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Drowning in the Sea of Choices in Enterprise Mobility? Here's a Lifeline

Eric Lai, Senior Writer | February 21, 2012 in Mobile Industry,Mobility,Sybase News | Comments (0)

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The enterprise mobility market is young and growing fast. The upside? An excitingly huge selection of mobile device management software, mobile enterprise app platforms and enterprise apps. The downside? Many won’t be around in 5 years.

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Multitenancy & Cloud Computing Platforms: Four Big Problems

Eric Lai, Senior Writer | February 15, 2012 in security,SQL Anywhere,Sybase News | Comments (1)

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(Updated February 21) This post has attracted some attention, some of it for the wrong reasons. To clarify: I think multitenancy rocks for large-scale cloud applications. Not every ISV shopping for a cloud data platform or Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) needs that scale, though.

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Why You (and Your Enterprise) Should Get an iPod touch instead of an iPhone

Eric Lai, Senior Writer | February 9, 2012 in Mobile Data and Messaging,Mobile Industry,Mobility | Comments (1)

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A startup guy, Chris Dixon, recently wrote this Aspergers-tinged tweet: “The worst app on my iPhone is this thing called “Phone” where you have to speak synchronously with other humans.”

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Does IBM Have the Largest Apple Deployment in the World?

Eric Lai, Senior Writer | February 2, 2012 in Mobile Data and Messaging,Mobile Industry,Mobility | Comments (0)

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Big Blue has 30,000 employees sporting iPhones, 10,000 toting iPads, and another 10,000 workers carrying MacBooks, according to a presentation last week at Macworld iWorld.

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Facebook IPO Filing Shows It’s Still Not Fully Operating in the Mobile Era

Eric Lai, Senior Writer | February 1, 2012 in Mobile Data and Messaging,Mobile Finance and Banking,Mobile Industry,Mobility | Comments (0)

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Slightly more than half of Facebook Inc.’s monthly users, or 425 million, access the social networking site today from tablet or smartphone. That’s impressive, but then you find out later in Facebook’s IPO filing that it gets absolutely zero of its $3.7 billion revenue from mobile.

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Three Ways Your Company Can Extend the Lifespan of its Mobile Devices

Eric Lai, Senior Writer | January 31, 2012 in Mobile Data and Messaging,Mobile Industry,Mobility | Comments (0)

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Kyle Wiens is the co-founder and CEO of iFixit, whose Web site you might have visited to read its funny and geekily-detailed teardowns of new gadgets, to download instructions for self-repairing that iPhone you dropped into the toilet, I mean, bathtub, or to buy screens and screwdrivers for the aforementioned repairs.

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How Does the Pentagon Deploy iPads? Very, Very Carefully [Macworld]

Eric Lai, Senior Writer | January 29, 2012 in Mobile Data and Messaging,Mobile Industry,Mobility | Comments (0)

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Macworld iWorld wasn’t just about exhibit halls full of cute, bizarre accessories for iPads and iPhones.

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Cutest, Weirdest iPad & iPhone Accessories at Macworld iWorld [Gallery]

Eric Lai, Senior Writer | January 27, 2012 in Mobile Data and Messaging,Mobile Industry,Mobility | Comments (0)

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Reason no. 647 why we are already in the Post-PC Age: the organizers of Macworld, famously abandoned by Apple 3 years ago, seem to have successfully retooled the conference by adding the appellation “iWorld” to the name, and attracting a crowd of iPad and iPhone exhibitors in the process. (more…)

Is Enterprise Enthusiasm for Tablets Already Waning?

Eric Lai, Senior Writer | January 25, 2012 in Mobile Data and Messaging,Mobile Industry,Mobility,security | Comments (0)

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Bring Your Own Device is responsible for the vast majority of tablets being used inside companies and organizations today. But caution towards BYOD could also cause tablet enterprise growth to slow dramatically, according to one analyst firm.

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Four Keys for RIM to Execute a PlayBook-led Turnaround

Eric Lai, Senior Writer | in Mobile Industry,Mobility | Comments (0)

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What a difference a device makes.

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One Enterprise CIO's View of CES

Eric Lai, Senior Writer | January 23, 2012 in Mobile Industry,Mobility,security | Comments (0)

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Coming mere days after Christmas, the International Consumer Electronics Show is like a second holiday to most techies. That is, except those techies in enterprise IT.

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Why this $90 Billion UK Insurer is High on BlackBerry PlayBooks

Eric Lai, Senior Writer | January 20, 2012 in Mobile Data and Messaging,Mobile Industry,Mobility | Comments (0)

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The dream of the Paperless Office progresses slowly. But in one front in the War Against Dead Trees, a British insurance firm hopes to make leaps and bounds by using BlackBerry PlayBook tablets. (more…)

Updated: Why this Well-Known Biotech Firm Deploys 17,000 iPads and iPhones

Eric Lai, Senior Writer | January 13, 2012 in Mobile Data and Messaging,Mobile Industry,Mobility | Comments (0)

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(Updated and corrected Jan 18, 2012) There were some impressive enterprise deployments discussed at the AppNation conference in San Francisco on Thursday.

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Is a Windows 8 Ultrabook a Mobile Device? Yes, Here’s Why.

Eric Lai, Senior Writer | January 10, 2012 in Mobile Data and Messaging,Mobile Industry,Mobility | Comments (0)

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If you’re the type who refers to the Oxford English Dictionary during simple Scrabble games, you and I might not see eye to eye on whether or not to call an UltraBook PC a mobile device.

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SAP CIO's Ambitious Mobile Plans for 2012

Eric Lai, Senior Writer | January 9, 2012 in Mobile Industry,Mobility,Sybase News | Comments (0)

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SAP loves to drink its own champagne.

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How Healthcare's Embrace of Mobility has Turned Dangerous

Eric Lai, Senior Writer | January 5, 2012 in Mobile Data and Messaging,Mobile Industry,Mobility,security | Comments (0)

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No industry has adopted mobility faster than healthcare. (more…)

Just for Men? Here’s a $250 Android Tablet Just For Women

Eric Lai, Senior Writer | January 3, 2012 in Mobile Data and Messaging,Mobile Industry,Mobility | Comments (0)

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Marketing theory teaches you that as markets mature and products become commoditized, vendors search for increasingly arbitrary, often-silly, ways to differentiate their products.

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Worst Mobile Predictions for 2011

Eric Lai, Senior Writer | December 29, 2011 in Mobile Industry,Mobility,Sybase News | Comments (0)

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Compared to, say, a journalist in a war zone, tech writers have it pretty good. The worst injury we can suffer is a stiff back from an especially long product keynote. The biggest job hazard is having our bad predictions thrown back at us, either by readers, or, in my case, by myself.

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In Enterprise Mobility, Dreamers Outnumber Rookies (but Laggards Dwarf Them All)

Eric Lai, Senior Writer | December 20, 2011 in Mobile Data and Messaging,Mobile Industry,Mobility,Sybase News | Comments (0)

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“Illusory superiority” is what psychologists call the tendency of most people to overestimate their positive traits and underestimate their negative ones.

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SAP and Sybase Taking Action to Ensure No Mobile Developer Left Behind

Eric Lai, Senior Writer | December 19, 2011 in Mobile Data and Messaging,Mobile Industry,Mobility,Sybase News | Comments (0)

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The Sybase Unwired Platform has generated a fair amount of interest this past year from enterprise developers. But to be honest, there’s been frustration, too. (more…)