eMailaya is a multi-featured, sophisticated (but lightweight) email client that allows you to easily send voice and video messages without fiddling around with other applications. It incorporates a calendar, RSS feed reader, Google search box and more. I was not able to try out eMailaya for myself because it works only on Windows computers (I [...]
Continue reading...25 January 2010
Taulia is a company started in 2009 in San Francisco (with a second office in Berlin, Germany). Taulia makes software that integrates into SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) installations, but does not require additional hardware costs or long, expensive ERP implementations. Taulia’s Invoicement Suite is designed for Accounts Payable and Treasury departments in large companies. Its [...]
Continue reading...11 October 2009
Speculation about what really happened to Sidekick customers’ data is spreading around. According to Engadget, there are rumours that Microsoft outsourced the upgrade of its Sidekick SAN to Hitachi and that Hitachi blew it. Readers chimed in saying that the “accident” allows Microsoft to demonstrate that cloud computing Google-style (e.g. Google Docs, Google Spreadsheet) is [...]
Continue reading...11 October 2009
I feel very sorry for T-Mobile customers who use the Sidekick. The company informed them today that all of the data stored on the servers of Sidekick’s services provider, Danger (which is a subsidiary of Microsoft), have been lost (what a name – Danger! Seems so appropriate now). T-Mobile has not told us exactly what led [...]
Continue reading...13 February 2009
A few weeks after posting about the horrors of cloud computing, guess what happens: Nokia’s OVI service, a mobile social blog/networking service, loses three weeks worth of user data. No backups. Ooops. The Nokia blog says: Words can’t explain how incredibly sorry we are for the inconvenience. We’re sorry for the lost contacts in your phonebooks. [...]
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30 January 2010
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