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 Networks mobile phones mobility management wireless carriers Tags: mobile policy
by Phillip Redman | November 14, 2011 | Comments Off
Alright I’ve waited long enough. All this talk about cloud was making me hungry. No really, being a telecom analyst and watching all these computing geeks talk about cloud computing while the fixed and mobile network providers basically invented the cloud, has been tough. Haven’t network providers been using the “cloud” diagram for years? And how do [...]
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Category: Applications Cloud Mobile Device Management cellular mobility management Tags: DC-Summit-NA
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 | 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 | June 18, 2009 | Comments Off
In a move that all companies should be happy about, President Obama, via a statement posted on its Website by IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman, has asked Congress to repeal a law that currently taxes personal use of corporate paid cellular phone usage. If you think that sentence is confusing, you should take a look at [...]
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Category: cellular cost optimization mobility management Tags: cellular, tax, TCO
by Phillip Redman | May 18, 2009 | Comments Off
Humans and also analysts are always trying to make a decision of one thing over another, trying to keep it simple in the process. Which is better, faster, cheaper, smarter. Boiling it down to black and white is sometimes too simplistic a method. As an example, we are pushed one way or another to decide [...]
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Category: Technology mobility management Tags: Analyst Life, Modern Life
by Phillip Redman | April 22, 2009 | Comments Off
The European Parliament just passed additional regulation to cap the costs of data roaming for Europeans traveling in the EU countries. The idea is that users are unaware of the additional international pricing (and getting bill shock a month later) and this is the way to keep costs down as usage has gone up. Previous regulation in 2007 had reduced [...]
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Category: International cellular mobility management wireless carriers Tags: cellular, International, Obama, roaming
by Phillip Redman | April 17, 2009 | Comments Off
One of the more heated internal debates in while has been whether companies should stop reimbursing employees for cellular phone costs. A number of large companies are thinking of this and a few have been rumored to instituted some policy recently about stopping reimbursements for cellular phones and broadband-at-home. The logic is that users will [...]
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Category: cellular cost optimization mobility management Tags: cellular, cost optimization, mobile, mobile policy, mobility management
