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Loading ...CompanionLink releases Lotus Notes-iPhone sync tool
CompanionLink Software has launched new iPhone software for Lotus Notes users that will synchronize contacts lists, calendar events and to-do items between the two products.
The Portland, Ore.-based mobility solution provider said its iClink software will ensure that data modified in either Lotus Notes or on the iPhone will always remain in sync.
“Today’s Lotus Notes users have limited options to wirelessly synchronize their data with their iPhones,” Rushang Shah, director of marketing at CompanionLink Software, said. “Staying true to our pioneering culture, our iClink software puts an end to that limitation. Lotus Notes users can now get their data without docking their iPhone with their PCs.”
The iClink software runs on the iPhone and works with CompanionLink Professional desktop software. CompanionLink Professional is available online for US$99.95, while iClink software can be downloaded from the Apple App Store for US$39.99.
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(3 votes, average: 5.33 out of 10) Loading ...Telus switching to GSM?
The rumour surfacing now is that Telus wants to switch to a GSM network from its current CDMA net. There’s good reason to think about it; the rest of the world is predominantly GSM. Telstra in Australia is shutting down its CDMA network to move to the GSM standard in April. SIM cards are handy. Your phone will work overseas (more revenue). Overseas phones will work here (more revenue).
(I’ve never understood why, when most of the rest of the world went GSM, two of the three carriers in Canada elected to go CDMA. We’re just contrarians, I guess.) Read the rest of this entry »
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(3 votes, average: 8.67 out of 10) Loading ...Yahoo Messenger cruises into Web 2.0 territory
By Joaquim P. Menezes -
There’s an entire slew of Instant Messaging tools out there, so what’s the big deal about an upgrade to an existing service – and a beta version at that.
The significance of Yahoo Social Messenger 9.0 beta – which launches today – isn’t just in its simpler and slicker user interface or cool new features.
9.0, it seems, represents Yahoo’s strenuous efforts to find its groove in social networking, something the company hasn’t been able to do very successfully so far.
Will Yahoo Messenger 9.0 provide a decisive answer to the likes of MySpace and Facebook.
Yahoo certainly hopes that will be the case, and in redesigning the application has focused on beefing up its social networking features.
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(1 votes, average: 9 out of 10) Loading ...The Littlest Notebook
To tell the truth, I wasn’t paying 100 per cent attention when Irving Frydman at Fujitsu offered to send along the new LifeBook U810 for review. I thought he’d be sending one of the slim, shiny laptops I’ve grown to covet over the years for their impossibly light weight, sexy form factor and richly detailed LCD displays (not to mention their correspondingly hefty price tags).
What turned up was, while tiny, certainly not like the machines I’ve test-driven before. While Fujitsu calls the U810 a notebook computer, you could argue it’s a convertible tablet UMPC. It’s smaller than a paperback, with a compressed keyboard, 5.6-inch touchscreen, built-in Web cam and fingerprint reader, and runs on Windows Vista Basic. You can get full specs here. Read the rest of this entry »
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(1 votes, average: 8 out of 10) Loading ...Two lines, one phone, and too much in LD charges
Rogers Wireless launched its Second Voice Line Service this morning, offering two phone lines on a single cell phone. It’s aimed at the SMB owner-operator crowd, with several features to recommend it, and one that should make you think twice.
Irv Witte, Rogers Wireless’s vp of business marketing, demoed the service for me last week. Upside: Two separate lines means two separate voice mail greetings, one for business callers and one for personal calls; you needn’t carry two phones, and you save on some of the overhead (system access fees, etc.) that a second phone entails; documenting the cost of cell phone use for tax and expense purposes is easier, as the calls are billed to two separate numbers; and you can have numbers in two different area codes, if you so desire. Read the rest of this entry »
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(3 votes, average: 7 out of 10) Loading ...Browsing inside the iphone
By Joaquim P. Menezes -
Fans of HarperCollins’ Browse Inside say it’s quite different from a conventional e-book service.
Browse Inside allows consumers to digitally review the pages of books before making a purchase.
The New York Times describes it as “[replicating] in cyberspace the experience of going to a bookstore and flipping through a few pages before buying a book.”
I don’t quite agree.
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(4 votes, average: 5.25 out of 10) Loading ...iPhone apps - taking care of business?
By Joaquim P. Menezes -
So many developers are still sore that they’re not permitted to write native apps for the iPhone.
Many continue to bemoan the very limited development potential that restricts them to creating Web apps running within Safari (Apple’s Web browser included on the iPhone).
All that’s understandable.
In fact when the “no native apps” announcement was made by Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, in June, many predicted this would severely limit the usefulness of the iPhone within the enterprise.
But now some software vendors are trying to make the best of (what at first blush appeared to be) a rather shoddy deal.
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(Rate This Article) Loading ...Don’t hold your breath waiting for a Google phone
A friend sends this link to a blog posting about Google jumping into the auction in the U.S. to sell of radio spectrum that will be vacated by TV broadcasters when the switch to digital takes place in February 2009. The upshot, Don Reisinger argues, is a cell phone industry crippled by free Wi-Fi service on Google smart phones. What, my friend asks, does this mean to Canadians? Read the rest of this entry »
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(4 votes, average: 7.5 out of 10) Loading ...All-in-one or one for each?
I’m prepping for a trip to Anaheim, Calif., for Cisco Systems’ Networkers conference. At some point I have to face my stable of gadgetry and the George Carlinesque conundrum: Where am I gonna put all this stuff? (Link here, but coarse language alert.)
What do I take and what do I leave behind? The laptop is non-negotiable; if it stays home, so do I. MP3 player an absolute necessity for that length of time on a plane – an LTJ Bukem remix is just the prescription for jangled nerves. I could take the Mio GPS loaner, with the built-in media player and PDA. Need a camera, probably the HP, because it has a nice optical zoom. But there’s a camera in the Blackberry smartphone … Read the rest of this entry »
