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SAP and Sybase announce two mobile enterprise solutions for iPhone, WinMo

SAP and Sybase have partnered to push two applications for mobile workers looking to use their smartphones to conduct specific business processes. The two products are Sybase Mobile Sales for SAP... Read more...

Cisco announces 'Security without Borders' solution

Cisco announced a new architecture designed to help business users securely access information from any device and location. The Cisco Secure Borderless Network architecture focuses on four anchors:... Read more...

Report: Worldwide mobile workers to exceed 1 billion by 2011

Research firm IDC predicts that some 1.2 billion workers will be using enterprise mobility tools by 2011, a number that represents about one third of the total workforce worldwide. The firm forecasts... Read more...

Executives drive consumerization of mobility, but at high risks to the business

A few months ago in this column, I discussed how employees were pushing mobility forward on their own while IT was waiting on the sideline during the economic downturn. The message was that users... Read more...

AT&T, LG Electronics announce smartphone sporting 1-GHz processor

AT&T and LG Electronics are introducing a smartphone that packs a 1-GHz processor and includes a host of features for mobile professionals. Powered by Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.5, the device,... Read more...

While IT waits out the financial storm, employees push mobility forward

It's no shocker that 2009 has been a tough year on IT leaders. They have been asked to do more with less as the economy has placed unprecedented constraints on budgets: Yankee Group's 2009... Read more...

What is mobile healthcare? (Continued...)

(Continued from "What is mobile healthcare?") Stan Lee, the legendary comic book writer, coined a phrase for his Spider Man series "With great power, comes great responsibility." I can't think of a... Read more...

What is mobile healthcare?

Speaking to vendors, carriers, handset manufacturers and end-users on a daily basis, one of the questions that comes up most frequently is "Tell me Philippe, what's the industry in which you see the... Read more...

Live from CTIA: Samsung looking to make bigger push in enterprise

San Diego--Samsung, the world's second-largest handset supplier in terms of sales, announced a new initiative to increase its presence in the enterprise market and hailed Microsoft Windows Mobile as... Read more...

Microsoft, Nokia partnership raises questions about WinMo

Microsoft and Nokia made their alliance official last week, announcing a partnership that creates a mobile version of Microsoft Office on Nokia smartphones based on the Symbian platform in a bid to... Read more...