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Best mobile applications for business. What are your favorites?

by alec on November 24, 2010

Monday’s Globe had a feature piece on the best mobile applications for entrepreneurs.  The thesis?  Smartphones are good for more than just gaming.  Amen to that!

They listed a few of my favorites, but also missed some invaluable productivity aids like Dropbox, Tripit, FlightTrack, LinkedIn, Analytics HD, and of course Calliflower for iPhone, all of which I depend on day to day to run my business.

What are the top mobile applications you use for business?

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Linking up with LinkedIn … on the road

by alec on February 25, 2008

Hey – LinkedIn has a mobile version available at http://m.linkedin.com. Cool!  I'll definitely make use of this.

I like the guys at LinkedIn a lot.  But I'm scratching my head over part of this announcement: a mobile version of LinkedIn… optimized for iPhone users.  Perhaps I'm missing something, but I would have thought that a business networking tool would go mobile first on a business phone.  Or perhaps the iPhone is the business phone of Silicon Valley.

Let me know when you've got something for my BlackBerry, guys.  

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