Stories by: Colin Neagle

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Smartphone security is heading for 'apocalypse' 17 May, 2012 07:33:00

The meteoric rise in the smartphone market is creating a dangerous vulnerability in smartphone security - one that may not be patched until the problem expands into what has been dubbed an "apocalypse."
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Is your BYOD policy out-of-date? 14 May, 2012 20:31:24

As consumerization continues to spread throughout the enterprise, IT decision makers must remain on their toes, tracking and anticipating end user behavior and deploying technology to protect against productivity losses and data breaches, one researcher says.
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Study: iOS surpasses Android in enterprise usage 11 May, 2012 06:31:00

Consumerisation trends in the enterprise shifted dramatically in the first quarter of 2012, with mobile devices running Apple's iOS operating system showing more activity in the workplace than those running Google's Android, as well as end users migrating from Facebook and toward Twitter.
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Microsoft announces 7 bulletins for May 2012 Patch Tuesday, closes book on MAPP data leak 04 May, 2012 05:46:09

Just hours after releasing the advance notification for May's Patch Tuesday release, which consists of seven bulletins, Microsoft brought some closure to its biggest security threat of the year.
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BYOD policy bites vacationing CEO 01 May, 2012 02:29:00

Mimecast CEO, Peter Bauer, recently found himself at the intersection of consumerization and IT management, falling victim to personal data loss as the result of the internal management policy he himself helped establish.
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Analysis: BYOD could hurt Windows Phone growth 26 April, 2012 05:34:00

Some of the researchers behind last year's high expectations for Microsoft's Windows Phone mobile operating system are beginning to dial back their predictions, citing the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend as a roadblock in some markets.
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Social events calendar shown off at DEMO, prepares to branch out from Boston 21 April, 2012 03:19:09

Thanks to a couple of boring weekends that SCHEDit founder and CEO Omar Tellez had in Princeton, N.J., my friends and I have a new way to keep track of our best options for every weekend in Boston.
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How Arqball met Cinsay: Startups merge products at DEMO 2012 21 April, 2012 00:26:08

As mentioned earlier this week, one particularly impressive mobile app showcased at the DEMO Spring 2012 conference in Santa Clara seemed like a good potential partner for other apps. Less than 24 hours later, that's exactly what it became.
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Top mobile apps showcased at DEMO 2012 20 April, 2012 01:28:10

As is generally the case at trade shows today, mobile technology has been top of mind at the DEMO conference in Santa Clara, taking up the first half of the event's first day. Here are some of the mobile apps that stood out.
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DEMO 2012: Better conference calling and 'how to' guides 20 April, 2012 00:23:12

After the enterprise presentation segment at the ongoing DEMO conference in Santa Clara, two presenters stood out for introducing solutions to long-running workplace problems.
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Google shares lessons learned as early software-defined network adopter 19 April, 2012 01:29:21

During his keynote speech at the Open Networking Summit in Santa Clara on Tuesday, Google executive Urs Holzle detailed the company's work with software-defined networking (SDN) from its earliest stages.