Tungle.Me Shutdown And What I Expect From An Alternate Service
Tungle.me, a great calendar scheduling application I have been using for the past 3+ years, announced today that they are shutting down their service. RIM acquired them sometime back and, as many expected, they are shutting down Tungle.me. This follows RIM shutting down another service they acquired, Gist. As of Monday, December 3rd, 2012 [...]
To RIM: Don’t Change The Strategy, Change The Rules
A lot has been said and discussed about RIM’s downfall: indecisive leadership, inability to innovate at fast pace, and no clear path to recovery. I don’t disagree at all with the analysis and the interpretation of the situation, but I do disagree with the conclusion that many people are drawing and vehemently disagree with their [...]
10 Reasons Why RIM Won’t Die
It has been fun to kick RIM. Text book example of why incumbents get disrupted – they owned/invented email on a mobile phone. They invented the smartphone. We used to call their addicts ’”Crackberries.” But they (along with everyone else) underestimated Apple. Blackberry had a huge market share – relationships with every major cellular carrier, a [...]
Great Analytic Dashboards on the BlackBerry PlayBook
Corporate tablet alternatives to the iPad are now on the horizon.
At the recent Adobe Max 2010 conference, Mike Lazardis demonstrated SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards running on the brand-new Adobe-Flash compatible BlackBerry PlayBook.
