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.
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?In my original post, I suggested that RIM could get away with a retail list price of $1,500.
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.
The Earzee is a modern spin on the Dick Tracy wristwatch phone, but even more sneaky.
Safe 2 Text is a new smartphone app that may help texting and e-mail addicts from giving into temptation while driving.
There was some interesting gadgets on display at this year's MobileFocus show running concurrently with the CTIA conference.
This simmering issue was brought up by Sybase CEO John Chen during his keynote speech Tuesday morning at the CTIA conference in San Francisco.As reported by the Washington Post, Chen said that "advocacy groups" are pushing the government to regulate mobile app stores.
Type in BlackBerryPlayBook.com and you'll end up eyeballing probably the most gadget-licious tablet announced yet.
Running business apps on an iPad can be much faster on an iPad than on a regular Windows laptop. Just ask telecom vendor, Tellabs.
One-third of Americans say that they want a keyboard with their tablet. Should manufacturers respond? Or should the longtime failure of convertible laptop/tablets to take off make them wary?
There will soon be dozens of Android tablets on the market. But in terms of what most consumers want, there is still a Platonic ideal.