
Mobile Only: Week3 In the beginning, there was email – at least it was for enterprise mobility. It would be difficult to argue against the idea that email was the incentive to bring mobility in to the enterprise. It was the first thing that the enterprise and users sought to enable on their devices. It [...]
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Site Note: We’d like to introduce you to Benjamin Robbins. Ben is an EMF member who is so passionate about enterprise mobility that he has decided to conduct an experiment – to only use a smartphone for work (no laptop or tablet) for an entire year – and share his experiences with the EMF community. [...]
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Hello from The Netherlands. I arrived today at Schipol Airport and then found my way down to Utrecht for a presentation I am doing tomorrow afternoon. I must admit though that I am not as young as I used to be. I used to travel to Europe on a monthly basis…..work through the entire red [...]
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Like many of you, I am sure, I spent part of this afternoon keeping tabs on HP’s webOS event. They had a lot to share. Two new smartphones, two new versions of their mobile operating system…and of course the new tablet. But wait, there’s more. HP is planning on leveraging the webOS platform for PCs [...]
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It’s a balmy 34 degrees here today. Not bad for a December day here in Boston, except for the fact that the wind makes it unbearably cold. I literally just got back to the office from spending most of the day at the 2010 HealthIT Insight Summit at the Harvard Club. As I de-thaw with [...]
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As the world of enterprise mobility continues to evolve, the discussions I’m hearing from both vendors and workforces is evolving well beyond just managing devices. Sure, we’re still going to be talking for quite some time I expect about individual vs. corporate liability, but clearly the discussion has evolved from “basic” mobile device management to [...]
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Ahh, Thanksgiving Day in the United States. Sure, a few years ago it was all about remembering the Pilgrims and how they made friends with the Native Americans who were actually here a long time before Christopher Columbus ever boarded the Santa Maria, blah blah blah. Today, we as a society have evolved to look [...]
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In my last column, I mentioned the fact that I was shopping for a new handset, and, at last, that process is now complete. Now, as I work in the mobility field, I don’t go all ga-ga over new toys. Well, OK, I do, for a couple of days, anyway, but truth be told I [...]
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It’s a rather dreary day here today in Boston. My desktop weather widget is telling me that it’s pretty gray out there. It makes me think about how enterprise mobility is an area full of gray….and in fact, there are few, if any places within our space that are black or white. This whole notion [...]
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Research shows that over 90% of organizations now have employees using smartphones within their work environments. Depending on the size of the organization, this can cover tens of thousands of individuals. However, enterprise mobility management can be a daunting task for organizations. The first step in managing mobility is to have a mobility policy. Other [...]
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