Philippe Winthrop over at the Enterprise Mobility Forum Blog has a great little post with a couple of points about the rise of BYOD (bring your own device) policies in the workplace. In spite of the data management and security concerns, he argues that BYOD is here to stay, and that there’s nothing wrong withContinue Reading

TechCrunch reports that Microsoft has started soliciting ideas about Windows Phone 7 from users via an online suggestion box. We’d love to see Microsoft really pay attention to the suggestions submitted by users of previous Windows Phones. By collecting all feedback in a central location and allowing readers to vote on suggestions, Microsoft has createdContinue Reading

Did you know that Americans spend $2 billion a year on unauthorized and fraudulent third-party charges on their fixed accounts? According to the national Commerce, Science, and Transportation committee, which has released a year-long study of telephone billing in America, unauthorized telecom charges are becoming increasingly common. The problem, which affects both private and corporateContinue Reading

If you use a smartphone regularly for doing business, checking email, or surfing the web, or if your company wireless policy includes corporate-responsible mobile accounts that provide smartphones, don’t forget to keep yourself apprised of the latest changes in the way that carriers are billing for data usage. As carriers transition away from unlimited dataContinue Reading

Continuing on the subject of tablet computers, MobileEnterprise has published an excellent breakdown of some of the enterprise mobility concerns faced by businesses whose employees have begun using smartphones and tablets in the office. The article is a detailed breakdown of the benefits, challenges, and concerns faced by an enterprise and its employees in anContinue Reading

A few days ago, Microsoft purchased Skype for $8.5 billion. Love them or hate them, Microsoft is still a power to be reckoned with in the technology world, and GigaOm shares some good insight as to why the Skype purchase is a savvy move. Most interesting to us was the suggestion of integrating Skype withContinue Reading

The news is abuzz in the past couple of weeks with stories of privacy violations by smartphone manufacturers, cloud computing systems, and even video game companies. Rather than follow one particular piece of news, we at Advantix have a serious question for you to consider: do your telecom policies protect you? As mobility becomes moreContinue Reading

AOTMP has released the newest installment in its Enterprise Performance Series. Titled “Mobile Device and Application Management,” the report includes provides up-to-date industry benchmarks used in identifying and defining risk in mobile device management adoption. What is sure to be troubling for many enterprises out there today is that the majority of them are atContinue Reading

AT&T has announced that they have entered into an agreement with Deutsche Telekom to purchase T-Mobile USA, reducing competition and making AT&T the largest provider in the US. This is expected to improve AT&T coverage in previous roaming area as AT&T takes over the T-Mobile network. Not everybody is happy to hear the news–Gizmodo breaksContinue Reading

Verizon officials appear optimistic about continued robust growth in 2011.