Apple revealed more details this week about its upcoming iPhone 3.0 firmware update which, although hotly anticipated, looks like bringing relatively minor enhancements for both consumers and enterprise users.
Among the most welcome additions will be the ability to cut and paste text, a feature which has been sorely lacking from the handset since its launch in June 2007. For business users who rely on the phone heavily for email, the feature will have immediate and obvious benefits.
Other enterprise-friendly additions include multimedia messaging and new recording features, which together could allow users to record and send audio through the iPhone's messaging tools.
While the updates are significant, the 3.0 firmware will hardly have the enterprise impact of last year's iPhone 2.0 release, which introduced 3G connectivity and support for a number of popular enterprise communications platforms, such as Microsoft Exchange and Cisco's VPN security, designed to usher the iPhone into the enterprise arena.
The real benefits for enterprise users, however, could come not from the end-user upgrades, but from the new tools Apple is providing to developers.
These include a slew of new application programming interfaces (APIs) which will greatly expand the individual applications that users will be able to access on the device.
The new APIs will allow developers to access 'push' data updates to display new events, for example, and to stream audio and video.learn more>>
Saturday, March 21, 2009
What will iPhone 3.0 bring to the enterprise?
Dell ships ultra-thin Adamo laptop the rival of Macbook Air
Dell is now taking orders for its Adamo laptop, which it claims is the world's thinnest at about 16.4mm thick.
Adamo was unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January, and is the first product in an entire Adamo line that will feature new design aesthetics, according to Dell.
The laptop is available to pre-order today from the Adamo By Dell web site, and will start shipping worldwide from 26 March.
With a 13.4in widescreen display and measuring just 0.65in (16.4mm) thick, the Adamo has been compared to Apple's MacBook Air, claimed as the thinnest laptop when it launched in early 2008. However, the Adamo is significantly heavier at about 1.8kg.
Dell makes much of the Adamo's "premium craftsmanship and design", which includes a chassis milled from a single piece of aluminium featuring precision detailing, and a scalloped backlit keyboard.
The system is based on Intel Core 2 Duo processors, and is available in two configurations: the Base has a 1.2GHz SU9300 chip and 2GB memory for £1,649, while the Enhanced has a 1.4GHz SU9400 and 4GB memory and costs £2,249. Both have a 128GB Flash drive instead of a hard drive as standard.learn more>>
Adamo was unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January, and is the first product in an entire Adamo line that will feature new design aesthetics, according to Dell.
The laptop is available to pre-order today from the Adamo By Dell web site, and will start shipping worldwide from 26 March.
With a 13.4in widescreen display and measuring just 0.65in (16.4mm) thick, the Adamo has been compared to Apple's MacBook Air, claimed as the thinnest laptop when it launched in early 2008. However, the Adamo is significantly heavier at about 1.8kg.
Dell makes much of the Adamo's "premium craftsmanship and design", which includes a chassis milled from a single piece of aluminium featuring precision detailing, and a scalloped backlit keyboard.
The system is based on Intel Core 2 Duo processors, and is available in two configurations: the Base has a 1.2GHz SU9300 chip and 2GB memory for £1,649, while the Enhanced has a 1.4GHz SU9400 and 4GB memory and costs £2,249. Both have a 128GB Flash drive instead of a hard drive as standard.learn more>>
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