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The iPad, iPhone, Amazon Kindle Fire in the Enterprise

In our ongoing series on mobile and wireless trends, we spoke with the Managing Director of the Enterprise Mobility Foundation (EMF), Philippe Winthrop. The EMF is an independent think tank providing thought leadership through the Enterprise Mobility Forum, the largest...

Posted in Schwartz MSL Crossroads on April 9, 2012 10:18 AM

Steve Jobs remembered

Steve Jobs passed away yesterday. The news came to me last night the same way it did for many others: via a post on my Facebook news feed. I didn’t read it on my iPhone because I was at home,...

Posted in Schwartz MSL Crossroads on October 6, 2011 8:05 AM

I Pay Money For New York Times Content

In college, I got into the habit of reading the physical copy of the New York Times every day. Granted, that was in the mid 1990s, but I still read primarily the print copy of the paper even today. Over...

Posted in Schwartz MSL Crossroads on April 1, 2011 1:55 PM

Earthquakes shake CTIA

Two earthquakes shook up the mobile industry leading up to CTIA. The first was the earthquake in Japan. The second was AT&T's decision to acquire T-Mobile.In Japan, Sony Corp. disclosed Friday that six of its manufacturing plants that make devices and...

Posted in Schwartz MSL Crossroads on March 22, 2011 2:06 PM

Macworld Musings

Macworld is in full swing and going strong this week in San Francisco (Note: Schwartz does PR for the event, but I am not on the team). It was interesting to see the transformation of Macworld over the years. iPhone...

Posted in Schwartz MSL Crossroads on February 12, 2010 9:14 PM

Can you overhype a mobile device?

Conventional wisdom is that there is no such thing as overhyping your product, particularly when you are competing against a marketing juggernaut like Apple. Palm definitely followed the CW with the launch of the Palm Pre. The Pre was positioned...

Posted in Schwartz MSL Crossroads on September 16, 2009 2:23 PM

Practice safe text

The mobile industry is in a conundrum. Companies from Apple to Blackberry to Nokia to Qualcomm are all pushing to make the mobile phone the ubiquitous computing device, wherever ever you are, whatever you are doing. With the growth of...

Posted in Schwartz MSL Crossroads on August 30, 2009 4:17 PM