Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)

More bad news from RIM.  Sales dropped last week 33%. As if that weren’t bad enough, the company’s self-acknowledged life preserver, BlackBerry 10, now won’t be available until early 2013. That is after the Holiday shopping season. It will be after the expected October release of the iPhone 5.  It will likely be well after the release of Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8. Where d

Last week we had Apple. This week it seems to be all Microsoft. I’m sure next week will be 24×7 Google with it’s I/O conference. With that said, the announcement of Windows Phone 8 is important for the industry. It is also nicely timed by Microsoft right after the flash and pomp of the Surface tablet announcement and the preview of Windows 8  and RT solutions on purpose built hard

LetMobile released its Secure Mobile Email version 1.5 yesterday and its worth taking note. Email security is at the core of all initial enterprise mobility and bring your own device (BYOD) roll-outs. While there is always talk and occasionally even action related to other corporate applications, the desire for corporate email on personally owned mobile devices is the catalyst behind the BYOD revo

Apple Insider reported today that Apple and Samsung are likely to extend their combined market share to more than 50% of smartphone sales next year. The numbers originate from Canaccord Genuity analyst Michael Walkley’s investor note today. His analysis shows that combined Apple – Samsung market share will grow from 47.6% today to 49.7% by the end of the year followed by 52.3% by the e

There is a lot of talk this week about trouble at BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM). The flurry of reporting was prompted by CEO Thorsten Heins’ move to retain Royal Bank of Canada and J.P. Morgan to evaluate, “strategic business model alternatives,” among other things. Might one of those alternatives be sale to a competitor? Well, yes. According to the Wall Street Journa

Cisco announced yesterday the demise of the Cius. The noise level of the announcement on Cisco’s collaboration blog matched the product’s market awareness: close to zero. The Cius was supposed to be the first enterprise tablet. It lasted less than two years from launch in June 2010. That beats the HP Touchpad’s 49 days by a long shot. While both products could be brought back fro

Is Big Blue in for Higher Cost and Low Adoption There was a great article this week in MIT’s Technology Review about IBM’s approach to BYOD. There are many great things about how IBM runs the IT organization. You could even call it a progressive group in some areas. However, the approach they are taking with BYOD gives the distinct impression of old style IT thinking that doesn’t

Apple under Steve Jobs was an unrivaled hype machine. Granted the hype was often earned based on a reputation for deliving innovative and useful products, even for creating new product categories. The product launches were magical and newsworthy. People wanted to attend and associate with them. But with all of the hype and customer loyalty did they ever have 9 million pre-orders? No, but Samsung h