Event Report: The #CES2021 Preview – What’s Hot And Useful In The Enterprise
Virtual CES Kicks Off The Conference Season For 2021 Source: R Wang This year’s CES will be all virtual as with all pandemic events. Last year they brought in more than 171,000 guests, 6500 press and media, and had almost 3 million net square feet of exhibits with 4419 exhibiting companies. As one of the […]
Gartner’s Mobile App Store Forecast Predicts $26B in Sales, 102B Downloads in 2013
Gartner’s latest Mobile App Store Worldwide Forecast predicts annual downloads will increase 59.38% from 64 billion in 2012 to 102 billion in 2013. Worldwide revenue is forecast to also increase 44.45%, from $18B in 2012 to $26B in 2013. Here are additional key take-aways from the Gartner Mobile App Store Forecast that was published this week: Free applications are […]
Why Enterprises Need To Address The Mobile Trust Gap
Only 30% of employees trust their employers to keep personal data private while 80% are using personal phones and tablets at work. This wide gap in trust needs to be bridged quickly if enterprises are going to get the most business value from their mobility investments and strategies. These findings and are from the MobileIron […]
What’s Hot In CRM 2013: Strong Interest In Mobile For Streamlining Sales And Service
Gartner published the report What’s Hot in CRM Applications in 2013, by Ed Thompson on June 20, 2013. The report covers areas of interest by clients in the four areas of marketing, sales, customer service and e-commerce. The report states that “the 2013 What’s Hot list was compiled after examining Gartner inquiry volumes by topic. […]
Roundup of Mobile Apps & App Store Forecasts, 2013
Faced with shorter time-to-market schedules, challenging cost constraints, and ever-increasing customer expectations, manufacturers are accelerating their use of mobility applications. They’re also using them to galvanize production, finance and selling strategies into a unified direction so customers’ expectations can better set and exceeded. One manufacturer’s CIO summed it up well when he said they hit […]
HTML5 – A Wonder Drug
I was reading up on some of the commentary surrounding Amazon’s release of an HTML5 reader, one of the best comes from Constellation’s Charles Brett: Amazon’s announcement of its Kindle Cloud Reader, based around HTML 5, is a wonder of irony. Apple has successfully been taking 30% of purchases made via anything bought through an […]
The Irony of Mobile Users Preferring Apps Over Web
Apparently, mobile users prefer apps over the web. At least that’s Gowalla CEO Josh Williams’ view: “People love apps, but it drives a stake in the heart of the build-once-deploy-everywhere model, and makes the market really fragmented.” I’m not surprised. Heck, I prefer apps too. But the irony is that Apple has but a bullet […]
