Tagged: mobility

Blackberry Bold – the good the bad and the great

My trustworthy Blackberry 8800 was upgraded to a Bold last week and after much anticipation I can definitely say it’s been a very worthwhile upgrade.  I’ve made these notes which might help anyone considering or receiving a bold in the near future. Background I’ve previously been an enthusiastic user of...

Key questions for VDI

I’ve been trying to work through the key questions that need to be answered about VDI by anyone comparing it to the obvious alternatives, these being: A laptop A physical desktop A client side virtual machine, copied or streamed to the PC A web application portal A server hosted desktop...

I’ve been reading about the future of mobile IT

I’m currently working on our Mobile working strategy and by chance I happened to be reading Hominids which has a wonderful description of a mobile Companion device and sensors.  The concept of use was pretty inspirational and reminded me of the even more futuristic vision of “Jane” in the Ender...

Mobile users are happier?

I’m a mobile worker and a happy one, but I can imagine that lots of mobility projects just provide more burdens on the time of already stressed out employees.  The whole always on, can’t go 5 minutes without email culture seems to be replacing face to face contact and telephone...

Mobile audio has a long way to go

Strange though it might seem I think handling of audio is one of the weakest features of every SmartPhone I have ever had.  These are some of the things I want to do: Listen to music or Podcasts, with automatic bookmarking so I don’t loose my place.  While listening I...

SSE gets a Microsoft implementation – FeedSync

It’s really nice to see some progress at last on SSE, ie it’s implementation by Microsoft as FeedSync. Jon Udel covers it.  Of course right now there are no examples of it really being used, but maybe the creation of FeedSync was needed before people would really consider it stable...

OnSpeed – a must have for 3G/GPRS users

While I was at my in-laws this weekend I didn’t have broadband so I installed OnSpeed to improve performance of my GPRS connection.  I have been pretty impressed, here are the main advantages: For me OnSpeed seems to compress data by an average of 3-4 times, of course OnSpeed claims...