Google’s new Google+ offering aims to start making inroads into enterprise social interactions as well and the message layer social functions of Microsoft’s SharePoint platform are perhaps the only mobile friendly features of that platform ready to work on today’s most popular mobile handsets and tablets. Some form of consolidation will come to the mobile device/handset sector as a few of the key but descending players –namely Nokia, Microsoft, HP and RIM – aligning themselves together to try and overcome the momentum of the two ascending players – namely Apple and Google. a.k.a. MORE >>

effort here and look forward to seeing where they can take it all when supporting legacy mobile devices like the ever popular BlackBerry in the enterprise as well as newer smartphones like those based on Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 OS that don't fully support the HTML5 spec as of yet. It took no longer than the end of January for new product announcements to be made by two of the leading authoring tool vendors who are now offering both Flash and HTML5 course publication output options to instructional designers using their respective applications. Harbinger Group's Raptivity. MORE >>

It was Microsoft vs Apple where Microsoft, though their more open system, was the victor. Those critics who claim that Apple is waging the same losing war it did vs Microsoft in it’s OS war are not understanding this new battle. Adobe and Microsoft would be wise to learn that lesson instead of trying to hold on to yesterday’s philosophies. Only a few short years ago, when mobile devices were still mainly cell phones and music players, the thought of a mobile revolution supplanting the computer revolution seemed distant. Desktop vs. Mobile OS. MORE >>

Getting Started with Mobile Learning Planning Session with Austin Winters, Microsoft Mobile Learning in Government and Military - Mark Friedman and Jason Haag Discussion of Mobile Learning Standards, or Lack Thereof with Mark Friedman and Jason Haag Tools for Mobile Learning Examined Mobile Learning Examples Examined Future Directions in Mobile Learning: A Look at New Technologies and Potential There is also a document with lots of resources available here. Last week in San Jose I was pleased to participate at DevLearn in the Mobile Learning Jam. You were all great! MORE >>

great company started by Mike Alexander who is a Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD) and author of 8 books on advanced business analysis with Microsoft Access and Excel. If you are more of a reader and you want the information to be really related to the Excel 2007 version of the Microsoft software, you can look at this text (accompanied with screenshots) from Productivity Portfolio. You might of course also want to take a look at the online courses Microsoft provides. This is a recurrent question, so it seemed like a good topic to blogpost about. MORE >>