So last week, in my post called "The Pendulum Swings Toward the Cloud," I talked about how even caches of cloud-based elements could exist in the LAN of the future to cut down on the round-trip time into and out of the cloud. Really, this issue can’t be over-emphasized. I have used the leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications over a network, and I don't think many executives appreciate the extent to which latency makes or breaks a SaaS application. More...

Anyone who pays much attention to the “mobile device” scene knows that consumers rule. The market is all about style, creating buzz with the device, and loading up on its fun and games capabilities. If somebody can use it for business, fine, but that’s not what matters. More...

Police in Annapolis, Maryland are thanking the deployment of Sprint's 4G technology for helping put some bad guys in jail.More...

The magic three: the smartphone, the laptop, and the desktop VoIP phone, arguably are the business-class devices most professionals agree they can’t live without.  While the VoIP phone may not exactly be a “mobile” device, VoIP technologies have enabled employees to work outside the bounds of the traditional corporate office space. This includes “mobile VoIP” where a mobile handset can be integrated into a VoIP network. More...

Mark your calendar for June 9. You won’t want to miss the annual Enterprise Connect Virtual Event (formerly VoiceCon), where you can interact with exhibitors, sponsors, and fellow attendees in a 3D environment, without leaving your office. More...

My first thought, as I started speaking to the audience at the Security Forum in New York a few weeks ago, was that this is going to be a tough crowd. The topic was “Securing the Wireless Workforce,” and from comments and body language, I could tell that these folks (members of the Technology Managers Forum) had real doubts about “wireless” and “security” even being mentioned in the same breath. More...

Devices matter.  At first glance, people may think of devices as a commodity – just “plug and play”.  Today’s mobile devices, particularly the smartphone may be limited by the provider, the applications available, the operating system, the number of features based upon an IT policy, or even compatibility and coverage, etc. More...

All computing used to be cloud computing. I remember playing Oregon Trail on a teletype dialed into the Minnesota Education Computing Consortium's mainframe (that was cloud computing). It was only after the client-server revolution that the pendulum swung the other direction away from the cloud and the game was thereafter distributed on floppy and CD to elementary schools outside of Minnesota. More...

If you have any doubt 4G is real and ready, you can take the word of our bloggers--or get it straight from the horse's mouth, Sprint customers. More...

I’ve written before about the plight of the “forgotten globals,” those global companies that are not quite big enough to deserve the front-of-the-cabin, can-I-get-you-some-wine treatment from most of the biggest telecom carriers (Sprint being a notable exception), even though in many cases they need the expert attention even more than the biggest enterprises. More...