What Honeycomb and Android Tablets Mean for Businesses
Google is set to announce their first tablet-oriented Android operating system, codenamed Honeycomb. At Box, we’ve been waiting for this moment since we started seeing significant traction with our apps for both the iPad and Android phones, with nearly 400,000 downloads to date. With the introduction of Honeycomb, we’ll begin working immediately on a tablet-centric version of our Box Android app.
How did we get to this point?
Well, Well, SAP is now on Google Apps MarketPlace. Ok, Just StreamWork. But Still:-)
Straight from the Who-woulda-thunk-it department: time to rethink the Enterprise Software is Not Sexy meme. Or at least parts of it. We’ve previously introduced SAP’s StreamWork collaboration platform – it is now available on the Google Apps Marketplace. That’s not exactly the old-fashioned Enterprise Approach to market. And if you look at SAP’s StreamWork Partner […]
Disrupting The Cloud Storage Market: Box.Net Says Yes We Can
Box.Net (see previous CloudAve coverage), the Palo Alto based cloud storage company, today surprised the industry with their Infinite Cloud philosophy. With this move, Box.Net is changing the very dynamics of the industry. We will be seeing the reverberations of this move in the coming months and years. Whether Box.Net can truly disrupt the industry […]
Software Marketing Pranks
I envy software marketing types. They get to stay kids forever: pull pranks and even get paid for it.:-) Today’s example comes courtesy of TechCrunch: PayPal competitor WePay dropped a 600lbs ice block at the entrance of the Paypal developer conference. They got chased away and Moscone security removed the ice block. My question: who […]
Syncplicity Enhances Their Business Edition To Compete Harder In The Crowded Marketplace
Syncplicity (see previous CloudAve coverage), the cloud based file storage and management company, yesterday announced the release of additional features for their Business Edition. This will help them compete harder with services like Sugarsync, Box.Net, etc. in the business space. With this release, Syncplicity makes it clear that they want to target the corporate accounts. […]
Box.Net Expands Their Mobile Strategy And Why Android Will Be Big
Box.Net, the content management provider founded in 2005, today announced the availability of their Android App on the Android marketplace. This is a free app which will let users access, share and manage their content from their Android devices. Box.Net already offer apps for iOS devices and the addition of Android devices is the next […]
Box.Net Adds Offline Support But How Many Really Use It?
Box.Net, the cloud storage provider turned cloud content management platform for businesses, yesterday announced a new feature for their mobile apps which will let users store documents offline. In a blog post today, Aaron Levie, CEO of Box.net, wrote about the new feature. Today’s workplace has exploded beyond the office walls and into coffee shops, […]
T Shirt Friday #48 – Altitude 2010
Everyone knows that professional conference goers like myself attend events not to listen to presentations, not to network but to collect schwag. Over the past couple of years I’ve done fairly well collecting tech t-shirts and I decided to create a weekly series critiquing tech companies t-shirt offerings in the expectation that a company with […]
Box Takes on Desktop Sync, the Space Gets Ever More Crowded
I’ve written before about a number of desktop sync products I use – these products help me to keep my life organized across multiple devices (see my Syncplicity posts for example). The fact is that, for me at least, I live on three different laptops, a desktop from time-to-time and one or two mobile devices […]
Microsoft Office 2010 – A Commemorative Post
So today is launch day, the day that Microsoft Office 2010 is released out and the world gets to see what a Microsoft take on a Software plus Services fuelled office productivity suite looks like. The world has already been inundated with reflections on the product itself so it seemed a good time to hold […]
It’s All About the Suite – NetSuite Enters the Box
Today Box.net is at the NetSuite SuiteCloud conference (see disclosure re my attendance at SuiteCloud here) opening the box (bad pun intended) on their integration with NetSuite. It’s an integration that Box have built using NetSuite’s SuiteCloud development platform, and it allows NetSuite customers to access, manage, share, and collaborate on all their content online, […]
Changing the Game, Inside and Outside of the Box (and The Final Frontier)
Exciting times at box.net headquarters. Yesterday I had a briefing with Aaron Levie, Co-founder and CEO, Michael Smith, Product Manager, Mobile and Sean Lindo, Marketing Communications Manager. That’s a lot of heavyweights for a simple briefing and especially something so apparently subtle as a new mobile app. Yes, box.net were demoing their new iPad application […]
Crowdsourcing for the Stars
I posted late last year about how Zendesk (more on them here) had crowdsourced the translation of their application into different languages. At the time CEO Mikkel Svane commented that; Within just a few weeks of releasing the Zendesk internationalization tool we had support for more than 25 languages, and hundreds of customers had already […]
Google Apps in a Box. Oh, and an iPad Killer.
What we’ve missed from our Google Apps Marketplace coverage : the Best Poster Award … drumroll.. goes to box.net: And while at it, their video isn’t too shabby, either: Wait… is that an iPad killer with a great virtual keyboard at 0:46? Bias alert: I’ve been watching Box.net from the humble early days […]
T-Shirt Friday #27 – box.net #2
Everyone knows that professional conference goers like myself attend events not to listen to presentations, not to network but to collect schwag. Over the past couple of years I’ve done fairly well collecting tech t-shirts and I decided to create a weekly series critiquing tech companies t-shirt offerings in the expectation that a company with […]
