Enterprise Mobility Matters

A Rebirth in Consumer and Enterprise Mobility?

Unless you have been living under a rock for the last few days (and you care about mobility), I'm sure you've heard by now the rumors that Palm will be showing off its new Palm OS platform as well as a new device for the platform at CES 2009 in January.  It's amazing to me, however, how many articles in the press are so skeptical of what Palm will (presumably) show off.

Holy High Speed Data Batman! Verizon Wireless Goes LTE in 2009!

Well here we go.  "Can you hear me now?"  is going to take on a new meaning.  They might even think about changing the line to "Can you see me now because I'm going so fast....just like The Flash."  OK, maybe not THE catchiest tag line in the world (I never pretend to be an advertising genious), but you get the drift.  Verizon Wireless' CTO, Dick Lynch, announced this week that his company was going to have LTE running by the end of 2009.  I think I had a Keanu moment, where I just stopped and said "Whoa..."

Is Carrier Platform Consolidation Good for Enterprise Mobility?

There was a very interesting post that came out on Information Week's mobile blog yesterday on AT&T's "desire" to consolidate its smartphone platforms down to one choice.  In one respect, this makes perfect sense.  While I don't have any hard numbers on this, there's no question that it must cost AT&T and all carriers for that matter a significant amount of money to support the myriad mobile device platforms that are available in the market.  Even from a smartphone perspective, you have BlackBerry, Windows Mobile (2), Symbian, LiMo, iPhone and now even Android.  That's six/seven platforms right there...not counting all the non smartphone platforms out there.  But is this desire to consolidate good for enterprise mobility?

More Enterprise Mobility Ping Pong

  Ya ya ya....I know.  I'm late.  I've been travelling, planning new trips, doing presentations, trying to write some research for the company that writes me a paycheck every couple of weeks, blah, blah, blah.  Oh and it was Turkey Day last week.  So I am once again, "fashionably" late at responding to the little ping pong match I have been playing with my friends in Canada.

My November 2008 Research on Enterprise Mobility

So here's the research I have published this month with Strategy Analytics:

• Grasping the Intangible: A Guide to Evaluating Business Mobility Solutions and Measuring End-User Satisfaction
• Creating a Holistic Mobility Strategy
• BlackBerry Users in Europe Do More, Spend Less, Get More

Hope you find them a good read.