By Eric Y Lai on Oct 19, 2012 in Uncategorized | 0 Comments
Mobile won’t deliver on the dream of the paperless office, as I argued earlier this week. We’ll read more on our tablets and even smartphones, for sure. But the ability to access and read those files on our devices also whets our appetite to print them, too.
By Eric Y Lai on Oct 12, 2012 in Uncategorized | 0 Comments
I made it to my first SAP TechEd conference last year. Not this year, which is a pity, since there are over 100 sessions related to mobile. I may not be able to make to the Venetian/Palazzo Congress Center, but I still plan to attend TechEd virtually, watching sessions and talks viaSAP’s broadcast platform. Sessions begin at [...]
By Eric Y Lai on Sep 19, 2012 in Uncategorized | 0 Comments
CurriculumLoft is the maker of the Kuno, perhaps the most successful Android challenger to date against the iPad in K-12 schools.
By Eric Y Lai on Sep 12, 2012 in Uncategorized | 0 Comments
There was a ton of news from Apple’s event today, many of which may have sounded earthshattering to those nattering away on Twitter (raises hand), but upon more reflection, are probably irrelevant to those of us in the enterprise and business worlds.
By Eric Y Lai on Sep 11, 2012 in Uncategorized | 0 Comments
First, it was the Scandinavian-style Smorgasbord. Later, it was Old Country Buffet.
By Eric Y Lai on Jul 31, 2012 in Uncategorized | 0 Comments
SAP has lowered formerly-forbidding barriers for mobile developers to build within its ecosystem. Here’s the announcement from Monday. It boils down to four things: 1) A free 30-day trial to SAP’s lauded mobile app development platform, SUP, and the market-leading SAP ERP application; 2) Access to the above software, including a downloadable SDK, via the Amazon Web [...]
By Eric Y Lai on Jul 24, 2012 in Uncategorized | 0 Comments
IDC has been surveying mobile developers for the past two years. In mid-May, it polled more than 3,500 developers in a survey sponsored by platform vendor and SAP partner, Appcelerator, to gauge their feelings about Apple versus Google in the enterprise, their interest in Windows 8/Microsoft Surface, what their pain points are, and more. Here [...]
By Eric Y Lai on Jun 21, 2012 in Uncategorized | 0 Comments
Kids these days. Did you know that more than half (55%) of twenty-somethings around the world think that Bring Your Own Device policies at work are a right, not a privilege?
By Eric Y Lai on Jun 11, 2012 in Uncategorized | 0 Comments
Without a new iPhone 5, iOS 6 became the mobile star of Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference keynote today.
By Eric Y Lai on Jun 7, 2012 in Uncategorized | 0 Comments
In last year’s Mobility Manifesto, I called for workers to rise up and demand that their bosses empower them with the mobile devices and apps that would make them more productive and happier at work.