Today's highlights: When is a team not a team; A Good HP iPAQ 6500; Outlook for RIM; Rogers Challenges RIM; Irwin Lazar on desktop video conferencing; David Marshak on IBM collaboration;
- Thinking Faster reminds us that a team has an alignment of "goals, objectives and expectations" through its membership. Otherwise it is merely a collection of individuals with disparate agendas. Thanks for the reminder Jeffrey! Thinking Faster
- HP's forthcoming iPAQ 6500 combined phone/PDA may sport push email capabilities from Good Technology, a RIM competitor. That would give out-of-the-box push-based email for users with an Exchange Server in the office. cbronline.com
- Standard & Poor's estimates that RIM will double its subscriber base over the next 12 months, to 5 million global subscribers. Comment: When Vodafone NZ introduces the BlackBerry 7290 (quad-band with Bluetooth support), I'll be one of them! kiplinger.com. In parallel, RIM is thinking about how to push the envelope, through support of additional applications on the BlackBerry.
- Rogers Communications, Canada's largest mobile operator, is launching a Visto-powered wireless email service to compete with RIM's BlackBerry service. In Visto's favor is support for a wider variety of devices, not just RIM-powered ones. theglobalandmail.com
- Irwin Lazar of The Burton Group is thinking about the role of desktop video conferencing in the enterprise. Bad use: augmentation of a person-to-person phone call. Good uses: permitting remote workers to join a pre-scheduled conference, and ad-hoc meetings for small groups of individuals. Irwin Lazar
- David Marshak spoke with SearchDomino about IBM's approach to real-time communication and team collaboration. Key points: (a) admins and developers add greater value to their company by working on new stuff, not just continually working on existing things; (b) Microsoft's DNA is to facilitate personal productivity (even if its user base is composed of "dinosaurs", as Bill Gates calls them), not organizational productivity (unlike IBM); and (3) IBM offers an integrated platform for collaboration. Part 1 of 2 (or more?) conversations. SearchDomino
This Briefing was written by Michael Sampson, of Shared Spaces Research & Consulting Ltd. Email or IM Michael to discuss any of these items further.
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