eCommerce has been helping merchants to rapidly enlarge their customer base and to increase their turnover. Mobile commerce has stepped even further providing comfortable access to merchants’ products via smartphones.

Among merchants’ modern-day needs are also various apps allowing them to move their products into customers’ smartphones and also to accept credit cards and other payments on the go. Using such apps merchants are able to move existing online stores (catalogues, portfolios, etc.) to mobile devices and to get listed in the Apple iTunes app store as well.

Such applications allow users to expand their customer base and reach out to new, potential customers with mobile commerce on iPhone®, Blackberry®, Google Android, Windows mobile and other smartphones or tablets.

Mobile commerce is a revolutionary way of approaching customers and follow the latest trends in doing business.

Sony corporation has declared that the Xperia S will get the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update in the coming weeks.

Xperia S phone originally came with Android 2.3 and luckily Sony unveiled the information about its coming update after not meeting customers expectations of having the update in April this year. According to the latest info available, Xperia S is planned to get ICS somewhere around late May/early June.

This ICS upgrade appears to link well with the Ice Cream Sandwich launching for other Xperia phones comprising the Xperia Arc S, Xperia Neo V and Xperia Ray.

Enterprise Content Management client for Apple Macintosh users – BlueJet is an intuitive desktop application enabling users to easily manage their corporate data, such as documents, images, or other digital assets. 

With BlueJet users can perform a very intuitive document management and search. It uses a simple drag and drop option to upload documents from a computer into BlueJet itself and there is an unlimited capacity of documents that can be uploaded. After dropping desired docs these are stored in the Enterprise Content Management or Document Management System, ready to be used or modified. BlueJet has an automatic synchronization functionality of local document copies with ECM or DMS.

It is also possible to search for documents within your DMS or ECM using BlueJet search feature or search history, in case you search for a recently used document.

In case anybody who has access to the ECM or DMS makes a change to any document or folder, user gets an immediate notification. This is helpful to keep track of all documents and changes.

HTC today unveiled their next Android device, a budget-smartphone Desire C that should be available in a few weeks in Europe for 200 euro SIM free. Desire C comes with a 600MHz CPU, 3.5-inch display, 5-megapixel camera, 512MB RAM, 4GB internal storage, and 25GB of free Dropbox storage.

The device is powered by Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and runs HTC Sense 4.0 providing users with the Beats Audio optimization that is found in recent HTC models. Desire C comes with a 1230 mAh battery and will be available in a range of colors which include red, white and black.

The well-respected reviewer CNET.com recently published a list of must-have gadgets that includes a variety of interesting devices to have. 

Amazon Kindle 2011 
CNET’s best superaffordable and ultraportable for $79.00

Apple iPad (2012)
CNET’s best tablet overall with a host of improvements like faster graphics, 4G wireless options and a better camera for $499.00 – $669.00

Apple iPhone 4S
CNET’s sest smartphone for media. Even without 4G and a giant screen, this phone’s smart voice assistant, Siri, the benefits of iOS 5, and its spectacular camera make it a top choice for anyone ready to upgrade. For $199.99 – $619.99

Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime
CNET’s best Android tablet that does a good job distinguishing itself from the iPad.
For $499.00 – $595.00

HP Folio 13
CNET’s best Windows ultrabook is the best of the bunch in terms of performance, price, and ergonomics, provided you can live with a less-than-razor-thin design. This laptop is targeted at small businesses but it’s really for anyone who wants a reliable ultrabook that isn’t a MacBook Air.
For $819.99 – $1,349.00

enprovia’s mobile-enabled application for photographers and imaging fans – mGallery enables its users to showcase their work anywhere on the move.

mGallery offers its users a variety of features, such as „Search“ that allows to search among Nikonians registered users/photographers and their images. After finding the photographer you were looking for you can „Bookmark“ his/her portfolios and have their portfolios available anytime without searching. The search goes hand in hand with „Saving“ images you liked directly to your mobile device. Like this you can have the pictures you like gathered in your mobile device and access them anytime. Once you have the pics stored in your Smartphone, you might want to „Send“ them via email. mGallery enables you to send your images directly as an e-mail attachment. Like this you can also let other photographers know of any good locations for photo shooting.

mGallery also offers a random mosaic display of images that breaks the routine of a regular photo gallery and displays different pictures when your Smartphone is shaken. For more comfortable pics browsing you can use various views – vertical or horizontal.   

mGallery is a free application and can be used by any iPhone user. If you want to store your own images, you need be a registered Nikonians member.

Read more about mGallery app

pcworld.com published a list of interesting novelties in the tech world to expect in the following months.

In May, potentially June is Amazon expected to launch a tablet that’s larger than its 7-inch Kindle Fire.

Late June should bring a new Google tablet, unveiling a $200 tablet called Google Play built by Asus that will run Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) using a Tegra 3 quad-core processor.

In August is expected a new modified iPad as Apple is expected to launch a smaller version of the iPad – a 7-inch model. A smaller tablet would also enable Apple to offer a tablet at a lower price.

The latest smartphone in Sony Xperia line compared to other members within Xperia family packs a new technology into its touchscreen called “floating touch.” This allows users to hover their finger over the display to move what is similar to an invisible mouse cursor and then merely tap the screen once the desired link is highlighted.

Sola is the first smartphone to use this new tech, however Sony claims to bring this feature also to other models in the future. The device comes with a 3.7-inch screen and a Reality Display powered by Sony’s Mobile Bravia Engine with 854 x 480px resolution.

It is powered by a dual-core, 1GHz processor and it includes support for NFC, DLNA, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth. There is a 5 megapixel rear camera with 720p HD video recording. Its dimensions are 116mm x 59mm x 9.9mm and it weighs 107g and the battery should provide about 5 hours of talk time or just under 20 days of standby.

Xperia Sola runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread and should be upgraded to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich in summer.  

Sony plans to offer the Xperia sola in black, red, and white color options, and will launch it globally in Q2 of this year.

enprovia® Mobile Enabler technology makes it possible to access and control content and business processes remotely just using a smartphone or a tablet. It takes just a few clicks and the mDMS app user can search all the corporate data stored in the document management system or enterprise content management, or he can even add text, voice notes and images directly to the corporate data system using a smart device.   

This is all possible thanks to ready-made connectors and existing integration expertise and it takes just a few days to integrate and mobile-enable an existing document management or enterprise content management in your company.

The Mobile Enabler middleware together with client connection kits extends business applications and services, mobile enabling business processes and products without the need to modify existing systems. It is an architecture supporting solutions like enprovia eForms or mDMS.

If you need mobile access to your corporate digital assets and you are contemplating enprovia’s mDMS app, you do not need to worry about whether or not the mDMS is compatible with your smartphone or your company’s document management system.  The mobile-enabled document management system is available for all common platforms and could be downloaded from iTunes or Marketplace.

mDMS provides its users with a remote access to corporate data enabling comfortable advanced search among documents and digital assets, as well as upload of files directly into the DMS or ECM systems.

The app is sitting on top of Mobile Enabler middleware that helps reduce your corporate system complexity without modifying the existing system you use in your company. This technology provides remote access to all corporate data using any common devices like Apple iPhone or iPad, RIM Blackberry, Google Android or Windows Phone 7. It runs on UNIX, on Linux and MS-Windows servers and provides connectors with backend support for Scalaris® ASP, WebDAV-enabled DMS’s, Alfresco® and Microsoft Sharepoint® DMS / ECM and ASP services.