Archive for June 26th, 2008

TelecomPk.Net - Email Delivery Issue Fixed

Published by Babar Bhatti on June 26, 2008 under blogging

With the recent upgrade of this blog to the latest version of Wordpress, there was an issue with the blog feed. That caused failure of the email delivery and the feed to disappear from aggregators such as Bloggers.Pk. I have fixed the issue and updated the feed link in the sidebar. Please let me know if you still have issues with receiving feed through email or via your feed aggregator. Here’s the correct address for the feed: Telecompk.net/feed

Thanks for bearing with me.

 

iPhone Usage Shows What Mobile Users Want

Published by Babar Bhatti on June 26, 2008 under Business, Digital Convergence, Mobile Companies, Mobile Trends, Smart Phones, Social Networks, Telecommunications, iPhone

Here’s a nice summary view of how people are using iPhone today. (source: Morgan Stanley Tech Research)

On a related note, adoption by businesses is a major goal for Apple. See this Computerworld article on whether iPhone will be able to win over the resistance by enterprise and their IT support groups?

Companies need to obtain digital certificates for homegrown applications from Apple, then transmit the applications to Macs and PCs running iTunes. Individual iPhones have to be connected via a cable to an iTunes-equipped desktop computer in order to synchronize with the software and get access to the applications.

The direct-connect synchronization plan left IT managers such as Vivek Kundra, chief technology officer for the District of Columbia, looking for more options from Apple.

Kundra is beta-testing about 15 first-generation iPhones along with the iPhone 2.0 software that Apple announced earlier this year. The $199 price tag for the entry-level iPhone 3G will make the device “a lot more palatable for the enterprise,” he said.

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