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Could Workspot's freemium approach to BYOD shift focus from "access and control" to "big data?"

Over the last several months, I’ve had the opportunity to advise entrepreneurs across several technology segments. What’s common amongst the ones I respect is that they have a deep appreciation of how their target users behave in their lives...

Published May 01 2013 by Guest Bloggers , 5,492 views, 16 comments

Mocana just rolled out a ton of new features in its app wrapping product

When Jack last checked in with Mocana's Mobile App Protection (MAP) platform last summer it was a more innocent time in the enterprise mobility management space. MAM was just something that was garnering buzz, vendors like Citrix, Nukona, and AppSense...

Published Apr 11 2013 by Guest Bloggers , 2,964 views, 1 comment

Mobile App Management standards will just get in the way of progress

MAM and MIM are promising technologies for securing and enabling an on-the-go workforce. The more you look at them, however, the more you see potential problems that could prevent widespread adoption. Jack Madden has done a good job outlining these problems...

Published Apr 05 2013 by Guest Bloggers , 2,627 views, 5 comments

Growing pains for a new iPhone user, comparisons to my past life as an Android user

In my recent piece on the first two-weeks of being a new iPhone user , I jumped right into the application experience because that seemed to be the logical starting point. Mobile devices are personal and what makes them personal are the apps we eventually...

Published Mar 29 2013 by Guest Bloggers , 2,980 views, 2 comments

BlackBerry earnings: 1 million Z10s sold, 3 million subscribers lost

BlackBerry held its first earnings call of the BlackBerry 10 era today, and the results were decidedly mixed. The beleaguered smartphone maker is making strides to regain respectability but still has a ways to go to right its ship. On the plus side, the...

Published Mar 28 2013 by Guest Bloggers , 2,476 views, 1 comment

Citrix's recent mobility report reveals some interesting trends in mobile applications and security

First, all of the numbers I'm about to cite should be taken with a grain of salt as the data is based purely on Citrix customers deploying enterprise mobility management in the cloud during the fourth quarter of 2012. That's a lot of qualifying statements...

Published Mar 28 2013 by Guest Bloggers , 3,158 views, 1 comment

With Citrix AG and CSG going away, how far can you get with NetScaler VPX? The answer: pretty far!

If you are following Citrix’s networking product line I guess that you are already familiar with a fact that Citrix has finally decided to “End of Life” the Access Gateway product line in 2014. While we can debate for hours if this decision...

Published Mar 27 2013 by Guest Bloggers , 6,767 views, 14 comments

Part One: My Shameful Mobility Secret Revealed

About two weeks ago, this lowly consumerization reporter – one that happens to cover enterprise mobility for a living – finally upgraded from an LG Cosmos dumbphone to an iPhone 4S. It's not my first trip to the smartphone rodeo, having...

Published Mar 07 2013 by Guest Bloggers , 2,970 views, 2 comments

You can't solve BYOD because it's not a problem

Not a week goes by that I don't receive a press release or read a news article about some new product or other that "solves BYOD." Vendors and customers that look at BYOD as a problem to solve, and not an opportunity to take advantage of, are missing...

Published Mar 07 2013 by Guest Bloggers , 7,342 views, 14 comments

Think users will blindly agree to MAM? Think again!

Mobile application management isn’t a cure-all for the problem of controlling corporate assets on personal devices. Users will still need a good deal of convincing and persuading -- or, if you prefer a gentler term, “education.” During...

Published Feb 28 2013 by Guest Bloggers , 3,039 views, 9 comments

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