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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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 RIM mobile phones mobility management Tags: Enterprise, MDM, RIM, Smartphone
by Phillip Redman | April 28, 2011 | Comments Off
Last week’s broad public disclosure that Apple was keeping a tracking file on iOS 4.0 devices once again points to how apple does business its own way. For many, it was already known that the iPhone was easily tracked, with apps-a-plenty in the Apple App Store to help out on this. Not to mention the [...]
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Category: Android Apple Facebook Google Twitter iPhone mobile phones Tags: privacy, security
by Phillip Redman | April 20, 2011 | Comments Off
RIM has launched its entry into the media tablet storm this week, with the much anticipated PlayBook. But trying to get ahead of the competition, it may have rushed it to the market without finalizing key attributes. First, is this a consumer device or an enterprise? It certainly isn’t both, maybe neither. Enterprise users need [...]
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Category: Android Apple Applications RIM Tablet Tags: Playbook
by Phillip Redman | November 9, 2010 | 2 Comments
Back in 1995, one of my first big wireless research projects was on pricing elasticity. At that time, a wireless voice minute cost about $2.25 and only about 13% of the population had phones. These were mostly business people who could get reimbursed for their use. In the industry, the widely held belief was that [...]
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by Phillip Redman | November 5, 2010 | 5 Comments
We are now fully in the era of the smartphone. At no other time have we had such numerous choices of quality devices from companies like Samsung, Apple, Nokia, Apple, HTC, Motorola and RIM, to name just a few. Adoption of smartphones by both consumers and enterprises is big. This year, more than 70% of [...]
Category: Android Apple Applications HTC Motorola Nokia RIM Samsung cellular iPhone Tags: apps, Smartphone
by Phillip Redman | September 29, 2010 | 9 Comments
It used to be that everyone wanted the smallest. Phone that is. The race to reduce the size and weight was started by the Motorola StarTAC. Everyone wanted (and had) one. Even smaller and lighter phones came out. But that’s ended. Now there’s a race to the biggest. Many of the almost dozen new tablets [...]
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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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