Enterprise mobility is still in its early stages. People are figuring it out, and looking for ideas, feedback, best practices, and plain old conversation nearly anywhere they can find it. Especially when it comes to Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) approaches. Employees are pushing hard and IT is earnestly looking for ways to respond. How [...]
Computers are about 0s and 1s, right? Every bit has its place, and we keep inventing bigger computers to handle greater and greater precision. Which is great, say, if you are calculating your bank balance, or calibrating a laser for brain surgery. But as you leave the data center, you leave the land of computers [...]
Following on the heels of being named a Gartner Cool Vendor, we got another bit of good news here at Framehawk this week: we were named one of the finalists in the Red Herring Top 100 for North America. We’ll find out later in the week which start-ups get the final awards, but we’re pleased [...]
As I spend an inordinate amount of time on mobile devices, with networks ranging from great WiFi to LTE/4G to crappy coffee-shop WiFi, I have been watching a wonderful (and predictable) shift. Those who follow the Alsop-Louie-inspired Evernet predictions (I am a fan) will be happy to note my unsurprising “findings” — that you can find [...]
The enterprise client computing landscape includes a “cool” new player now: us. Gartner has named Framehawk a Cool Vendor for Client Computing 2013 (link requires a Gartner subscription). The write-up highlights four core things for an enterprise’s client computing initiatives: productivity, cost reduction, risk mitigation, and user flexibility. Says Gartner, “the current technologies available to IT [...]
Funny event yesterday: I was working on a laptop in a close conference room environment, when a colleague suggests to me, “Hey, we should move that here” and taps my screen. Normal behavior the last 20 years. But in this case, it was a Windows 8 laptop with a touchscreen — and they actually executed [...]
Just call me the fly on the wall. Not so long ago, I sat in on a number of behind-closed-doors customer conversations. The IT infrastructure folks were talking through their approach, strategy, concerns, and plans going forward for enterprise mobility. They were dealing with employees wanting to bring their own devices. They were struggling with [...]
Who says developers can’t act mature? Even in a world that included WebOS, Android, Windows, Symbian, and iOS, for a long time all I heard about was iOS Objective-C development. In 2011, I had one bank VP tell me that he expected to spend all of their money on iOS — even though that would risk [...]
Ok, it may not be popular to admit it, but I think Steve Jobs was wrong about touch. Or wrong about expecting simple beautiful designs. Or both. I don’t really believe that it is pragmatic to expect excellent app design to exist broadly. Don’t get me wrong, it is possible. I have seen wonderful apps that are [...]
You might have seen a little bit of chatter last week about a program to help with mobile security in enterprises that Symantec kicked off called “Symantec Sealed.” Framehawk is one of the partners involved in the program. In fact, our CMO Brad Murdoch was onstage during last week’s events discussing Symantec Sealed at their [...]