Ariel Segall.com Blog by Cloud Mobile Forms

Blackberry, seeking to revolutionize the smartphone industry in the same way Apple transformed the whole industry, invited Apple CEO Steve Jobs to be the keynote speaker at WES 2010. At the conference, Jobs will unveil the bbPad, Blackberry’s latest tablet smartphone, starting at $498.99, a price that was 0.0001 percent lower than some analysts predicted.

The bbPad will be the most advanced technology in a magical dream and revolutionary device at an unbelievable price, but yet it won’t have a touchscreen.

Here below you can see a picture of Steve Jobs showing the new bbPad during his rehersal for his presentation.

Steve Jobs showing the new bbPad

The new bbPad will also be part of Box.net new top secret initiative, also launched today, called Space Computing – for more information please visit http://sites.box.net/spacecomputing/

In today’s world, you can view and share files on-the-go using your mobile device.

But can you actually READ your files on your mobile device ?

There is big difference between viewing and reading a file. When viewing a file,  you will actually be able to see ALL content embedded into that file , but when you read a file you actually will be empowered to a “call to action”  activity after grasping the information you are looking for.

Cloud computing is still into its initial baby steps . To bring the power of  cloud computing  from PC users to the mobile world, doesn’t necessarily mean that you need to display on the smartphone ALL information available on your corporate backend.  The real power of cloud mobility is to JUST BRING and properly display on a Clear and Readable format the strictly necessary information for the mobile executive to be empowered for making an accurate informed decision.

Hence, when downloading applications into your state of the art smartphone, keep in mind that you need TWO rugged mobile applications instead of just a single mobile portal for your corporate world.

These applications are :

1 )  An application interface with your corporate content  for easily selecting and rapidly connecting mobile executives  to the exact information and functionality they need.

2 ) An easily accessible collaboration portal that will allow you to securely  manage a shared online workspace where you can anytime from anywhere invite others to view, edit, add,comment, exchange feedback, assign tasks and collaborate in an organized and  centric manner around each particular file or document that you desire.

As you could expect, there are hundreds of solution providers for these two applications, but when it comes to taking a big step towards working more efficiently, while maximizing your ROI , then these two companies excel :

Box.net

Box.net  provides a secure, easy-to-use and cost effective solution to share and collaborate your projects with your staff, outside vendors and clients. It avoids headaches by providing flexible storage online, Box.net connects people socially and professionally, enabling them to collaborate, share, and access their important files securely and easily, from anywhere and for free. Furthermore, being a SaaS solution, it offers significant savings in both cost and IT overhead with respect to legacy enterprise collaboration tools like Microsoft SharePoint . Box customers estimate that they save tens of thousands of dollars in operational efficiency by using Box to share and collaborate online

Webalo.com

The Webalo  Mobile Dashboard is a hosted service that provides an interface for easily selecting and rapidly connecting mobile executives to the exact information and functionality they need. It makes any smartphone as powerful as the enterprise providing users with access through databases, reports, websites, and XML web services.

The best time to negotiate any deal on a face to face meeting outside your office and provide an unmatchable  customer experience is  by being able to provide an immediate  right answer during the actual meeting and then, take on site ,the proper follow up “call to action” activity after the interaction is completed.

Successful Mobile Executives need to be Empowered with what they need and what they want it from  anywhere at anytime.

berryFORMS once again is adding more value for its customers and has signed a new reseller contract with Webalo to empower our clients to connect Blackberry smartphones to their vital enterprise data and tasks that their mobile work force rely on. Webalo was founded (and is run by) IT industry veterans – people who have successfully changed the way in which businesses use software to improve operations and their bottom lines.

The Webalo Mobile Dashboard is the fastes, easy, and affordable alternative to time-consuming, costly mobile application development. Webalo’s solutions require No Coding. Instead, it provides a wizard-style interface for easily selecting and rapidly connecting users to the exact functionality they need. Webalo combines functionality and information from any enterprise program and consolidates it in a single smartphone menu – a personalized, instantly accessible set of choices that makes mobile workers more efficient and productive.

We can present all kinds of evidence to prove that you can connect your enterprise data and tasks to your smartphone in hours, but you’re the best eyewitness. Start a trial of the Webalo Mobile Dashboard today, and we think your verdict will be favorable… in less than a day.

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Dear Sirs

Please be aware that I just installed your Blackberry App for Google Voice and the same uninstalled my Facebook interface with my email app .

Before I had facebook pictures and the option to send to my contacts a facebook message directly from my address book . After installing Google Voice I no longer have that option

Any suggestions on what to do ? Shall I try to install Facebook again or will it remove my Google Voice – If I have to choose I’ll stick with you

Besides that – Great application – Congratulations… However – you have not yet replaced my Skype account

I think you should integrate Google Talk with Google Voice for your Business Model of Future Telephony to be 100% successful

Then I might only have one portal and charge all my Int calls through Google Voice – I think that your rates are competitive

Thanks

Ariel Segall

For the first half-hour of the meeting, it was hardly surprising to see a potential client fiddling with his iPhone, said Rowland Hobbs, the chief executive of a marketing firm in Manhattan.

At an hour, it seemed a bit much. And after an hour and a half, Mr. Hobbs and his colleagues wondered what the man could possibly be doing with his phone for the length of a summer blockbuster.

Someone peeked over his shoulder. “He was playing a racing game,” Mr. Hobbs said. “He did ask questions, though, peering occasionally over his iPhone.”

But, Mr. Hobbs added, “we didn’t say anything. We still wanted the business.”

As Web-enabled smartphones have become standard on the belts and in the totes of executives, people in meetings are increasingly caving in to temptation to check e-mail, Facebook, Twitter, even (shhh!) ESPN.com.

But a spirited debate about etiquette has broken out. Traditionalists say the use of BlackBerrys and iPhones in meetings is as gauche as ordering out for pizza. Techno-evangelists insist that to ignore real-time text messages in a need-it-yesterday world is to invite peril.

In Hollywood, both the Creative Artists Agency and United Talent Agency ban BlackBerry use at meetings. Tom Golisano, a billionaire and power broker in New York State politics, said last week that he pushed to remove Malcolm A. Smith as the State Senate majority leader after the senator met with him on budget matters in April and spent the time reading e-mail on his BlackBerry.

The phone use has become routine in the corporate and political worlds — and grating to many. A third of more than 5,300 workers polled in May by Yahoo HotJobs, a career research and job listings Web site, said they frequently checked e-mail in meetings. Nearly 20 percent said they had been castigated for poor manners regarding wireless devices.

Despite resistance, the etiquette debate seems to be tilting in the favor of smartphone use, many executives said. Managing directors do it. Summer associates do it. It spans gender and generation, private and public sectors.

A few years ago, only “the investment banker types” would use BlackBerrys in meetings, said Frank Kneller, the chief executive of a company in Elk Grove Village, Ill., that makes water-treatment systems. “Now it’s everybody.” He said that if he spotted 6 of 10 colleagues tapping away, he knew he had to speed up his presentation.

It is routine for Washington officials to bow heads silently around a conference table — not praying — while others are speaking, said Philippe Reines, a senior adviser to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Although BlackBerrys are banned in certain areas of the State Department headquarters for security reasons, their use is epidemic where they are allowed.

“You’ll have half the participants BlackBerrying each other as a submeeting, with a running commentary on the primary meeting,” Mr. Reines said. “BlackBerrys have become like cartoon thought bubbles.”

Some professionals admitted that they occasionally sent mocking commentary about the proceedings, but most insisted that they used smartphones for legitimate reasons: responding to deadline requests, plumbing the Web for data to illuminate an issue under discussion or simply taking notes.

Still, the practice retains the potential to annoy. Joel I. Klein, the New York City schools chancellor, has gained such a reputation for checking his BlackBerry during public meetings that some parents joke that they might as well send him an e-mail message. Few companies have formal policies about smartphone use in meetings, according to Nancy Flynn, the executive director of the ePolicy Institute, a consulting group in Columbus, Ohio. Ms. Flynn tells clients to encourage employees to turn off all devices.

“People mistakenly think that tapping is not as distracting as talking,” she said. “In fact, it can be every bit as much if not more distracting. And it’s pretty insulting to the speaker.”

Still, business can be won or lost, executives say, depending on how responsive you are to an e-mail message. “Clients assume they can get you anytime, anywhere,” said David Brotherton, a media consultant in Seattle. “Consultants who aren’t readily available 24/7 tend to languish.”

Playful electronic bantering can stimulate creativity in meetings, in the view of Josh Rabinowitz, the director of music at Grey Group in New York, an advertising agency. In pitch meetings, Mr. Rabinowitz said, he often traded messages on his Palm Treo — jokes, ideas, questions — with colleagues, “things that you might not say out loud.”

The chatter tends to loosen the proceedings. “It just seems to add to the productive energy,” he said.

But business relationships can be jeopardized. Lori Levine, the founder of Flying Television, a talent-booking agency in Manhattan, said that in an effort to be environmentally sensitive she instructed employees to take notes on BlackBerrys instead of paper during client meetings.

“Then I got a call from a client screaming that our vice president spent an hour on his BlackBerry during a huge meeting,” Ms. Levine recalled. To soothe the client, Ms. Levine read aloud the notes the vice president had taken.

In Dallas, a college student sunk his chance to have an internship at a hedge fund last summer when he pulled out a BlackBerry to look up a fact to help him make a point during his interview, then lingered — momentarily, but perceptibly — to check a text message a friend had sent, said Trevor Hanger, the head of equity trading at the hedge fund, who was helping conduct the interview.

Very few companies have policies on smartphone use in meetings, which leaves it up to employees to feel their way across uncertain terrain.

To Jason Chan, a digital-strategy consultant in Manhattan, different rules apply for in-house meetings (where checking BlackBerrys seems an expression of informal collegiality) and those with clients, where the habit is likely to offend. There is safety in numbers, he added in an e-mail message: “The acceptability of checking devices is proportional to the number of people attending the meeting. The more people there are, the less noticeable your typing will be.”

Beyond practical considerations, there is also the issue of image. In many professional circles, where connections are power, making a show of reaching out to those connections even as co-workers are presenting a spreadsheet presentation seems to have become a kind of workplace boast.

Mr. Brotherton, the consultant, wrote in an e-mail message that it was customary now for professionals to lay BlackBerrys or iPhones on a conference table before a meeting — like gunfighters placing their Colt revolvers on the card tables in a saloon. “It’s a not-so-subtle way of signaling ‘I’m connected. I’m busy. I’m important. And if this meeting doesn’t hold my interest, I’ve got 10 other things I can do instead.’ ”

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On the heels of the long awaited announcement of the BlackBerry Tour, BGR has posted that the revamped BlackBerry Messenger we recently got a peak at will be rolling out on all devices with OS 5.0. Michael gave us a short run down of some of the finer improvements we will be seeing and has a great gallery of screenshots for everyone to drool over. Some of the highlights of the new BlackBerry messenger in addition to the ones already covered previously include:

• SMS support — Long awaited on BlackBerry devices, threaded SMS soon available.
• PIN barcode scanning — Forget a PIN? Not wanting to type out email addresses? Scan and save your friends “barcode” instead using integrated camera.
• Backup/Restore Messenger list to microSD card — It’s not running apps off the SD Card but we’ll take it.

We got a few screenshots of our own after the jump be sure to check them out as well as the ones posted on BGR for all the new messenger goodness. Check out the new data usage tracker, I like that.

Just found out this cool app that lets you transfer files from and to your BlackBerry Bold (other BB are going to be supported soon) through a Wifi network.

I personally find it very useful, despite (when it works) a bluetooth connection could do the job well (not ideal for big files though) and the available features on this app are much more.

The app is called Wifi File Transfer (original name!) and it basically lets you browse your BB files through your computer’s browser. Then you can move, copy, paste and rename files without needing any other software app installed on your computer.

Here is a list of features:

• View the BlackBerry file system from the browser and transfer any files to and from device internal memory (900Mb for BOLD) or SD card. Turn your BlackBerry into a memory stick!

• Upload movies, pictures and music directly to your BlackBerry and view them with the BlackBerry device Media Player.

Courtesy of : http://www.lucafiligheddu.com/2009/06/how-to-transfer-files-from-and-to-your-blackberry-bold-over-wifi.html