Daily Mobile Computing Feed – Oct 25, 2012

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

  • CIO Summit: Lawyer navigates BYOD software minefield

    • CIO Magazine Organisations implementing bring-your-own-device (BYOD) initiatives often forget to consider if their software licence agreements are broad enough to cover devices under their programs, according to a technology lawyer. Speaking at the CIO Summit in … (more)

  • Gartner Report: Mobile Computing is the Future with Google’s Android on Top

    • International Business Times AU Personal computers will inevitably be relegated behind the pacesetting smartphones and tablet computers, research firm Gartner said in a new report made public on Wednesday, adding that mobile phones are likely to emerge as the preferred computing tool … (more)

  • A Hidden Way to Play Mobile

    • DailyFinance But companies such as Qualcomm and Apple have benefited from the change to mobile computing. As more computing moves to the cloud and goes through mobile devices, Fusion-io stands to benefit. The company sells solid-state memory products that … (more)

  • BYOD resistance loosening but security practices lacking

    • Network World A survey of 650 information and security professionals about how the “bring your own device” (BYOD) trend is impacting their organizations finds one-quarter of them forbid use of personally owned devices such as smartphones and tablets on the network. (more)

  • McAfee customers: BYOD security products are still ‘immature’

    • Computing McAfee customers believe that mobile device security is still an “immature” area of the market, with two companies telling Computing at McAfee’s FOCUS 12 conference in Las Vegas that they still have no plans to adopt BYOD until technology improves. (more)

  • 5 Mobile Stocks Ready To Rocket From The Launch Pad

    • Seeking Alpha A sea-change has occurred for investors and technology companies relating to a major shift from desktop computing to mobile computing. Mobile apps, mobile search, mobile ads, mobile transactions and mobile hardware are changing the investing criteria … (more)

  • Investment firms feeling bullish on BYOD

    • Don’t fear the “bring your own device” (BYOD) trend — take a chance and find out if it works in your organization, say IT managers in the financial industry that let … (more)

  • Ovum reveals firms face huge security risks as 80% of BYOD goes …

    • The bring-your-own-device (BYOD) phenomenon has entered the mainstream, with nearly 70 percent of all smartphone-owning professionals now using their … (more)

  • BYOD, shadow IT to spur Win 8 uptake in Asia

    • ZDNet SINGAPORE–Enterprises are generally slow to deploy new operating systems, but ongoing trends of bring-your-own-device (BYOD) and shadow IT will be main drivers for Asian businesses to take up Microsoft’s Windows 8, albeit in limited use cases. In fact … (more)

  • BYOD Security Debacle: Gen Y Is Innocent, Senior Management Guilty

    • Channel Partners … risks, but although past perceptions pointed to Gen Y as the cause for this headache, research by Easynet has revealed that the more experienced employees are more responsible for the surge in bring-your-own-device/applications (BYOD/A) concerns. (more)

  • Review: BlackBerry Balance

    • Telegraph.co.uk The so called ‘Bring Your Own Device’ (BYOD) trend was initially seen as a great way for companies to save money on equipping every staffer with a work mobile phone or laptop, and let employees choose (and buy) the gadgets they wanted. But as BYOD … (more)

  • The Merits of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)

    • NBC Chicago (blog) Have you heard of BYOD? I mean, before this post. Probably not. It’s okay. I don’t think it’s really caught on quite yet, but it is starting to get traction among startups. The deal is that, hey, we’re not gazillionaires so why on earth should we act … (more)