IBM made a big splash at the Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona with it’s IBM MobileFirst announcement. The new mobile portfolio combines security, analytics and app development software, with cloud-based services and optional development and integration professional services. All of the...
Read more »Lopez Research Rates Blackberry 10 As Enterprise & Consumer Ready
At today’s Blackberry 10 launch, Thorsten Heins, RIM’s President and CEO, launched the event by discussing RIM’s journey. “We have been on a journey to transformation” of RIM’s business and brand. “A journey that will translate the business from mobile...
Read more »Mobile Application Development: Trends to Look For In 2012
Enterprise mobile application development is on the IT agenda for 2012, but several questions remain. What apps should be available on smartphones and are those applications appropriate for tablets? How much of an app should be available on the mobile...
Read more »AT&T’s Donovan speaks on innovating for the future
Last month, I had the pleasure of attending the AT&T analyst day in New Jersey. Mobility was one of three main pillars that were discussed during the event including network sourcing and everything as a service. At each AT&T event,...
Read more »Good news – Amazon to launch a mobile app store
With the success of Apple’s app store, everyone has jumped on the bandwagon. All of the major operating system platforms have launched a store . Platform vendors such as Apperian and MobileIron have enabled some form of app catalog and...
Read more »My visit to Sprint’s new M2M Collaboration Center
Yesterday, I visited the grand opening of the Sprint M2M collaboration center in Burlingame, CA. The idea is to create an environment where you can both roll up your sleeves to build solutions as well as visit to learn about whats...
Read more »PrivacyStar launches for Android
In April 2010, I had the pleasure of meeting with Jeff Stalnaker, CEO & President of First Orion, at RIM’s Wireless Enterprise Symposium in Orlando. The company is the maker of PrivacyStar, a privacy application that provides call blocking and the...
Read more »Will the mobile world be open or closed? The answer: A bit of both
As promised in an earlier blog, I am sharing with you several comments from a discussion I had with three industry experts in a panel discussion titled ” Navigating the New Mobile Application Development and Distribution Models.” One of...
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