by Phillip Redman | January 23, 2013 | 7 Comments
In advance of its BB10 smartphone launch next week in New York City (no secret here, this has been widely talked about), RIM announced the release of BES 10 today–the next generation of its on-premise enterprise smartphone support. Before looking at that, how is RIM doing and what should everyone expect this year? There’s no doubt [...]
Category: Enterprise IT Mobile Device Management mobile phones RIM Tags: BB10, BES10, BlackBerry, container, dual-persona, RIM, Smartphone
by Phillip Redman | December 7, 2012 | Comments Off
Recent Gartner research shows that about 20% of medium and large businesses in the U.S. have already purchased MDM tools. Many more are using polices set through their Exchange ActiveSynch servers. MDM market growth has increased over the past two year, and will be over $500 million revenue in 2012 as we reported in our annual [...]
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by Phillip Redman | May 2, 2011 | 1 Comment
Today is Capital Markets day at RIM where they talk about the year behind and the year ahead to financial analysts. But this week is also its annual wireless conference, BlackBerry World and it made two important announcements that’s going to impact enterprise mobility management. First, RIM is finally moving into multi-OS device support by [...]
Category: Enterprise IT Mobile Device Management mobile phones mobility management RIM Tags: Enterprise, MDM, RIM, Smartphone
by Phillip Redman | September 28, 2010 | Comments Off
I get asked a lot about taxes. Though I am not a CPA, and I don’t play one at work, many IT managers were worried and asked me about the tax implications of personal cell phone usage on a business-paid phone (see my blog entry last year from June 18, 2009). Leglislation to remove this [...]
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by Phillip Redman | July 8, 2010 | 1 Comment
I first started working in the wireless market over 15 years ago. The economy and the interest in wireless has clearly expanded since then–which is obvious. But what isn’t as obvious is that practices and business decisions that may make sense in another industry–computing or software–don’t stand a chance of succeeding in the wireless world–because [...]
Category: cellular Enterprise IT mobile phones Technology Tags: Apple, RIM, Smartphone, wireless
by Phillip Redman | June 25, 2010 | 1 Comment
There was a lot of excitement in the air this week, or at least on the Internet, about the release of iOS4 to upgrade the iPhone 3G and 3Gs (and oh, yeah, the new iPhone 4 availability to those that pre-ordered!). Currently, iPhone is a mile wide in enterprises, but only an inch deep–basically most [...]
Category: Enterprise IT iPhone mobile phones mobility management Tags: Apple, MDM, Smartphone
by Phillip Redman | October 21, 2009 | Comments Off
This week is our annual Fall Symposium in Orlando and if that’s not breaking news enough (OK–any large meeting this year is news) then we also like to make some tech announcements. One of the bigger ones this year is that IT spending in 2010 is likely to grow 3.3% versus a 5.2% decline we [...]
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Category: AT&T cellular Enterprise IT Green IT Technology Uncategorized Tags: Top 10
by Phillip Redman | September 11, 2009 | Comments Off
This week, AT&T announced its plans to allow customers to call a predefined group of numbers, both in and out of the AT&T network where the call won’t count against their buckets of minutes. Called the “A List,” this was in response the Verizon Wireless’s adoption of the “Friends & Family” program earlier this year [...]
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by Phillip Redman | August 5, 2009 | Comments Off
It’s been a cold and dreary summer in the Northeast, but the last two weeks have finally brought a real summer. And that, among other signs, has got me thinking positively about the future of the economy and what enterprises should be thinking about as budget season for 2010 starts in the next few months. [...]
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Category: Economy Enterprise IT Tags: Economy, Enterprise, IT Budget
