Business Decision-makers are playing key role in mobile solutions purchasing.   Based on a recent Compass Intelligence survey, line-of-business decision-makers are becoming more influential on IT purchasing across industries  These IT purchasing decisions, generally made by directors, managers, or executive levels, are finding that employees of all ranks are becoming more influential on purchasing mobile and wireless devices and solutions.  Some recent research finding... [More]

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  Touchscreen Smartphone Update Really cool news.  I always like competition and it is about time there are more devices entering into the smartphone market.  Now this may not be good for Blackberry (RIM) and iPhone (Apple), but competitive devices will only make these devices better and customer friendly.  And, eventually these devices will have more business functionality and applications, which I believe is going to really put competitive pressure on the entire smartp... [More]

Mobile POS and Mobile CRM I am always interested in any new mobile applications making their way into the business world.  There were a few that caught my eye this morning.  The first is Mobile Point-of-Sale and the second is Mobile CRM.  Mobile point-of-sale can be great for a number of industries and especially retailers, street vendors, sports venue vendors, conference vendors, and yes even taxi drivers.  Sprint and VeriFone just announced a collaboration to equi... [More]

Who does online shopping for business purposes? The answer is everyone, from self employed professionals to employees of multinational enterprises, from school teachers to utility workers. Recently we surveyed over 20,000 US professionals on their internet usage, 48% of the professionals we surveyed claimed that they purchased products and services online monthly or more frequently for business purposes. The following chart shows the survey results segmented by the size of business. 68% of the p... [More]