Enterprise Mobility Matters

My Enterprise Mobility Breakfast Omelette

In general, I'd like to think I'm a pretty smart guy. Generally speaking, I work with very smart people and have the pleasure of interacting in the world of enterprise mobility with some pretty inteligent individuals who have some innovative ideas around how to address the challenges of this market. Sometimes however, I speak to organizations that may be well off the mark, and during briefings, I'll "politely" share my thoughts with them. This is a story of how I walked in to a meeting with Celio Corp and walked out with a few eggs on my face.

Motorola is splitting up

If you are reading this blog, then you know that Motorola announced today that it was splitting itself up into two separate organizations - one focused on its mobile devices and the other that will be solely focused on enterprise mobility.  Wow, how the "mighty" have fallen.  It's a genuine shame that the company that overall, had a great strategy of creating an end to end mobility "solution" was not able to execute on it, thus affecting its potential impact on enterprise mobility.

What am I missing regarding Verizon Wireless???

As you may have heard, Verizon Wireless has for the past two days held its open development conference in New York City.  During the event, Verizon shared its vision regarding how developers could deploy "any applications, any devices" on its network.  If you didn't have the chance to attend the event, Eric Zeman over at Information Week has a good summary here.  I, of course, was curious to learn more about it to gauge the potential impact on enterprise mobility.

Customized Enterprise Mobility with Windows Mobile 6.1?

So I have been playing more and more over the last few days with, what I can say is, an absolutely incredible custom version of the new Windows Mobile 6.1 platform.  My previous post mentioned, among other things, how disappointed I had been with T-Mobile's customization of the Windows Mobile 6 ROM.  In fact, my original impression of Windows Mobile 6 was pretty damn poor.  It took me a while to figure out that I should not have been saying "Shame on YOU" to Microsoft, but instead T-Mobile.  However, this new ROM made me start thinking about the possibilities of custom ROMs for enterprise mobility.

Enjoying Windows Mobile 6.1

In more than one post, have I eluded to the fact that my personal mobile device of choice - my choice for how I go about leveraging enterprise mobility - has been the T-Mobile Dash.  I love the keyboard, I love the feel of the device itself, but I hated the original Windows Mobile 5.

The iPhone Now Ready for Enterprise Mobility...or is it?

Steve Jobs announced yesterday the iPhone developer program as well as the iFund in partnership with venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.  The announcement showed a lot of promise, including the fact that Apple has licensed ActiveSync from Microsoft, but it also left me with some unanswered questions that keep me skeptical regarding the viability of the iPhone in the enterprise.

802.11n - Boy do I hope it works in enterprise mobility

Unlike most people who actually have social lives, I spent the majority of this past weekend in front of my computers trying to understand why my home WiFi network was all messed up.  Although I had had everything working well for some time, my router decided to give me more than its usual headaches.  The whole process in fact made me question where we stand with the 802.11n standard.