From the monthly archives:

December 2008

Links for a Snowy Weekend

If you are like me you might enjoy catching up on some reading after a snowstorm or two.  So below are a couple of items I starred or shared on my Google Reader.
125% penetration in the Russian mobile market from Compare Cellular: More Than One Phone Per Comrade … Kind of defeats the purpose of [...]

December 20, 2008 Read the full article →

Trust Digital, iPhone and BlackBerry

Brief post here… I came across this yesterday:
Trust Digital, a provider of enterprise mobility management (EMM) solutions for government organizations and large businesses, may have done more for the iPhone’s adoption in enterprises than Apple’s sub-par iPhone deployment tools have accomplished so far: Trust Digital’s EMM lets companies secure and manage Windows Mobile, Symbian and [...]

December 19, 2008 Read the full article →

Vodafone Invests in Mobile Health Firm

Slightly off topic and perhaps more related to our neglected sister site – Virtuate… But this item crossed my Google Reader this morning and consider it important enough to share here.
Newbury, Berkshire-based, mobile phone giant Vodafone has invested in t+ Medical, a UK provider of mobile health services acccessed across mobile handsets.
Vodafone Ventures Ltd, the [...]

December 18, 2008 Read the full article →

Social Media and Enterprise Mobility … continued

We wanted to draw your attention to this post by Hutch Carpenter about IBM and Intel releasing social media guidelines for their employees.   This adds to our discussion from last week on Enterprise Mobility and Social Networks… unfortunately our requests for feedback from folks in the industry seemed to have gone unnoticed (although we did [...]

December 16, 2008 Read the full article →

Optimizing the iPhone for Business

If you enjoyed our post on the iPhone and Enterprise Mobility and if you are still considering the iPhone as an option for your enterprise then you might enjoy these articles over at itbusiness.ca.
How to optimize the iPhone for business
Eight reasons to pick the iPhone over the BlackBerry Storm for business
More on this topic over [...]

December 15, 2008 Read the full article →

Mobile Advertising and Productivity

How distracting will the ever increasing (or at least predicted) flood of mobile advertising affect our mobile workers?  I am not talking SMS here… I can probably count on one hand the number of times I was spammed.  I am talking during mobile web surfing?  Perhaps not that much of an issue now… but later?  [...]

December 10, 2008 Read the full article →

Enterprise Mobility, Social Networks and the End of Email

With this post we hope to launch a discussion here at the Mobile Strategy Blog on a topic we keep bumping up against directly or indirectly: social networking and enterprise mobility.
We don’t completely agree with the idea that social networks (and the technologies/applications that make it possible) will soon invade and take over the enterprise.  [...]

December 10, 2008 Read the full article →

Mobile Future

This excellent (and popular) post by Helen Keegan over at the Musings of a Mobile Marketer blog has been on our minds for quite some time now.  However, in our desire to include the enterprise implications of Helen’s predictions we have let it slip far too long without writing anything.  So for the benefit of [...]

December 8, 2008 Read the full article →

Vettro and Antenna – a few more thoughts

Just wanted to post a quick note on how intrigued I have been with the number of searches from Google sending visitors to this article: Antenna Software acquires Vettro (sort of).  In that article we quickly brainstormed on some implications around the deal where Antenna software picks up some of the Vettro assets.  So who [...]

December 7, 2008 Read the full article →

Carnival of the Mobilists #153

Although we didn’t have the time to submit any articles to this week’s Carnival there is still plenty of good reading over there… this week hosted by mobscure: obscure trends of mobile.  We haven’t read any of it yet but we will throughout the week.  In the meantime we wanted to point out how ingenious [...]

December 7, 2008 Read the full article →