Friday, April 30, 2010

The HP-Palm Acquisition: What Happens Next?

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Friday, April 30, 2010

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THE LATEST FROM OTA
- Analysis Of HP-Palm Acquisition
- What's Next For Palm Inside Of HP
- HP To Buy Palm For $1.2 Billion
- Microsoft: Android Infringes On Our Patents
- New iPhone May Launch June 7
- iPhone Already #1 Opera Mini Device In U.S.
- Can A Mobile Platform Survive A Reboot?
- BMW + BlackBerry + Bluetooth = Bodacious Business Bimmer!

ANALYTICS REPORTS
- Why IT Must Sort Out App Mobilization Challenges
- 5 Steps To Get -- And Stay -- FISMA Compliant And Secure

WHITEPAPERS
- Supporting Three Dimensions of Mobile Intelligence
- Untapped Market for Mobile Banking Among Offline Consumers

MOBILE AND WIRELESS NEWS
- Motorola Posts 1Q Profit
- Apple To Buy Siri Mobile Voice Search Developer
- Interop: Mobile Security Is Weak Link
- Apple WWDC Kicks Off June 7
- Interop 2010 Show Winners

WEBCASTS
- Practical Management of Network Security For Mid-Size Enterprises

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- Analysis Of HP-Palm Acquisition
By Eric Zeman
HP turned the smartphone space on its head Wednesday with its surprise purchase of Palm. At first blush, the deal would appear to help both companies, but it is far from a sure bet to save Palm's line of webOS devices.
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ALSO SEE
- What's Next For Palm Inside Of HP
By Ed Hansberry
Today HP announced it was buying Palm. The big question is, now what? Does HP absorb Palm into HP's operations and keep the brand around for a while or does HP let Palm run free and provide financial and marketing support, or is it somewhere in between?
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- HP To Buy Palm For $1.2 Billion
By Eric Zeman
Today HP announced that it plans to buy ailing smartphone maker Palm for the price of $1.2 billion. "We're thrilled by HP's vote of confidence in Palm's technological leadership," said Palm CEO Jon Rubsinstein
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- Microsoft: Android Infringes On Our Patents
By Eric Zeman
This afternoon Microsoft issued a statement regarding the recent intellectual property licensing agreement it struck with HTC. It appears as though Microsoft believes Android infringes on its smartphone patents. The agreement between HTC and Microsoft clearly shows how desperately the two companies need one another. Updated.
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- New iPhone May Launch June 7
By Eric Zeman
Today Apple announced the dates of its Worldwide Developer Conference, which will run June 7 to June 11. WWDC has served as the kick-off point for new iPhone models the last two years. Will this year follow suit?
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- iPhone Already #1 Opera Mini Device In U.S.
By Eric Zeman
The Opera Mini browser has been available for the iPhone for mere weeks, and already it has surpassed every other handset in the U.S. in terms of installs. It is also the number three Opera Mini handset world wide.
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- Can A Mobile Platform Survive A Reboot?
By Ed Hansberry
After a number of years of going through updates and upgrades, sometimes it appears best to just start fresh with an operating system, especially when it comes to mobile phones. Continued legacy support just holds the platform back. Leaving legacy code behind though means leaving legacy customers behind. Can mobile phone platforms afford to start from scratch?
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- BMW + BlackBerry + Bluetooth = Bodacious Business Bimmer!
By Eric Zeman
If you could have email read aloud to you while driving a BMW, that wouldn't be such a bad thing, right? BMW and Research In Motion have teamed up to create a nifty application that syncs email to the dashboard of a BMW via Bluetooth.
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ANALYTIC REPORTS
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- Why IT Must Sort Out App Mobilization Challenges
Application mobilization tools are both more effective and more confusing than ever. Meanwhile, today's smartphones represent the cutting edge of the computing industry. They're powerful computers, and your best and brightest employees wouldn't consider leaving home without their devices of choice. And therein lies the problem: There is such a thing as too much diversity.

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- 5 Steps To Get -- And Stay -- FISMA Compliant And Secure
Implementing a program that is effective in actually securing assets and will continually address compliance is difficult. Guidelines are confusing and much of the underlying data to be protected changes so quickly that yearly reviews of controls are woefully ineffective. Here's a better plan.

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WHITEPAPERS
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- Supporting Three Dimensions of Mobile Intelligence
As wireless use expands so do the associated costs. But they need not spiral out of control. Discover five keys to a smarter and more cost effective wireless strategy.

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- Untapped Market for Mobile Banking Among Offline Consumers
This whitepaper analyzes results of the recent Syniverse mobile banking survey of 501 U.S. consumers who are not active regular users of online banking and provides recommendations about how financial institutions can lower the cost to serve this significant audience.

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MOBILITY NEWS
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- Motorola Posts 1Q Profit
Strong sales of the Droid smartphone by Verizon Wireless were a bright spot.
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- Apple To Buy Siri Mobile Voice Search Developer
Siri "personal assistant" technology lets users perform voice-activated Web searches from their smartphones. Financial details were not disclosed.
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- Interop: Mobile Security Is Weak Link
Despite their growing prevalence in the enterprise, smartphones are the poor cousin when it comes to data protection—and that has to change.
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- Apple WWDC Kicks Off June 7
The iPhone OS 4, HTML 5, and potentially a new iPhone will be spotlighted at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference.
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- Interop 2010 Show Winners
This year's competition shines a light on the very best that IT vendors have to offer in cloud computing, network management, security, virtualization, wireless, and more. We also picked a top startup and gave out a green award.
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