Posted by Mauricio on Oct 6, 2008 at 8:44 AM | Comments
You’ve been battling malware – viruses, worms, spyware and the like – on your PC for years.
Is your phone the next battleground?
Security experts think it could be, particularly if it’s a smart phone, a handset that has a full operating system and can run applications much as a desktop computer does. The more that phones can perform the same functions as PCs, the greater the chance they will have similar vulnerabilities, experts say.
“I’d put it in the looming-threat category,” said Natalie Lambert, a senior analyst who covers mobile security issues for Forrester, a technology research firm. “There’s huge potential.”
Experts caution that consumers should put that potential threat in perspective. Other security issues – such as simply losing a phone – are arguably of more concern to mobile-phone users today.
Posted by Mauricio on Oct 3, 2008 at 9:15 AM | Comments
SAP has revealed plans to extend its partnership with Research In Motion (RIM) to other mobile providers.
The firm’s deal with the BlackBerry maker is just the beginning, Mike de la Cruz, mobile and analytics senior vice president at SAP, told customers at an event in Wembley Stadium as part of SAP’s World Tour 2008 road show.
“We will take the innovation we have with RIM and move this forward,” said Cruz.
The RIM partnership, agreed in May 2008, allows BlackBerry users to access SAP applications from their device.
SAP said that it intends to push its partner network to new boundaries. “SAP is transforming and this is not only about changing our product line but about changing our business partner strategy,” Cruz explained.
The company is being driven to become more relevant to mobile users because the smartphone has developed as the main interface for business transactions, according to Cruz.
He explained that the large take-up in emerging markets means that developing countries are skipping the phase where business is conducted on a PC and performing all business operations on their mobile devices.
Cruz added that key to SAP’s partnerships with mobile providers would be the development of ‘push’ SAP applications.
Posted by Mauricio on Oct 3, 2008 at 8:59 AM | Comments
Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada (PRWEB) October 3, 2008 — Esna Technologies Inc. (Esnatech) announced today it has added support for Broadsoft BroadWorks VoIP platform to its Telephony Office-LinX Unified Communication platform. Broadsoft BroadWorks is the industry’s leading VoIP application platform and provides revenue-generating voice features for fixed-line and wireless service providers. BroadWorks offers the widest array of applications from a single platform, including Hosted PBX, Mobile PBX, Business Trunking, IP Centrex, and Residential Broadband. BroadWorks delivers these applications with carrier-grade interoperability, back office capabilities, redundancy, and scalability.
A leading provider of unified communication solutions, Esnatech has long been a leader in mobility, messaging, and presence. The Company will be expanding compatibility with market leading and advanced IP communications systems by adding native SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) support to the Broadworks Application platform. Now customers with hosted voice solutions can still leverage the interoperability and simplicity of Telephony Office-LinX to enable unified communications to their existing business processes and applications. Broadworks’ providers can now offer Telephony Office-LinX to their customers and offer advanced presence applications with MS Exchange and Lotus Domino, integrated mobility and unified messaging with GoogleTM applications, as well as native speech to text and speech recognition solutions for their customers and users.
Posted by Mauricio on Oct 2, 2008 at 10:16 PM | Comments
ALISO VIEJO, Calif. – The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) — in cooperation with other federal agencies — capped off a two-year investigation into a drug trafficking operation, in which dealers used untraceable cell phones to get drugs onto American streets.
The DEA raided a business in southern California on Tuesday, which officials said provided materials for drug operations. The business was called Data Locking — which allegedly set up Blackberry cell phones to communicate with numerous drug runners.
Authorities said the cell phones were programmed to communicate at the highest levels of encryption — meaning they are extremely difficult to trace. The Blackberry phones, however, were actually not even capable of making calls. Instead, authorities said the drug traffickers mainly used e-mails and text messages on the phones.
Posted by Mauricio on Oct 2, 2008 at 10:12 PM | Comments
SYDNEY, October 2, 2008 – Cognos, an IBM (NYSE: IBM) company, and a world leader in business intelligence and performance management solutions, today unveiled IBM Cognos 8 v4 which extends IBM’s Information on Demand strategy to help customers improve their ability to engage the business user through a more dynamic and interactive experience, inform their decision making with greater context and relevance and align their strategy and operations through complete visibility to targets, plans, forecasts and metrics across finance and operations.
IBM Cognos 8 v4 lets organisations easily and securely extend access to trusted information to fully engage a diverse group of employees, customers and partners across financial and operational divisions and processes. Richer BI and performance management user capabilities such as enterprise planning, dashboards, analytics and reporting combine with an enhanced enterprise-class platform, flexible business modeling, and consumer-oriented interfaces to help business users gain access and interact with the right information needed for decision making to optimise business performance.
Casual business users, business managers, and executives in all sizes of organisations are grappling with information overload and the rapid pace of change in today’s globally connected economy. These types of business users represent 80% of workers in average organisations, according to Wayne Eckerson, director of TDWI Research at the Data Warehousing Institute.* They need quick access to relevant information, whether they are in the office or on the road, to make informed decisions that improve financial and operational visibility and drive overall performance.
New self-serve flash-based dashboard, mobile and search capabilities in IBM Cognos 8 v4 help business users quickly drive decisions through flexible, consumer-oriented interfaces that let them access and interact with relevant performance information using familiar applications or devices. These include BlackBerry®, Symbian or Windows Mobile devices, enterprise search engines or desktop productivity applications.
Posted by Mauricio on Sep 30, 2008 at 10:37 PM | Comments
NEW YORK, BUSINESS WIRE — Yougetitback.com, the innovative online service that helps people protect, recover and replace highly valued mobile devices, has enriched its “Mobile SuperHero” application with a geo location capability to aid in tracking and recovering misplaced, lost or stolen valuables.
Yougetitback.com protects and helps recover mobile devices–such as smart phones, laptops, PDAs, iPods, cameras and more–while preserving the sensitive information they contain. Its premium service will even replace the device, if it is not recovered. The company launched its flagship “Mobile SuperHero” software as a service in North America in July for smartphones, including popular BlackBerry(R) devices from RIM; protection for iPhones(R) from Apple(R) is under development.
Now, Yougetitback.com has enhanced “Mobile SuperHero” with the ability to determine the actual physical location of a lost or stolen mobile device equipped with GPS or running the BlackBerry operating system 4.2 and above, or the Symbian operating system S60 2nd and 3rd editions. Many devices without GPS can be tracked via their proximity to individual wireless-network cell sites.
Posted by Mauricio on Sep 30, 2008 at 9:47 PM | Comments
SUNNYVALE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Zimbra, a Yahoo! (Nasdaq:YHOO) company and the leader in open source, next-generation messaging and collaboration software, today announced the availability of a new open extension framework for Zimbra Collaboration Suite™ (ZCS) that enables two-way interoperability with leading collaboration platforms. Large enterprises and academic institutions can now easily integrate teams using Zimbra to work seamlessly with other departments that use different collaboration servers like Microsoft Exchange, exploring the benefits of Zimbra without having to make the decision to replace their current systems up front. This extends Zimbra’s history of openness and compatibility to a broader range of platforms, and builds on Yahoo!’s leadership in e-mail as a key starting point for users.
The first extension, built by Zimbra for the Microsoft Exchange 2003 platform, and now in beta, allows Zimbra users to access and share two-way free/busy information, schedules and global address book with colleagues whose data resides on Microsoft Exchange. The framework is also openly available for anyone in the Zimbra community to write an extension to other collaboration platforms such as IBM Lotus Domino, Novell®®, or PeopleCube Meeting Maker. GroupWise
“Interoperability with Exchange and other leading collaboration systems is a top request by many enterprises and academic institutions where mixed deployments are common,” said Satish Dharmaraj, Zimbra co-founder and Yahoo! vice president. “Zimbra’s recent growth with large organizations has been tremendous, with recent customer wins and deal expansions including Dai Nippon Publishing, Reliance Industries, H&R Block and Texas A&M University. This interoperability builds upon a long record of compatibility work by Zimbra and is one of the key needs for our largest customers.”
Posted by Mauricio on Sep 30, 2008 at 9:06 PM | Comments
NEW YORK, NY–(Marketwire – September 30, 2008) – Raketu, a leading global Internet communications, information, entertainment, and social networking company, today released its RakSIP service. The new service allows users to connect any third party mobile or desktop SIP software client, or IP Phone, or SIP hardware device to Raketu so that they can take advantage of Raketu’s RakOut calling rates. From any third party SIP device, Raketu users will be able to login to Raketu and make phone calls no matter what device they are using or where they are in the world.
“At Raketu, we continue to transform communications over mobiles and desktops. The introduction of our RakSIP service enables users to access the Raketu VoIP services from any SIP software or device to make outbound calls locally and internationally at the lowest cost available. If our user has an iPhone, for example, they can download their favorite SIP software, connect to Raketu and start making VoIP calls,” said Greg Parker, president and CEO of Raketu.
Users can use the built-in SIP client on Nokia or BlackBerry mobile device, or download a SIP client for their iPhone or WinMobile mobile device, to connect to Raketu and start making calls immediately. Users can also connect IP Phones, ATA devices and SIP desktop software to the new RakSIP service. Raketu users that already have Raketu’s RakIn service can immediately begin taking advantage of the new RakSIP service. Raketu users that are not RakIn customers, can simply signup and subscribe to the RakSIP service for $.99 per month.
Posted by Mauricio on Sep 30, 2008 at 8:52 PM | Comments
Under the new arrangement, SoftGen will have access to the full range of tracking software products for iPods, desktop PCs and Macs, notebooks, mobile phones and PDAs.
The Bak2u tracking offerings notify users of the location of their mobile device and who is using it if it is lost or stolen. The mobile phone product does this via text message alerts to another chosen phone number and can be used to wipe information remotely. The GadgetTrak device tracker, meanwhile, is sold on a subscription model and accessed by users over the Internet via GadgetTrak’s servers. Both products will be sold locally under the Bak2u brand.
Antitheft.net.au director, Jason Rogers, said it had been looking to expand sales of the tracking products in Australia across retail, reseller and online channels. Antitheft.net.au has been around for three years and is the agent for Bak2u and GadgetTrak across A/NZ and South East Asia. With rising mobile device use, he claimed there was an increased need for extra security measures. “We started getting interest from the retail outlets and decided to look for a partner. SoftGen fitted with where we are going and gives us access to the proper channels,” Rogers said.
Posted by Mauricio on Sep 30, 2008 at 8:22 PM | Comments
SAN MATEO, Calif., BUSINESS WIRE — Actuate Corporation (NASDAQ:ACTU), the leader in delivering Rich Internet Applications Without Limits(TM) and Webalo Inc., today announced an agreement in which Actuate will resell Webalo’s “Mobile Dashboard” as part of a mobile solution to deliver e.Spreadsheets and BIRT reports directly to BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Palm, Symbian, or Java-enabled smartphones. Actuate will sell the customized mobile product directly to its customers.
No longer will e.Spreadsheet and BIRT report users be limited by “office only” access. Actuate’s mobile solution with Webalo service will allow BIRT reports to be sent directly to mobile devices. Additionally, the solution will provide users of Actuate e.Spreadsheet with a simple wizard to configure their reports for mobile devices. Actuate will embed Webalo’s Mobile Dashboard into its mobile solution, ensuring that customers can deliver up to date content into the hands of mobile users.
“We’ve been pleased with our long association with Actuate,” commented Webalo president & CEO, Peter Price. “Integrating our Mobile Dashboard into their mobile solution offering will facilitate almost ubiquitous delivery of high-value business intelligence to an ever expanding universe of mobile devices.”
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