I (and a lot of other people, it has to be said) have been tracking how mobile devices are driving consolidation of the devices and gadgets that we have in our lives. In this post (just re-posted from my internal IBM blog) I have listed a few of the things that died or are near death […]
March 19, 2013
Lots of gadgets are dying because smartphones are replacing them, Here is a list of some of the struggling items: watches (and stop watches etc) alarm clocks SatNavs PDAs Cameras Voice/audio recorders MP3 players (on the slippery slope) Bed side lamps toasters. home phones Laptops ? torches diaries TVs ? OK not toasters, just put […]
March 19, 2013
IBM and NSN have announced that they are putting app servers at the edge of the telco networks, so what does this mean ? This is a good thing: We are all using our phones and tablets more, and thus there is an ever increasing volume of data being handled over the mobile networks. This is a […]
March 11, 2013
There has been a lot of talk recently about “showrooming”. This is where a shopper comes into a retail store and looks around, and whilst in the store uses a mobile to lok up product details and or prices from online suppliers. Often this results in the shopper leaving the store and going home to […]
March 11, 2013
Here is a really simple flow to choose the level of platform you require. See an earlier post that describes what these platforms are. I have made some assumptions, in order to keep this as simple as possible, because once you start covering all the bases then it becomes unwieldy. I assume: The BYOD devices […]
March 11, 2013
As business become more and more reliant on Mobile apps then there is a need for firms to manage and control these apps and their usage. To that end there is are suite of new types of platform entering the market for mobile solutions, and while some have been around for a while they are starting to […]
March 19, 2013
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