Forrester analyst Tim Sheedy writes in a new report that “The Internet and the mobile Internet have effectively combined.” Facebook users who access the social networking site through a mobile device are twice as active as users who don’t. It’s no surprise then to see the announcement of Salesforce.com ‘s Chatter Mobile, a mobile client for the company’s increasingly popular Chatter social networking and microblogging platform

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Enterprise Mobility Heats Up as Salesforce.com Announces Chatter Mobile

Winter ’11 is fast approaching – and its got a bunch of great new features that can help you build better apps, faster. Check out the new System Log Console , Sites URL Redirects , the Chatter Components for Visualforce and much more . The resource page also points to the archived webinars about the features, as well as the release notes and signup for a pre-release environment

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Winter ’11 Release Preview Resources

Right about now I am on my way to Cloudforce London to meet up with Jon Mountjoy and have some fun with the Force.com Developer community. Before I left however, I wanted to remind you of this Thursday’s (September 9th) VMforce webinar I will be co-presenting with Jesper Joergesen , Director of Product Management here at Salesforce.com . This webinar is the second in the series, and is targeted towards Java developers, and how they can take advantage of VMforce

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Sign up for VMforce Webinar 2: Cloud Computing for Java Developers

When Salesforce.com bought crowdsourced business contact database Jigsaw for $142 million earlier this year, the CRM giant said that it would combine its suite of applications with Jigsaw’s model for the automation of acquiring and keeping up-to-date business contact data. Today, Salesforce is unveiling Jigsaw’s deep integration into the company’s platform, Jigsaw for Salesforce CRM

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Salesforce Completes The Puzzle With Jigsaw For CRM

It’s no secret that RIM is in trouble on Wall Street as it loses out in the consumer market to Android vendors and Apple . But what about RIM’s core competency, the enterprise? We’ve been covering the rapid adoption of Android and especially iOS in the enterprise, and the availability of device management alternatives to the BlackBerry Enterprise Manager

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What does RIM Need to Do to Stay Relevant in the Enterprise?

One of the most popular Force.com Labs apps over the last few months is ” Find Nearby Accounts “. On Friday, we released a great update that improves the user experience and app performance while adding features

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Updated App: Find Nearby Accounts, Contacts and Leads

I just came across this great video by James Ward, who shows an Android app interfacing with Force.com: It’s pretty nice isn’t it! He has a great write-up on his blog post  Building Client / Cloud Apps with Flash Builder for Force.com .

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Flash Builder for Force.com and Adobe AIR for Android

What is the point when a CRM application becomes a collaboration service? And when does a collaboration service become a CRM application? These are question we ask ourselves when we see the range of services with features that combine these two related application environments

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When Does CRM Become A Collaboration Service?

Couple of weeks ago you may have attended Sati Hilyer and Ian Swinson’s talk on User Experience at the 6/22 CloudForce event or heard about it from the blog post . Today’s topic is not about User Experience, but how the principles of user experience has led to completely revising an old kid on the block in our product itself, namely the Report Builder.

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Off the see the Wizard, ahhh, the new Report Builder

As anyone who needs to creat e a commercial website knows, it is painful to deal with all the aspects of infrastructure, platform settings, setting the website, figuring out the page setup, linking the user  management and authentication, setting up the payment system all on your own. Of course, this is where Sites development with Force.com comes in to h elp i n focusing on the app, and the needs of setting a professional website for e-commerce along with PayPal X Toolkit

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Building E-Commerce sites with Force.com