How many times have we made the point that Unified Communications has to be mobile in order to be truly unified? That's a rhetorical question – we don't expect you to know the answer – but let's just say that we've said it a lot.

So you can imagine how heartened we were by a recent survey, reported in a Network World article, that shows a distinct increase in demand by users for mobile UC. This survey of businesspeople in the U.S. and two other countries showed that workers are often frustrated when it comes to their existing communications options. More...

Facebook just reached its billionth customer, and the resounding focus for the next billion is mobile, says CEO Mark Zuckerberg. It’s no surprise that more people every day are communicating and conducting business on smartphones and tablets.

Already, more mobile phones are being shipped around the world than computers. In fact, based on sheer numbers alone, almost everyone in the world has a mobile phone. There were one billion active subscribers in 2000, and almost six billion today. With a  world population of just over seven billion, the business opportunity for mobile is big. More...

By now, most enterprises are dealing with implementing an evolving mobile strategy. Some are further than others in terms of penetration among employees. Much insight can be gleamed from these real-life  enterprise experiences. Here’s a look at some of the lessons: More...

Sometimes you read a headline online that just makes you feel like the world is heading in the right direction. That happened the other day, with this article on TMCnet. It proclaims, “Mobility and UC: A Match Made in Heaven.” More...

There's a lot of hype about cloud computing and mobility these days. In fact, Marc Ferranti comments in Network World that the venture capital market is opening up to more investments in social networking and cloud computing. It seems like a lot of people (and the smart money folks) do indeed "get it." That said, what some still fail to see is how mobility is a key enabler and driver of all of this activity. More...

Last month, I wrote that “the days of two-phone living may just be numbered” in a post focusing on how the mobile phone is clearly becoming the dominant device in corporate America. Now Gartner is pinning down that number, with a prediction that by 2011, North American enterprises will be supporting more mobile phones than desktop phones. More...

Most of us have gotten so used to coping with two phones that we don’t give much thought to what work life would be without that juggling act. You know how it goes: Check both voice mails several times a day, take the call on your mobile phone even though you’re sitting right there by your deskphone, make sure your business card always shows both your office and mobile numbers, etc. More...