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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.
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My Favourite Mobile Phones
Today’s phones have a mindboggling array of features, but I still miss my Nokia 6110 and Sony CMD Z5.
Mobile Commerce Isn’t Just About Payments
I’ve said that retail payments may be the next ‘killer app’ for mobile wallets. But really, mobile commerce offers so much more that that, for enterprises and consumers.
Power-to-the-People Technology
With more companies adopting ‘bring-your-own-device’ policies, and more employees now also using personal apps at work managing mobility is getting more complicated. Still, it doesn’t have to be hard.
Make No Mistake: Mobility Will Transform Business
Mobile technology is transforming business—way beyond company email on our smartphones. Mobile’s next phase promises new and exciting business opportunities that challenge our notions of what’s possible.
What’s Your Mobile Game Plan?
Mobile is one of these ‘evolve or get left behind’ things. Not having a mobile strategy today is like not having an Internet strategy in the late ‘90s.
Much Ado About Showrooming
‘Showrooming’, or checking out products in physical stores before buying online for less, is getting a lot of bad press. Why not use the opportunity to proactively engage with customers in-store?
Getting Commerce Right with Mobile
Mobile’s ability to integrate technologies is what gives it the advantage it needs to become a standard for commerce.
The (Slow) Speed of Business
The speed of business: it might not be that fast today, but mobile promises to accelerate it.
Mobile Health Monitoring: SMS Keeps it Simple
In the midst of complicated new mobile medical technology and apps, SMS is still as useful as ever.
Were PCs Just a Blip?
The future is in thin clients. And so was the past. “The cloud” is taking us back to the future of the old client-server model.
I Need a Life Scrobbler
Advertisers should learn how to ‘scrobble’, or guess what we’ll be interested in based on what we already like. It works for Last.fm.
Speed Bumps on the Road to LTE
LTE provides consumers with a broadband-like mobile experience, and operators with increased network efficiency. So why isn’t it more widespread? Because there are still a few more speed bumps on the road.
Why Operators Are Launching LTE (Hint: It’s Not Download Speeds)
Mobile operators are working feverishly to upgrade their networks to LTE, and the main reason has nothing to do with consumer download speeds.
Why Consumers Should Care about LTE
4G LTE mobile networks will bring faster Internet on your mobile, including streaming music and video, video conferencing, faster downloads and more pictures. You’re going to like it.
What’s Driving LTE Services?
Mobile industry leaders say the main reasons operators are launching LTE are improved data speeds for customers and new IP-based services (which will drive new revenue for operators).