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Corporate IT Can’t Afford to Ignore Apple Any Longer

If you said “the company cell phone” a few years back, you were, in all likelihood, talking about a BlackBerry. But no longer. In fact, with the incredible rise in popularity of the iPhone and iPad, Apple — a company once considered an enterprise outsider — has become, almost overnight, it seems, the go-to smartphone [...]

Jul 05, 2012 Read More »

Visage and Fixmo Form Strategic Partnership

Product Integration Will Provide First “Full Circle” BYOD Mobility Management & Security Solution Fixmo, the mobile risk management company, and Visage, the leader in enterprise mobility management, today announced their strategic partnership to deliver the first fully integrated solution for enterprise mobility intelligence, data security and risk management for BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) deployments. [...]

Jun 26, 2012 Read More »

Are Smartphones Just Dumb Vessels?

We all love our Internet, email-, Facebook-, Twitter-, CRM-, ERP-, Yammer-, Intranet-, ESPN-enabled smartphones, right? Of course we do! We can work from anywhere and be online and available no matter what. (Though potential downside: We can work from anywhere and be online and available no matter what.) And our employers love them too. Smartphones, [...]

Jun 12, 2012 Read More »

Is a BYOD Mandate the Right Course For Your Company?

Mandates for change that come from upon high are always tough. So it wasn’t surprising that VMWare caused a few ripples when it mandated that all employees adopt its new bring-your-own-device policy. With 6,000 U.S. employees needing to transition from their company-owned phones and plans to their own in 90 days, it was no small matter, [...]

Jun 01, 2012 Read More »

Learning to Come to Terms With BYOD

It’s actually a bit strange to think that employees’ using their own devices at work would be such a controversial or complicated issue, but for IT managers the issue is a lot of both. So, while the bring your own device (BYOD) revolution has caused a lot of heartburn among IT decision makers as they [...]

May 29, 2012 Read More »

Smart mobility management keeps employees within view

The proliferation of smartphones and tablets in consumer circles has made mobility management an unavoidable question for enterprise IT managers. One way or another, these powerful gadgets are making their way into the hands of employees and onto corporate networks. But as companies debate their merits of different governance models, it’s becoming clear that they [...]

Apr 30, 2012 Read More »

Identifying the culprits in mobile billing nightmares

Telecom expense management has become a scary pursuit for some following the proliferation of smartphones and tablets in the modern workplace. Constantly connected employees have already provided some rude awakenings for department heads tasked with opening the bill at the end of each month. To control corporate wireless spend before it gets out of control, [...]

Apr 30, 2012 Read More »

Enterprise mobility initiative finding support from all angles

The first calls for workforce mobilization tend to come from the lower end of the totem pole as common employees look to leverage the technologies they are most familiar with and promote a better work-life balance. But as time goes on, it seems as though top-level executives are coming around to the idea as well [...]

Apr 04, 2012 Read More »

Report Highlights Differences Between iPhone, Android Data Consumption

Industry analysts from comScore have been a leading source of insight into the ongoing competition between vendors vying for supremacy in the mobile marketplace. Google and Apple have been leading the way for several months on the success of Android handsets and the omnipresent iPhone. As companies welcome personally-owned devices into their enterprise mobility plans, [...]

Apr 03, 2012 Read More »