of load balancing

When someone says “load balancing” the immediate reaction is usually to think of pools of servers and applications being load balanced to provide high-availability for massive sites like Amazon or Google or Facebook. But there’s a couple of other types of load balancing that deserve to be recognized because although they sit in the shadow of “load balancing” they are often invaluable assets to network and application architects attempting to ensure availability and adherence to service level agreements.

Link Load Balancing
Link load balancing is the act of distributing network traffic over at least two network (ISP) links. Link load balancing is used to provide availability through failover in the event one network link becomes unavailable or to optimize delivery of data by intelligently choosing the ISP link with the best performance characteristics (latency, congestion, etc…) for the application in question. Link Load Balancing generally operates at Layer 2 through Layer 3.

Global Load Balancing

Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) is used to distribute application requests across multiple data centers (cloud or traditional) to assure availability and meet performance requirements. Disaster Recovery (DR) scenarios often include the use of GSLB to redirect users to a secondary (or tertiary) data center in the event of a disaster, but GSLB is also increasingly used to manage performance through the use of GeoLocation technologies and more advanced evaluation of business information involving power consumption and costs and other business-related metrics. GSLB can operate at Layer 4 through Layer 7.

Local Load Balancing

Local Server Load Balancing – often referred to as simply Server Load Balancing (SLB) despite its increasing inaccuracy in the case of cloud computing and virtualized architectures – is used in a local environment to direct application requests to the appropriate application instance based on configured performance and availability metrics, among other variables. The most sophisticated of the load balancing types, local load balancing offers the most flexibility in configuration options and in the variables that can be used to determine where to direct requests. SLB solutions can operate at Layer 4 through Layer 7.

Firewall Load Balancing

Firewall load balancing is a specific implementation of local load balancing used to load balancing multiple firewalls to provide scale, resiliency, and performance. Firewall load balancing has unique requirements that are not always met by SLB even though the core functionality for this type of load balancing is almost always provided by an SLB device. Firewall load balancing solutions require extremely high performance even under massive load, and generally operate at layer 4 (TCP) or below, though some provide options at higher layers of the stack as well.

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Microsoft & Nokia Aim to Go Stomp Blackberries

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:45:00 EDT

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Reputation Support Will Help Job Security

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:45:00 EDT

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Research in Motion and Mezeo Software to Explain Cloud Storage Opportunities

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:00:00 EDT

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Mobile Comms Can Save 43bn Euro in Energy Bills per Year

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 05:45:00 EDT

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Intermedia's First Hosted Enterprise Instant Messaging Service for Blackberry

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:30:00 EDT

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Vlingo Launches Version 3.0 to Deliver 'Hands-Free' Control of BlackBerry Smartphones

Wed, 06 May 2009 10:30:00 EDT

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Cellcrypt Enables Secure Voice Calls on BlackBerry Smartphones

Tue, 05 May 2009 04:00:00 EDT

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gwabbit for BlackBerry Launches

Mon, 04 May 2009 08:01:00 EDT

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RIM Further Extends Push Technology to BlackBerry Developers

Mon, 04 May 2009 00:07:00 EDT

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Mon, 04 May 2009 00:03:00 EDT

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Thu, 08 Jan 2009 08:00:00 EST

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Softbank Releases Voice Recognition Translation Tool for iPhone

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 07:00:00 EST

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SYS-CON Webcast - The Blackberry Technical Webcast Series

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:00:00 EST

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SYS-CON Webcast - BlackBerry Technical Seminar

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:00:00 EST

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Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:30:00 EST

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Sun, 28 Sep 2008 14:45:00 EDT

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Google Chrome Comes Out of a Comic Book

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:30:00 EDT

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Funambol Open Source Enables BlackBerry

Thu, 29 May 2008 08:15:00 EDT

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Thu, 29 May 2008 05:15:00 EDT

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SCO To Appear on a BlackBerry Near You

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:30:00 EDT

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RIM Announces BlackBerry JDE Plug-in for Eclipse

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:30:00 EDT

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Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:30:00 EDT

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Facebook + BlackBerry = FaceBerry

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 22:45:00 EDT

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Sybase 365 Launches AvantGo for BlackBerry

Wed, 09 May 2007 12:00:00 EDT

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Virtual BlackBerry

Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:15:00 EDT

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Handmark Debuts ZAGAT TO GO v5.0 for Windows Mobile, Palm, BlackBerry

Tue, 14 Nov 2006 11:00:00 EST

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Sybase iAnywhere Debuts New Wireless AvantGo Software for BlackBerry

Tue, 12 Sep 2006 14:00:00 EDT

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TCS Launches Java Application For BlackBerry

Tue, 23 May 2006 11:45:00 EDT

TeleCommunication Systems(TCS)announced the availability of Rand McNally Traffic, a downloadable Java application for BlackBerry devices from Research In Motion. Compiled from multiple sources, Rand McNally Traffic reports road closures, accidents, congestion areas, adverse weather conditions, sporting events, concerts and festivals.

Google Talk and Google Local Available to BlackBerry Users

Mon, 13 Feb 2006 13:00:00 EST

BlackBerry Owners can now use both 'Google Talk' and 'Google Local' for their BlackBerry device. Google Talk for the BlackBerry is a version of the Instant Messaging application for the BlackBerry and it enables users to send / receive instant text messages with other Google Talk community members. The use of Google Talk requires a Gmail account.

Orbis Completes Law Enforcement BlackBerry PDA Solution That Runs on J2ME

Fri, 03 Feb 2006 12:15:00 EST

Orbis Integrated Solutions, a business consulting and technology integration firm which focuses on Investigative Solutions and Data Management Solutions, has announced the successful completion of the RIM BlackBerry 7520 wireless investigative solution. The wireless application also obtained approval from the Sprint / Nextel validation and verification process, and released on the Nextel National Network.