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 [...]
If you really dig into the ways that mobile devices are affecting application development in the enterprise, the only real conclusion you can come to is that the impact of the iPad and its brethren is quite profound. I’ve been chatting with Forrester’s Jeffrey Hammond and reading his research on mobility’s impact, and he doesn’t [...]
After thinking about my piece on BlackBerry and the reasons for their strength in the enterprise, I realized why Samsung cannot claim victory with their new KNOX model. They are missing something. There are many good and critically important things about the Samsung KNOX. Both Ryan Faas’ article in CITEWorld and Jack Madden’s article at BrianMadden.com are good reads about the impact of dual [...]
I have been watching the BlackBerry announcements and strategy analysis with the same curiosity that many in our industry share. Whether you are Canadian, wish-to-be-Canadian, or aware-that-Canada-exists, if you’ve spent the past 15 years in the technology marketplace, you likely have a soft spot for the Waterloo firm that broke the mold for personal productivity. [...]
Apparently the folks in charge of mobile security at large organizations these days don’t trust anyone. Or anything. And I’m betting that’s not such a bad approach. We ran a webcast recently about mobile data security and asked a few questions about the state of mobile security that ended up being pretty telling. We asked [...]
In and around the recent TabTimes Tablet Strategy event in San Francisco, I heard a few interesting tidbits that I thought were worth sharing. Some of the best comments came from enterprises talking about their tablet roll-out experiences. But there were also some great comments from a few of the vendors (shocking, I know), and [...]
For every new technology, the holy grail is always to find the “killer app.” That phrase existed long before “app” referred to a little beveled square on your iPad. The killer app for the PC was arguably two: word processing and spreadsheets. (Anyone remember WordStar or Visicalc?) For the Internet, it was email, later enabled [...]
The number of mobile devices being introduced is creating a staggeringly fractured marketplace. This fracturing causes issues for developers as well as consumers. And it’s not just being caused by tablets, but also by laptop-esque touchscreens with instant-on and the like. Developers…where do you put your scarce resources for building applications? Consumers….which product do you [...]
The flurry of new mobile devices continues. Consumers (who look a lot like your employees) love them. And they naturally want to use them in their (er, your) enterprise IT environment. And that’s where the problems start. It seems like it would be simple to introduce tablets and other mobile devices into the enterprise. But [...]
When I used to run IT operations at a software CRM company called Clarify, I recall the staff lunches we used to go to in the South Bay. We would go to a restaurant and because of the bulky phones, etc., people would invariably toss their devices onto the table. Which then became a game [...]