Guest Commentary

Who was it that said that life is full of contradictions? Today’s topic is indeed one of those, at least at first glance. I’m a guy who doesn’t have a Facebook account. I do have a Twitter account, but I don’t use it. I’m on Linkedin because I thought it might be a good idea [...]

‘Tis the season of wonder and wishing, after all, so here goes. At the top of my wish list for wireless has always been having not just one, but rather multiple electromagnetic spectra, kind of like having more channels, but in a very big way. Since we’re going to have to wait for the next [...]

RIM announced Tuesday that they will not be releasing PlayBook OS 2.0 until at least February 2012, when they will be “confident we have fully met the expectations of our developers, enterprise customers and end-users,” according to David Smith, SVP of BlackBerry PlayBook at RIM. And what will they do to fully meet these expectations? [...]

I’ve had the privilege of Chairing the Wireless and Mobility Track at the Interop conferences for some time now. Interop Spring, held in Las Vegas, is the largest enterprise IT event in the world, and the New York event, Interop Fall, while smaller, is in no way less intense than its big brother. In planning [...]

RIM, the maker of the popular (well, historically, anyway; read on) BlackBerry line of products, and one of the firms that essentially defined mobility as we know it today, has been all over the financial news for months. The company’s stock has fallen dramatically (it was around 145 only a little more than a year [...]

How many mobile devices do you want to buy, carry, and manage? A handset is a given, but can a tablet really replace a notebook? Will the huge (and increasing) diversity of tablet devices and operating environments give new life to the notebook, or are we in the early stages of an epic transition that [...]

With the latest advances in virtual desktops, virtual meeting spaces (GoToMeeting, etc.), unified communications, and mobile technology, the death of the traditional office should be imminent. There are overwhelming benefits to having a remote, mobile workforce, and companies are slowly shifting to this way of doing business. The simplest benefit for telecommuting (i.e. traditionally office-based [...]

Yesterday, the Justice Department sued to block AT&T’s proposed $39 billion takeover of T-Mobile USA, saying that the deal would remove a major player – T-Mobile USA – from the mobile carrier market, hurting competition and likely raising prices in the process. AT&T responded that it was “surprised and disappointed” by the suit and that [...]

Many companies these days are allowing employees to bring their own devices to use at work. Employees are happy with this arrangement, of course, because they get to choose which devices they are using. But there are some companies out there that are still strictly corporate-liable (CL) in their mobile device policies. Which policy is [...]

Tablet, tablet, iPad, tablet, and more tablet. That’s all you hear these days. People wait for the next iPad like it’s, well, the third coming, breath baited, credit cards primed, practically slobbering over the fine Corinthian aluminum. Man, I just love Apple’s marketing – the best in the world, the best ever in fact. They [...]