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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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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Hello from somewhere near Stratford Connecticut. I am on the Acela Express, you know the train known in other parts of the world as the TGV that takes 3h45 to get to NYC from Boston. Did you know that the very same train will go from Paris to Bruxelles (same distance) in 75 minutes? Go Amtrak! The good news is that the extra 150 minutes afford me the opportunity to reflect on today’s sessions and some of the meetings I had with enterprise mobility vendors.
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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" »
Hello from Canadia...you know, that place where Canadians live. I'm on a personal mission to get everyone to stop calling it Canada because people who live here are not called Canadans. Ha ha, bad joke. I'm actually up North here visiting with the good people at RIM for their analyst event. There's some really interesting stuff going on that I will talk about (said with a Canadian accent) in a later post.
Until then, if you're not already subscribed to FierceMobileIT, then you can read after the jump the latest article I wrote for them as I continue my search for the best mobile platform.
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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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In the words of the great thespian Keanu Reeves, "Whoa..." So today, Microsoft and Nokia, two of the mega powerhouses in the world of mobility announced a deal where the two companies will work closely together to develop Symbian versions of the venerable Office application suite, as well as Office Communicator Mobile, and provide tie-ins for SharePoint, System Center and continue the support of the ActiveSync protocol.
The announcement and ensuing discussion was quite interesting, but my jaw hit the floor around 49 seconds into the conversation.
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