Paid Apps: Maybe It’s Time to Sweat the Small Stuff
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Companies don’t realize that workers are downloading super-expensive GPS apps. Details on what they’re doing and solutions. Read More
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The New New Thing in Worker Mobility? Video Collaboration
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Figuring out where the next big opportunity lies in enterprise mobility isn’t rocket science: just take a good look at what consumers are doing with their gadgets today and you get a pretty good idea of what’s going to happen … Read More
Siri Meets Star Trek: The Future of Virtual Assistants
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Dan Miller, founder of and senior analyst at Opus Research, is a top expert on voice biometrics and helped coin the term “conversational commerce,” which refers to how consumers and marketers are interacting in the social media era. He spoke with … Read More
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Windows Phone 8: Big Step Forward, But…
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The constant stream of offerings from the major players in mobile enterprise — Blackberry, Apple, Android and Microsoft — can make choosing the best mobile configuration for a business insanely complex. Recently we reviewed the Android-based Samsung Galaxy S4 and Apple’s iPhone 5. Now we’re drilling down on … Read More
Addicted to Your Smartphone? Try a Digital Detox
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Here’s how obsessed people are with their mobile phones: according to Time magazine, 68 percent of users take their devices with them to bed, 20 percent check their phones every 10 minutes, and one third report feeling anxious when briefly separated from … Read More
The New White Paper’s Here! Preparing for M2M and the Rise of the Machines
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Talk-to-text? That was pretty neat. P2P? Also cool. Now there’s M2M — machine-to-machine — to wrap your brain around. It’s still a nascent technology concept (with a hint of Future Shock and Terminator), but much more complex and far-reaching — … Read More
Enterprise Roundup: What’s to Love (or Not) About iOS 7?
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Apple’s unveiling of iOS 7 at the Worldwide Developers Conference this week has legions of Apple fanboys excited about some long overdue updates, but the enterprise crowd might have even more reason to be eager for the upcoming release in … Read More
CYOD, MBYOD or COPE? What’s the Difference?
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Good grief. As if there weren’t enough acronyms to contend with when it comes to enterprise mobility, now come a rash of new ones that all seem to mean pretty much the same thing: CYOD (“choose your own device”), MBYOD (“managed … Read More
Managing an All-Mobile Workforce
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Further proof that mobility in the workplace is not just a passing trend or merely a nice-to-have: tablets are projected to outsell laptops this year and will outsell PCs by 2015. Is it truly possible that we’re headed for a day … Read More
Fairphone: The Greenest Smartphone Of Them All?
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Smartphones today are works of art — sleek, shiny and packing incredible utility for personal and professional lives. But their life spans are typically shorter than a goldfish’s, which means millions of obsolete devices made of un-recyclable materials wind up … Read More
Is Text Messaging the Future of Work Communications?
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Move over, email. Enterprise messaging developers are betting big that texting will soon dethrone computer-to-computer messaging as the primary way we interact with bosses, coworkers and maybe even customers. Last week, a San Francisco startup co-founded by two former executives at Yammer, … Read More
How iPhone Stacks Up for the Enterprise
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The constant stream of offerings from the major players in mobile enterprise — Blackberry, Apple, Android and Microsoft — can make decisions about the best mobile platform for your organization insanely complex. To help you choose the best fit, we … Read More