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Please Please Please Sponsor Me!
January 21st, 2010
A few people have noticed that I’ve lost a fair amount of weight recently…. and they’ve been asking me why… well apart from wanting to get into much better shape. I also decided to run a half marathon for charity!
I have never been a runner but I wanted to do something to repay the fantastic care that Willen Hospice provided to my Father in Law during his final weeks. Gerald – (My Father in Law) was diagnosed with terminal cancer in May 2008 and passed away less than 5 weeks later in June 2008. He spent his final 3 weeks in Willen Hospice in Milton Keynes where they provided amazing care to him. Willen Hospice is only funded 25% by the NHS and has to find the rest through charitable donations hence my reason for running the Milton Keynes Half Marathon.
I’d appreciate any sponsorship you can spare as it will go to a very worthy cause! I have setup a website to make it easy for people to sponsor me.
Please go HERE
Nokia – Free Maps Forever…
January 21st, 2010
An interesting move by Nokia as they offer Free Maps FOREVER on their handsets.
They are providing the Ovi Maps across 70 countries including:
- Free Drive navigation
- Free Walk navigation
- Free maps and map updates
- Free Events guides
- Free Lonely Planet guides
- Free Michelin guides
Of course there is always small print which is important to be aware of:
1) The maps are free for the lifetime of the phone….
2) You’ll be downloading the maps over the air so be careful when roaming!!
Still it’s an interesting move….
You can get more info HERE
TripIt application for Blackberry
January 21st, 2010
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Probably my favourite web service and iPhone application is TripIt. Well if have a Blackberry you can now enjoy the power of TripIt with the Blackberry Application.
If you aren’t familiar with TripIt it’s a service that allows you to simply forward any hotel, flight, car hire or other travel bookings and it collates them for you and provides weather, maps and even a calendar subscription so you can sync all the details to your Outlook or iCal Calendar!
You can get more details on the Blackberry App HERE
IBM updates its support for iPhone at Lotusphere
January 19th, 2010
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Not sure if you have been following the news from Lotusphere in the US but IBM yesterday announced a number of important updates to their iPhone support:
1) They now support accessing encrypted email.2) They have added support for the ability to accept/decline meetings
You can get more details HERE
Accessing Sharepoint from an iPhone
January 14th, 2010
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If you want to access Microsoft Sharepoint from an iPhone then you can use the Safari Browser however Spyk have released an application called iShare that provides a native iPhone application that allows you to Search Sharepoint, open & read documents as well as create, delete and update list items.
You can download it from the App Store HERE
GroupWise: ActiveSync Device Support for iPhone
January 14th, 2010
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Microsoft Exchange and IBM Lotus Notes are the two main email platforms used in the Enterprise today although there are a number of customers who still use Novell Groupwise.
If you are trying to integrate iPhones with Groupwise then you may be pleased to discover that Novell have shared details of an Alpha/Beta of Activesync support in their Groupwise product.
You can get more details HERE
Ski and Snowboarding Augmented Reality App
January 12th, 2010
This is a very cool application for the iPhone which combines data from the compass, gps and ski runs to present an augmented reality view of the slopes!
The app provides data on over 80 North American resorts – I’m hoping they add some of the European resorts too!
You can get the FREE app HERE – you can then buy the individual resort data using in-app purchase
BBC reporter breaks ‘unbreakable’ mobile phone at CES
January 11th, 2010
Credit Card Reader for iPhone
January 10th, 2010
Mophie (the makers of the Juice Pack battery extender for iPhone) made an interesting announcement last week at CES. The Mophie Marketplace is a Credit Card Reader for the iPhone.
It isn’t available just yet but might be an interesting option for companies looking to take mobile payments using an iPhone.
You can get more details HERE
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