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  So how important is the ability to do work from a mobile device these days? It appears that more an more people are attempting to do more and more work from a mobile device. With the release of the new 3G iPhone, it appears that many more people are going to look at taking advantage of being able to do work on a 3.5" screen vs. lugging around a 17" screen to do work on. Also, with Blackberry ever evolving, there new phone titled "Bold", appears to be nearly as flexible as the iPhone (although the iPhone interface is still lightyears ahead of the hardware interface on most other mobile devices). Also, given the ability to IM, email and even office work (Windows Mobile 6 allows for work with Word/Excel and Powerpoint documents), many people are looking for an excuse not to have to haul around their 17" liability. I personally don't mind hauling around a laptop, and with laptops getting smaller and smaller all the time, it won't be long before a hi-res 13" option becomes available (especially with the way Apple keeps going). Check out the new "enterprise ready" iPhone here. I personally think that Apple already has something up there sleeves to make the ultimate mobile device (something between a laptop and iPhone) but I guess we will see what the future holds.

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Hey there, did anyone attend the Lotus Mashups online webinar today? I'm not sure what to really think about the new Lotus Mashups, it seems like a cool idea but still a little to complicated for the average business user. Also, I think there may be a concern around opening up backend information for users to access. It seems to me that everything would have to be locked down and read-only for Mashups to be truly accepted by IT organizations, yet part of the reason that Mashups could be very powerful would be the ability to interface and change the data that is stored in systems such as SAP. It's a toss up to me as to how useful Mashups will actually be without changing backend data, but in the same respect how many IT organizations will actually trust their business users to access and change this data? I guess we'll see how it all plays out in the next year or so.

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