The Mobilecast

Brian talks with Alvaro Pombo, CEO and Founder of ProntoForms, a 14 year old start-up as Alvaro likes to refer to it. They started out with web forms but they didn’t really work for mobile devices for the first 7 years. They moved into native forms and Alvaro walks Brian through a few use cases and how they can use the sensors in the mobile devices, the camera, maps etc within the native form. They start with security and it pervades the process. Alvaro walks Brian through many of the connect...

Brian talks with Randall Makin, Co-Founder and CTO of RedEye Apps. Randall and his team set out to solve the issue of engineering data and how, as projects got bigger, it took longer to get data in the hands of people who need it. On average, every piece of data/document has 5.4 copies, so you never know which is the authoritative copy. They use a database backend to solve the problem with layered technology upon on it. The goal is to reduce the time (on average 14 minutes) to seconds to get ...

Brian talks with Rob Tiffany, technology lead for IoT at Microsoft. They start by reminiscing about the original mobile devices they both used and then Rob talks about being a submariner during the gulf war and learning to program, from how he went from OS2 to Access and lock in. They talk Window Mobile and then Rob talks about the launch of Windows Phone 7, the issues from it, and how it set the stage for Microsoft moving forward. They move to building mobile apps and then Rob talks about th...

Brian talks with Nirave Gondhia from Android Authority about day 4 and really the entire Mobile World Congress experience from a consumer and tech geek point of view. Nirave starts by talking about LG’s and Samsung’s flagship devices they announced at the show. They cover some of the great things and some of the issues they may see selling the devices. They talk about the regional players that are cropping up and HTC’s Vive which Nirave thinks was amazing and he will buy himself. They mention...

Brian talks with Eric Klein of VDC research. Eric talks about technology that stood out for him during the day and entire show. Split Billing was one stand out as he saw it actually working. They then talked about how hall 8 .1 had a large amount of mobile ad companies. Security was another hot topic, especially some biometrics companies. They move on to 5g & whether it is overhyped. Eric mentions App Config and also that he’s seen some big movement on app development. Many vendors are se...

Brian talks with Nick McQuire about his thoughts on day 2 of Mobile World Congress with a specific focus on MWC and the Enterprise. Of course, the recap isn’t complete without wishing Nick Happy Birthday. They start by talking about the lack of enterprise announcements this year as opposed to last year’s MWC. Nick mentions Samsung Knox, and Google’s Android for work. Nick summarizes the big AppConfig Community announcement from VMware stage where MobileIron, Jamf, and IBM MaaS360 joined them....

Brian talks with Sascha Segan from PCmag about his thoughts on Day 1 of Mobile World Congress. They start with Mark Zuckerberg’s appearance at the Samsung event and talking VR. They move to LG’s G5 and it’s capability of accepting accessories. Sascha mentions what he expects to see from Zuckerberg at his keynote at the end of day 1. They then tackle the mobile phone vendors becoming PC makers and the viability of that effort. Their conversation moves to the danger of becoming a Wall-E world w...

Brian talks with Carolina Milanesi from Kantar Worldwide Panels about her experiences on Day 0 of Mobile World Congress. They talk about Samsung’s announcements of new phones and VR with a surprise guest. They also talk about Huawei’s new 2 in 1 convertible and the challenge that it seeks with both consumers and the enterprise. Twitter: @caro_milanesi

Brian Katz hosts a roundtable with Brett Belding, Swarna Podila, and Philippe Winthrop. They start by talking about what they expect to see at Mobile World Congress. Some things they mention are identity, IoT, wearables. new devices, and 5G. They then move to smart devices and what each one of them has in their house. They talk about some of the issues they have seen, many of which revolve around connectivity. They move to talking Windows Phone and what’s going on with Microsoft and mobile OS...

Brian Katz hosts a panel with Bob Egan, Jack Gold, Eric Klein, Sanjay Khanna and Ken Daniels at Menterprise Canada. They start by defining what “enterprise mobility” is. Granted, they come up with 5 different definitions and lots of disagreements but tend to mesh them together by the end of the first part of the panel. They move from technology, to people, to capabilities. From there, the second topic, “where are we in the enterprise mobile lifecycle?” The panel runs through comparisons of th...