In October ’09, Sprint announced that its Emerging Solutions Unit would be focused on accelerating the delivery of M2M and mobile computing solutions. Now four months later, Paget Alves, President, Sprint Business Markets Group, shares his thoughts with us about the company’s M2M strategy and market opportunity, including industry examples. This will help you understand why there's growing interest in this technology, and Sprint's unique role. More...

For an enterprise to utilize 3G or 4G – or for that matter, embracing wireless access as a strategy – is something that many companies are giving serious thought to, especially now that 4G is steadily spreading across the country, market by market. More...

On December 29^th, Information Week announced that a German computer scientist cracked the encryption algorithm that secures 80% of the world's mobile phones. This means more than 3 billion mobile users, in over 200 countries, could be compromised. That sounds big, but just how big is the threat, and what does it mean to your enterprise? More...

What if hotspots became harder to find?

As this Wall Street Journal story pointed out recently, some coffee shops and  restaurants that once welcomed laptop-toting “customers” to use their hot spots are becoming less hospitable. Maybe it wasn’t a big deal earlier when these visitors lingered for hours over a cup of coffee while they worked on their computers. But the recession changed all that, and now store owners are fretting that they’re hoarding tables that could be used for the revenue-producing lunch crowd. More...

To appreciate the value of unified communications, the emphasis really needs to be on “unified” versus “communications.” Any organization can communicate, with almost unlimited options for how they do it. But it takes a special mix of technologies and capabilities to make those communications truly unified. This allows the people involved to function as one tight and highly effective unit. More...

Sometimes wireless isn’t just a good choice, it’s the only practical choice. For one particular Sprint customer, a truly mobile part of its business wouldn’t have been possible without the ability to set up and tear down connectivity quickly. More...

It’s partly our fault for not speaking up sooner, but Sprint has gotten tagged with the reputation of a company that just isn’t serious about its wireline business. This is so far off the mark that it would almost be funny, if we weren’t the butt of the joke. More...