These days it seems like everyone’s got a BlackBerry, iPhone or other data-enabled mobile device.  The whole internet in your pocket!  For those of us in IT these devices can provide real business value, enabling us to communicate via email, IM, text, and phone no matter where we are.  The actual value though, is all relative to how you use it or as in many cases, don’t use it. 

In a blog I posted yesterday, I wrote about how easy it is to fall behind in IT if you don’t put forth some effort to keep up.  With the whole internet available on your phone, you now have the opportunity to ‘keep up’ even if you’re not at your computer.  But how could I possibly manage navigating so many tech sites on my slow little phone?  It’s tedious enough to check 10 news sites a day on my giant monitor at work, nevermind a 2″ phone LCD, so to be honest I don’t think I’d use my phone all that much for reading tech news. » Read more: Is that the news in your pocket?