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Hyperconnected

A stunning piece of advertorial from InfoWorld via Nortel’s sponsored IDC survey. a considerable number of what it calls “hyperconnected” users … those using at least seven devices and nine applications … accounted for 16 percent of the population in the study Behind the hyperconnected were the “increasingly connected,” who use four devices and as … Continue reading “Hyperconnected”

A stunning piece of advertorial from InfoWorld via Nortel’s sponsored IDC survey.

a considerable number of what it calls “hyperconnected” users … those using at least seven devices and nine applications … accounted for 16 percent of the population in the study

Behind the hyperconnected were the “increasingly connected,” who use four devices and as many as six applications and account for 36 percent of the population.

i don’t find this hard to believe considering that at home I have a heap of IP-enabled equipment: three routers, a desktop computer (iMac), three laptops (17″ Pro, Air and Asus eeePC) , a slingbox, a game console (Wii) one Internet tablet (Nokia N800), two iPhones and two other internet-capable phones (Nokia and Sony-Ericsson).

The article continues like an infomercial but points out that your local friendly neighbourhood It department may have to change the way they work to allow for more heterogenous workspaces and include platforms like mobile telephones, FaceBook or even game consoles (those that have web browsers built in). How frustrating is it that I can’t just connect to Facebook or LinkedIn to ask a question or to help me in resourcing a new place in my team. I end up having to go home and do my investigations there. IT departments are still driven by paranoia and fear, not for the loss of data, but for the loss of their job.

Unified communications, which is promoted by companies such as Microsoft and Nortel, will make an impact, according to IDC and Nortel. Networks will need to accommodate identity, presence, location, telephony and data.

And we see two companies uniquely qualified to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory by making these solutions expensive, proprietary and failure-prone.

I wouldn’t describe myself as hyper-connected even though I’m sitting at a desktop computer with a laptop in my bag, an internet tablet on my right and an iPhone on my left. We need to establish a platform for the hyperconnected, get ubiquitous network access (is this going to be Wifi, WiMax or 3/4G?) and improve the battery life of these devices. And we should get right to resolving these issues as soon as we’ve defeated poverty.

Kicking RIM’s ass

The big news about iPhone OS 2.0, due this summer, will be how much time Apple has been distracted from ‘making the best phone ever’ to ‘kicking RIM’s ass’. The stuff we know about iPhone OS 2.0 is that it supports VPNs (PPTP, L2TP/IPSec), SecureID and it’s going to do Exchange email, calendars and contacts … Continue reading “Kicking RIM’s ass”

The big news about iPhone OS 2.0, due this summer, will be how much time Apple has been distracted from ‘making the best phone ever’ to ‘kicking RIM’s ass’.

The stuff we know about iPhone OS 2.0 is that it supports VPNs (PPTP, L2TP/IPSec), SecureID and it’s going to do Exchange email, calendars and contacts which means there’s no reason to send your email to Blackberry’s Canadian servers for redistribution to your mobile clients. My own experience with Blackberry on the O2 network was not anything to write

RIM’s response to Apple’s upcoming software revision (likely with attendant hardware revision) is to release the Blackberry Bold, an iPhone-themed Blackberry with 3G. The problem being that the cellphone/PDA companies are doing exactly what the PC industry tried to do:

It’s stupid to compete on features.

The iPod didn’t win the industry because it was the best music player out there based on features, something that utterly frustrated Creative, Sandisk and Microsoft. It won because it did a few average features in the right way. It wasn’t the first hard disk player but it did it right. They even managed to release an MP3 player without a screen – something that would have been considered a real turkey by the mainstream – and became an overnight success.

Adding 3G to Blackberry won’t make it win. Like Microsoft, they have a commanding market share and the only way is down.

if the iPhone won’t come to the Enterprise, then…

iPhone is not available to business accounts in the US and iTunes balks at registering the iPhone to a non-residential address in the UK so it’s certainly not aimed at the Corporate Road Warrior but as I’ve blogged a lot recently, there certainly a lot of buzz about the iPhone and not just from consumers, … Continue reading “if the iPhone won’t come to the Enterprise, then…”

iPhone is not available to business accounts in the US and iTunes balks at registering the iPhone to a non-residential address in the UK so it’s certainly not aimed at the Corporate Road Warrior but as I’ve blogged a lot recently, there certainly a lot of buzz about the iPhone and not just from consumers, but from big business. SAP as previously discussed is bringing their product to the iPhone because their own people want it (and as we now know, the SAP client is being developed using a pre-release iPhone SDK here in Belfast).

Avaya, one of the big names in modern telephony, has also signed up to the iPhone and therefore lent it some serious credibility in the Enterprise.

Avaya one-X Mobile for iPhone will allow users to have access to visual voicemail, corporate directories, and VIP lists, all via an â€œenterprise-secureâ€ environment, and allow the iPhone to be used for both incoming and outgoing calls while maintaining usersâ€™ office identity.

Click for the flash demo (which, of course, you can’t view on an iPhone).

Nortel, (never the visionary) hasn’t leapt onto the bandwagon for either Contivity or their IP phone products. But then they’ve been hot on air and cold on “actually doing anything other than loudly collaborating with Microsoft”.

Good oh!

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