Archive for October, 2009

Hop Across The Pond Winner Announcement!

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 | located in Contest | No Comments »

The exclusive BT Ribbit Mobile trial continues to be a resounding success – to date, over 11,000 BT employees have used Ribbit Mobile to manage their phones, calls, and messages. Since the start of the trial, Ribbit Mobile transcribed over 500,000 messages just for those of you in BT!

And now for the most exciting news of all: the Hop Across the Pond Contest concluded at the end of September, and one BT employee won a trip to California!

A big congratulations to: Lucie Pepper, Implementation Manager, Digital Care for BT Retail based out of New Castle!

We look forward to having Lucie join us at the Ribbit offices in California in the coming months. Stay tuned to the blog for updates on Lucie’s visit to Silicon Valley.

Thank you so much for your participation in this trial. Your feedback helped us to improve Ribbit Mobile, and we are grateful for your involvement. Read more about what your fellow BT employees are saying about their Ribbit Mobile experiences. We’ll be in touch again soon.

From CTIA: What’s Hot in the Mobile World?

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009 | located in Conferences/Events, Industry Trends | 2 Comments »

Interesting read from the Editor’s Corner of FierceWireless based on their experience/observations at CTIA.  FierceWireless was the most active press group on the ground there, covering just about every major news announcement across a handful of editors and Twitter updates.

For them, the big ‘winners’ at the show were:

• Mobile healthcare
• Applications/mobile content
• Operating systems, most notably Android
• FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski for his commentary on policy & regulation
• Wireless carriers, most notably Verizon for its pact with Google

The first item ‘Mobile Healthcare’ excites me most. There are some hurdles for sure, but I expect to see more healthcare professionals using mobile devices to access and review patient records and test results, consult drug allergies and other reference material, enter diagnosis information during patient visits, handle billing items, and synchronize information with their organizations’ centralized systems, all without the need for wired network connections.

These benefits are appealing and impressive, both from healthcare delivery and back-office business perspectives. This is just the beginning, but I do hope this is a trend that perculates to the top TO DO list for *someone* in 2010.