Momentum for Enterprise Mobile Apps – Workday, Salesforce.com and Box.net
Mobile is fast becoming one of the key ways that many employees choose to do work. Tablet computing devices are proving to be very flexible and functional for mobile workers and open up a much broader set of capabilities that could be accessed on the larger form factor. The limiting factor, at least from the [...]
Putting Personal Choice into Enterprise IT?
Corporate IT is about standardization, control, governance, compliance, IP protection and enterprise security not about personal choice and empowerment, or at least it was. There’s a growing movement though towards employee empowerment and personal. Now admittedly some of the movement…
10 things iPad rivals must do to compete with the Apple – Quick Analysis
If you’re going to compete against the might iPad, here’s 10 things you should do. Good luck storming the castle!
CES 2011 Report
The CES this year had about 140K attendees, a significant increase over last year’s attendance. More importantly, 30K of these attendees were international. Last year was good for consumer electronic sales, particularly the Christmas season, so that buoyed the attendees spirits. This was another show demonstrating CE evolution rather than revolution. As I wrote last [...]
RIA is Dead – Adobe MAX 2010
It seems like Adobe has finally realized the value of the web over Flash, giving them a fighting chance where once they seemed a little too “let them eat cake.”
Apple vs. Android – Appcelerator/IDC developer survey – Quick Analysis
Developers are longing for a more open mobile platform, results from one survey contends.
HP’s Pad UI Printer: We Need More Thinking Like This!
What a fabulous idea: spend $399 for a pad and get a free printer! That’s the idea behind HP’s Photosmart eStation printer, and I love it. In fact, we need more thinking like this. Why continue to offer difficult hardware pushbutton UI on so many devices when a pad interface lets you offer a much richer [...]
The Notebook Sales Crash
Year on year sales growth for Notebooks have entered negative territory for the first time ever: Notebook Sales Crash It was already underway before the iPad was launched, but I’m sure the iPad hasn’t helped. Looks to me like the whole thing is a victim of this massive recession we’re still finding ourselves in. And [...]
Thoughts On The Dell Streak: I like the form factor. But then I don’t wear skinny jeans.
Folks have been clambering over themselves to praise the new 7 inch Samsung Tab after its launch at IFA last week, but I have been playing with Dell’s 5 inch screen entry in the tablet game for a month already, so I thought I should get a few notes down for context. Pros Display – [...]
The Kno is Not a Tablet. It’s a Workout Device
Seriously. At 5 and a half pounds it’s not exactly a lightweight tablet you would want to hold for hours. I have a very simple test for you: if you have an average 14”-15” laptop around, flip it open, hold it vertically, just like this: … and tell me how long you could comfortably hold [...]
