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Resistance is futile - Oracle to assimilate RIM? This is a great article sent to me by a colleague - Jonathan Fisher.  This sort of follow's up on my post on OpenOffice. Oracle has been quietly in the background building up a significant portfolio of enterprise plays. Considering all the posting I have been doing on RIM that is a accumulation of thoughts over quite some time, RIM could...

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Have Microsoft lost the plot? Before you put pen to paper on a topic like this you have to challenge yourself before you make such a bold statement - so note the question mark. Peter Drucker wisely noted, "Business has only two basic functions: marketing and innovation." High tech is uniquely a product of both. Inbound marketing leads to innovation, or at very least...

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#Cisco Cius video - this is one serious service for... httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEk2MI4ZGlQ&feature=related

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#Cisco enterprise desktop game changer - Cius tablet... This is a great move from one of the mega vendors. Recently Cisco unveiled its Cius tablet PC running the Android 2.0 OS aimed squarely at business users. This is a game changer. As you will see from one of my previous posts - back in Siemens over a decade ago, Cisco pulled the market as it changed the desktop paradigm for voice 10 years...

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#Hosting automation for Telco / Carriers - choice is... I was holding off on this post until a few things had passed but this is a really important one, its actually vital to how the hosting industry 'pans' out within the telco / carrier market - the hosting industry has quite literally gone 'pete tong' since the BPOS drive against partners. The market is full of technical 'diatribe' - everything...

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Aug

20

Resistance is futile – Oracle to assimilate RIM?

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Category : BlackBerry, Cloud, Free Thinking, Industry voices, Oracle

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This is a great article sent to me by a colleague – Jonathan Fisher.  This sort of follow’s up on my post on OpenOffice. Oracle has been quietly in the background building up a significant portfolio of enterprise plays. Considering all the posting I have been doing on RIM that is a accumulation of thoughts over quite some time, RIM could be a significant acquisition for Oracle. Clearly a long shot, costly and complex but with the current position of RIM sat on an island that is slowly being eroded it could be a very good home.

Software advice has done a great post of which companies Larry ‘could’ assimilate next check it out

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Aug

18

BlackBerry troubles me …..

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Category : BlackBerry, Free Thinking, law

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Apologies for the silence, I have taken a nice break from technology for a bit to spend some time with my wife and kids.

Despite my tech break, the whole BlackBerry security sega has been washing around in my head. It smells and actually stinks – why all of a sudden have so many countries kicked this up as a big enough deal to switch the service off – Gulf, Middle East, India …. 9/11 happened in 2001? Continue Reading

Jul

28

BlackBerry – where now, loyalty only lasts for so long

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Category : BlackBerry

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The world must seem like a very lonely place if your BlackBerry at the moment. Technology aside, BlackBerry has always had an intensely loyal following due to clever design at every level.

The users loved the ability to scratch their ‘itch’ easily – its like wearing a watch, we just check it even though we don’t need to know the time. The IT folk embraced  it because it was now in their control, they have the BES and it stopped you or me doing anything they did not want us  to do. The security teams stamped it because of the unique way in which it ran – the first private cloud service if you will from device through network and the network operators loved it, fat margins and a legitimate reason to hook you into a data tariff. Continue Reading

Jul

06

#Hosting automation for Telco / Carriers – choice is critical for the customer – check out Ensim, Paralells and EMS Cortex

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Category : Amazon, Apple, Azure, BlackBerry, Cloud, General, Google, hosting, Microsoft, Mobile Devices, Mobile Operators

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I was holding off on this post until a few things had passed but this is a really important one, its actually vital to how the hosting industry ‘pans’ out within the telco / carrier market – the hosting industry has quite literally gone ‘pete tong’ since the BPOS drive against partners.

The market is full of technical ‘diatribe’ – everything is about the Cloud in the IT industry. The reality is that it has been going on for years in various shapes or forms. Continue Reading

Jun

29

#Hosted Services – the right recipe for growth, prevent the lock in.

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Category : BlackBerry, Cloud, Feature it, General, Google, hosting, Industry voices, Microsoft

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The hosted services market has now reached that point of maturity where hosted exchange vendors are ten a penny. Personally I started in this market back in 2003 when margins were ‘rich’ for hosted services like Exchange, SharePoint, BlackBerry etc and subsequently went deeper into the vertical SaaS industry because I saw the writing on the wall. We built the business fast because we focused on value – we targeted lawyers, accountants, professional services industries – we not only gave them a great messaging solution, we partnered with software vendors who would offer them compliance, security and services like BlackBerry. These were not Microsoft technologies but services the market actually wanted. Continue Reading

Jun

23

Apple takes a shot at BlackBerry – in response

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Category : Apple, BlackBerry

Following on from the last post, the Apple response. They were pretty sure they had the winner! Never take on the marketing might of Apple

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Jun

16

BlackBerry’s Dichotomy …..

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Category : BlackBerry, General, iPhone, Mobile Devices, Mobile Operators

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I just picked up these two articles – very interesting. Will post up later some thoughts …..

iPhone outselling BlackBerry

No iPhones, just BlackBerry for government employees

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