So I decided to make the switch to Android from my iPhone, and started the process of switching carriers and trying to actually start using it. The most surprising part of the journey involved the reactions of those around me. Several friends or co-workers were literally shocked that I would give up my iPhone. Has Steve Jobs done … read the whole post
From Treo’s to iPhones and then Android?
By: | December 14, 2010 | Leave a comment
I’ve had an iPhone for quite awhile. Not from the very beginning. I wasn’t in line they day they first went on sale to pay what was it? Something like $600 for it? No, but I had one fairly early on was excited to get early access to the developer program. It was exciting to create one of the … read the whole post
Executive Jewelry and Mobile Enterprise Trends
By: | October 27, 2010 | Leave a comment
Everything seems to be going mobile, and IT is scrambling. Yesterday’s policies aren’t cutting it when company executives buy the latest-whiz-bang-mobile-gadget-bling and then want to read their company email on it, and other employees soon follow. Traditionally companies had one supported device, the RIM Blackberry. We all know it still has the dominant business market share, … read the whole post
Will the Desktop Become Irrelevant? (Part 2)
By: | September 14, 2010 | Leave a comment
You may recall back in March we wrote a post on the rapidly dwindling need for desktop machines. That trend has continued, except now it's changing directions yet again. Not only are laptops and netbooks increasing sales, but now tablets are all the rage just 6 months later. Apple has once again defined a new … read the whole post
So There’s a New Podcast on the Block…
By: | April 1, 2010 | (1) Comment
Got an interest in cloud computing? Wondering what all the hype is about? Listen in to CloudCast, a weekly podcast running anywhere from a half hour to 45 minutes. We meander a bit from enterprise applications to consumer applications, but if you’ve ever wanted to get the inside story on what’s hot, find it here … read the whole post
Mobile Strategy Recommendations
By: | December 2, 2009 | Leave a comment
I recently had a conversation with the VP of Sales at a large manufacturing company. For the purposes of this discussion, I will call him John. John and his sales organization have never had a centralized, collaborative CRM system before and they are about to begin a salesforce.com implementation. Among the goals of the … read the whole post
Want a free Android Phone?
By: | May 29, 2009 | Leave a comment
I have an iPhone and for the most part I love it. I like the interface, the seamless access to music and all the apps on the AppStore. I don’t like the shortcomings, such as the lack of cut and paste, no video capture, lack of landscape keyboard, etc… Many of these will … read the whole post
Finally, a useful Salesforce Calendar on your iPhone
By: | April 9, 2009 | (2) Comments
Calendar2GO Lite for Salesforce CRM on the iPhone We just found out Calendar2GO Lite was approved by Apple. This is a free little application that allows you to easily see your Salesforce calendar on your iPhone and shows all the events for the current week, broken out into days and is very similar to the home … read the whole post
Bye-Bye CardScan?
By: | January 9, 2009 | Leave a comment
In case you haven’t heard we announced CardLasso back in November of last year. We have had a lot of interest and received some great feedback since it was shown in the Dreamforce keynote by Adam Gross, namely: This is great, but I don’t have an iPhone Could I use this for Tradeshows? Do you … read the whole post
Force.com Sites, Visualforce & Your Mobile Device
By: | December 15, 2008 | Leave a comment
Note – Screen shots for Blackberry and iPhone below. Dreamforce ’08 has come and gone. We had a couple of nice mentions — Lasso2Go of course but we also had the DFMobile application. Hit http://dfmobile.force.com from your mobile device if you’d like to see it. It works on a Blackberry, a WAP/ simple XHTML compatible … read the whole post
Dreamforce Roundup
By: | November 5, 2008 | Leave a comment
We just closed down our booths at Dreamforce and are all heading back to our respective cities. Based on credible sources Dreamforce attendance was just a few people shy of the expected 10,000. That is a very interesting number considering some of the economic news as of late and companies that have travel bans, spending … read the whole post
In the Clouds at Dreamforce
By: | November 3, 2008 | Leave a comment
I’m at Dreamforce in the keynote. And the focus is all about the cloud computing convergence. Everyone is excited about the new force.com Sites product. With Sites you can now use the power of Visualforce to create a public facing website. The Site is dynamic and content is delivered directly from custom objects. You can … read the whole post