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Smartphones need genius infrastructure

Until roughly six years ago, mobile computers and telephones were really separate things. "Mobile computing" meant laptops -- maybe with broadband wireless for some lucky executives. "Telephone" meant communication device. "Convergence" meant putting your cellphone into your computer bag to go through airport security.

Obviously since then the mobile phone has evolved into a platform that offers multiple types of collaboration, access to many types of content and a complete spectrum of applications. We also gained the tablet -- a completely new device for consuming and creating content. Now, on any day, very little of what a user does with his or her mobile device has anything to do with it being a telephone.
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