BigTinCan Dashboard Launches on the AppStore

What is it?

A system for delivering secure documents and information to large number of users on smart devices. Links with advanced server side control to send messages and content to devices based on groups, or individuals

A structure for delivering live content feeds (RSS and Social feeds) to smart devices.

A new way of delivering enterprise information and content - in a way that understands the needs of mobile professionals and the tools they use.

In short - its the Intranet re-invented - the Intranet for the mobile generation.

Who is it for?

BTCDashboard is the right technology for the right product at the right time. Coming first on iPad(and soon on Playbook, Android and Desktop) puts the technology within ready of  the over 30 million users with forecasts showing a market growing to over 100 million devices by the end of 2012.  In 2012, IDC forecasts worldwide shipments of 70.8 million units, Forrester Research, an independent technology and market research company, predicts explosive sales growth over the next five years. ABI Research points to a market of over 120 million devices by 2016.

BTCDashboard is designed to help enterprise and small business users to take advantage of this amazing opportunity to increate the productivity of their employees. And to do it in a way that everybody will find easy to use.

Great news for enterprise users, BTCDashboard is now approved on the AppStore.

You can get it here

Or watch the video here

LLBriefcase live on the AppStore

Great news for those of you that are trying to integrate LotusLive and the iPad.

BigTinCan in partnership with TaskExchange have launched LLBriefcase on the Apple AppStore for iPad.

LLBriefcase is the ultimate way to share documents across Lotus Live. It enables secure delivery and commenting on Lotus Live documents in a way that will be totally natural to iPad users.

You can download llBriefcase HERE for FREE.

To lean more about how to use it as part of an integrated LotusLive environment, please contact TaskExchange and they can work through a demonstration for you of this exciting way of getting LotusLIve onto the iPad.

Nokia and Microsoft partnership a boon for developers

The web is ablaze with news of that Nokia will abandon its Symbian platform and move to making the hardware that will run Microsoft Windows Phone 7.

Many including this author have an opinion about whether that decision makes sense for Nokia, but there is one thing for certain. Its a boon for the mobile development community.

Windows Mobile 7 certainly has a distinctive look and feel and has the potential to be something that could turn today's three horse race into a field of four - and that is also good news for developers.

Look for developers like BigTinCan to create new applications and services on Windows Phone 7 (and its likely new versions) that will create possible new dimensions on User Interface design that could then be taken back and used in iOS, Android and BlackBerry.

For developers who had been working on Symbian its a wake up call to move up and get into the real smartphone development community and for the old school smartphone developers its an indication that we need to get serious about Windows again. Corporate customers remain committed to the Windows platform, and this announcement will give the IT teams some teeth in arguing about the choice of mobile platforms.

BlackBerry DevCon Asia 2011

BlackBerry DevConAsia 2011

The BigTinCan team was fortunate to be able to attend this exciting event in Bali Indonesia. The first time DevCon has been held in Asia. There were four of our team at the event and we all managed to make the most of the sessions and were able to get into the middle of the happenings on BlackBerry.

The keynote on the first day was great, and we tried our first "tweetstream" focusing on the new announcements made at the keynote - and I can say that  the experience of having to keep typing and telling people the updates was something really compelling almost addictive.

Big news at the event was the announcement of BlackBerry OS 6.1 APIs including geofencing tools (neat) and lots of new developments on WebWorks - with the announcement of WebWorks coming to the BlackBerry Playbook tablet. 

The Playbook is an exciting device, however there has been a question in the mind of many developers about how they were going to get their arms around developing in AIR and Flash, when many developers come from a Java or C based development environment.

Adding WebWorks on the Playbook is taking things more down the path of the kind of development that many in the community are comfortable with.

Using the Playbook

DevCon gave us the first opportunity to use the Playbook and we can say that it certainly is something compelling. The use of the bezel to control the device was refreshing - interestingly on the first day of DevCon, there was a leaked story on BGR that Apple was considering removing its "button" with the view to move to multi touch gestures to replace its use on iPad and iPhone.

Until we get a device its hard to know how "complete" the Playbook is - we couldn't find a "settings" panel on the demo unit we used to see how much is implemented yet - and how it will perform in the real world- were all those battery issue rumors true? We weren't able to get answers to those questions t DevCon, but we are planning on submitting apps to AppWorld for Playbook and hope to be able to get answers as soon as we get units to use.

Sessions

It was good for our team to be able to catch up with the latest, and great to see so many Canadian presenters - RIM made a big commitment to the event. Hands on labs were especially good.

Whats Next

RIM certainly seems committed to Asia - even to the point of making changes in how their systems work for counties like Indonesia where the government is requesting access to BIS - but probably these changes are vital for RIM in this ever growing market - the opportunity for tens of millions of more unit sales here is real and we hope to be there with RIM as they execute on this opportunity.

For BigTinCan its back to Sydney to work on some more exciting projects. Looking forward to a great 2011.