
I just came back from Vegas. This was my first trip since the birth of my daughter, so I had almost forgotten the joys of dealing with airport delays and incredibly long days full of meetings. Good times! In any case, I wanted to share with you something that happened during the CTIA conference this [...]
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As I’m sure many of you did, I watched yesterday with great interest the streaming video feed from SAPPHIRE Now, SAP’s annual conference. Of particular interest was the “SAP Mobile Press Conference” that was led by SAP’s Sanjay Poonen. After Sanjay made his formal remarks, he invited some partners and customers to join him in [...]
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Over the last few weeks, my wife and I have been taking a class at our shul. A shul (pronounced shool) is actually a Yiddish term that means synagogue. A shul is also a place of learning (notice how it resembles the word “school”), because the rationale is that you not only pray at your [...]
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I am admittedly a little late in the game in writing this missive, but I put the blame squarely on the newest addition to the Winthrop Clan who has now made sleep a privilege and not a right for me. Watch out world, in a decade (or two), you’ll hopefully hear from yet another rabid [...]
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You know, it’s interesting. So much talk these days around enterprise mobility and BYOD is all about preventing your employee base from doing “bad things.” OK, it’s not really said that way. The more diplomatic terminology is Information/Data Loss Prevention (DLP). Regardless of whether you are an optimist or a cynic, it really does boil [...]
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So Blizzard Nemo has come and gone….leaving Boston with only 24.9 inches of snow. That’s 63.246 cm for those more inclined to the metric system. While I will admit to not having had to clear out a sidewalk, or dig my car out for that matter, that doesn’t preclude me from admitting that I may [...]
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Did you know that this year, we will be celebrating the 10th anniversary of the first BlackBerry smartphone? That’s right — white collar enterprise mobility will, for all intents and purposes, be celebrating its 10th anniversary. While in the grand scheme of things, 10 years is not a very long time, no one can disagree [...]
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This Executive Insight covers five of the most important trends that The Enterprise Mobility Foundation believes will define mobility within the workplace in 2013. Organizations are encouraged to consider these predictions – and their associated recommendations – in order to be prepared for the continued proliferation of mobility in the workplace. The five predictions include: [...]
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Ah, the day after Christmas. In some parts of the world, it’s called Boxing Day. In other parts, it could be considered a day of recovering from too much food…and perhaps even too much time with your family and/or in-laws. Side note: doesn’t that sound a lot like Thanksgiving Friday? Three sentences in and I [...]
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Last month, I said that BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) will decline as enterprise mobility grows up (see link here) and got the following responses: Don’t Bet On It Not quite yet As well as some more interesting and less accurate headlines such as: Will BYOD matter in 2013? Nucleus predicts BYOD to be a [...]
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