As Mobile World Congress continues in Barcelona, the world of mobility is all aflutter regarding Microsoft's announcement of Windows Phone 7 Series (I am still struggling with that name). Fresh off the heels of that news, we have coming today from our friends in Waterloo news of their own. It's not surprising that they would have their own big announcement because most if not all platform vendors want to one-up each other, especially at an event such as Mobile World Congress. I'm digressing. Research in Motion announced today they will soon be offering the BES (The BlackBerry Enterprise Server) to all...for free. Well, sort of...
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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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It's snowing today in Boston. This year has actually been rather easy in terms of snowfall in New England this year...certainly unlike what other cities like Washington D.C. have been dealing with in the last 10 days (I understand they now have over 3ft or 1m of snow on the ground!). Taking a quick break from today's busy schedule I came across this rather interesting article at GigaOM talking about why wireless carriers should care about customer care.
It's interesting to see this topic come up again, especially in the context of how T-Mobile has for so long heralded its customer care, while until recently Sprint has suffered much criticism for its "less than optimal" quality of care. The article did however make me think of one thing.
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What an absolutely crushing day. I won't go into the boring details, but suffice it to say that this will be a relatively short post. Let's hope that quality will triumph over quantity of words this evening. Via the wonderful world of Twitter, I stumbled upon an
interesting blog post from
MobileFrame. It's an interesting post regarding a mobile application strategy. While I agree with most of it, I think it's missing some of the more basic - and strategic - points.
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Hello from the 48th floor of the Marriott Marquis in Times Square. What a truly amazing view of the New York City skyline from this location. Today was an incredibly wonderful, albeit hectic day. While it was filled with both planned and unplanned meetings, I knew it was going to be a great day by the time I met with the participants of the opening keynote panel I was moderating at the Mobile Business Conference at Interop.
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You know how much I like to read. I feel as if I spend half my day (a long one, at that) reading. I like to read blogs, news sites, interviews, press releases and also looking at research that is being disseminated both by my company, as well as others. Right or wrong, I don't always agree with what I see. Yesterday was such a case, when I stumbled upon this piece of research.
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I know it's been a slow week in terms of my adding commentary on the world of enterprise mobility. For whatever reason, CTIA actually took a bigger toll on me than I would have normally expected. In any case, I had a discussion yesterday with a mobile application company that showed off to me their wares. They had some pretty impressive functionality on the application that runs on the device.
However, it did make me think about how the application gets managed by either the user and/or an IT administrator.
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09-09-09. A pretty big deal if you're into numerology. Rock Band, The Beatles edition also came out yesterday to much fanfare. While I do like the Beatles, as a wannabe musician, I struggle to play a fake guitar or bass when I can have as much fun genuinely butchering my favorite songs.
Apple and Steve Jobs (good to see him back) also had a few annoucements yesterday at their "Rock and Roll" event, including new iPods, a new version of iTunes and an update to the iPhoneOS. And then 10 minutes into the event...Apple shows off the first signs of mobile application management.
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