A recent report from Frost & Sullivan says that xMax & Mobile WiMAX are “poised to revolutionise wireless broadband”. The problems with current systems, such as wifi, are the relatively short range, something which WiMAX are supposed to address. However, promise of this has been a long time coming but perhaps, finally, we may see some live implementations. As soon as 2008 the report suggests. Such technology upgrades are required to help push along the mobile working possibilities.

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Just stumbled upon the following article from Microsoft on managing a mobile workforce. Not sure how old it is as there doesn’t seem to be a date on the page, however, the detail is interesting as it is looking at the management of the mobile workforce rather than the devices or applications. This seems to me to be an overlooked aspect of mobility.

7 rules for managing a mobile workforce 

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Interesting blog regarding a survey of CIOs and their attitudes to mobile working. It seems that they are concerned about things such as sensitive data being held on the device. This is something AppSwing have been saying for a while and the only safe way forward is to have nothing reside on the device at all - you simply view a copy of the data that is held securely behind your corporate firewall.

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