Mobile is more than flashy gadgets. It's about brilliant apps, useful tools and sound strategies for your enterprise to get the most out of them. Diarmuid Mallon interprets and analyzes the latest mobile trends.
Diarmuid Mallon is the Lead, Global Marketing Solutions & Programs – Mobile, which includes the SAP Mobile Services division and SAP Mobile solutions. He has worked in the mobile industry since 1996. Follow him here at UberMobile and @diarmuidmallon.
Apple's iPad tablet is continuing to invade schools and enterprises, with news of Medtronic's 4,500 iPad deployment and Long Island University now at 6,000. Here's the list of the 20 largest adopters.
In some quarters, the iPad is still dismissed as a non-productivity tool. But there are at least half a dozen ways to view/edit Microsoft Office documents on an iPad. Here's a roundup, with reviews.
The list of iPad deployments in businesses and schools continues to grow - fast.
From Gartner to IDC to In-Stat to Morgan Stanley to DisplaySearch to Oppenheimer, here are the market forecasts for tablets like the iPad -- sliced and diced for your analytical pleasure.
Apple and Unisys may seem like a baffling partnership for bringing the iPad and iPhone to the enterprise and government markets. But Unisys does bring a number of important things to this marriage.
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Akamai Technologies' updated list of user mobile browsing speeds by carrier and country shows the U.S. lagging behind many developing nations.
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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.
Microsoft won't bring out Windows Phone 7 for tablets, despite its strong reviews. Instead it will push Windows 7. Here are five theories why it made that call.