J. Gerry Purdy

With much fanfare, Apple announced the availability of its iCloud service on Oct. 12 for Macs, PCs and iOS mobile devices. For the most part, iCloud works as advertised. However, when used in an environment that includes Microsoft Outlook (without Exchange), iCloud doesn’t properly synchronize the user’s primary Calendar and Contacts. Naturally, iCloud works best […]

There have been a number of news stories lately-even making the Brian Williams Nightly News, that suggests wireless operators are collecting all sorts of personal information about everything a subscriber is doing with their smartphones, typically from a company called Carrier IQ. And what are operators doing with such information? Does it invade our privacy? […]

One of the big questions for mobile in 2012 is whether Nokia’s partnership with Microsoft will help Nokia regain a successful entry into the U.S. market, where the Finnish company has been conspicuously absent for the past couple of years. A lot could be decided this month as reports surfaced that T-Mobile and Nokia plan […]

We have finally reached a watershed moment in the world of Android tablets: Amazon with its newKindle Fire and Barnes & Noble with its new Nook Tablet are finally giving the Apple iPad a run for its money. It’s clear that both Amazon and B&N realize that theway to successfully compete with Apple is to […]

Motorola Mobility shareholders on Nov. 17 overwhelmingly approved Google’s $12.5 acquisition of the company. While friendly mergers typically result in 60 to 70 percent of stockholders approving the deal, the fact that 99 percent of Motorola’s shareholders approved Google’s offer shows the group believes the company would do better as a subsidiary of the search-engine […]

In the “old days” of the Internet (before 1996), Websites had to refresh each page if changes were made. This meant graphics and animation on different sites were very difficult to develop and ran poorly due to limited connectivity. Using the Web was like looking at a slide show: Just one page flipping after another. […]

Supporting, maintaining and accounting for mobile technologies-whether a laptop, smartphone or, now, a tablet-has never been easy for enterprise IT managers. Take the laptop, for instance, one of the first devices that left the corporate walls with road warriors, salespeople and executives on the go. At first, laptops weren’t always connected to the Internet, so […]

When Apple launched its iPhone 4S and the new iOS 5 on Oct. 4, the company also detailed its effort to bring more content to the cloud. Apple iCloud is a combination of free cloud-based services and a set of APIs that allow third-party developers to take advantage of storing and processing information in a […]

There was a time not too long ago-in 2006-when just about everyone had a BlackBerry. I know I did. It was the “gold standard” in enterprise mobility. Additionally, Research In Motion was beginning to offer versions of BlackBerry for consumers with special support for consumer email outside the company’s normal focus of enterprise through its […]

While mobile users may be naturally wary of having software report on what their cell phone is up to, there is an equally natural expectation that network quality, device performance and customer care meet the highest standards. Carrier IQ has balanced its need for information with the users’ privacy expectation with a model that delivers […]