This week I want to feature a recent report that came out last week called "The Cross-over Mobile Device: Is meeting both Personal and Professional Needs Possible?"  In this report, Kneko Burney (President of Compass Intelligence) and Dan Blacharksi (Compass Contributing Analyst) discuss the future of mobile devices/phones where devices will have both consumer and business or personal and professional features, functionality, and applications.  We all know today all vendors generally s... [More]

Well first let's talk about some of the bad things going on with Sprint... THE BAD & UGLY (1) Loss of 1.09 million subscribers in the 1st Quarter of 2008 - This was not surprising, but continues to put pressures on the number 3 wireless company in the U.S.  If I were to just look at the top 4 (AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, & T-Mobile), Sprint represents only 22.2% of the market based on revenues and 23.8 percent of the market based on subscribers in 1Q 2008.  For revenue market sh... [More]

Happy Hump Day!  So I am back, and now it's time to talk about the growing mobile workforce.  The mobile workforce can include a number of different types of workers such as business travelers, mobile office workers, and telecommuters.  Of course many employees can fall into multiple categories.  I have attached a diagram that shows the number of employees in several categories for 2008, just to give you an idea.  But I also think it is important to look at the... [More]