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April 9, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Salesforce Goes All In on Mobile App Development

By Ben Kepes

Over the past twelve months or so, Salesforce has extended its existing story around the social enterprise to strongly articulate its opinion that the future of the enterprise lies in a mobile-enabled workforce. The company is today announcing the next step in that progression with the announcement of a new

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February 25, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Box Answers IT Concerns – Deeper Security Options Roll Out

By Ben Kepes

Just a couple of weeks ago I wrote about Dropbox releasing an entire swathe of new security functionality that sees it firmly mark itself as entering the corporate market and responding to the needs of IT. As I said at the time, Dropbox has long signaled an intention to move

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January 31, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

More Proof That Shadow IT is a Growing Issue

By Ben Kepes

When talking with organizations about how the cloud can help them, I’m often told that cloud has no place in their organization and they’re not using it in any way, shape or form. They also point to the perceived security risks that cloud brings as their #1 reason for not

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October 22, 2012 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Lowering Mobile Development Barriers to Entry

By Ben Kepes

Icenium is today launching what would appear to be a very compelling proposition – an environment that enables cross platform mobile development that decouples development from a particular development environment, full suite of developer products and SDK. Icenium decouples the compilers from the platform and makes the SDKs available in

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February 2, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

There’s a World Outside the US–Podio Delivers

By Ben Kepes

Living  on the other side of the world from the bay area, it’s sometimes  little frustrating just how inward looking Silicon Valley can be. Sometimes it feels like some technology vendors discount the 5 billion or so people who don’t live in that tiny West Coast sliver. Apart from being

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December 13, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

YouSendIt Moves Beyond File Sending–Takes on Backup/Sync Vendors in a Mobile Way

By Ben Kepes

File sending vendor YouSendIt is today broadening its offering significantly by announcing the release of the new YouSendIt that includes multi-device applications (iOS, Android and desktop). But the big news, outside of simple file sending (which, I have to state, is actually a really useful feature especially when sending large

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March 31, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

ShareFile Goes Mobile–Kind Of

By Ben Kepes

This morning ShareFile, a file sharing and collaboration company that I’ve covered before (and ranted about once), is today launching mobile applications for iOS and Android devices. The apps are live on the Android App Store right now and already sent for Apple’s inquisition approval process, so iPhone and iPad

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July 30, 2010 Posted in Just for fun Leave a comment

T Shirt Friday #53 – MSPOT

By Ben Kepes

I duly listened and can’t really tell you what MSpot does – something about streaming iTunes to Android from the cloud – a model that seems destined to be disintermediated by native Android functionality long before it gets any traction.

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September 25, 2008 Posted in Business, Design, IT, Strategy Leave a comment

Choice is a Damn Fine Thing!

By Ben Kepes

I posted a few days ago about a guy who created an iPhone app that competed with a native iPhone offering. Apple subsequently decided to withhold acceptance of his application – citing concerns about the competing nature of his offering. My post was under the guise of asking how Apple

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September 9, 2008 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Chrome rounds out Google’s platform plays

By The Unreasonablemen

A guest post from the unreasonablemen.net A year or so ago I went to a Salesforce.com event in which they trotted out a Google Apps exec to support their no software message.  The guy (I forget his name) was delayed coming into Sydney and so was pretty jet lagged. His only

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