Mobile Device Management (MDM)

LetMobile released its Secure Mobile Email version 1.5 yesterday and its worth taking note. Email security is at the core of all initial enterprise mobility and bring your own device (BYOD) roll-outs. While there is always talk and occasionally even action related to other corporate applications, the desire for corporate email on personally owned mobile devices is the catalyst behind the BYOD revo

Apple Insider reported today that Apple and Samsung are likely to extend their combined market share to more than 50% of smartphone sales next year. The numbers originate from Canaccord Genuity analyst Michael Walkley’s investor note today. His analysis shows that combined Apple – Samsung market share will grow from 47.6% today to 49.7% by the end of the year followed by 52.3% by the e

There is a lot of talk this week about trouble at BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM). The flurry of reporting was prompted by CEO Thorsten Heins’ move to retain Royal Bank of Canada and J.P. Morgan to evaluate, “strategic business model alternatives,” among other things. Might one of those alternatives be sale to a competitor? Well, yes. According to the Wall Street Journa

Is Big Blue in for Higher Cost and Low Adoption There was a great article this week in MIT’s Technology Review about IBM’s approach to BYOD. There are many great things about how IBM runs the IT organization. You could even call it a progressive group in some areas. However, the approach they are taking with BYOD gives the distinct impression of old style IT thinking that doesn’t

McAfee Threats Report for Q1 2012 was released today and mobile malware is the big story.  The 12x quarterly increase is spectacular – from hundreds to thousands of new threats were detected.  The report acknowledges that this growth figure is impacted by, “significant improvements in our ability to collect, process and detect mobile malware.”  However, it may not be that far off

What does 3,997 different versions of Android look like? The chart from OpenSignalMaps paints a spectacular picture. Let’s start with the good news. GOOG Chairman Eric Schmidt says it’s not fragmentation. It’s differentiation. If you are a device manufacturer trying to get noticed in the consumer marketplace, that may be a good thing. Not so much if you are in enterprise IT. 4,00