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March 1, 2013

Daily Mobile Computing Feed – Mar 1, 2013

Daily aggregation of mobile computing news from @cloud_aware, mobileaware.net.

  • Four dangers of implementing a BYOD strategy at your small business
  • Australian Techworld Before you move ahead with a BYOD strategy, get your full team’s buy-in. Choose a few representatives of the staff and ask them for feedback. Consider offering incentives, like a more flexible work-from-home policy. After all, if they’re using their … (more)

  • BYOD policies: practical considerations
  • Lexology (registration) As the workplace practice of BYOD (bring your own device) is starting to hit the mainstream, organizations are being pressed to consider the legal risks of BYOD and how to address these risks through appropriate BYOD policies. Some organizations have … (more)

  • Zero Touch BYOD Firm Armor5 Takes in $2M
  • Datamation based bring your own device (BYOD) management company, emerged from stealth today and announced that it raised $2 million in seed financing. Citrix Startup Accelerator, Nexus Venture Partners and Trinity Ventures participated in the funding round. (more)

  • Mobile Computing Is Just Getting Started
  • MIT Technology Review Apps and services still account for the least amount of money in mobile computing. Mobile advertising brings in only $9 billion as yet. But here is where the most opportunities lie. Facebook has a monthly audience as large as any ever reached. And in … (more)

  • Asian users go DIY with BYOD
  • ZDNet SINGAPORE–Companies in Asia are not rendering enough IT support to help employees use personal devices for work as part of the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) movement. This is pushing workers to find their own ways to access corporate networks or … (more)

  • BYOD: Putting Users First Produces Biggest Gains, Fewest Setbacks
  • Computerworld Australia The Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) phenomenon is one of the most visible incarnations of the wave of consumerisation surging through IT. As a result, major cultural, technological and business shifts have occurred in the relationship between company and … (more)

  • Silicon Image MHL Technology Featured on New MediaTek Quad …
  • “The Quad-Core MT6589 reference design delivers a highly integrated communications, multi-media, and mobile computing platform in a single system- on-chip … (more)

  • Dear CIO, Want to Be a Hero? Embrace BYOD
  • Huffington Post (blog) These choices and the ability to Bring Your Own Devices (BYOD) to work is allowing people to be more happy, creative, productive and valuable as unique individuals rather than restricted to group options. This is why many organizations today are … (more)

  • DOD plan for mobile not BYOD-ready
  • GCN.com The Defense Department’s recently unveiled mobile device implementation plan makes room for Android, Apple and BlackBerry devices, but does not go so far as to include a bring your own device (BYOD) strategy. The plan, which supports the DOD’s June … (more)

  • German businesses bar BYOD for the same reason many US companies …
  • FierceCIO While BYOD is increasingly becoming an irresistible force for businesses in the United States, German companies for the most part remain in tight control of employee cell phones. But there’s an interesting irony in the polar-opposite approaches, writes … (more)

Daily Big Data Feed – Mar 1, 2013

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