Daily Mobile Computing Feed – Aug 8, 2012

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

  • Gartner Catalyst 2012: Is the mobile hypervisor the right BYOD …
  • By Gunnar Berger
    Gartner Catalyst 2012: Is the mobile hypervisor the right BYOD approach? by Gunnar Berger | August 7, 2012 | 5 Comments. It’s just two weeks until the Gartner’s Catalyst Conference and I’ve been busying myself with my presentation decks … (more)

  • Aus hospital fast-tracks support for BYOD
  • FutureGov Magazine Aus hospital fast-tracks support for BYOD. By Shahida Sweeney | 8 August 2012. In a first for an Australian hospital, the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital is fast-tracking support for bring-your-own-devices being used by visiting medical officers … (more)

  • Risk/Reward of BYOD – ISACA Now
  • Risk/Reward of BYOD … employees are allowed to connect their own personal devices to the company’s network (known as bring your own device, or BYOD). (more)

  • Kiefer Consulting, Inc. Announces Mobile Application Products
  • PYMNTS.com Kiefer Consulting today announced three new mobile applications, The State Directory, a national government employee search engine, EventMo for events and conferences and BYOD Bingo, a game for iOS devices. The State Directory, a nationwide … (more)

  • Implementing BYOD Policies | SOA World Magazine
  • With the growing trends in mobilization and virtualization, the implementation of bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies is increasingly popular among businesses around the globe. In a time when the majority of employees own a smartphone, … (more)

  • Preparing for Back-to-School BYOD – EdTech Times
  • By Jamie Reysen
    With the BYOD trend on campus growing ever stronger, an IT network analyst shares his checklist to help ensure that your campus network is ready to manage the onslaught. IT network analyst Jon Domen shares his ideas on how to prepare … (more)

  • Studies: Organizations Still Struggle With BYOD
  • Channelnomics It doesn’t take a genius to figure to that security and management challenges brought about by Bring Your Own Device trends aren’t going away on their own. And perhaps needless to say, organizations are still flummoxed as to what to do next. Two … (more)

  • Apple’s Mountain Lion OS keeps crashing my iMac, and raises BYOD questions
  • Network World What this highlighted for me are two things: Apple isn’t perfect (sorry, rabid fanboys) and organizations allowing for bring your own device (or some day hope to) may have an interesting set of problems to deal with if their users experience similar … (more)

  • Security Headaches: BYOD Users Expected To Double By 2014
  • InformationWeek Risks to the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) crowd include many of the same suffered by desktop computer users, from spam to malware to phishing. BYOD workers face at least one major additional problem, though: device loss. Another trend addressed in … (more)

  • Preparing for Back-to-School BYOD
  • Campus Technology Preparing for Back-to-School BYOD. With the BYOD trend on campus growing ever stronger, an IT network analyst shares his checklist to help ensure that your campus network is ready to manage the onslaught. By Jon Domen; 08/08/12. In just a few weeks, … (more)

  • No BYOD? Employee morale and satisfaction could be lower
  • CenterBeam A white paper by NaviSite said now is the time for companies to adopt a bring your own device policy because BYOD can make employees better workers. The paper said companies that don’t plan for BYOD face the risk of lower employee morale, satisfaction … (more)

  • Prediction: One fourth of federal websites to be mobile-friendly in a year
  • FCW.com Delivering a keynote speech at the Federal Mobile Computing Summit held Aug. 8 in Washington, D.C., McClure spoke about the agency’s implementation of the Digital Government Strategy and how data liberation ties into the overall picture. The evolution … (more)