Archive for January, 2011
Eric Lai, Senior Writer | January 27, 2011 in Mobile Data and Messaging,Mobile Industry,Mobility | Comments (0)
Tags: Afaria, Android, featurephone, iPad, laptops, mobile device management, tablet, touchscreen
There were many objections to my blog yesterday in support of market researcher Canalys’s move to reclassify tablets as full-fledged PCs. Some were very thoughtful, I can’t deny that.
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Eric Lai, Senior Writer | January 26, 2011 in Mobile Data and Messaging,Mobile Industry,Mobility | Comments (1)
Tags: Afaria, Android, Apple, iPad, iPhone OS 4, IT department, laptops, mobile device management, tablet
Market research firm Canalys made a gutsy move today: it became the first major market tracker to start lumping consumer tablets like the iPad and Samsung Galaxy Tab together with other PCs.
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Eric Lai, Senior Writer | January 13, 2011 in Mobile Data and Messaging,Mobile Industry,Mobility | Comments (0)
Tags: Afaria, Bring Your Own Device, iPad, IT department
Seton Hill University was one of the first schools to announce (way back in March, before the iPad was available) that it would give iPads to all of its students.
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Eric Lai, Senior Writer | January 12, 2011 in Mobile Data and Messaging,Mobile Industry,Mobility | Comments (0)
Tags: Afaria, apps, Bring Your Own Device, CIO, IT department, MEAP, SAP, SUP, tablet
Two months ago, I argued “Why Mobile Business Apps Will Flower in 2011“. My blog post got some backlash from readers who didn’t believe that companies were starting to understand the benefits mobility could bring them.
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Eric Lai, Senior Writer | January 11, 2011 in Mobile Data and Messaging,Mobile Industry,Mobility | Comments (0)
Tags: Afaria, Apple, AT&T, iPad, iPhone, iPhone OS 4, IT department, MDM, Verizon
Gartner’s Hype Cycle seems so quaint these days. Seemingly within minutes of Verizon’s iPhone 4 launch on Tuesday morning, BNET’s Damon Brown had a post up arguing that the Verizon iPhone is “not for serious business professionals.”
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Eric Lai, Senior Writer | January 6, 2011 in Mobile Data and Messaging,Mobile Finance and Banking,Mobility | Comments (0)
Tags: Afaria, Apple, ARM, blackberry, developers, dual-core, iPhone OS 4, multitasking, tablet
Dual-core devices are generating the most excitement at CES this year. The LG Optimus 2X, aka the second stab at the SuperPhone. Motorola’s matching Atrix smartphone and its Xoom tablet. The lurking BlackBerry PlayBook. Even the so-far-absent but much-rumored iPad 2.
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Eric Lai, Senior Writer | January 5, 2011 in Mobile Data and Messaging,Mobile Industry,Mobility | Comments (0)
Tags: Afaria, Android, Apple, featurephone, iPhone OS 4, keyboard, mobile device management, smartphone, superphone
Silicon Valley marketers pump out tech jargon like a teenage girl changes her clothes (sorry Katy Perry).
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