by Phillip Redman | May 17, 2013 | Submit a Comment
If there’s one thing the mobile industry is known for is standards. There’s a lot of them. In networking technology you have multiple Wi-Fi standards in use, 80.211 a, b, g, n, ac. In wide area wireless there are GSM, CDMA, WCDMA, LTE. And for mobile OSes you have iOS, Android, QNX, Windows Phone, et [...]
Category: Android Applications cellular Container iPhone Mobile Device Management mobile phones mobility management Tags: apps, BYOD, containerization, MDM, mobile, wireless
by Phillip Redman | February 14, 2013 | Comments Off
In a survey from December 2012, 63% of respondents said that iOS will be their primary enterprise platform in the next twelve months, if it isn’t already. There’s no doubt that Apple has taken the enterprise world by storm. Its done just enough to offer enterprises security and management, and although there’s a list an [...]
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Category: Apple iPhone Mobile Device Management mobile phones mobility management Policy Tags: Apple, iOS, policy, smartphones
by Phillip Redman | January 25, 2013 | 1 Comment
Over the last quarter–I’ve been getting a lot of questions around the capabilities of managing and securing content and enforcing policy on enterprise and third-party (application store) apps. We often end up talking about mobile application containers. Very few IT people know much around the containerization category–often listed under mobile application management. It’s awareness level is [...]
Category: Container Mobile Device Management mobile phones mobility management Policy Tags: container, containerization, mobile management, mobile security
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 | September 10, 2012 | Comments Off
Hopes are running high this week. For improved employment figures, for a stronger stock market? No–for the new Apple iPhone 5 expected to be announced this Wednesday. I’m not sure what people really expect, or want. I guess that’s what’s so special about the launch of a new iPhone, Apple seems to know what we [...]
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by Phillip Redman | May 11, 2012 | Comments Off
It’s funny–my first CTIA conference I went to in the mid-1990′s had kind of a start-up feel to it. There weren’t a lot of big name companies there, not in the way we know the Nokias or Motorolas of today.There were quite a few industry exhibitors with speacilized products–cable seals or cellsite shelters, that you [...]
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by Phillip Redman | January 17, 2012 | Comments Off
It’s nothing new: everyone wants more choice and that includes what mobile device they want to use also. Mobile handheld devices span both corporate and personal uses so it’s only natural as more choices emerged that individuals would want to bring their own device (BYOD) to work. Apple iPhone has generally been that choice and [...]
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Category: Apple Mobile Device Management mobile phones mobility management Networks wireless carriers Tags: mobile policy
by Phillip Redman | October 13, 2011 | Comments Off
It wasn’t quite a yawn, but there was far less outcry this week than there would have been two years ago since BlackBerry service was out for three days. As you probably know by now, a core switch failure led to intermittent delays and message delivery failures in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Backlog [...]
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by Phillip Redman | August 15, 2011 | 5 Comments
They say war makes strange bedfellows, and so does business. Google announced its acquisition of Motorola Mobility Inc. (MMI), the recently spun-off cellular handset and set-top box maker. MMI primarily sells its products to telcos–cable and wireless/wireline service providers, customers that Google has had a tenuous relationship with at best. Google has been a force [...]
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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
