November 4, 2009
The Top Five Business Benefits of Android
Network World
Lauren Darcey and Shane Conder list five business benefits to using Google’s Android platform.
“Here are the top five benefits of Android from a business perspective (primarily for prospective application developers): low barrier to entry, an ideal platform for companies new to mobile, a variety of distribution mechanisms, open and free platform and best mobile platform for inter-application integration.”
Palm Pixi definitely shipping with a new webOS version, but which?
Engadget
Chris Ziegler writes about Palm using a new webOS system on its Pixi phone.
“We can say with relative confidence that the upcoming Pixi will be shipping with a newer, slightly more feature-rich version of webOS than its Pre brethren around the world; if nothing else, Synergy supports Yahoo on the new model, as PreCentral observes. What remains to be seen is the exact version number that’ll be shipping out of the gate – recent DSLReports user agent logs suggest that 1.2.9 might be the gold build, but apparently there’s some chatter going on about a 1.3 as well.”
Softphone Use Is On The Rise
Network World
<pJohna Till Johnson writes that softphone use in businesses is growing.
“Today, softphone use is growing among all employees, with some 70 per cent of organizations using softphones for an average of 22 per cent of their employees. Although that percent seems relatively small, the growth is significant. This year, an average of 430 employees at each company benchmarked has a softphone; last year, that figure was only 100. One reason for the increase is that softphones themselves have improved. Rather than keypads on a screen, as they originally existed, they now are more integrated into directories and call histories.”
