Please note, the original title of this post was going to be "Should Windows Phone Learn From Android?" but I chose otherwise ;-) The Interweb has a fascinating article today on News.com penned by Matt Asay on the topic of how Microsoft should learn from Google and the Android community in terms of how to make Windows Phone 7 Series a success. I thought it was a great article. So great that it gets to be the latest article to get the infamous "Crack" tag on this site.
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Today has been one heck of a busy day. If you read this blog, you know that today, Microsoft officially announced Windows Phone 7 Series (gotta love Redmondian branding), its brand new mobile platform geared to getting it back "in the game" and more aggressively compete with the likes of Apple, Google and Palm.
The new user interface relies heavily on the Zune user experience, but adds a broad array of real-time connectivity through "Hubs" and "Tiles." Boy did this get my curiosity going.
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The iPad is now six days old...sort of...seeing how it hasn't come out yet. That said, there has been obviously much commentary on the new device from Cupertino. One of
the more interesting pieces I read this week came from Ted Schadler over at Forrester. I haven't had the pleasure of meeting him yet, but his insight tells me I need to.
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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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CES has been an interesting event thus far, in many respects. Google's Nexus One, while not announced at CES, I will lump in to this time series. Then you have all the new eBooks from various companies. For what it's worth, one can argue that eBooks are the baby brothers of tablet PCs. As we speak, Microsoft CEO is speaking at CES about, among other things, new PCs and a "slate" PC from HP. I find the timing of these announcements interesting, especially with Apple's forthcoming "iSlate" or whatever the heck they're eventually going to call it. But where does this fit in to the world of enterprise mobility?
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As most of you have probably seen, Ralph de la Vega, CEO of AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets eluded this week that his company is considering a tiered pricing model for data. Most people have been up in arms about this, saying that it's just a way for AT&T to not only squeeze more money out of its customers, but better cope with the fact that its network can't handle all the traffic that comes from the iPhone.
I'll say: "Ya...So what?"
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There's nothing like having a few days of holiday cheer, some great college football and too much turkey to get one thinking about all we should be thankful for in the world of enterprise mobility. I took these last couple of days to reflect on some of the key issues that we are facing in our industry, including the issues related to managing and securing the iPhone.
Hey, I never said I had a *real* life. Actually, I did take time to catch up on some reading that included some Melville and Shakespeare, which of course, is the inspiration for the title of today's entry.
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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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