Some Thoughts While Waiting for iPad 3

Posted by on Mar 15, 2012 in Blog | 0 comments

As I followed last week’s big Apple announcement in the press room at CeBIT, the enormous technology trade fair that takes place each March in Hanover, Germany, I wasn’t particularly impressed one way or the other. It’s hard to get excited reading live blogs, and not seeing the presentation live. Oh sure I ordered one the next morning, but  like the iPad 1, this one isn’t for me — not really. It’s a present for my wife whose birthday dove-tailed nicely with this announcement. But as I sit and wait for the iPad 3 to arrive, I’ve been thinking about it...

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As Workers Go Mobile, IT Must Follow

Posted by on Jan 24, 2012 in Blog | 1 comment

Recent studies by IDC and ABI Research found what you probably already knew — that there are more smart phones and your workers are becoming increasingly mobile. And that’s going to have broad implications for IT. First of all let’s look at some of the trends. As an article on Integration developer news pointed out, research is confirming that smart phones are poised to take over. In fact the article, pointing to ABI Research results found that smart phone sales could surpass 50 percent, making it the first year that has happened. IDC reported that as recently as 2010, 75...

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Did Blackberry Outage Really Hurt Users?

Posted by on Oct 19, 2011 in Blog | 0 comments

Last week RIM got slammed when they had a worldwide outage of their Blackberry service for 3 days. It was not only embarrassing to the company, it cost them value and left some wondering if the brand would recover. First of all, it’s worth noting that up until that point, RIM had had a sterling reputation for up time. They hadn’t really had a major problem in 10 years, but at a time when RIM has been losing market share in the US in big numbers, it had an outage in the Europe, Middle East and Africa and that to really hurt because that’s the one area where RIM has been doing...

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Survey Finds Users are Dissatisfied with Mobile Retail Performance

Posted by on Jun 28, 2011 in Blog | 0 comments

A survey (free PDF download) conducted by the e-tailing group last March found that while more consumers are going online to make purchases on their mobile phones, many of them are still unimpressed with the mobile buying experience. And one of the key issues was connection speeds. The survey, which was sponsored by shopcoffeetable.com, a company that aims to bring retail catalogues to the iPad, reported that Barclay Capital found Mobile commerce sales in the United States are expected  to hit $5.3 billion in 2011, up 83 percent from a year ago and a recent Adobe survey found that 62 percent...

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Five Trends From the Velocity Conference

Posted by on Jun 20, 2011 in RUM Articles | 0 comments

by Alon Ben-Shoshan I spent several days last week at the O’Reilly Velocity Conference in Santa Clara, CA. As I walked the halls, listened to keynotes and attended sessions I came away with five clear trends in web site monitoring. While this conference is certainly on the geeky side, there are trends that even the biggest technophobe among us can understand. It’s a Mobile World It’s not exactly news that smart phones running operating systems like iOS from Apple and Google Android are having a huge impact on web site owners. It forces web site owners to tune their sites...

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