Today's Top Stories Enterprise mobility management will not become easier anytime soon--and CIOs should be skeptical of single, silver-bullet solutions, says a new report from GigaOm Research. It's a complex space, thanks to consumerization, the proliferation of cloud-based services and purchasing authority moving toward lines of business, says the report. "The mobility mess will get worse for quite some time before it gets better," writes Cormac Foster, the report author. "Until the mobility market coalesces and its rate of innovation slows, no EMM [enterprise mobility management] single vendor's solution will address all the most demanding enterprise's management needs, increasing the number of multivendor integrations," he adds. In the short term, enterprises should expect to stand up overlapping technologies and should look for solutions that pair well; consulting and support services will also appeal to CIOs. Longer term, a wave of acquisitions seem inevitable, writes Foster. The GigaOm Research report, offered as a premium service through the tech news website, compares several popular enterprise mobility management vendors based on their strategies and strengths related to five "disruption vectors." The most important enterprise mobility disruption vector, according to Foster, is "platform proliferation". It's followed by "enterprise distribution," "compliance, risk and governance," "value-driven metrics" and, finally, the least weighted is "enterprise mobility management as IT management". Based on these disruption vectors, GigaOm says AirWatch, Citrix and MobileIron are best positioned to address the widest range of concerns with one solution. Foster notes that although some vendors are claiming mobile device management is dead, it is "firmly entrenched within enterprises." While MDM will hold steady, mobile application management will rise sharply over the next two years. "The MDM and MAM approaches each complement the other, evinced by nearly every vendor in the space building or partnering its way into offerings on both sides of the aisle," writes Foster. For more:
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Windows Phone overtook iOS as the most popular smartphone operating system in Italy this summer, according to the latest stats from research firm Kantar Worldpanel ComTech. Riding on the back of Nokia's popularity in Europe and Latin America, Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system running the Lumia smartphone made up 10 percent of smartphone sales in the U.K., Germany, France, Italy and Spain in the three months leading to September 2013. In the U.K., Windows Phone accounted for 11.4 percent of the market. Android retains the number one operating system with 58.4 percent, while BlackBerry continues its slide. Apple's iOS dipped by 1 percentage point to 27.0 percent, although it is expected to strengthen during the holiday season. Android remains the dominant operating system across Europe with 71.9 percent, an increase of 4.2 percentage points compared with the same period last year. Windows Phone via Lumia has also posted strong gains in Latin America. "The majority of consumers in Latin America still own a Nokia feature phone and upgrading to an entry level Lumia is a logical next step. Price is the main barrier in developing markets and the budget Lumia 520 opens the door to smartphone ownership for many," comments Dominic Sunnebo, strategic insight director at Kantar Worldpanel ComTech. Sunnebo explains the drop in iOS sales as follows: "August is traditionally a quiet month for Apple as consumers wait for the release of new models and strong sales of the iPhone 5S and 5C at the end of September did not manage to make up for the lull. The full impact of the new iPhones will be seen at Christmas when iOS is expected to bounce back strongly in Britain, the U.S. and Australia." For more:
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Mobile satellite communications provider Inmarsat and satellite machine-to-machine (M2M) service provider ORBCOMM have formed a joint product development and distribution alliance for the satellite-based M2M market. Inmarsat and ORBCOMM plan to develop a standard satellite platform and develop hardware and multi-tiered service pricing models for the M2M industry. Using its satellite network, ORBCOMM provides M2M services to the heavy equipment, fixed asset and transportation industries. Satellite-based M2M services are particularly suited for tracking remote assets, where cellular connectivity is not available. ORBCOMM is building interchangeable modems with the same footprint, connectors, power input and programming environment for its OG2 VHF network and Inmarsat's L-band network. Manufacturers and partners will be able to drop in the modem that corresponds with either the ORBCOMM or Inmarsat network based on geography, message size and delivery speed. Customers will also be able to use ORBCOMM's relationships with cellular providers for dual-mode service on either satellite network. ORBCOMM will provide its multi-network access point platform for provisioning, billing and multi-mode access for M2M applications, supported by Inmarsat's M2M access platform. ORBCOMM and Inmarsat will also look to leverage technologies, capital expenditures, product development, satellite operations and ground infrastructure support for future satellite deployments. For more:
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