Fortune magazine recently had an interesting mini-slideshow about high-tech helmets that are helping to prevent concussions and other brain injuries in young football players.
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For every ‘overnight’ Hollywood or music star, half of them, it turns out, were obscurely toiling in cable TV or small clubs for years before they got their big break. That’s Sybase: after a decade so quiet that some thought we had disappeared, suddenly we’re an overnight sensation.

Witness the deluge after SAP’s offer last week to buy us, in which the technology and even the mainstream press finally began to grok the enterprise mobility story. (more…)

If you count ‘luggables’ like early 80s KayPros and Compaqs, laptop PCs preceded smartphones in big business by at least a quarter of a century.

So it’s ironic that it’s the younger, less-powerful device that is paving the way for companies to belatedly liberalize their policies around workers’ PCs. (more…)

“Who should own the enterprise handset?” asked mobile analyst Philippe Winthrop in a recent article at The Enterprise Mobility Forum.

A few years ago, the answer would have been, “Duh, IT does.”

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Coding and junk food – two things that young techies love. Showing how goofy (and rich) they are, the kids at Google have been celebrating these two geek pastimes the past year by naming updates of their Android smartphone OS after desserts.

But these guys went the extra kilometer by actually getting sculptures (probably made of foam) of these sugary treats made and placed on the GooglePlex campus. (more…)

I once read an interview in one of the major business magazines (Fortune? Businessweek?) with the CEO of a major Taiwanese manufacturer.

 While people usually think it’s the American firms like HP, Apple and Motorola who are outsourcing manufacturing to Asia, this CEO preferred to view it as “we’re outsourcing the MARKETING and SELLING to Silicon Valley.” (more…)

…and what that all might mean for enterprises. First, the news: the Wi-Fi Alliance and the Wireless Gigabit Alliance said Monday that they plan to co-develop a next-generation Wi-Fi standard, unofficially nicknamed ‘WiGig,’ that works in the 60 GHz frequency band.

Most Wi-Fi devices today use the crowded 2.4 GHz band (it’s popular with cordless phones, Bluetooth devices and even microwave ovens). (more…)

Let the CrackPad jokes begin. The past several days has seen multiple reports that RIM is working on a BlackBerry OS-based tablet device of its own, codenamed either Cobalt or, we rilly rilly hope, BlackPad. (more…)