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Unifying UC and Mobility

on April 19, 2012 by Editor

When it comes to leveraging the magic combination of Unified Communications and mobility – and you can't deny that UC isn't really unified until it is mobile, especially in today's environment – an enterprise does have to take a few things into consideration

The factors to consider are spelled out well in a recent Tech Notes article by Gary Audin. For instance, a typical IT organization is going to have to support four distinct mobile profiles. They are the road warrior, the person who's always on the road visiting customers, for example; the teleworker, the person who works most or all of the time at home; the campus roamer, who's always at a meeting somewhere or on his or her way to one; and the nomad, who works outside the office but typically at a specific location, such as a client site. More...


4G in the Enterprise Ecosystem

on June 16, 2011 by Heidi Gigler

Enterprise workers do things differently today, and the demands for technology are great. What’s driving this revolution: Real-time communication and collaboration, instant access to information, a mobile workforce, and a craze for the latest devices and applications. All this makes doing business easier, but puts increasing demands on the enterprise network. More...


Latest M2M App is B2P (Body to Phone)

on January 17, 2011 by Wayne Ward

The following post is by guest blogger Wayne Ward who leads the Emerging Solutions Group at Sprint. This team is focused on embedded and machine-to-machine (M2M) solutions that takes wireless beyond the mobile phone by interconnecting a vast variety of electronic devices. More...


Five Best Business Apps for Mobile Professionals

on October 13, 2010 by Heidi Gigler

With so many mobile business applications on the market, here are a few of the best for business collaboration and productivity. More...


The User Interface is King

on August 17, 2010 by Christopher Glenn

Brad Reed at Network World describes how the new BlackBerry Torch could sink or swim based on its new operating system. I don't often write about mobile devices, but the thing that interests me about any converged device is how the operating system is stacked. In operating systems of old, the device was king and the user was but a knave.More...


The Latest Trends in Business-Class Smartphones

on June 03, 2010 by Heidi Gigler

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...


Where Enterprise Mobility is Going

on December 22, 2009 by Mark Ivey

Russ McGuire had a great chat recently with Strategy Analytics analyst and blogger Philippe Winthrop, discussing how the Mobility Revolution is shaping up and why it’s so critical for IT departments. Russ believes that the mobility movement will impact business as much as the earlier PC and Internet Revolutions, and companies should be rapidly preparing.More...


Ushering in Mobile 2.0 with the Palm Pre

on July 28, 2009 by Steve Parrott

More on the legacy of the Palm Pre, this time focusing on the potential of the Palm Mojo SDK (software development kit) and webOS to bring about the advent of Mobile 2.0. More...