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Making the Most of Mobile Through Partnerships

I have commented about this same topic before… to some of you personally. Just wrote a little something over at the other site but thought I would paste it here directly:
… the entire mobile banking landscape will succeed only through partnerships. Banks partnering with other service providers… (but to what extreme? And at what [...]

February 26, 2010 Read the full article →

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 [...]

February 5, 2010 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 [...]

December 9, 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 Applications and Loyalty

Add this one to the interesting and confusing column. But you should still pay close attention.
Take a look at the following:

73 percent of Blackberry owners have downloaded 5 or fewer applications; in contrast,  72 percent of iPhone owners have downloaded 10 or more applications. [Source]
Smartphone Owners Only Use Half of Installed Applications Regularly (Only 57% [...]

October 15, 2009 Read the full article →

Not All Mobile Applications Are Created Equal

And therefore do not require the same metrics.  Of course if you are developer for-fun as opposed to a for-profit one you may note be too concerned about this.  However you will never know where and how to improve something unless you measure it.  If you measure there is a better chance of understanding how [...]

October 3, 2009 Read the full article →

Making Sense of Mobile Application Development

My plan was to compile all the excellent feedback received here and in other places on the debate whether it is best to develop mobile applications for the browser or native to the device (platform).  I gave you a glimpse into my preference a few weeks ago with the teaser called -  Mobile [...]

September 29, 2009 Read the full article →

Is the iPhone Suddenly Incompatible With Exchange?

A friend of mine just sent me this link with only one comment: “Love It!” You can imagine he is one of the greatest BlackBerry advocates (and probably one of the smartest ones too).
Infoworld published the following article yesterday – Apple betrays the iPhone’s business hopes:
Fixing a major but unacknowledged bug in the operating [...]

September 16, 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 [...]

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 or [...]

July 20, 2009 Read the full article →

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