In his Weekly Update, Colin Gibbs, the Gigaom Research curator for mobile, is ‘examining the battle for mobile enterprise app developers’. Along…
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In the Empowered Enterprise 2.0, startups have the inside track to success
Madrona Venture Group's Matt McIlwain takes a look at how the latest era of employee-empowering technologies are different than the personal computers of 30 years ago -- including who's building them and who's using them.…
Read MoreWhat makes European app developers tick?
What are the key opportunities and challenges facing the European app economy?…
Read MoreGood Technology gives enterprise apps a secure launchpad
Good Technology, which has enabled companies to extend security and management to a fleet of employee devices, is looking to extend its technology to independent software developers, corporate customers and systems integrators, by allowing them to build apps that can ride on Good Technology's secure platform.…
Read MoreEnterprise app makers not fully embracing HTML5 just yet
While developers working on business apps agree that HTML5 is coming along, they're not ready to abandon native applications. At Mobilize 2011 the theme was hybrid, where executives from Salesforce, Rhomobile and MeLLmo talked about not making a commitment to one or the other yet.…
Read MoreForrester: More than half of enterprises support consumer phones
Enterprises that never expected to support personal consumer devices are slowly changing their minds, with 59 percent now supporting employee-owned smartphones in various ways. That means more opportunity for device makers and app developers to create solutions that effectively cater to both work and personal use.…
Read MoreCan Seesmic be lucky a third time?
Seesmic, the company best known for making consumer-facing social networking apps, has shifted its strategy for the second time in its four-year history, this time to focus on building mobile apps for the enterprise. Can the third iteration of Seesmic finally bring the company success?…
Read MoreTowerstream turns NYC Wi-Fi network into app distribution platform
Wi-Fi provider Towerstream is turning its superfast Manhattan Wi-Fi zone into a distribution platform for daily deal apps in a bid to monetize its wireless network, the largest in Manhattan. The company is partnering with BlisMobile, which will handle the app distribution through its AppZone service.…
Read MoreFixing Fragmentation: Google’s Key to the Enterprise Tablet Space
Google is hoping its new, tablet-friendly version of Android can help it become a major player in the mobile enterprise. For that to happen, though, it will need to continue to move to fix the platform's fragmentation problems.…
Read MoreWill Cloud-based Mobile Enterprise Apps Ever Catch On?
[qi:gigaom_icon_mobile] While a good number of consumer mobile applications have tapped into the cloud, so far, only a handful of enterprise mobile…
Read MoreWebEx on Your iPhone, Finally
If I had to name one collaboration application that I to use on an almost daily basis, with the exception of Google…
Read MoreGigaOM Show's Tech Trends for '08
This week Om sits down with with Dan Farber, of ZDNet, Rafe Needleman, of CNET’s Webware, and Earth2Tech Editor, Katie Fehrenbacher, to…
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