Mobile Fridays: This Week in Mobility (July 6, 2012)

Every Friday, the mobility team here at Cloud Sherpas scours the Web for the hottest, most relevant mobile technology news of the week and compiles it in conveniently-byte-sized chunks right here — for fast, easy, on-the-go consumption.

Do you have a story we didn’t cover? Post it in the comments, and join the conversation.

Enjoy!

This Week’s Top Links in Mobility ( In no particular order)

Blackberry and Microsoft?
Together at last?

Ensuring Worker Safety Through Mobile
Using GPS, utilities can make a better decision about when to turn the power on after big outages.

Nexus 7 Tablet is a home run from Google
One of Google’s big announcements last week is getting some great press this week.

Google Play is at the Center of Google’s Mobile Strategy
Hot off of its major updates last week Google Play is starting to show how important it is to the Android ecosystem.

Great Apps for the Summer Olympics
Just because.

New Data Shows Tablets to Overtake Laptops as Most Popular Mobile (PC)
The mobile revolution continues…

Android is Looking More Innovative that Apple These Days
Now all they have to do is address fragmentation (which they clearly are with the new Nexus and Nexus 7 devices).

80% of Americans are Working After Hours (Thanks to Mobile)
I wrote this blog last night …

Apple’s Bringing out the Patent Guns This Week
Looks like they are putting the heat on the competition.

Ryan Northington (13 Posts)

Cloud Sherpas Senior Mobility Consultant for North America, Ryan is a Wireless Engineer and has worked in the instrumentation business for the last 5 years. He is recognized as an expert in wireless technology, software development and radio frequency instrumentation. In his capacity at Cloud Sherpas, Ryan specializes in assisting enterprise clients in the planning, design and development of native and cross-platform mobile applications and experiences.