A survey by JD Powers found that customer interest in product features is lessening as phones evolve. Rather than features, price is driving purchases, and that change could have a dramatic impact on how IT departments secure these devices.
Prices have been falling, however, shipment rates recently have been leveling off and even showing signs of a decline. Consequently, it will be difficult for suppliers to maintain their profit margins. It would seem some vendors will exit the market soon. Can anyone envision a time when phone pricing rises? IMO, some vendors will attempt to do this by offering attractive features, however, I am not sure this approach will have much success.
I agree with you. I knows number of college-aged people who do the pay as you go route. I think it will continue to increase in popularity because it allows for flexibility.
many of the popular no contract carriers such as Boost and Cricket have HIGHLY competitve plans here in the US with calls to Canada and Mexico included. $55 and $65 montly plans.
All carriers are introducing competitive no contract rates and services and the buy in point is the drop in cost of smartphone ownership with prices ranging from $60 and up.
Carriers are cutting pricing and offering customers more flexibility. IMO, that shift hurts the smartphone suppliers. Stalwarts, such as Nokia and RIM, have recently been struggling and there are questions about their long term viability. The continued emphasis on lower priced plans and phones will make their market positions even more tenuous.
While NFC's original goal was to enhance mobile commerce applications, it is finding its way into a number of other uses, which is creating both opportunity as well as challenges for IT departments.
Enterprises would like to move to cloud computing but are hesitant because they are concerned about providers’ ability to secure company data. Here are some tips that help to ensure that if breaches occur, the business is not left holding the bag.
Big-data has become a big point of emphasis for many businesses. While the technology is available to deploy these applications, the needed personnel often is not. As a result, analytic engineers' salaries have blown past the six-figure mark, and hiring these experts has become a challenge for IT managers.
Increasingly, companies are using videoconferencing technology to help employees collaborate with co-workers, partners, and customers. As a result, demand for technicians is rising, and companies are finding it difficult to retain their quality workers.
Software-defined networks, which deliver virtualization functions to enterprise networks, have the potential to dramatically change network design and significantly reduce costs and maintenance.
A recent survey by Endace found that 23% of companies experience some type of network problem daily and another 25% have a serious problem each month. Enterprise networks are still very unreliable and probably will continue to be in the near term.
ITRC found that more than 600 security breaches took place in 2012. Flaws were found in some of the nation's most respected companies: Apple, Citibank, and Wells Fargo. So, it seems the bad guys are doing better than the men in the white hats.
Companies need to take advantage of new technologies to simplify interfaces, improve capabilities, and enhance back-office processes. But they can't upgrade their Websites too often.
Many enterprises view high-speed broadband connections as ubiquitous. Yet in about 20 percent of the country, businesses and their employees do not have access to even DSL connections. This shortcoming diminishes enterprises' ability to support their employees.
The iPad Mini is the latest iteration of the exploding tablet category. Because most tablets are WiFi-only, they create a new kind of mobile network. The problem is that we don't have issues like roaming and security defined for this new world.
A recent release of the popular TweetDeck app for Twitter power-users gives new life to software that had previously taken a wrong turn. Here's a quick walk-through of the new TweetDeck, to show you why it should be at the top of your Twitter toolkit.
The bring-your-own-device approach isn’t suited to monitoring of enterprise equipment and processes. In these cases, it is up to IT to come forward with gear suited to the task.
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