Marcus Austin

Marcus is a mobile business consultant and edits the Business Mobile (http://www.bmob.co.uk) news and mobile information site.

He started off as a programmer and analyst, but soon moved to Internet and technology journalism, and has spent the last 16 years writing and helping businesses create websites and web communities. As well as editing magazines and websites like Internet Works, Business 2.0, Growing Business, and Startups.co.uk, Marcus also created the Guardian"s mobile strategy and launched the m.guardian.co.uk mobile website.

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Articles by Marcus Austin:


Putting the office into our pockets
Sunday, 4th July 2010

With the increasing ease with which users can access consumer data via their mobile devices, the pressure is now on companies to provide business data and applications to staff this way.  Marcus Austin looks at the double whammy this presents to companies in that not only do they have to open up their networks to the outside world, they also have to deal with the challenges presented by the range of mobile devices being used.


Putting the office into our pockets [ABSTRACT]
Sunday, 4th July 2010

With the increasing ease with which users can access consumer data via their mobile devices, the pressure is now on companies to provide business data and applications to staff this way.  Marcus Austin looks at the double whammy this presents to companies in that not only do they have to open up their networks to the outside world, they also have to deal with the challenges presented by the range of mobile devices being used.