Now that the political dust has finally settled (it even made the news on the BBC) in my fair Commonwealth (for some reason, we're not a State), I can now get back to fully focusing on scouring the webosphere to see what people are saying about enterprise mobility. I was sent a link yesterday by a friend and colleague that I found quite interesting.
The author of the blog entry is someone whom I respect and find to be highly knowledgeable in the world of enterprise mobility. That said, I simply can not agree with his hypothesis.
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Hello from non frozen San Francisco. Although this weekend was very bad for me in terms of the NFL playoffs, I did at least get to spend some time in one of my favorite cities in the country. While taking the public transportation system back from Fisherman's Wharf, I started thinking about a conversation I had this past week with an industry colleague who had called me to talk about my five predictions for enterprise mobility in 2010. This guy's pretty sharp, so I always enjoy discussing trends with him.
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Second business day of the year and a second blog entry. See? I am trying to keep my promise of more frequent posts. I'm sure you saw today that Google announced its very own device: the Google Nexus One. The first (of many) Android device(s) that will be developed and directly branded by Google itself. This was no huge secret. Engadget had a first look at it recently, and Google had made no attempts to keep this hush hush.
Obviously, there has been a lot of press about this announcement, but little (if any) perspective on the implications for enterprise mobility. Until now...
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While I was at the Mobile Business Conference at Interop, I did my usual networking. A great way to do that is to attend the panels that have "people of interest" and introduce yourself after they are done speaking. There were many people I wanted to introduce myself to this year, including a representative from Samsung...you know, the folks who recently announced a new smartphone OS.
You can see after the jump what I recently penned for FierceMobileIT on Bada.
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All I can say is wow. This was one of the most absurd trips I have taken in a long time. The plane take off a little late (not new). The head winds are bad (not new). The plane RUNS OUT OF GAS. That's new. Landed in LAS as opposed to LAX (I'm convinced the pilot punched in the wrong code). I missed the connection to SAN (not new) and instead drove there. That's new. Got to my hotel only to find that the hotel was overbooked and I had no room.
Oh well...at least I got to meet Andy Lees and talk to him a bit about Windows Mobile.
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Good morning from beautiful Miami. The weather channel tells me at 6:30 am that it's already 80 degrees Farenheit...certainly warmer (and more humid) than my Boston home. As I wait to see the sun rise (and get my wake up call), I've been catching up on some web reading. If you have been surfing the web recently, you have probably seen an increased number of articles on the often rumored Project Pink from Microsoft. Should Microsoft develop its own Windows phone?
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There's a new article at Information Week that discusses how Microsoft is planning on providing updates to its mobile OS directly to users, much like Apple, Palm and Google do for their respective OSs. I think this is a great thing, but it made me start to think about how this will impact carriers.
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I saw this interesting article/blog post this morning on Information Week's website about rumors of Microsoft planning a dual OS strategy for Windows Mobile 6.5 and 7 which came on the heels of this article on News.com regarding what Microsoft needs to do to get back into the mobile game.
Argh, the much maligned OS is still making news and press, but candidly with more questions than answers. Let me offer one very simple suggestion....especially for those of you with great taste in music. Think of Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Ace Frehley and Peter Criss. That's right my Redmondian friends: KISS.
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Here we go again. I haven't had one of these in ages - in fact since February of this year. I was hoping there would be less of these over time. Sure, there are people out there who are going to say how the iPhone is enterprise ready, but that doesn't count. "We" know better than to say such outlandish things - we know that the iPhone has a role in the enterprise but that it still needs better management capabilities. It needs to have the kinds of capabilities that are available for BlackBerry or Windows Mobile. Too bad someone (else) thinks Microsoft is going to give up on Windows Mobile within two years. Time to pass the crack pipe!
Continue reading "Crack and Enterprise Mobility Just Don't Mix - Part IV" »
I love to read. I usually don't read novels because that would require me to be able to focus on a string of words for more than 10 minutes. I love magazines, most notably The Economist. Business Week is certainly up there in terms of general quality. So there, I found a wonderfully interesting article on Symbian and what it needs to do to get back in the game. Back in the game? It has 80% market share you'll say.
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