Strategy

Ontario Slipping Behind in Wireless Revolution

I was originally going to write an opinion piece on this press release from the Ontario College of Art and Design.  But I am working on a few deadlines (how do I get myself into these binds?) so I will simply post the press release here for your information.  Perhaps we can discuss later… or [...]

July 24, 2009 Read the full article →

MyBlackBerry.com Launch

Last week’s big news for some was the leaked information about the new BlackBerry site (social networking huh?) called MyBlackBerry (at myblackberry.com). When a friend emailed the news to me I was actually somewhat surprised by it.  After reading the piece at Berry Review all I could do was scratch my head and wonder how [...]

July 22, 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 →

Navigating the Mobile Ecosystem

As I work against a deadline for a proposal and do some cursory research on a few topics to complete said proposal I am struck by how little information there is out there that helps folks navigate the mobile ecosystem.   Such a resource would be of value to many – veterans and noobies alike.  Perhaps [...]

July 13, 2009 Read the full article →

Don’t Ignore the Palm Pre

Perhaps I should write a long article giving you my reasons.  But for now I will simply point you to this small post by Virtuate on Mobile Medical Application Searches.  Or better yet, I can summarize it for you with a quote: … due to Palm’s history with physicians I think developers and mobile health [...]

July 10, 2009 Read the full article →

Building the Bank of the Future

For a brief moment this may seem slightly off-topic to some of you.  It is and it is not. A while back I found this very good piece over at the Bankwatch that applied Web2.0 concepts into to banks: How to web 2.0 your bank. Please head over there and read it as a primer [...]

July 8, 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 →

The Smartphone is dead… long live the Smartphone

Twitter folks I follow (as @mstrat)  pointed me to this new paper from Forrester:  The “Smartphone” Is Dead: Long Live Smart Phones And Smart Gadgets. Similarly there are other folks around the web writing about it.  It is quite surprising that it is such a big deal for Forrester to declare the smartphone moniker to [...]

May 19, 2009 Read the full article →

More Mobility … Less Budget

The title of this post comes from a google search that brought someone to this blog this morning.  I found it interesting so I did a similar search… and of course it references the Aberdeen Group study which we mentioned here previously.  Not sure if the actual search came from the Aberdeen themselves to see [...]

April 1, 2009 Read the full article →