Daily Mobile Computing Feed – Jul 25, 2012

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

  • School Board Approves BYOD, Charter Policy and Teacher Bonuses

    • wmbb The school board Tuesday approved the “Bring Your Own Device” (BYOD) policy after a public hearing. This means all students can now bring their own cell phones, tablets laptops or any other personal device. It will be up to the teachers on how and when … (more)

  • “Bring Your Own Device” Approved by Bay County School Board

    • WJHG-TV Panama City- NewsChannel 7 first told you about the “Bring Your Own Device” proposal in May. With the school board’s approval of it Tuesday, students are now allowed to use whatever electronics they want during the school day. That includes iPads … (more)

  • Novell ZenWorks Mobile Management Aims at BYOD Businesses

    • eWeek As the rise of bring your own device (BYOD) initiatives challenges IT management capabilities in businesses of all sizes, Novell is debuting its ZenWorks Mobile Management platform, which is designed to address security, application and file sharing … (more)

  • ActivIdentity 4TRESS Now Delivers Granular Authentication Controls to

    • Help … MarketWatch (press release) As more enterprise and commerce workers use their personal smartphones and tablets in the workplace, known as Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD), the ability to control those devices and secure organizational data becomes an unaddressed pain point, … (more)

  • The Evolution of IT: BYOD and Consumerization

    • TechNewsWorld The Bring Your Own Device, or BYOD, movement is a reality for most IT departments today. And it’s generally accepted that it was spearheaded by the tremendous popularity of Apple consumer devices — primarily iOS devices such as iPads and iPhones. (more)

  • Small business owners, beware of BYOD

    • Washington Post (blog) It’s called Bring Your Own Device, or BYOD, and it refers to the practice of allowing employees to use their own handheld devices (and in some cases, laptops or desktop computers) to access their work networks. Permitting employees to use personal … (more)

  • Fixmo Partners with Appthority to Empower Risk-Based Decision Making for …

    • MarketWatch (press release) Fixmo Partners with Appthority to Empower Risk-Based Decision Making for Mobile Device and BYOD Security. Partnership allows Fixmo to assess the threats, risks and security vulnerabilities associated with commercial and custom mobile apps on … (more)

  • With OS X Mountain Lion, Apple and Microsoft’s strategies grow further apart

    • ExtremeTech Mobile computing has become an important piece of our digital lives, and nothing could be a better example than the release of new operating systems from both Microsoft and Apple. While we won’t be seeing Windows 8 for another three months, Mac OS X … (more)

  • Daptiv Helps Enterprises to Thrive in BYOD Era With Daptiv Mobile, Cloud …

    • MarketWatch (press release) This application complements Daptiv’s cloud-based PPM solution and gives users more choices on how to use Daptiv PPM away from their offices and computers. In today’s BYOD era, employees are increasingly choosing to use their personal smartphones … (more)

  • Hype Cycles, VDI, and BYOD

    • SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog) An interesting thing is occurring in the spaces of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) that is subtle, and while not generally part of the technology hype cycle, seems to be an adjunct of it in these two very specific … (more)