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Volume 3, Issue 12
2005 Year In Review Another year is in the books and what a year it has been. The wireless data industry now has all the trappings of one poised for rapid growth: experts and pundits and "best practices"
"With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you're too smart to go down any not-so-good street." We've encountered many a dead end these past few years but like infants who finally walk we've toddled our way to smarter decisions... by falling down a lot first. You, our customers and partners, have taught us important lessons - like nothing else really matters except the end-user experience, wireless security is more procedural than technical, and
2006 will be a year when all wireless projects benefit from stronger networks, more capable devices, and cheaper data plans. More importantly, it will be a year when wireless data is more accessible to the elusive mainstream user. You'll see more 'Yes' decisions made to avoid falling behind than 'No' decisions made to avoid risk. Look for carriers to offer hosted business applications, mobile messaging to get pushed down the org. chart, and handheld devices, like laptops before them, to be developed and marketed more aggressively to business users. It has been an exciting year at Aeroprise! We'd like to welcome the customers who joined our family in 2005. Our team is growing, our products are breaking new ground every day, and we're all still committed to one single goal: building the best mobile solutions in the world to help you exceed your expectations. In the coming year, we'll be inviting selected customers to participate in a series of user groups to help us learn from you and to help you learn from each other. We'll also be releasing a series of great new products to help you get more out of Aeroprise. From one wireless enthusiast to another, we know you're going to love what we're developing in the lab! Above all, we're writing to thank you for helping us grow and for giving us the opportunity to help you succeed. We look forward to an exciting 2006 and we wish you a happy, healthy holiday season and a wireless new year! From our family to yours, Team Aeroprise Index of Wireless Activity IOWA ends 2005 on a sour note, down another 8.2% to close the year at 179.8. Wireless stock prices contributed significantly to the decline. RIM's pending litigation with patent-holder NTP weighed its shares down 6% this month and 41% since its high for the year of $87.95 per share. In more positive wireless news, the M&A market remains robust. Notable December deals include Sprint Nextel's spectrum grab acquisition of Enterprise Communications and Vodafone's acquisition of Telsim, the second largest carrier in Turkey. Upcoming Events Aeroprise webcast: "Mobilizing Service Management Applications" Webcast January 19, 2005 Industry Buzz MobileTechReview: Mobile games publisher Jamdat acquired by Electronic Arts for US$680M The Economist: The real lesson of BlackBerry CIO Magazine: Mastering Mobile Madness Red Herring: Wireless email provider Visto sues Microsoft over patents Tip of the Month: No More Conflicts You and your device go out of coverage to fix a problem. What happens when your changes contradict ones someone else made while you were offline? You have a merging conflict. What now? Here's what will happen: the Conflict Report in your Main Menu will show a list of all merging conflicts related to your offline work. Pull up the report and you'll see a description of each conflict. You can also decide whether to keep or override the other changes. If only resolving all the other conflicts in your life was this easy. Trivia Question: One Device Just Isn't Enough According to a recent survey from analyst Detecon Americas, what percentage of wireless subscribers use multiple devices to access data applications? (a) 23% (b) 37% (c) 44% (d) 59% (e) 77% source: Detecon Americas [answer in next month's newsletter] Last month's question: How many countries currently have more than 100 percent wireless penetration (that is, more than one wireless subscription per person)? (a) 3 (b) 5 (c) 7 (d) 9 (e) 11 Last month's answer: Believe it or not, (d) 9 countries currently have more than 100 percent wireless penetration. They are: Hong Kong, Italy, Sweden, Portugal, United Kingdom, Greece, the Netherlands, Spain and Austria. Get with the program. Having one mobile device is so 2004. Resources Aeroprise Newsletter Archives Aeroprise Newsletter Signup Mobilizing Your Applications: A Primer Aeroprise online demo Aeroprise customer case studies Aeroprise Partner Portal Questions o: +1(866)809-9102 f: +1(650)404-1185 information@aeroprise.com If you'd prefer not to receive future Aeroprise updates please click here. We never share subscriber information with anyone. |
