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

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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…)

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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What a difference a device makes.

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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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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 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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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 loves to drink its own champagne.

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

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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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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“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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