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The Enterprise, The iPhone, and the Role of Silverlight

With its recent announcement to support ActiveSync on the iPhone , Apple is clearly going after the enterprise user. The problem, as Colin puts it, is that the decisions that consumers make decisions on a radically different set of criteria than organizations . Lack of Exchange support was surely holding...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 03-27-2008
Verizon to open up its network and devices

Verizon, a company traditionally known for being ultra-controlling with its network and devices on its network, is opening its network in 2008. As Om puts it, "given Verizon’s track record of tight-control of its network including the user interface, this is a huge announcement : akin to Mikhail...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 11-27-2007
Unlocking the iPhone

Fred is unlocking his iPhone . I'm waiting anxiously to see how this turns out. If all goes well, I may have to consider picking one up myself especially in light of the price drop. The EDGE-only doesn't bother me too much since I'm on the T-Mobile network which doesn't have HSDPA anyway...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 09-12-2007
What exactly is an iPhone application?

Scoble mentions 3 new iPhone apps today from Newsgator, Bloglines, and Google. It's interesting that companies keep saying they are doing "iPhone development", when really these are nothing more than sites skinned to look more natural on the iPhone. The iPhone is the only mobile phone that...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 07-24-2007
The iPhone is a game-changer

I recently wrote a piece for the TechDirt Insight Community about the impact of the iPhone and how the other carriers and device manufacturers can respond to the iPhone. I've come to realize that the iPhone has indeed changed the game, but maybe not for the obvious reasons. Yes, the iPhone is "making...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 07-05-2007
iPhone impressions

Alex has an iPhone (two, actually) and posted his first impressions (but not until he shared his activation woes ). In talking to Alex and reading other reviews, the general consensus is that the iPhone is very good, but underneath it all it's still the same old carrier BS. I did have a chance to play...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 07-02-2007
Is touch the next big thing in mobile?

Om Malik says that, in a sense, the iPhone has already changed the mobile business because they're "making it okay to experiment with new ideas, and throw out previously taboo notions." Now Tero Ojanpera, the Nokia CTO, believes that "optical sensors and touch will be the next big things". Personally...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 06-18-2007
RIM announces Application Suite for Windows Mobile

Some pretty big news in April that I never got around to posting: RIM announced the Blackberry Application Suite for Windows Mobile ( via ). RIM plans to begin offering the new software application suite later this year for select devices based on Windows Mobile 6. Once installed, the software will provide...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 05-25-2007
Why I chose the Dash

My aging Blackberry 8700 was just getting too much for my pockets, and I needed to upgrade. I was debating between the Dash and the Pearl and decided on the Dash. Why? For starters, T-Mobile released the Windows Mobile 6 update , which adds (among many other things), HTML e-mail support. This is really...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 05-24-2007
Understanding the Cablevision DVR lawsuit

While I agree with Mark Cuban that the lawsuit is a mistake , I thought it was worth discussing why - from a legal perspective - the network DVR is an issue. Copyright gives the owner a limited monopoly over a few aspects, most notably the ability to reproduce and distribute the work. In a "normal" DVR...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 04-11-2007

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