This reminder should guide every policy and action that IT administrators develop around mobile device adoption.
With all of the hype around mobile shopping, one might think this end has finally come.
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Microsoft unveiled Surface in June, a pair of tablets built around mobile processors supplied by Intel and Nvidia.
Most of the "no threat to your credibility" predictions centered around mobile.
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In April, we released a study around mobile behavior during March Madness.
With the shift to discovery, Foursquare is entering a crowded market around mobile search, where companies like Google, Facebook, Yelp, and others are already playing.
Awareness around mobile security lacks the urgency that surrounds Wi-Fi security.
Another motel hired housekeeping staff to carry around mobile pinhole camera detectors at unspecified intervals rather than using the 24-hour system it had claimed to have.
The speculations circle around mobile, of course.
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While most countries prohibit the use of handheld phones when driving (including Canada, Australia and nearly every country in the European Union), US laws around mobile phone use are left up to individual states, resulting in a confusing patchwork for visitors from other countries.
So will the idea of carrying around a mobile device to interact with the world around us seem as arcane as having to stand next to the wall to have a telephone conversation?
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Mobile: This is already happening to a degree, but continue to design the experience around a mobile future as the screens continue to shrink and become more personalized.
Ericsson has tried to turn around its mobile-handset business for four years.
Inside this is code from Bluestacks that acts as a wrapper around the mobile phone programs so they can run on desktops, laptops and tablets.
In 2012, both corporate behemoths and a flurry of tiny boutique salamanders are swarming around the mobile game market, trying to gain an edge by evolving their product development strategies.
Riding through the streets of the Condesa neighbourhood, for example, you encounter roving marimba players and the sweet potato vendor who pushes around a mobile oven with an ear-piercing steam whistle to herald his arrival.
"Visa is working to bring the security and convenience of digital currency to mobile users around the world, " said Dave Wentker, Head of Mobile Contactless Payments at Visa Inc.
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Given the number of lawsuits flying around in the mobile space, Apple will follow the Nexus very, very closely.
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Our estimates indicate that Nokia sold around 60 million mobile phones in India in 2009, out of a total of 300 million sold in emerging markets.
Increasingly (to the tune of about 50% of its revenues now) it is earning revenues from helping companies to innovate, particularly around social, mobile, analytics and Cloud.
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There are around four million mobile subscribers in India, with between one to two million on the Orange network, which is known as Hutch outside of Mumbai.
This term, which has been popularized by Cisco, refers to the ability to walk around with a mobile device and have it stay connected to a wireless network.
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No more messing around with fiddly mobile keyboards or bookmarks.
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While we were hanging around the Nyx Mobile booth, a rep quietly sneaked up on us to offer a glimpse of two new handsets his company is working on.
These initial forays have primarily been around offering employees mobile access to standard communications functions such as email, calendar and directory access and offering customers Web access to non-mission-critical functions.
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More people now have mobile telephones around the world than have access to a flush toilet.
The ship is on track to arrive at the Mobile dock around 4 p.m.
Meanwhile China Mobile has around 17m customers who have bought their iPhones on the grey market.
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