BlackBerry open for business

Research in Motion has unveiled about 1 000 personal and business applications for BlackBerry smart phones, says Media Post.

Downloading applications from App World requires a PayPal account, and users can access the store via cellular and WiFi networks.

The BlackBerry applications span 13 categories including entertainment, games, news and weather, professional and business, and travel. Among the initial group of app partners are Bloomberg, ClearChannel, MTV Networks, The New York Times, Pandora, Salesforce.com and WorldMate.

NEC Unified Solutions has released its Interactive Terminal Suite, a group of applications for NEC's Univerge IP phones designed to help enhance user productivity and streamline business, states Earth Times.

The new ITS standard applications will be offered as pre-configured bundles on NEC's executive IP phones while additional application bundles can be customised to support the needs of customers across multiple industries.

Jay Krauser, general manager of portfolio management at NEC, says: “With these applications integrated into common business processes, people don't necessarily have to turn on their computers to drive business communications”.

Platform-as-a-service provider Longjump reveals that its on-demand business applications platform can now be licensed and used, reports Info World.

The business applications platform lets IT and business collaborate to create applications that business users, in turn, can easily customise. Longjump also provides a unified interface to integrate business data and create transactional applications.

Pankaj Malviya, founder and CEO of Longjump, says: "Now we are shifting gears. We've found that some large companies are not ready to push all their information into the cloud. We are trying to solve this problem.”