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Friday Ramblings: Electronic Health Records, Microsoft Courier and Hospital Operations

The majority of you have seen this… but to me it is well-worth having it posted here mostly because of the enormous potential this could have. It is the type of thing that makes you sit back and wonder what it could become… (I am talking about the Microsoft Courier – video below). Yesterday I [...]

September 25, 2009 Read the full article →

Mobile Application Development: Native or Browser

The discussion rages on. I continue to enjoy the experience of native applications much more. But there seem to be a lot of people out there jumping on the ‘mobile browser application‘ bandwagon. Of course everyone has a reason for it but if we focus solely on the end user (how about that?) the native [...]

September 11, 2009 Read the full article →

Mobile Strategy and the iPod Touch

I was just reading over at FierceWireless Lynette Luna’s comments on the expectation that the iPod Touch will be an important part of Apple’s earnings report to be released tomorrow.   The reason, Ms. Luna writes is because, The iPod touch offers a pretty good alternative for those who don’t want to be tied down to AT&T [...]

July 20, 2009 Read the full article →

Location Based Services (LBS) will double in 2009

From Mobile Monday news page: Worldwide consumer location-based services (LBS) subscribers and revenue are on pace to double in 2009, according to Gartner, Inc. Despite an expected 4 per cent decrease in mobile device sales, LBS subscribers are forecast to grow from 41.0 million in 2008 to 95.7 million in 2009 while revenue is anticipated [...]

July 7, 2009 Read the full article →

Collection of tiny mobile apps for your iPhone (or my Personalized Enterprise Gateway)

New to me … but probably old to you (remember I don’t use an iPhone in everyday life).  It took me back to some of the projects I have worked on before and the ever present need of providing relevant information to our mobile users/workers. So today I bumped into Leaflets – Leaflets are small, [...]

June 30, 2009 Read the full article →

Moving Beyond Wireless Enablement (Canada)

SAP sponsored an IDC White Paper available for download here. This report analyzes Canadian organizations’ readiness to incorporate mobility into their enterprise application strategy.  IDC’s data on current and future adoption of mobile solutions indicates that the majority of organizations have wirelessly enabled their workforce, but have not yet begun to embrace mobilization. The distinction [...]

May 22, 2009 Read the full article →

Mobile Strategy Basics

**Please note -Visionaries, futurists and extraordinary thinkers need not read this.  But if you are like the author… you probably should.** One of the first steps in drafting your mobile strategy is to determine where you need to be.  This may sound basic but I only mention it because many times I have seen people [...]

February 26, 2009 Read the full article →

Twitter’s Mobile Strategy

Reading about Twitter’s new hire Kevin Thau (new Director of Mobile Business Development) reminds me that we still owe you several series previously mentioned here which you have not seen.  They are on their way (but  currently stuck as WIP somewhere between our brains and our keyboards).  Why am I bringing this up?  Well, one [...]

January 16, 2009 Read the full article →

WebOS, Palm Pre and Enterprise Mobility

Some of the big news coming out of CES (Day 1) is the dual Palm announcements of a new operating system (WebOS) and new hardware (Palm Pre).   So this now gives us another platform to consider as consumers, but what are the Enterprise implications of this announcement?  Does it really change anything for us? At [...]

January 9, 2009 Read the full article →

Clinical Care and Mobile Technology

Just posted on this topic at our sister site Virtuate. To save you time this is my quick conclusion: “… mobile devices are still being used by physicians as a personal productivity tool and are not  integrated into care giving processes to the extent that real and transformational value have been achieved.” Which is the [...]

January 7, 2009 Read the full article →

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