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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 →

Making Money Mobile – Of Value and Values

Mobile banking, mobile commerce and mobile money for us is mostly out of interest and stems from noticing the opportunity that exists in these areas – a business opportunity.  For others it is about the gadgets, the novelty and the convenience.  In other places around the world, mobile becomes a vehicle through which people can [...]

December 15, 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 →

Finish Strong Or Stay Home (Some Thoughts On Strategy Implementation)

A good sound strategy is more than a beautifully produced plan with eloquently worded thoughts on the future. It is also more than carefully laid out words on glossy paper. It is also definitely much more than a collection of great ideas. A strategy needs to be executable. If you don’t have a way of [...]

November 3, 2009 Read the full article →

Mobile Banking In Canada (Reason 2): Mobility is Personal, Intimate and Present

This post is part of the series we began in August entitled: 12 Reasons Why Canadian Banks Should Really Offer Mobile Services. As a Canadian consumer of financial services I want those services on my mobile now! This is all part of my own little push to get it done. Unlike other channels, the mobile [...]

October 15, 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 Application Development: [...]

September 29, 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 →

Mobility Video from IBM

As I was surfing and researching for an upcoming presentation and white paper on a very interesting topic (you’ll know soon enough) I came across this video from IBM. Although it looks dated and even the narrator’s voice makes it sound like a throwback from the 1960′s it appears to be less than a year [...]

September 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 →

Access SAP CRM from your BlackBerry

SAP and Research In Motion announced two days ago the availability of an integrated solution that provides customers with anytime, anywhere access to the SAP® Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM) application on BlackBerry® smartphones.  It is now available from RIM and you can check out the ‘campaign’ section over at the BlackBerry site here. which [...]

May 15, 2009 Read the full article →