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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Wow. Time flies when you're having fun. With all the rumors in the last couple of days that Nokia is interested in Palm (again), I decided to look back on the last time I commented on this type of rumor.
June 15, 2009. That's five months, almost to the day, since I last wrote about this. The last time this rumor was flying around, it was about Dell. This time, the Nokia rumors are making me think of a Guns N' Roses song where W. Axl Rose says during the chorus "Sometimes I feel like I'm beating a ..."
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The last 10 days have been pretty rough. I haven't been able to sit down for more than five minutes at a time because yours truly threw out his back last week and is still dealing with it. I'm actually off to the Mobile Enterprise Magazine Executive Summit on Wednesday and PRAYING that I will be able to sit in a plane for six hours without dying. But, as usual, I digress. There's been a lot of press in the last couple of days that has me disturbed...nay, annoyed that makes me think of Rodney King's (in)famous quote: "Can't we all just get along?"
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There was much being said in the last 48 hours regarding
the rumor that Verizon Wireless had scrapped its plans to offer Palm's webOS based Pre in early 2010 once its exclusivity to Sprint expires. Then we saw
the expected response from Palm itself as it holds the party line to continue offering its devices on as many carriers as possible, only to then have financial analysts throw in
their $.02 on the matter. I think most of the commentary thus far has missed the greater issue. Carriers vs. Platform Manufacturer App Stores.
Continue reading "Carrier Marginalization Part II: Verizon Wireless vs. App Stores" »
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.
Continue reading "Can FOTA Further Marginalize Carriers?" »
What a crazy week. Between client calls, internal meetings, a horrible round of golf and finishing up some projects, I have not had the chance to write some thoughts I have had percolating in my brain. The web is all a twitter (can I say that now?) with the news that the FCC will be investigating the carriers with regards to their practices around device exclusivity. I think they should be looking well beyond the carriers.
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