Daily Mobile Computing Feed – Jul 17, 2012

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

  • BYOD a must for 50% of staff by next year: Good Technology
  • ZDNet (blog) ‘When you come here, bring your own device and we’ll give you $20 a month for your data plan’, and you’ll say, ‘Wow, that’s a cool company’.” But rather than prospective employees forcing businesses to offer BYOD as a perk, Watson said that businesses … (more)

  • Microsoft Deploys Mobile Computing Features on New Office Version
  • International Business Times AU Microsoft will soon retail its in-house tablet computer Surface and the company is making sure that the brick will be supported by its internal product lines, foremost of which is the hugely successful Microsoft Office productivity suit. (more)

  • BYOD: Haven’t got a policy? Maybe it’s time you did | TechRepublic
  • By Steve Ranger
    Most IT organisations have yet to grapple with the thorny issue of bring your own device (BYOD) but they are increasingly facing pressure from above and below. While 12 months ago BYOD was being driven from the top down – the CEO … (more)

  • Microsoft Office must evolve to remain successful in the BYOD era …
  • By cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Juan Carlos Perez
    The “bring your own device” (BYOD) trend is sweeping enterprises, and end users are clamoring for the ability to use products like Office and SharePoint from their mobile device of choice, Creese said. “If Microsoft pooh-poohs that reality and … (more)

  • The Top Ten Things We Fear (And Love) About BYOD (Infographic …
  • By Eric Lai
    Two years ago, BYOD was just another acronym jockeying for acceptance by the technorati. Today, BYOD is a full-on phenomenon, the dominant way by which. (more)

  • Despite BYOD Buzz Most Enterprises Retain Control Over Mobile Device …
  • Virtual-Strategy Magazine CCMI today released the results of a survey, commissioned by Xigo, Dimension Data’s wholly owned telecommunications expense management (TEM) solutions company, that puts hard numbers around the scope and direction of the BYOD (bring your own device … (more)

  • Guest Blog: Bring Your Own Device and the Mobile Perimeter
  • GoMo News In a BYOD {Bring Your Own Device] world, it might be just too much trouble to ensure that each and every device that might be connected to the corporate network is required to authenticate properly, or runs appropriate security software, or updates and … (more)

  • Sprint Becomes First US Carrier to Offer an Ultrabook with Lenovo U310
  • Package Gotta Be Mobile Sprint is now carrying an ultrabook in its lineup and will offer customers the opportunity to have lightweight mobile computing coupled with its 3G/4G Now Network. The package, which will see the Lenovo U310 bundled alongside either a Novatel MiFi 3G … (more)

  • Fixmo Enables Centralized Monitoring and Compliance for Good Technology …
  • MarketWatch (press release) … Fixmo, the mobile risk management (MRM) company, today announced the availability of Fixmo Sentinel 4.3.2, the latest update to its defense-grade enterprise mobility platform for enabling protected and compliant mobile computing across the workplace. (more)

  • Avaya Bets On BYOD With Unified Communications Update
  • InformationWeek Add Avaya to the list of large technology companies that want to become a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) provider for small and midsize businesses (SMBs). The company’s newest release of IP Office, its unified communications (UC) platform for SMBs, … (more)

  • Trend Micro(TM) Mobile Security 8.0 Upgrades Mobile Device Management
  • with … MarketWatch (press release) “Bring your own device – BYOD – creates new challenges for IT as personal mobile tools become important parts of corporate networks and applications,” said Steve Quane, chief product officer, Trend Micro. “TMMS 8.0 gives customers the confidence they … (more)

  • Research Shows Enterprises Continue to Control Employees’ Mobile Device …
  • MarketWatch (press release) At the same time, the research also shows that enterprises have begun to embrace BYOD as a way to accommodate the needs of different employee user bases. A strong showing of respondents (22%) said they run a hybrid of corporate-liable and BYOD … (more)

  • The Ten Things We Fear (And Love) About BYOD
  • Business 2 Community Two years ago, BYOD was just another acronym jockeying for acceptance by the technorati. Today, BYOD is a full-on phenomenon, the dominant way by which. (more)

  • The Double Danger of BYOD
  • Huffington Post UK (blog) Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) describes the recent trend of employees bringing personally-owned mobile devices to their place of work, and using those devices to access privileged company resources such as email, file servers, and databases. (more)

  • Symantec Advances Mobile Productivity With New Android and iOS
  • Protection … MarketWatch (press release) (NASDAQ:SYMC) today announced significant mobile portfolio updates to enable secure mobile email deployments, mobile application initiatives and Bring Your Own Device programs. … Symantec Empowers Enterprises to Embrace Mobility, BYOD … (more)

  • DevCon5 Heads to New York with Hands-on HTML5 Experiences
  • MarketWatch (press release) Wayne Lee, director of engineering at Qualcomm, will present the luncheon keynote session on “The Future of Mobile Computing” on Monday, July 23. Lee has been working on mobile OS platform software for the past 10 years: BREW, Windows Mobile, … (more)

  • In Minneapolis, BYOD is Better
  • Governing The city of Minneapolis, Minn., has had a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policy for about two and a half years, and it began solely with smart phones. Since the explosion of tablet technology, however, the city has expanded — it either provides city … (more)

  • 10 BYOD-Friendly Smartphones for Work
  • CIO Insight If you’re like most CIOs, your stance on the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend is changing from “just say no” to “if we can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.” In fact, whether you approve or not, your employees are probably already using personal devices at work,… (more)

  • As BYOD, cloud change networking, VPN management still indispensible
  • TechTarget Despite incursions from the likes of Google Apps, Bring your own device (BYOD) policies and prosumer tools like DropBox, the trusty virtual private network (VPN) has managed to find ways to keep the WAN relevant in a world that increasingly favors its … (more)

  • Study: Just one in ten enterprises have saved money through BYOD schemes
  • TabTimes The bring-your-own device (BYOD) trend has been seen by many as another way in which enterprises can use tablets and smartphones while cutting costs, but a new report has cast doubt over that theory, while also suggesting tablets could one day replace … (more)

  • Enterasys Showcases BYOD at CT Conference
  • Campus Technology At the Campus Technology 2012 conference, happening this week in Boston, Enterasys is demonstrating its BYOD solutions designed for education, including the recently launched Mobile IAM. (more)

  • Rising to the Mobile Computing Management Challenge
  • IT Business Edge (blog) When it comes to mobile computing, there are three fundamental IT issues that every organization needs to address. The first is finding some way for users to sh. (more)

  • For BYOD Best Practices, Secure Data, Not Devices
  • Computerworld Mobile device management (MDM) products and services are often the reflexive response to the need for more secure mobile computing, but in many ways that’s like using a chainsaw rather than a scalpel to perform surgery. A growing number of secure … (more)

  • The mobile operator’s dilemma (and opportunity): The fourth curve
  • GigaOM The trifecta of fast broadband networks, well-designed mobile computing devices, and the insatiable supply of content, applications, and services has unleashed consumer demand for more like never before. But operators can’t rest on their laurels. The … (more)

  • BYOD early adopters cite sticker shock
  • Network World Companies are still only ramping up “bring your own device” policies that let employees use their own smartphones and tablets for business, but in many instances, they’re finding BYOD is pricier than just issuing devices themselves. OOPS: Worst … (more)

  • Blue Coat enhances BYOD mobile application security
  • TechTarget In bring-your-own-device (BYOD) environments, network administrators have mobile application security on the brain. Personal smartphones and tablets with thousands of unsanctioned apps are connecting to corporate networks. These mobile applications … (more)