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Don't Ignore The Least Common Denominator

There's been a healthy debate of late about whether mobile apps are a long term business or whether web apps running on mobile devices will ultimately win out. It's an important debate to have and while I favor mobile web apps, the current state of mobile technology and connectivity certainly favors the mobile app in the short term.

But lost in all of this debate is the least common denominator - sms (or texting as it is know in the mainstream).

Prediction: Seagate announces it will become a private company?

I believe that Twitter's native implementation of sms is an important part of its success. The 140 character limit was driven by the 160 character limit of sms and the initial design of the service put sms compatibility up there near or at the top of the system requirements. Other competitive services, including Facebook, are just not as natively available via sms the way Twitter is.


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Foresight and Inovis Extend Software Partnership

DUBLIN, Ohio & ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Foresight Corporation, provider of business-to-business (B2B) EDI management and trading partner community solutions, announced the company has forged a multi-year agreement with Inovis, a leading provider of B2B integration software and services.

The partnership is based on the Foresight Implementation Service Provider program, under which Inovis obtains wide-ranging use of Foresight technology to use in the trading partner onboarding process.

Inovis will use the software to define trading partner guidelines, test partner transactions and identify pre-production transaction errors, resulting in a faster and more accurate trading partner setup process for its clients in retail, manufacturing and high-tech.


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Vangent to Provide Hiring Optimization Solution to Support the 2010 Census


CHICAGO, IL -- 07/21/09 -- Vangent, Inc., a leading provider of results-oriented human capital and talent management solutions, announced that it will provide a critical talent acquisition component to support the large-scale personnel requirements of the upcoming 2010 Census, under prime contractor Lockheed Martin. The Software as a Service (SaaS) solution is designed to improve the applicant experience, automate time-consuming paper-based processes, reduce time-to-hire, and improve quality-of-hire.

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