The iPad, Surface and How Microsoft Missed Apple's Bogey

There are few things any sadder than wasted potential not realized. Microsoft's very juicy, lovely Surface effort, like many GM show cars, was nearly an example of missed opportunity and waste, but fortunately Apple seems to have "gotten" it and they threw in a little Cupertino magic twist - they added mobility making for a very compelling device.

Read Dave Ginsburg's post on this topic on TMCnet here.

InnoPath's Dave Ginsburg interviewed by Rich Tehrani on TMCnet

What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, however InnoPath's own Dave Ginsburg's interview with TMCnet's Rich Tehrani is one of the exceptions. While some were manning the booth, doing live demos on the show floor, others were living La Vida Loca doing interviews with the likes of Rich Tehrani. The video is here.

InnoPath: Keeping That Which Happens in Vegas Safely on Your Smartphone and Off the Internet

Jason Lackey

Smartphones are both a blessing and a bit of a curse. We have talked about ARPU and support related issues around smartphones in the past, but the increased capabilities of these devices also have other implications, some potentially large indeed.

With vast storage and the ability to open files like Word, PPT, Excel and the like as well as photos, videos and movies, there is no doubt that a smartphone is much more like a pocket computer than a phone. There is also no doubt that the loss of a corporate roadmap, compensation information or compromising images and the like would be a much more serious blow than the exposure of phone numbers, which is pretty much the only thing you would lose on an older voice-only terminal.

When the service provider can lock and wipe a lost or stolen device remotely, over-the-air, this potential exposure is limited and in some cases eliminated, helping keep that which happened in Vegas safely in Vegas, or at least on the phone.

See you at CTIA. We will be at Booth 3749. In the meantime, check out our press release here: http://innopath.com/news/press_releases/2010/2010_03_22_ctia_rim.shtml

InnoPath Named CTIA Emerging Technology Award Finalist

Jason Lackey

Well, delivering the green is no longer the exclusive domain of leprechauns and the like. While some of the advantages to FOTA and other OTA update technology are fairly obvious, things like preventing recalls, heading off support calls and in-store brick and mortar visits, enhancing subscriber satisfaction, squashing bugs and so on and so forth, some of the advantages are not always immediately obvious.


One of those is the environmental impact, or lack thereof, of doing updates remotely, over-the-air.

Let me explain.

When you need to ship or hand carry a device somewhere to get it reflashed, this is going to take some non-zero amount of fuel to fire up the family truckster or whatever and get the phone to the store. When using technology like InnoPath's Mobile Update, the phone stays next to your bed and gets updated in place and the family truckster stays in the garage and the co2 stays out of the atmosphere and the oil stays in the ground and generally everything is incrementally better, cleaner and greener.

May not seem like much, but by our calculations we saved 33m kg of co2 emissions in 2009 with the numbers for 2010 looking to be considerably larger.

Evidently the folks at CTIA agree with us that this is kind of cool stuff, we are CTIA Emerging Technology Finalists because of these energy savings, something that we announced in a press release today, "InnoPath Software Named CTIA E-Tech Award Finalist".

Happy Saint Patrick's Day!

Helping Carriers Sleep Better at Night

The industry is both delighted by the rise of the smartphone (or as some like Om Malik or Rob Glaser are calling them, the superphone) and horrified. They are delighted because they bring people into the stores, they create a lot of excitement (iPhone, Moto Droid) and they help keep subscribers. The service providers are also horrified - they are horrified because smartphones cost more to support and are hard on their wireless networks.

RCR Wireless recently interviewed our Dave Ginsburg on how InnoPath is helping the carriers sleep better at night. You can watch the interview here.

Jobs, Jobs and More Jobs!

Jason Lackey

Last weekend I blogged about how fortunate we are here at InnoPath to be working in wireless during one of the most exciting times the industry has ever had. This still is true most of the way through the week, although we still have a bunch of things to do before CTIA. By the way, if you are going to be at CTIA, let me invite you to drop by our booth, we will be there at Booth 3749 with a professional barista, some cool ActiveCare demos including stuff on Android and RIM and you can even drop off a resume or talk to us about working at InnoPath.

Anyway, on the subject of fortune, I just posted another job, this one for a Senior Director of Sales for CALA. Know a motivated closer with high level telco contacts? Send 'em our way!

Right now we have a total of 9 positions posted, with more to come. We are busy and we need good people. Check out the jobs page and see if there is a good match. Even if you don't see an exact match, but you do have relevant experience, either technical or business, go ahead and send in your resume. We are always looking for good talent.

Hope to see you at the show!

Citius, Altius, Fortius - The Service Provider Olympics!

While the end of the party in Vancouver brought a tear to some otherwise dry eyes here at InnoPath, it also inspired a bit of thought with regard to a kind of competition we all enjoy and benefit from that doesn't require scary fast bobsled runs or foggy ski courses to hold - competition between the mobile operators.

Dave Ginsburg has put some thoughts to paper with regards to Gold, Silver, Bronze and DNFs in the Mobile Operator Olympics in a story available on TMCnet.

Citius, Altius, Fortius!