mobility

How Smart is your Smartphone?

How smart is your Smartphone? No… but really. How smart is it? As smart as the applications? As smart as the user? As smart as the designers? Or does it depend on something else?

March 19, 2011 Read the full article →

Carnival of the Mobilists #214 – the best of mobile blogging

Greetings mobile enthusiasts! This week’s Carnival is hosted by mobiThinking and it is a BIG one with so many submissions that some had to be turned away. Our post on making the most of mobile through partnerships made the carnival… but there is a lot to choose from some of the best bloggers and thinkers [...]

March 9, 2010 Read the full article →

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 →

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 →

Of Context and Content

Here is an obvious statement for you to think about: In mobile, context and content are inseperable. Or at least they should be considered inseparable. Context will affect the way you relate to the content available to you.  At times content may affect the way you relate to your context and even force you to [...]

November 4, 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 [...]

October 15, 2009 Read the full article →

Mobile Banking In Canada (Reason 3): Technology Is NOT An Obstacle

This post is part of the series we began a few weeks ago: 12 Reasons Why Canadian Banks Should Really Offer Mobile Services. We are a little bit out of order and we are presenting Reason #3 ahead of #2… and that’s because we have a special guest author and we could not wait any [...]

October 2, 2009 Read the full article →

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 Search Now With Video – YellowPages.ca iPhone App Updated

Yellowpages.ca issued a press release this morning announcing a sweet update to their iPhone application: New Version of YellowPages.ca™ Mobile Search Application for the iPhone™ puts Video in the Palm of your Hands (links and pictures below). Yellow Pages Group (YPG)(TSX:YLO.UN) launches a new version of its popular YellowPages.caTM local search application for the Apple [...]

September 17, 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 [...]

September 16, 2009 Read the full article →