Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
by Roger Yang is the CEO of Avema Critical Wireless Businesses of all shapes and sizes are struggling with the bring your own device (BYOD) phenomena. On one hand, BYOD is a boon. Employees get the devices they like. Often they pay for them out of their own pockets, and productivity goes up. On the…
by John Lytle of ISG Employees of large business enterprises are increasingly bringing iPads, iPhones, Android, and other devices to the office and using them for work-related purposes. This trend, the consumerization of IT or the bring your own device (BYOD) phenomenon, has CIOs concerned, and rightly so. The proliferation of personal electronic devices in…
Most adults in the U.S. say that they have seen people misuse mobile technology and most adults say mobile manners are worse now than in 2009. Because of the growing number of mobile devices the need for increased awareness of “mobile etiquette” is growing as is the impact of mobile technology on societal norms. Texting…
The postulation is not academic: millions of dollars in upcoming IT budget now ride on this question: Can (should) CIOs start cutting netbook budget allotments in favor of tablets? And that in turn raises a more foundational question: What has shifted the once derided and certainly ignored tablet into the category of must-have technology? First…
It’s prediction time again. Looking back on last year’s prediction column, I had one of my best years (as far as predictions go anyway) yet. Last year I forecast a continuingly troubled economy, slow growth for IT spending and a mostly jobless recovery. According to Gartner, enterprise IT spending grew by only 2.9 percent in…
Gartner analysts predict that Android will become the world’s second most popular smartphone platform by 2012, topping all platforms but Symbian. The research firm estimates that more than 31.8 million Android phones and 126 million Android-based portable products will ship in 2013. While I’m always a skeptic when it comes to analyst prognostications (you don’t…
Credit the iPad with this: it has triggered a huge hunger for tablets inside corporate America and, guess what, you cannot ignore this, not now. With Apple selling 3.3 million iPads in just its most recent quarter, suddenly tablet mania has hit the nation. “IT has lost control,” said Patrick Sweeney, vice president of product…
I know it’s beensaid many times in one form or another and it probably started right after Gutenberg invented the printing press in the 1400s and then again when radio hit the scene and definitely TV but it’s still going on today and getting worse. What am I talking about?: too much information from too…
I recently asked a Google spokesperson about how Android stacks up in the enterprise. She insisted that the Android is a consumer device – for now. “We plan to support more enterprise applications and features on top of our existing structure in the future, but we don’t have anything specific to share at this time,”…
Let’s face it, BlackBerry owns the enterprise mobile tech market. There’s no disputing that, but increasing numbers of analysts are raising the cry that RIM’s stranglehold is giving way to Google’s relentless Android charge. The headline news is that, by some counts, Android already outsells iPhone in all markets — Motorola happily reports it cannot…