Weekly Mobile News Roundup: March 11
This week the mobile news is focused on the tech scenethat descended upon Austin for SXSW.With well-known companies and small startups alike vying for the spotlight, we take a look at the trends so far from 2013’s conference.
Mobile News and Insights
Warming Up for South by Southwest Interactive 2013 – New York Times
What are some of the top trends expected this year?
SXSW 2013 by the Numbers – Mashable
Just who is attending the conference this year? Mashable breaks it down.
SXSW Will Become the…
Weekly Mobile News Roundup: March 4
Mobile World Congress wrapped up in Barcelona this week. Who were the “winners” and “losers” of the event? We take a look. Also: American Airlines invests in Samsung Galaxy Notes, though reports show Apple still dominates in the enterprise.
Mobile News and Insights
The Winners and Losers of Mobile World Congress 2013 – TabTimes
Who shone at the largest annual mobile event, and who was strangely absent?
Mobile World Congress: Top 10 Trends, Devices And Ideas – Huffington Post
Samsung, Phablets, low-end devices and more make the list.
After Apple Snub,…
Introducing The SAP Mobile Academy
Go Mobile with SAP Mobile Solutions today with the SAP Mobile Academy.
Part of the SAP Community Network, the SAP Mobile Academy is an online community for SAP mobile technology users, such as developers, IT administrators, and mobile project leads, to share resources to optimize the adoption of SAP mobile solutions including SAP Afaria and SAP Mobile Platform.
This program includes step-by-step resources to build and deploy mobile apps for all user experience levels. The videos show you exactly how to use SAP Afaria and SAP Mobile Platform from install to the end user experience.
Weekly Mobile News Roundup: February 18
Here’s what’s happening in mobile this week: Forrester views mobile as a strategic priority in 2013, Gartner talks rise of the enterprise app store. Plus: BlackBerry and Microsoft wrestle for #3 position in smartphone market.
News and Insights
2013 Mobile Trends for Marketers – Forrester
Analyst Thomas Husson on the key mobile trends this year and their implications.
Key Factors to Consider in Mobile Strategy Goals – Mobile Marketer
Our COO Tarun Nimmagadda discusses how to shape your mobile strategy.
BlackBerry Touts ‘Record’ Z10 Sales – InformationWeek
The new smartphone is seeing great demand in…
Enterprise Mobility Minute #5: You Need More than An IT Mobility Strategy
By Dr. Ahmed El Adl | Vice President, Global Mobile Solutions | SAP
Dear CIO,
Were you accused last year of not being innovative enough, because you didn’t deliver a lot of mobile apps in the speed of consumer mobility or didn’t immediately embrace BYOD?
Well, get ready for 2013. You’ll be expected to keep pace with even more technological breakthroughs triggered by higher maturity and closer conversion of mobile, social, cloud, and in-memory computing.
The good news is that you CAN get out in front of expectations this year – if you shift your own mindset. Don’t think of yourself as just the…
You Can Build It, But It Doesn’t Mean They’ll Come
What if you bought and implemented a new ERP system, but no one used it?
It’s an unlikely scenario for most traditional ERP users (especially those who’d like to keep their jobs), but for some companies it’s not unthinkable. In fact, I read a recent news report about an organization that is reevaluating a major ERP project because its employees continually indicate that they won’t deviate from existing business processes (including submitting paper-based requests and approvals) when the new ERP environment goes live. Why…
Don’t Fence Me In
Rather than targeting customers when they’re in the general vicinity, retailers should try a geo-fence to target customers based on where they’re at inside the store.
Advertisers have so many new targeting options these days with mobile technologies, GPS and what-have-you, nobody is quite sure what to do with it all yet.
Take geo-fencing, for example. A geo-fence is a virtual boundary around a geographic area. Think of it like one of those “invisible fence” dog collar systems to keep Rover in your yard and out of the…
New Year’s Resolutions For Your Wireless Carrier
Did you know that by January 10th most of us have thrown in the towel and given up on our New Year’s resolutions? That is if we even bothered to make them this year.
Making New Year’s resolutions is never a fun thing to do, typically it involves self improvement followed by personal failure … YUCK!
But how about making New Year’s resolutions for your wireless carrier? That could be a different experience.
I’ll start with a few and I encourage you to join…
The Global Phenomenon: BYOD
The fun fact that there are more mobile devices in the world than toothbrushes is pretty well known. But did you know 89% of IT departments worldwide support bring your own device (BYOD) practices?
That’s just one of the findings discovered by an expanded Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group (CIBSG) survey of mobile device usage. To really understand how global “Bring Your Own Device” (BYOD) usage had become, CIBSG decided to revise and expand its original BYOD and Virtualization study to include businesses of all sizes,…
3 Benefits Of Customized Mobile Sales Enablement
The closer an application aligns with your unique mobile sales enablement approach, the greater the impact it’ll have on sales performance. Here’s how:
Better preparation
In pre-sales planning, mobile applications provide fast access to relevant
industry, product, and customer research and intelligence. Additionally, a
customized sales enablement solution can point your sales force to sales guides,
coaching tools and playbooks that are right for a specific selling situation.
Higher Engagement
Data-driven decision support and assessment tools make it easier to deliver
targeted, expert advice in consultative selling situations. A mobile sales
enablement solution can also…
Mobile Is Maturing – Don’t Get Left Behind With a Bad Mobile Strategy
Companies are evolving how they approach mobile. Once treated as a one-off project led by a siloed team, mobile has grown into an integral part of companies’ annual planning process. We’re seeing indication that 2013 will be the year mobile “grows up,” marked by companies approaching mobile more strategically.
Mobile strategy is bigger than a technology or a project. It’s an art that involves the constant alignment of user needs (employees, consumers and partners), business goals and evolving mobile technology landscape. It provides answers…
The Most Strategic Weapon In Your Mobile Arsenal
Nowadays Mobile should be at the centre of your corporate strategy, if it is not then you are probably missing out on some major cost saving and streamlining benefits to your business through innovation to your Information Workers.
Though going mobile is not a magic bullet, the major challenge is delivering brilliant experiences at a time of increasing device proliferation and experiences that are innovative. In the words if the late and great Steve Jobs… Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower! But fear not you have a unsung hero at your beck and call! In…
Hacker-Friendly Android Apps
By Sebastian Nikoloff
Researchers taking a close look at 100 Android apps were able to hack into 41 of the programs to obtain credit card data and sensitive log-in information.
Some Android apps simply make it easy for attackers: Researchers at the Universities of Marburg and Hamburg examined 13,500 apps that are available on the Google Play platform. Of the programs they studied, eight percent proved vulnerable to a “man in the middle” attack. This involves a hacker pretending to be the communication partner and intercepting communication between the…
When Apps Ruin Your Credit Score
By Shandy Lo
What happens when apps like Angry Birds sell your personal data to third parties? In the wrong hands, this can actually make it impossible for you to obtain credit.
There’s no doubt that smartphones and apps make our lives easier in many respects: Whether we’re trying to find our way around a strange city, sending free messages to friends via WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger, or searching for a recipe on the fly. But are they really as harmless as they seem? According to data protection specialists and
Forrester: Top Marks For Windows 8
By Sebastian Nikoloff
For Microsoft, there is hardly any product more important than its operating system Windows. Forrester Research praises the tablet features in Windows 8 above all. Is that reason enough for the executives in Redmond to sleep peacefully?
The new Windows has been in stores since the end of October. And the industry has been holding its breath to see how the operating system will be accepted by customers. After all, Microsoft as a whole is largely dependent on the success of Windows.
With Windows 8, Microsoft wants to enter a new…
A Universal OS: It’s Coming
Apple’s recent announcement that iOS and OS X will be unified under a single leader, Craig Federighi, is yet another signal of Apple’s goal to create a single universal operating system across all of its devices.
A business aligned
The groundwork for all of this was laid back in 2006 when the decision was made by Apple, on the recommendation of Bertrand Serlet and Scott Forstall, to build the operating system for the iPhone not on an embedded OS like the iPod Mini, but rather on top of Darwin…
Windows 8 — A Threat To Apple?
With Windows 8, Microsoft has a huge opportunity to displace Apple and other tablets in the enterprise, according to Michael Facemire, senior analyst at Forrester Research.
“When I think mobility, I separate phones and tablets because they have such different user space. Focusing on tablets, Microsoft has a wonderful opportunity because so many enterprises run Microsoft back ends.
The new mobile offering from Microsoft natively can interact with those servers and infrastructures. It will be easier for developers to promote the data on…
Windows 8 Product Strategy: Right Idea, Poor Execution
With Windows 8’s official release last week, many were shocked by the degree to which the new operating system departed from many longstanding Windows conventions.
The general consensus is that Windows 8 is a mobile OS in disguise. More specifically, some of the more mobile-friendly features are:
The start menu is gone, having been replaced by an entire start screen that displays Windows 8 applications only in a center navigation panel, similar to iOS or Android. This is the mandatory boot screen for Windows 8, emphasizing that it is here to stay so you’ll…
A Not So Hard-Hitting Analysis Of Apple’s iPad Mini Event
I had some random thoughts, bon mots, and cheap shots during Tuesday morning’s Apple event.
I watched Apple’s press conference this morning planning to work up my traditional enterprise-themed blog. See my reactions to the launches of the Microsoft Surface, the iPhone 5, Samsung Galaxy S III, iOS 6, etc.
But I got distracted by Glenn Fleishmann, who was, as usual, leading the #fakeapple commentary on Twitter. It’s total Inside Baseball stuff, but hilarious for anyone watching the press conference live on The Verge or ZDNet.
That got me thinking…
The iPad Mini is 7.9 inches, announced CEO…
Getting The Right Dose Of Mobility
By Shandy Lo
What is “ITelligent mobility”? Experts from BMW, Nokia Siemens Network, and KPMG met at Communication World 2012 to take a closer look at mobile technologies, strategies, and solutions for the business of the future.
“ITelligent mobility” was the slogan for this year’s Communication World event, which took place on October 9 and 10 in Munich, Germany, and focused on the present and future of mobile technologies, strategies, and solutions for the business world.
The speakers, attendees, and exhibitors took this opportunity to examine the world of IT from all angles in…
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