I know a thing or two about Virtual Assistants. Virtual VIP helps our clients get stuff done. I’ll stop short of saying “whatever you need done, we do for you”, but it’s close.

Jeff Yablon in Business Change and Business Process

Nov 21, 2011

Apple’s Siri Can Run on Any SmartPhone, Any Computer

You’ve seen those commercials, right? People with the latest version of the iPhone just speak and things magically happen, courtesy of the very cool (I’m not kidding; it is very cool) Siri Virtual Assistant software built into the iPhone…

Jeff Yablon in Business Change and Business Process

Oct 13, 2011

Google Worries. (Siri on iPhone 4S NOT a Virtual Assistant)

Any second now, Apple’s iPhone 4S is going to be “real”. October 14 is the official launch date for the latest version of iPhone, and once it’s “out” people will be walking around talking to their phones, giving us all…

Jeff Yablon in Business Change and Business Process

Aug 24, 2011

TouchPad Proved iPad a Toy. Now Android Proves it for iPhone

When they killed the TouchPad, Hewlett Packard proved Apple’s iPad to be just a toy. Now a new study suggests that the iPhone is very much the same thing. In the world of SmartPhones, Android devices are tools, while iPhones…

Jeff Yablon in Business Change and Business Process

Apr 7, 2011

Google To Reign In Android Fragmentation — Maybe

I’ve been an Android user since Verizon, Motorola, and Google got together and released the original Droid. While my SmartPhone has begun feeling slow and bloated as it’s aged and I’ve added app after app to my mobile arsenal of tools, I love my…

Jeff Yablon in Business Change and Business Process

Jul 27, 2010

Stealing Movies, Jailbreaking SmartPhones Now Legal

We have a legal system in the USA that’s meant to ensure nobody gets railroaded by a single party with an agenda to fulfill. And while the Internal Revenue Service gets to act as judge, jury, and executioner, most everything that doesn’t…

Jeff Yablon in Business Change and Business Process

Apr 9, 2010

Apple iPhone OS 4.0: A Beginning, or Beginning of the End?

Business Change is a odd thing. We all know we have to be constantly changing our businesses to adapt to … well, changing business … but should business change be active or passive? Proactive or reactive?

Jeff Yablon in Business Change and Business Process

Feb 17, 2010

Business Changes in Phone Apps? Not at Mobile World Congress

This week in Barcelona, Spain a conference called Mobile World Congress is happening. The attendees are employees of some of the world’s biggest and most influential companies: AT&T, Apple Computer, Motorola, Google…

Jeff Yablon in Business Change and Business Process

Aug 24, 2009

Why More People Don’t Use an iPhone

Simple: Because They Don’t Get It.

I’m not about to go off on a the-iPhone-is-the-best-thing-since-sliced-bread rant. In fact, let me state, right here, right now, for the record, that I am not a user, and on my last birthday was offered one…