It’s been a tumultuous few days for RIM, after the Canadian company’s founder and dual-CEOs jumped ship yesterday. Their successor, Thorsten Heins, is talking a good game about continuity and innovation, but there’s more bad news for the company: HTC is upping its game with enterprise, teaming up with IBM to eat the remainder of RIM’s corporate market share.
If you’re heading abroad with your new tablet this week, you might want to read what our sister site BizGene.com has discovered about the charges involved. This week, BizGene has also spoken to IBM about how you can save money through reducing the amount of computers your business uses. They’ve also chatted with Robert Whiteside, a Head of Enterprise at Google to get his top 10 business collaboration tips. Finally, BizGene have also commented on the Apple tracking furore that Apple simply call ‘a bug’. Whether you’re a sole trader, freelancer or small business, this is essential reading.
Congratulations, you made it half way through Monday! If the weekend still hangs heavy on your shoulders, kick back and dig in to our lowdown of all today’s best tech news so far.
Robot teddy anyone? IBM has just submitted a patent application dubbed an “Adaptive System for Real-Time Behavioural Coaching and Command Intermediation”. The translation to human: IBM is developing artificial intelligence for toys that could help children stop or develop certain behaviours. Read on for IBM’s explanation…
Using Lotus Notes at work? Then a new LinkedIn plugin is about to make you the most productive worker in the office… or at least let you stalk people from the comfort of your e-mail app!
Now here’s something you don’t see every day: IBM’s latest ThinkPad notebook packs a second screen to supplement the regular display.
The secondary screen is 10.6 inches in size and boasts an impressive resolution of 1,280 x 768, so it’ll be useful for lots of different things – not just as a tiny display to run iTunes or Winamp while you’re working away on the primary screen.
As much as we want to believe that James Bond really does use a Sony Vaio Z Series, it don’t half look a little bit flimsy for Her Majesty’s finest secret agent. Compare and contrast with this IBM spy equipped hunk of chunk. Look – it’s even got a rocket launcher built in!*