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The Best Phone for Business. Ever? »

Apple - iPhone - EnterpriseApple is starting to push the iPhone from the realm of the trendy and hip  into the enterprise. Maybe el Jobso will be trading in his black t-shirts and Adidas running shoes for Brooks Brother suits.

Here’s the copy from the Apple web site:

What makes iPhone a great business phone? Simple. The same features that make it a revolutionary mobile device. With iPhone 2.0 software, iPhone does even more for your enterprise. It supports Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, delivering push email, calendar, and contacts. And it gives mobile users secure access to corporate resources with Cisco IPSec VPN and wireless network services with WPA2 Enterprise and 802.1X authentication.

Maybe the iPhone is becoming a PC device, as in pretty corporate.

Here’s a video with corporate IT guys talking about how great the iPhone is for the mobile enterprise even the U.S army talks about how important the iPhone is for highly mobile forces that get shot at.

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Legacy Extensions in Firefox 3.0 »

I have been resisting using any of the Firefox 3.0 beta’s because of my reliance on Firefox extensions not yet ready for 3.0  but it seems like my Firefox 2.0 keeps bogging down (Perhaps due to my inability to close old tabs). With all the hype about the speed of Firefox 3.0 I decided to start using the release candidate.

However my dependency on extensions was to much to bear so I decided to look for some way to defeat Firefox’s extension checking.

  1. In the URL bar type about:config which will result in the following warning box:about:config
  2. Click, “I’ll be careful, I promise!
  3. Next you see a list of parameters, right-click on the screen and select New>Boolean from the menu dialogue.
  4. Name the configuration extensions.checkCompatibility then click the false value.
  5. Right-click again and create a new boolean pair called extensions.checkUpdateSecurity and set the value to false again.
  6. Restart Firefox

Now the reason there are checks is so that you don’t have a fatal error which is exactly what I got after doing this hack. Some extensions are innocuous and others aren’t I guess my favorites fall into the aren’t category.  Luckily you can restart Firefox in safe mode. You’ll get the following dialogue:

Firefox Safe Mode

Check the Disable All Add-ons box and then click Continue in Safe Mode. Type extensions.check in the filter box which should give you the two keys you set in the earlier procedure. Reset the values to defaults. Then restart Firefox. When you restart you should have all the “safe” extensions activated.

You could then uninstall extensions one-by-one, then repeat the procedure to find the ones that were causing the problems depending on your need for certain add-ons. Oh well, let’s hope there are updates for my favorite extensions soon after next week’s release.

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SpreadFirefox Endeavors for Guiness World Record »

The community powered marketing engine for the Firefox project, SpreadFox is pushing to set a Guinness World Record for the most downloads in 24 hours. So far they have over 1.1 million pledges to download Firefox on the June 17th launch date. Show your support and pledge today.

Download Day 2008

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Andre Boisvert: The Man Behind the Open Source Curtain »

Smashing PumpkinsMost open source luminaries are known for their code, their successful startup successes or even their outspokenness. Andre Boisvert comes to open source from a different angle. Having worked for two billionaire programmers, Larry Ellison and Jim Goodnight, Andre’s transition from proprietary software to open source software has been an interesting journey.

Andre started out his career at IBM where he spent 13 years. At Big Blue he was fast tracked through various positions in sales, marketing and R&D as part of their executive program. He then left for a turn around at Cognos (now owned by IBM). He’s been the President and COO of the world’s largest private software company, SAS Institute Inc. and has been the SVP of Marketing at Oracle. After working for some of the largest proprietary software companies, Andre now works primarily advising open source startups using his experience in order to help them better compete with some of his former employers. Though he keeps a relatively low profile in the open source community though he’s definitely a mover and a shaker.

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