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Mobile Strategy

Is Google Eyeing the Mobile Enterprise with New Management Tools?

The new tools allow Google Apps Premier and Education Edition administrators to manage enterprise smartphones directly from the Google Apps control panel, without having to deploy additional third-party mobile device management software offered by vendors like Sybase iAnywhere and Good Technology (formerly Visto).IT administrators can lock down and remotely wipe data from lost or stolen [...]

February 5, 2010 Read the full article →

Mobile Banking In Canada: CIBC Gets There First!

Canada your wait is over! CIBC has officially won the race and is the first of the Canadian Banks to offer a full-featured mobile banking application…

February 4, 2010 Read the full article →

Mobile Strategy Posterous

We are complementing this site with a Mobile Strategy Posterous which we have parked at one of the URL’s we had sitting around – mobilestrategy.ca.   The Posterous site will be used for short snippets and comments on things we see around the web and through our feeds.   If you would like to contribute to the [...]

January 7, 2010 Read the full article →

Professional Services in Mobility: Who Would You Trust?

Several people over the last week have informed me that one of the Canadian carriers is close to launching a new professional services group in Canada. The details around that are sketchy but this raises the question as to who should really provide professional services in the mobile space. A couple of rhetorical questions to [...]

December 11, 2009 Read the full article →

13 Things To Remember When Integrating Mobility (Or How To Avoid Process Peddlers)

Regardless of whether it is the first time your mobile workers receive a device, or if you are deploying a new application, your people and your processes will never be the same. Mobility changes the way we work; it is transformational and because of this you need to pay very close attention to your processes. [...]

December 9, 2009 Read the full article →

Mobile Strategy for Small Business: It’s About Local Convenience

Small businesses are an under served market in mobility. We constantly hear about the importance of small businesses to our economies, yet today few would argue that this sector is properly served and serviced from a mobility standpoint. Of course, carriers have plans but many times they simply rebrand a family plan as a small [...]

December 3, 2009 Read the full article →

Mobile Financial Services In Canada

My intent was always to provide a recap of last week’s inaugural Mobile Money Canada conference. I was going to review the event itself, the speakers and even the audience.  However much has gotten in the way of doing that for you – even though I feel a certain sense of obligation to provide you [...]

November 16, 2009 Read the full article →

Mobile Becomes A Social Media Lifeline

Beautiful Sunday morning here in Toronto (Mississauga to be precise). As I catch up on reading and wait for the family to wake up before we head to church I thought I would share this post from Harvard Business. David Armano writes a Conversation Starter on the Six Social Media Trends for 2010… and these [...]

November 8, 2009 Read the full article →

Mobile Financial Services Week – Submit Your Story

Next week is the Mobile Money Canada Conference.  To coincide with the event and to celebrate the fact that mobile financial services in Canada can only get better I would like to invite you to submit your stories and experiences to this blog.  You can even submit your product or service and we will profile [...]

November 5, 2009 Read the full article →

Mobile Strategy Site Visitors and Mobile Themes

In an effort to understand why some of you visit the Mobile Strategy Blog I have done a quick analysis of the search engine referrals. Of course this is a circuitous analysis because your searches bring you here due to the content and keywords on this site which are indexed by the search engines (mostly [...]

November 5, 2009 Read the full article →