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Mobile CRM is high priority says RIM

Rating: Mapping and presence improve its attraction

Crazy as it may seem, 58 per cent of respondents to a study commissioned by RIM from Forrester reported that putting CRM apps onto mobile phones was a key part of their IT strategy for 2009.

Be a network nastie from the pub

Rating: Use an iPhone and Meru's network console

It's a network manager from Hell's (NMFH's) dream come true. Dictate to your network users via that fashion icon – the Apple iPhone – without having to return to your desk.

MEX 2009 - what's up with the handset market

Rating: Forsyth says in a perfect world everybody would be Symbian - sort of

At yesterday's MEX meeting, John Forsyth - who is on the leadership team with the Symbian Foundation - maintained that in certain circumstances, the entirety of a handset vendor's software R&D budget is being wasted on maintaining such a physically large number of handset models. Yet he still appealed for handset diversity.

3 offers completely free calling and IM via Skype

Rating: VoIP doesn't cannibalise revenues says 3

To further concrete its alliance with Skype, UK mobile operator, 3, has struck a deal whereby anyone with a 3G phone can use Skype for free after purchasing a £1.99 SIM card. Unlockers will rejoice.

Agito's RoamAnywhere goes heavy on Presence

Rating: location and context condensed into single icon

Following on its success with Wi-Fi handovers see here, Agito's latest release of RoamAnywhere (3.0) with major on users' 'presence' based on both location and 'context'.

Truphone welcomes the iPhone Skype move

Rating: Healthy competition is always good

There is nothing like a bit of healthy competition to spur interest in a sector and Skype's
announcement of iPhone support today will do exactly that for mobile VoIP.

Tweeting with Vodafone is possible

Rating: What they forgot to tell you

Yours truly has spent the last three days trying to receive tweets from Twitter on an ordinary mobile phone using SMS/txt on Vodafone. I've finally got it working thanks to Vodafone's PR. See my previous story here.

Vodafone UK steals a march with Twitter

Rating: You can now be plagued with Tweets on your phone

The news has just broken that - for the first time in the UK - it is now possible to receive your tweets on a mobile handset via SMS. Before this is was only possible to send Tweets via SMS as a Brit.

mSync from Newact: revisited

Rating: This review first appeared April 15th 2008

Whilst mSync from Newact holds plenty of promise, currently [2008] it fails to deliver on most of them. The software aims to be the best application for syncing a handset with the web.

A close look at Vufone from Newact

Rating: Manage all your handset's data from the web

For anyone who's ever wanted to backup or manipulate the wealth of information that now resides on a mobile handset, Vufone is one answer to their prayers.