Test Drive: Skype for iPhone
Skype for iPhone Account Screen Skype is a popular communications tool for many knowledge workers, especially those on the go. Released on Tuesday, Skype for iPhone, which also works on the second...
View ArticleTest Drive: BlackBerry App World
BlackBerry App World Categories BlackBerry App World is now open for business. The new application store is available from BlackBerry smartphones with a trackball or touchscreen such as the Pearl,...
View ArticleThe Last Frontier: In-flight Internet Access, Take 2
ON BOARD AMERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHT 15, 11:45 A.M. EDT American Airlines was the first U.S. airline to announce in-flight Internet service for domestic flights. The first (test) phase of the American...
View ArticleIn the Briefing Room: Kosmix
Knowledge workers have traditionally had a love/hate relationship with search technologies. The vast amounts of information that we must shift through to find data that is relevant to us in a given...
View ArticleIn the Briefing Room: Oracle Beehive
We recently had our first look at the new version of Beehive, Oracle’s collaboration solution and replacement for the Oracle Collaboration Suite. Beehive is available both as an on-demand application...
View ArticleAmazon Kindle DX: Is Bigger Really Better?
Bucking the trend for smaller footprint devices, Amazon announced a significantly larger Kindle eBook reader. The electronic paper display is 2.5 times the size of the current Kindle model and, at 535...
View ArticleIn-flight Internet Access: The Return Flight
After a pleasant drive from the Bay Area to Los Angeles and a few days of meetings there, I returned to New York via American Airlines Flight 22. Similar to the outbound flight to San Francisco, once...
View ArticleInformation Overload – The Movie
“How does Information Overload impact you?” is a question I’ve been asking knowledge workers for quite some time. In the past six months, I began to capture their answers with a high-definition video...
View ArticleIn the briefing room: Nordic River TextFlow
Collaboration on documents is a given in knowledge work. Seldom will one author be the sole contributor to a document; rather, two or more knowledge workers typically come together to create the...
View ArticleTraveler Alert – Data Roaming and the T-Mobile G1
We’ve recently heard from multiple knowledge workers who used their T-Mobile G1 smartphones on overseas trips. All had a common complaint: they followed T-Mobile’s recommended guidelines to turn data...
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