Archive for the 'Information Technology' Category
I have really been enjoying TradeStation … but lately the data integrity has become a major issue. The Position Graph Bar typically has very accurate quotes, but RadarScreen has different/wrong/delayed quote data. I just don’t see how you can use a platform where you aren’t sure if the quote data is timely.
( I have been [...]
I find it amazing that Microsoft didn’t do it first .. http://www.me.com
“Exchange for the rest of us.
You might have a Mac at home, a PC at work, and an iPhone or iPod touch. The challenge is keeping multiple devices always in sync. Enterprises can use a server like Exchange. For everyone else, now there’s MobileMe.”
Here is a great resource for using launchd to automatically start tomcat on your OS X machine.
Thank you Apple, Inc. … looks like we are going to get some Enterprise Relief!
AppleInsider post
As I said … Enterprise = Higher Stock Price … Apple up to 126+ after hours.
It can’t be overstated … to me this is the killer application for everyday users … whoever solves this will be a huge winner. Everyday users don’t really understand the importance of this until they work at a company that provides BES or ActiveSync or Good with Exchange (or I guess Notes?). Exchange has a [...]
Now that you are opening up the platform a bit with an SDK (to be officially launched soon I hope). Please help Good create a client for iPhone … that immediately puts the iPhone on a level playing field with Blackberry and other devices using Blackberry sync and ActiveSync. This will boost the stock too. [...]
Apple, please support exchange, do a deal with RIM, buy Good from Motorola, launch your own version of Exchange or do something … manually syncing sucks…
Since I started using Google Spreadsheets I have started to think about other hosted applications … I have used salesforce.com for true CRM before, but what I hadn’t explored was their force.com platform for creating totally custom applications. They call it a “platform as a service” … I am intrigued and as such I created a developer [...]
The tag line for Sun is slowly coming true on many fronts. There are larger scale applications like Salesforce.com and then niche applications from vendors solving very specific business needs. Just yesterday I started looking at a company that provides “Performance Reporting” for money managers called Black Diamond Reporting. A fully hosted online web-based platform for aggregating and [...]
