Apart of the PointAbout What is OTA? Blog Series Just to recap, OTA or over-the-air programming is the process of wirelessly updating Smartphones with software, updates, and services.  Nowadays, OTA occurs via SMS/text message, which is sent to a subscriber (you) with an action request. Today, we will dig a little deeper into over-the-air programming by touching on enrollment, mobile device management, configuration profiles, what they include and what they are responsible for. Suppose there… Read more »

(via readwriteweb.com) The enterprise “one size fits all” Smartphone strategy is soon coming to an end. More and more companies are looking to allow employees to use their personally owned Smartphones to connect to corporate resources, while embracing a multiplatform strategy; one that supports at minimum Blackberry, Android, and iOS. According to a recent report from Forrester Research, close to 60% of surveyed companies already support personally owned Smartphones. As the report disclosed, IT departments… Read more »

Apart of the PointAbout What Is OTA? Blog Series Stated in the PointAbout blog post, Mobile Device Sales, Up 13.8% in Q2, 325.6 million Smartphones were sold, accounting for 19% of worldwide mobile device sales in Q2 2010. This means millions of devices will be sending and receiving messages, whether text, picture, video or voice, playing audio and videos, storing sensitive information, installing applications, and becoming incorporated into businesses and corporations. All of these functions… Read more »

(via ars technica) Codenamed Froyo, Google’s Android mobile operating system, version 2.2, was recently updated with significant performance improvements. According to ars technica, a high-performance JIT was introduced in Android’s Dalvik runtime environment and the browser received major optimizations, making the Android platform a top contender. In reviewing Android’s performance improvements, the folks at ars technica used the Nexus One to conduct a few tests. Both benchmarks, V8 and SunSpider proved that the JavaScript execution… Read more »