Can application infrastructure player Citrix be a mobile leader?
It has long been established as a major application infrastructure player, and its software powers more end users than one might imagine. Citrix will now try to leverage its entrenched enterprise persona to build a mobile business.
Impact Report by Tony Rizzo, 16 December 2004
Red Bend focuses on speed in new release for changing FOTA market
The firmware over-the-air update specialist has recently launched v2.0 of its vCurrent Mobile product for handset vendors.
Market Development by Steve Wallage, 15 December 2004
ManageSoft partners with Intellisync for emerging mobile opportunity
The desktop management specialist is partnering with Intellisync to meet the growing demand for mobile management and security functionality.
Impact Report by Steve Wallage, 13 December 2004
PalmSource turns to China and Linux for new mobile phone-based business
The company has announced an agreement to acquire China MobileSoft Limited, which is focused on the Chinese mobile phone market and more specifically on Linux-based mobile phones. A smart move or grasping at straws?
Market Development by Tony Rizzo, 9 December 2004
OZ strikes IM deal with Nokia, sees Nokia opening up to third parties
The mobile instant messaging specialist has signed a deal to embed its client on Nokia handsets – a further mark of credibility for the industry.
Market Development by Steve Wallage, 9 December 2004
Extended Systems gets on the RIM Java bandwagon, maintains financial breakeven
The company has seen increasing demand from its customers for the ability to deploy mobile applications on RIM devices. It has now integrated such support within its OneBridge platform, a smart move in our opinion.
Market Development by Tony Rizzo, 8 December 2004
RIM finally delivers updated version of BES and new development tools
Research in Motion has delivered the next version of its BlackBerry Enterprise Server platform – somewhat later than we had expected – as well as a new suite of development tools.
Impact Report by Tony Rizzo, 7 December 2004
Upbeat Xora anticipates more than threefold increase in subscribers in 2005
The provider of wireless tracking hosted services is aiming to have up to 100,000 users, but a raft of new products are entering the US market with the support of operators, and there is resistance to wireless tracking in non-US markets..
Impact Report by Steve Wallage, 7 December 2004
Sendia chugs along, building relationships – can it sustain momentum?
The middleware startup hitched its wagon early on to both Research in Motion and Salesforce.com. But in order to succeed it has to get beyond this one-trick pony. Recently the company landed a deal with PeopleSoft – can we expect it to do more?
Impact Report by Tony Rizzo, 30 November 2004
Andrew Corp finally goes after commercial location-based services market
After lagging competitors in commercial LBS offerings, it is now making the right moves – partnering and introducing wider support for the different positioning technologies – in an effort to lead this market, which is still wide open.
Impact Report by Steve Wallage, 30 November 2004
Qualcomm mobilizes application developers for location-based services push
The company is using its BREW developers to try to gain a lead in the LBS market. It has the installed base, portfolio and relationships to quickly build up LBS deployments, particularly with CDMA operators, but it is much weaker in the GSM community.
Impact Report by Steve Wallage, 17 November 2004
Wavelink acquires AirPrism and makes a strong case for itself
The veteran mobile player crosses multiple roads, offering middleware and management platforms as well as strong wireless infrastructure management tools. AirPrism adds the missing pieces it needs in order to cover all mobile bases.
Impact Report by Tony Rizzo, 16 November 2004
Comverse sees mobile IM as integral part of operators' messaging strategy
The company is very well placed for an acceleration in demand from European and Asian operators, but the mobile instant messaging market has been hyped for a long time, and many operators remain unconvinced of the IM model.
Impact Report by Steve Wallage, 12 November 2004
Infowave continues positive trend with robust Q3 and solid revenue
It finally got the chance to acknowledge a key business deal resulting from its partnership with IBM – something it couldn't do until IBM itself had a signed deal in hand. Along with a solid quarter, the IBM relationship bodes well for Infowave.
Impact Report by Tony Rizzo, 10 November 2004
F-Secure sees operators as the channel for mobile antivirus push
Mobile antivirus protection is still a new concept, but the security specialist has signed up its first operator customer and will use this channel as a means of reaching enterprises.
Impact Report by Steve Wallage, 9 November 2004
LANDesk seeks mobile security partnership to meet customer needs
Desktop management specialist LANDesk has been dipping its toe into mobile management and is concluding that security is the key driver.
Impact Report by Steve Wallage, 5 November 2004
TeleCommunication Systems builds location-based services stack through acquisitions
The company has made two LBS acquisitions this year and looks set to continue broadening its product portfolio through M&A.
Impact Report by Steve Wallage, 4 November 2004
Crisp Wireless enhances its platform, extends mobile to TV broadcasting
The mobile marketing and content delivery company has recently added new capabilities to its platform, extending its applicability to using mobile-based communications to provide broadcast TV automation. But will it catch on?
Impact Report by Tony Rizzo, 3 November 2004
Intellisync updates Mobile Suite, adds security and management enhancements
Version 6.0 of the platform focuses on security and management features critical for tackling enterprise mobile applications that go beyond email and mobile office capabilities. But can Intellisync sell the enterprise on it?
Impact Report by Tony Rizzo, 3 November 2004
Everypath builds on life sciences initiatives by acquiring vertical player NoInk
The mobile player has refined its focus by targeting vertical markets, including life sciences. It has acquired NoInk and will tap especially into the company's expertise on the medical devices side of things.
Market Development by Tony Rizzo, 1 November 2004
Virtual network player iPass adds Mobile Automation to its game plan
In a bid to strengthen its underlying virtual network infrastructure to take advantage of enterprise security concerns – as well as to prepare for the inevitable growth of mobile devices within the enterprise – iPass looks to M&A.
Market Development by Tony Rizzo, 29 October 2004
TruePosition banks on technology agnosticism stimulating location-based services
The company is trying to offer a wide portfolio and support the different LBS technologies to stimulate demand.
Impact Report by Steve Wallage, 29 October 2004
iAnywhere delivers natural-language mobile capabilities, among other new tools
In a move that will provide a small but definite measure of differentiation for itself, iAnywhere has delivered its first product suite based on the natural-language technology of Dejima, which it acquired earlier this year.
Impact Report by Tony Rizzo, 28 October 2004
Mobile security startup Trust Digital gets a much-needed makeover
Very little has been heard from the company in the past 18 months, but it can now boast a revamped management team, fresh capital and a new product release.
Market Development by Steve Wallage, 27 October 2004
mFormation focuses on operators for mobile management
The company has traditionally offered mobile device management to both operators and enterprises, but competition in the enterprise market is intense. It emphasizes the comprehensiveness of its platform, which now includes firmware OTA updating.
Impact Report by Steve Wallage, 26 October 2004
Nokia steps up to Qualcomm BREW challenge by announcing new Preminet services
The company has increased its efforts to provide carriers with the tools necessary to build consistent and branded UIs for the devices they choose to support – meaning, of course, Nokia's own.
Impact Report by Tony Rizzo, 26 October 2004
Mobile interface pure play Trigenix becomes part of the Qualcomm empire
Building on an existing long-term working relationship, Qualcomm recently decided to bring Trigenix directly into the family. It's a good move for the company as it looks to extend its BREW platform.
Market Development by Tony Rizzo, 25 October 2004
Tarantella signs bundling agreement with IBM, broadens Linux support
The IBM relationship is potentially a major boost to sales, but the remote-access specialist has been facing an uphill struggle in the very competitive market, and it is highly exposed to a move by Microsoft.
Impact Report by Steve Wallage, 25 October 2004
New player Zeosoft looks to deliver mobile peer-to-peer capabilities
The company is a new startup – but its technology roots go back to 2001. It has emerged from M&A trials and tribulations to deliver an interesting peer-to-peer mobile platform approach.
Impact Report by Tony Rizzo, 21 October 2004
Tibco opts to acquire rich Internet applications player General Interface
It's an interesting move for Tibco to jump into adding RIA capabilities to its product suite, albeit not an obvious one. The opportunity to add new Web interfaces to Tibco-enabled enterprise software makes sense as a differentiator.
Market Development by Tony Rizzo, 20 October 2004
OZ uses funding to launch new mobile IM push
The mobile instant messaging market is ripe for growth, and OZ has just raised $27.3m to develop new products and enter Europe.
Impact Report by Steve Wallage, 19 October 2004
Everypath delivers v6.0 of its MTA mobile platform and lands IBM as a partner
The company looks to be on the path to growing a solid business, having landed two key partnerships – with IBM's Life Sciences group and IT services firm Cognizant.
Impact Report by Tony Rizzo, 18 October 2004
Bitfone restructures product line for operator push
A provider of firmware over-the-air updating of mobile devices, the company has gone from traditional bug fixing to a more integrated approach.
Market Development by Steve Wallage, 18 October 2004
Discretix provides security for NDS digital rights management
The startup and its mobile security functionality are in the right place at the right time, but despite getting the endorsement of NDS, it still faces an uphill task selling to large customers. It needs to quickly expand before others enter the market.
Impact Report by Steve Wallage, 14 October 2004
Visto upgrades its underlying mobile email technology in new 5.0 release
The company has moved with unusual alacrity to rebuild its underlying email platform by incorporating the IP-based push technology it gained through its acquisition of Psion Teklogix's mobile email platform earlier this year.
Market Development by Tony Rizzo, 14 October 2004
Altiris releases its first mobile management suite, includes security features
It is showing it is more serious about the mobile management opportunity and has added basic security functionality via an OEM relationship with JP Mobile. But can it move fast enough to meet demand among CIOs for higher levels of protection?
Market Development by Steve Wallage, 13 October 2004
IBM extends its on-demand model to the telecom marketplace
Big Blue has been making steady inroads into landing wireless telecom business. Its latest offering – WebSphere Everyplace Service Delivery – leverages complex underlying infrastructure to pull together applications for wireless operators.
Impact Report by Tony Rizzo, 12 October 2004
Utimaco adds its encryption product to IBM laptops
Big Blue will embed the company's SafeGuard Easy as an option for its ThinkPad laptop customers that require full hard-disk encryption.
Market Development by Steve Wallage, 7 October 2004
Adesso upgrades its mobile application and middleware platform and toolset
It has released version 2.5 of Instant Mobility, along with a new suite of what it calls business process frameworks: vertically oriented, modifiable, out-of-the-box applications that aim to get projects up and running quickly.
Market Development by Tony Rizzo, 7 October 2004
Laszlo embraces an open source approach to rich Internet applications
Along with the other RIA players, it has long struggled to gain traction as a serious business. Laszlo has decided that it – as well as the RIA industry – needs a new jolt, and open source is it. Whether it works, well...
Impact Report by Tony Rizzo, 6 October 2004
InnoPath snares Sanyo in quest for OTA tipping point
The vendor of over-the-air firmware upgrades for mobile devices has gained a further boost to its credibility with a global agreement with Sanyo. It believes support from handset vendors will push the mobile operators to invest in OTA.
Market Development by Steve Wallage, 6 October 2004
Sproqit regroups, launches its first mobile product
The startup has gone through several transitions since its founding, including an interesting detour through Infowave, which stepped up and helped save it from closing its doors. With new funding in hand, the company is now ready to act.
Impact Report by Tony Rizzo, 5 October 2004
Bluefire attracts Motorola as a partner and investor
Motorola has reinforced its enterprise ambitions with an investment in the mobile security specialist and plans to embed Bluefire's product into its MPx handsets.
Market Development by Steve Wallage, 1 October 2004
JP Mobile integrates device security within its SureWave platform
It thinks of itself as a mobile middleware company, but recently – since it acquired PDA Defense – it has gone back to a focus on delivering mobile enterprise email. Integrated device management will appeal to the enterprise, but is it enough?
Market Development by Tony Rizzo, 29 September 2004
BeepScience gets mobile DRM validation with Sony
BeepScience has announced its first mobile DRM customer and support for version 2.0 of the Open Mobile Alliance standard.
Market Development by Steve Wallage, 29 September 2004
Wireless Services Corp. adds $8.5m to its coffers to expand its infrastructure
The company has done relatively well financially during its existence, going back almost a decade. It's revisiting the funding game now to quickly build out infrastructure it needs to meet demand for its services.
Impact Report by Tony Rizzo, 24 September 2004
PalmSource reports modest growth but sees uncertain future
Over the past six months, we've positioned the company as likely to slowly wither on the vine, especially as it comes to grips with the fact that PDAs are not going to rule the world and shifts to a smartphone strategy.
Market Development by Tony Rizzo, 24 September 2004
Startup netomat delivers an MMS platform with enterprise possibilities
What do Web-based art projects, early IBM XML standards work and mobile messaging have to do with each other? Plenty, if the company is netomat and the focus happens to be on launching new ways to efficiently and effectively use mobile technology.
Impact Report by Tony Rizzo, 21 September 2004
Volantis layers managed services onto its mobile content delivery platform
Following up on version 3.0 of its Multi-Channel Server and new services for managing multisource data and multiple brands, the vendor has now added a suite of turnkey services.
Market Development by Tony Rizzo, 21 September 2004
Wavelink upgrades its middleware and mobile management product lines
The company is a true veteran mobile player, albeit a quiet one in a rather dynamic space, but it continues to add seats. It recently added RFID support to both its Studio and Emulation product suites.
Market Development by Tony Rizzo, 20 September 2004
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