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HMD puts the phone back in your hands
The company that brought Nokia phones back is finding a new reason to exist: devices you can repair, reshape, or put down. A screw, a pink flip phone, and a financing platform tell the story.
Gil Bouhnick and the trouble with a good idea
He spent 16 years building enterprise software, then co-founded an app that taught him how little a neat theory knows about a customer. At AppsFlyer, Gil Bouhnick is still working on the gap between what happens and what the numbers say.
Velocitor Solutions: The software company with a spare-parts habit
A fleet platform is only as useful as the devices that survive the working day. Velocitor pairs tracking, cameras, and mobile software with the people who install, support, and replace the hardware - and its owners have added a routing specialist to the mix.
iPass made Wi-Fi easy. Paying for it was harder.
One login could open a world of hotspots. The history of iPass shows why removing friction for customers can create a rather expensive problem for the company doing the removing.
RapidValue made the office fit in your pocket
The company found a business in the awkward gap between a smartphone and an enterprise system. Its reusable software helped close that gap, before RapidValue became part of Aspire Systems.
42Gears and the art of making a tablet boring
A tablet can do almost anything. For a hospital, warehouse or tyre shop, that is often the problem. 42Gears sells the controls that turn versatile gadgets into dependable tools.
The Office Has Escaped the Office
VMware Workspace ONE began with a simple nuisance: work escaped the desktop, but IT’s controls did not. Now owned by Omnissa, it tries to make every device - from a nurse’s iPhone to a supermarket freezer scanner - manageable without making the worker feel managed.
The Phone Wasn't the Problem. The App Was.
Blue Cedar made a bet that companies cannot control every phone carrying their data. Its answer is to put the guardrails inside the mobile app - then make the release process repeatable.
On Device Solutions takes SAP off the desk and onto the factory floor
More than 800 paper forms at one car manufacturer tell the story. On Device Solutions builds mobile software for the people doing the maintenance, counting the stock and keeping the machinery moving.
TRG Makes a Business of Keeping Your Business Moving
A scanner goes missing. A payment terminal quits. An airline waits for a repair. TRG has built its business around the expensive little interruptions that keep big companies from getting on with the job.
Jesse Lindeman’s Second Act Is Built on First Impressions
After shaping enterprise mobility at MobileIron and Apple, Jesse Lindeman turned from managing phones to managing the messy work between a dated house and its sale.
The App That Follows Caseworkers Into the Field
Diona doesn't build the giant case-management systems governments buy. It builds the app that finally gets a caseworker out of the office - and Arizona says that saved $18.7 million a year.
The Budget-Phone Brand That Grew Up and Went Enterprise
NUU spent a decade selling cheap unlocked Androids to Americans who hated overpaying. Then a pandemic pushed it into a stranger, stickier business: building custom phones for companies who never wanted to be phone companies.
KonaWare
KonaWare was a Menlo Park mobility-software company founded in 1999 that built a platform and development tools for putting mission-critical enterprise applications into the hands of mobile field workers. Its suites covered transportation, logistics and field service - dispatch, proof-of-delivery, electronic driver logs, vehicle inspections and asset tracking - and were engineered to keep data intact whether devices were connected or not, running across laptops, PDAs and early smartphones. Backed by Draper Richards and Western Technology Investment, the company was an early bet on enterprise mobility years before the smartphone made it mainstream; its field-service assets were acquired by ServicePower in 2008.
Web Spiders
Web Spiders (WS Group) is a 25-year-old enterprise AI and digital engineering company that helps Fortune 2000 enterprises and government agencies drive customer engagement through voice AI, conversational bots, data services and digital products. Founded in 2000 in Kolkata, it has grown from two computers to roughly 290-300 people with delivery hubs in the US, UK, Singapore and India, and product lines spanning SpiderX (voice AI agents), e2m.live (enterprise event platform) and Gecko (AI video interview bot).
Andrew Conway
Andrew Conway is Vice President of Security Marketing at Microsoft, where he has spent over 20 years driving the go-to-market strategy for one of the world's largest security businesses. A prolific author on the Microsoft Security Blog and a regular media voice on cybersecurity workforce challenges and AI-powered defense, Conway has shepherded Microsoft's security marketing from the Enterprise Mobility + Security era through to today's AI-native Security Copilot and Defender Experts Suite. He is the senior-most marketing executive dedicated to Microsoft's $20B+ security business and an outspoken advocate for using AI as a force multiplier for overwhelmed security defenders.