Enterprise Mobility Matters

Market reaction to Palm

So as I get back from the Christmas spirit, I found some incredibly interesting articles on the web regarding the state of mobility heavyweight Palm, Inc.  I hate to sound like a broken record, but my how the mighty have fallen.  I actually remember when Palm was spun off from 3Com and I actually had (on paper) a very handsome profit.  I should have known then to sell it.  Question is, how do things compare now to then?  InformationWeek had a very interesting article on the matter,

Sprint has a new CEO!

So almost three months after Gary Forsee's departure, Sprint has a new CEO.  Daniel R. Hesse, formerly of Embarq, has been selected by Sprint's board of directors to (hopefully) return the company to its former greatness.  One of Mr. Hesse's greatest (short term) challenges will also be to help shore up the stock price.  So why did the stock go down $0.15 today?

Catching up on Verizon Wireless

I'm a little late in writing this, but it continues to be a busy time for me.  Not only are the holidays upon us, but I have been busy talking about my newest study on enterprise mobility.  So in the past couple of weeks, Verizon Wireless has made a number of interesting and significant annoucements.  In the long run, the Company announced not only that it had decided to adopt LTE for its 4G network, but that in 2008, the Verizon Wireless network would support any device or application.  I find it interesting how these two announcements have so many similarities - some more obvious than others - to GSM.

European Enterprise Mobility

I landed not 45 minutes ago from a much needed 5-day pilgrimage back to my country and city of birth - Paris, France.  I hadn't been there in over 18 months and was thrilled at the opportunity to eat good food, drink great wines, see wonderful sites and spend some quality time with my family.  As much I tried, enterprise mobility...or mobility for that matter...was not far from my mind.

NEC Unified and Mobile Unified Communications

What a busy 30 days it's been.  I'm going to blame the following for my less than regular postings.  A few week ago, I was on a panel at the Mobile Business Expo at Interop in New York City. The week after, I was moderating another panel at the Mobile Enterprise Executive Summit in Orlando.  Ten days or so ago, I was at the Avaya conference where I learned about their 2008 strategy.  Now, this past week, I attended NEC Unified's first ever industry analyst symposium.  It's fascinating to see how two companies who compete in very similar spaces are taking such similar yet different approaches to the burgeoning market of unified communications and its role in enterprise mobility.