A May-December marriage: Of all the system integrators it could have chosen to settle down with, why did Apple choose Unisys as its go-to-enterprise partner? One is riding high on record profits and its highest market valuation ever (about $281 billion, not too far off the world’s most valuable firm, the $338 billion ExxonMobile). The other reaps just 1/16th the revenue (and shrinking), and is past its prime by a quarter of a century.
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SAP had already made headlines last month when its CIO Oliver Bussmann disclosed plans to deploy as many as 17,000 iPads within the 48,000-employee company. But SAP won’t go Apple-only, as Bussmann plans for SAP to be fully “device-agnostic” on tablets.

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Americans like myself are usually blessed with the best selection of, well, just about every consumer good imaginable. The glaring exception, of course, is in the area of Internet connectivity, where many developing nations best us. (more…)

Few tech companies are like FaceBook or Apple, getting gobs of attention from the media. Instead, most focus on cultivating active-but-insular ecosystems of end users, developers and partners. Here, high-level information exchange can take place without the dumbing-down filter of journalists and bloggers.
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You won’t find a more influential group of mobile insiders than the keynote audience from last week’s CTIA conference in San Francisco. It’s a Star Chamber of the telecom elite, without the star-shaped room.
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As much as I like Windows 7 on my PC, I think that on a tablet, it will fit like a square peg in a round hole – at least for several years.
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At the CTIA conference last week, I visited Motorola’s massive booth to get a demo of the half-dozen Android smartphones it is bringing out this Christmas, accompanied by Sybase’s very able cameraman/producer, Barry Bishop.
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British comedian and actor Stephen Fry (Jeeves and Wooster, Blackadder, Wilde, Bones) is a huge nerd. For one thing, he’s six foot-five. For another, he records podcasts and writes newspaper columns where he openly promotes open-source software and Apple gadgets, runs a Twitter account nearing 2 million followers,and jokes that he’s never met a smartphone he didn’t buy.

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Motorola is spreading its bets on a half-dozen new Android smartphones as it seeks to regain its Razr-era glory days. At CTIA earlier this week, one of their reps showed me two phones:
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It’s the greatest, geekiest reason for a bar brawl since Barney Gumble punched Wade Boggs for arguing William Pitt (the Elder) was a better prime minister than Lord Palmerston: how much should RIM charge for its coming PlayBook enterprise tablet?

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Marketwatchers IDC Corp. forecast that global sales of media tablets – its term for the iPad/Android generation of tablets, not the homely, chunky pads carried by your delivery guy – will grow from 13.1 million this year to about 60 million in 2014. That’s an impressive compound annual growth rate of 46%.
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Peter Fish is an Australian toy inventor who lives in Hong Kong who may have perfected the wrist-watch phone worn by comic detective Dick Tracy decades ago. (more…)

Despite it being against the law, I’m one of tens of millions of Americans guilty of sneaking peeks at my iPhone while driving.
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This simmering issue was brought up by Sybase CEO John Chen during his keynote speech Tuesday morning at the CTIA conference in San Francisco.
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