Next up in our Exhibitor Spotlight series: InterNoded. These guys offer managed services for carriers and large, medium, and small-scale businesses. Their flagship BlackBerry product, which they will be demonstrating at WES, is InterNoded Mobile Device Management. The software attempts to eliminate a lot of the mundane, repetitive work necessary to deploy and manage applications, allowing technical staff to set up rules for deployment, and delegate the rest of the workload to other staff.
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A post on the Pinstack forums alerted us to Blue Systems, a relative newcomer to the world of financial services. Though founded in 2002, the company has only just now released Blue and Blue Mobile, their only two products, after five years of R&D. Blue Mobile, like Quotestream, allows users to track stocks, financial news, and other information directly from their phone. The software offers customizable alerts via email or instant messenger, many different chart options, and in-depth information on specific companies and stocks.
PDAStreet has discovered that Apple has released version 1.1.4 of the firmware for the iPhone and iPod Touch, and even better, the phones stay jailbroken after the update.
The update weighs in at a hefty 162 MB, but is supposed to be comprised mostly of bug fixes. Users have reported that some bugs related to SMS, Bluetooth, and email were indeed repaired, but a full list of fixes is unavailable. Also of note, while the phones remain jailbroken, unlocked phone were reverted to their original locked state, so be careful.
For our third Exhibitor Spotlight — the first two were BlackLine GPS and OtterBox, covered in Episode 18 of our podcast — we’re taking a look at MSC Mobility. The company offers a number of solutions to give company employees access to their email, contacts, calendars, and other data while out of the office, freeing up IT staff and other personnel for more time-consuming or critical tasks. At WES, they’ll be demonstrating Forms2Mobile. Much like GeoAge’s FAST, Forms2Mobile allows companies to push out new forms to employees’ phones and have any submitted data returned to their server almost immediately. Forms2Mobile, however, is designed with non-technical users in mind and is very easy to use even for the complete layman. Check it out, and if you’re going to be exhibiting, be sure to sign up for the Best of WES Awards!
Thomson Healthcare has announced that their charge capture software, called Clinical Xpert Navigator Charge Capture, is now available for BlackBerry. Like pMDsoft’s software, Clinical Xpert Navigator allows doctors to input diagnoses and charge codes into their BlackBerry and have that information submitted to a secure web portal almost instantaneously. The latest patient information is then available to doctors, nurses, and pharmacists from a smartphone, laptop, or PDA.
SpinVox is now offering a plugin for their transcription technology on BlackBerry. The service was rolled out through Rogers and other carriers last year, but was unavailable independently until now. You can pick up plans between £3.00 and £9.99 monthly, depending on how many conversions you need, which will work for voicemail, blog posts, personal memos, social networks and more. If you’re interested, you can check out the week-long trial over here. I wonder how it shapes up against SimulSays…?
A company named StyleTap has a demo of Palm applications being run on an iPod Touch, reports PDAStreet.
The company has long offered software to run Palm apps on Windows Mobile devices, and has plans to offer the same functionality for Symbian phones. Now a video has appeared on their website showing off some Palm apps being run on an iPod Touch. The demo is just that, a demo, and is not indicative of any plans to release the software, as they explicitly warn:
This is an EXPERIMENTAL version – it is NOT a product, nor is its presence here a commitment of any kind, express or implied, that StyleTap Inc. will ever release an official version of StyleTap CrossPlatform for Apple iPhone or iPod Touch.
Still, there is a definite possibility of seeing something like this if Apple ever gets around to releasing the iPhone SDK.
GeoAge has updated their Field Adapted Survey Toolkit (FAST), adding BlackBerry compatibility as well as some new features and bug fixes, reports the Jacksonville Business Journal. The software eases data collection in the field, allowing users to push forms out to PDAs or laptops and receive any data entered almost immediately. The forms can have fields for text, pictures, audio, and movies, and once the data is entered it can be synchronized to a server running Microsoft SQL Server or to GeoAge’s servers. ZDnet has a video detailing some of the features of the software, which was until this update only available for Windows Mobile.
Gadget Spy noticed a new diamond studded BlackBerry Pearl is now on sale from Amosu. For the low, low price of only £45,000 you can own a black, white, pink, or blue Pearl covered in around 900 white, black, pink, or brown 12 carat diamonds. Not only that, but it comes with a one year concierge service. Users can contact Amosu at any time to get reservations at the top nightclubs or restaurants around the world, as well as VIP treatment at a lot of places. Kind of puts the GoldBerry to shame.
The RIM webinar announced earlier this month, featuring an overview of the upcoming BlackBerry Enterprise Server 4.1SP 5 release, wrapped up yesterday. The Boy Genius Report managed to snag the slides from the presentation. The software, which we’ve finally learned will be released on the 29th, is a free upgrade for all current 4.1 users or a $999 upgrade for 4.0.X users. New features and enhancements include rich text content like active hyperlinking and embedded images, remote email search and download, and free/busy lookup for finding the best free slots on calenders. There’s also native attachment viewing and editing and OTA software loading, which should make future updates easier on the IT department. There’s not a whole lot that we haven’t known about since WES ‘07, but a solid release date and price point is certainly nice to have.