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I've been using Windows Phone 8 for a day. Here's what I think.

ConsumerizeIT.com - The Consumerization of IT — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 20:45:00 GMT

A little over 24 hours ago, I became a full-time Windows Phone 8 user. I have a 16GB HTC 8X , and it's activated on my primary cell plan, so I'm committed (and forced) to using it. I'm a little bit surprised, but so far I like it a lot. We don't usually do hardware reviews, since I tweeted about it there were a few conversations going, and more things to say than can fit in a tweet...(read more)

Top tech tweets about the Mayan apocalypse

ConsumerizeIT.com - The Consumerization of IT — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 12:31:00 GMT

It's still early here in the Western Hemisphere, so let's not count all our chickens before they've hatched, but so far we've avoided the apocalypse that the Mayans supposedly predicted for Dec. 21, 2012. Our impending doom was popular comedy fodder on Twitter, and it even spawned some good technology-related quips. Here are some of the best: The world ended. I am tweeting from hell...(read more)

Consumerization Nation #18: VMware, BYOD, and 2012 in review

ConsumerizeIT.com - The Consumerization of IT — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 20:11:00 GMT

Listen above or right click this link and select "Save link as..." to download the mp3. Colin and I were joined by Jim Furbush and Brian Madden for our final show of 2012. Here's what we covered: Dell's recent acquisition of Credant Technologies Windows Intune now has more MDM capabilities , but we're not sure what they are. 2012 was a huge year for mobile...for everyone except...(read more)

Consumerization Nation LIVE Wednesday, December 19 1pm EST/10am PST: Colin, Jim, and Jack talk about 2012 in CoIT and mobility

ConsumerizeIT.com - The Consumerization of IT — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 05:00:00 GMT

Our final episode of Consumerization Nation for 2012 will be on Wednesday, December 19, at 1pm EST/10am PST. Colin and I will be joined by Jim Furbush, and we'll start off by looking at the story they put together Top 10 vendors that get the consumerization of IT in the enterprise. Next, we can look at two articles about BYOD— In defense of BYOD by Colin and Why BYOD doesn't matter (nearly...(read more)

Office for iOS: A lose-lose proposition for Microsoft

ConsumerizeIT.com - The Consumerization of IT — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 18:34:00 GMT

Not too long ago, mobile workers viewed Microsoft Office as their productivity savior -- the one app that would break their last PC chains and make them true road warriors. Microsoft executives probably felt the same way, envisioning the day when Office would give the company a true presence on the “it” platform of the 21 st century: Apple’s iOS . As time went by, however, and Microsoft...(read more)

Did Citrix overpay for Zenprise?

ConsumerizeIT.com - The Consumerization of IT — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 14:35:00 GMT

Citrix hasn't exactly been gung-ho about mobile device management, so its decision to buy Zenprise for $355 million is a little puzzling. Back in June, Citrix executive Jesse Lipson told me the company was considering adding mobile device management (MDM) to its portfolio. He described it as a sort of stopgap measure; Citrix's focus is on mobile application management (MAM) with its CloudGateway...(read more)

In defense of BYOD

ConsumerizeIT.com - The Consumerization of IT — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 15:46:00 GMT

Reports of BYOD's death are greatly exaggerated. As the end of the year approaches, every analyst and pundit feels the need to make predictions for 2013. A hot take in IT is that 2013 will be the year when the bring your own device (BYOD) hype fizzles. There's even some data to back this prediction up. I don't buy it. BYOD is going to be around for a while, because it provides the path...(read more)

Consumerization Nation #17: Good patent lawsuits, Zenprise, and mobile virtualization

ConsumerizeIT.com - The Consumerization of IT — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 18:54:00 GMT

Listen above or right click this link and select "Save link as..." to download the mp3 For this episode of Consumerization Nation, Colin and I were joined by fellow TechTargeter Jim Furbush. We spend most of this 30 minute show talking about Good Technology and their patent infringement lawsuit against MobileIron and Airwatch ( Here's Good's press release .) Good also put up a special...(read more)

Consumerization Nation LIVE - Thursday, November 28, 1pm EST / 10am PST. Let's talk about Good patents, Zensuite, and mobile virtualization.

ConsumerizeIT.com - The Consumerization of IT — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 07:34:00 GMT

Colin Steele, Jim Furbush, and I will be creating another episode of Consumerization Nation, live today at 1pm EST, 10am PST. What will we be talking about? How about: Good Technology's patent infringement lawsuit against AirWatch and MobileIron Is Apple ruining mobile virtualization for us? Or are they saving us from it? Why I think Office for iOS and Android could be awesome, why it won't...(read more)

How Not to Deploy A Mobile App, by Mitt Romney

ConsumerizeIT.com - The Consumerization of IT — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 18:25:00 GMT

Imagine this scenario: Your organization has a super-important task at hand -- one that will change the course of history. A distributed workforce of 30,000 people is tasked with carrying it out, all in one day, over the course of 12 hours. Its success depends on the ability to collect real-time data, analyze that data and then deliver actionable information to the right workers in the right places...(read more)

Consumerization Nation LIVE will be Thursday, November 8 at 1:30 EST / 10:30 PST.

ConsumerizeIT.com - The Consumerization of IT — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 05:00:00 GMT

It's been a while since we've had a show, and now that I'm back from Synergy Barcelona, Colin is back from vacation, and the TechTarget office in Newton has electricity, we can finally have another. During the last several weeks a lot has happened, so join right here on this page at 1:30 EST / 10:30 PST on Thursday to talk about all these things: Microsoft Surface RT Windows Phone 8 mobile...(read more)

MobileIron is adding a ton of new app management features

ConsumerizeIT.com - The Consumerization of IT — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 13:00:00 GMT

MobileIron announced today that they’re adding a ton of new features to their mobile application management product line. MobileIron has been shipping mobile device management solutions since 2009, but these days—especially with today’s release—their message is strongly around mobile application management and creating separate work and personal environments. MobileIron had...(read more)

Mobile printing challenge solved

ConsumerizeIT.com - The Consumerization of IT — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 15:11:00 GMT

Printing is pretty much a pain. Worse when it comes to printing from a mobile device in the enterprise because iOS and Android devices were never designed with printing in mind. It's certainly gotten better over the last year with Apple's AirPrint and Google's Cloud Print functionality becoming more prevalent. For home offices and small businesses it's really not a big deal at all since...(read more)

Citrix unveils mobile email client and secure browser, with video from Citrix Synergy 2012 Barcelona

ConsumerizeIT.com - The Consumerization of IT — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 04:00:00 GMT

Last week at Synergy 2012 Barcelona, Citrix introduced two new mobile apps, @WorkMail and @WorkWeb. Both apps are fully integrated with CloudGateway MDX, which means that they can be part of a ecosystem of interconnected, manageable apps that IT can deploy to unmanaged devices. Let's take a closer look at each one. @WorkMail is a sandboxed email client. I've been writing a lot about sandboxed...(read more)

Jack's Citrix Synergy Barcelona mobility wrap-up

ConsumerizeIT.com - The Consumerization of IT — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 10:16:00 GMT

The Citrix Synergy 2012 Barcelona keynote was yesterday morning, and I went away feeling like Citrix did a good job of explaining how all of their enterprise mobility management products work together. To add to the mobile app management (MDX) and mobile file syncing (ShareFile) features we already knew about, Citrix formally unveiled their mobile email client and announced a managed mobile browser...(read more)