Mentioned last week, Barbara Nelson, CTO of iPass was interviewed for an article in Computing.co.uk about women in IT.
Now, there’s a video which includes a series of 6 interviews of high-profile female executives across the IT industry discussing sexism in the workplace and how the IT industry needs more women.
This clip discusses girls not studying math.
Women in IT video: Barbara Nelson >> Comments OffWe are quite proud to have Barbara Nelson, our CTO, in this article Why the IT sector needs more women by Dawinderpal Sahota.
“You see it all the time: girls who grow up loving math, and then they reach high school and don’t want to admit the fact that they have strong math skills,” said Barbara Nelson, chief technology officer at mobility services firm iPass.
“Instead, they gravitate towards industries with a more ‘human touch’.”
The articles discussed the need to move to a service-oriented approach to IT, which is where women can excel. Our Mobile Workforce Report in March, showed that mobile workers are figuring out their own technical problems. They need someone to provide the services and apps that keep the business humming. More face-to-face collaboration and vendor management should become part of the job.
And, with more mobile technology, the ability to “work shift” comes into play, helping to manage the work-life balance. Hopefully, these changes will convince more girls to stick with math and science. I’m glad that I did.
Stay tuned for more on that! Opt-in to our next Mobile Workforce Report to learn about work shifting trends.
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Annoying smartphone habits.
We can all name something that really sets our teeth on edge. Taking a call during a face-to-face meeting is found unacceptable by 83% of mobile workers, whereas taking a call during a dinner with friends is slightly more accepted (56% find it unacceptable). See our Mobile Workforce Report for more.
Kate and I discuss these trends in our newest Data Talk video, called “Annoying Smartphone Habits.”
Annoying smartphone habits – Data Talk with Karen and Kate >> Comments Off
Today Deutsche Telekom in conjunction with iPass introduced a new service called Wi-Fi Mobilize that will help carriers address the second wave of Wi-Fi. It’s a new network service exchange for in-country and international roaming that enables carriers to meet the accelerating demand from customers for data on smartphone and tablet devices.
It’s clear now that all of the traffic engineering, spectrum licensing, femto cell-ing, and next “G” ing can’t keep up with the avalanche of data requirements unleashed by smartphones, iPad and tablets in addition to everything in the cloud revolution that has been accelerating down the track faster than anyone could have imagined three years ago.
Telecom carriers are cleverly turning to that anarchic, best effort, cheap and cheerful technology, Wi-Fi, to help them handle the demand for data. We are seeing it all over the connected world and especially here in the United States. Get an iPhone… Get religious about Wi-Fi…. Get the iPad… Get even more devout …. Get 12 Android handsets and a couple of tablets on your network and now you’re a Zealot!
Commercial Wi-Fi, free or paid, has to become a carrier offering. Why?
Because as a mobile operator:
- I see hundreds of millions of devices delivered every year that don’t have, and probably never will have, anything but a Wi-Fi chipset — I want those users monetized on service from me.
- I have millions of travelers who roam onto other networks and can’t handle the bill shock they have whenever they get home — shame on me — I did nothing to help them
- Spectrum is expensive, build out is expensive, backhaul is expensive — if I can offload internet traffic without running it over my expensive infrastructure — that’s good news
- Oh, and by the way, in many cases I already own a Wi-Fi network that is reasonably cheap to run and now I can monetize it many ways — and customers like Wi-Fi.
We are betting that Wi-Fi will be a way more integral part of tomorrow’s wireless infrastructure. We also believe that mobile operators will dominate Wi-Fi and lead in the build out, deployment and monetization of the infrastructure.
Today’s announcement is about Deutsche Telekom rolling out ‘Wi-Fi Mobilize,’ an exchange and service offering designed to help mobile operators around the world offer a global Wi-Fi service to their subscribers that can offload domestic traffic to Wi-Fi partners in their home country and pull traffic from travellers onto their own Wi-Fi networks. Deutsche Telekom can do this on the strength of their own unique assets coupled with iPass’ 518,000 hotspots around the globe and 320 Wi-Fi relationships in addition to the iPass Open Mobile technology platform that provides worldwide authentication and clearing fabric.
It is an exciting time in our industry. Cheap and cheerful is about to get very professional and we applaud Deutsche Telekom for their far reaching vision and their commitment to start the ball rolling.
Read the Press Release for more information.
With a little help – Cheap and Cheerful Wi-Fi wins the day >> Comments OffOur CEO, Evan Kaplan, appeared with Pimm Fox on Bloomberg Television’s “Taking Stock” yesterday, April 20th. You can watch the 5 minute replay here.
Some key points, covered by Evan:
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- “iPass is behind the scenes, integrating the authentication of the enterprise. Employees of corporations can use iPass to connect onto the network.”
- “Wi-Fi is more “back in fashion.” We call it the 2nd wave of Wi-Fi as carriers, like AT&T really start to deploy Wi-Fi.”
- “Video on networks is expensive, so people are preferring to offload video to Wi-Fi.”
- “Cloud computing is assuming always-connected. There are so many devices per person, 2.68 we found.” Employees need to access their apps and data in the cloud. With iPass, they access the same way with any device, any network. And it’s fast, easy and secure.
