Houses of Parliament members are increasingly using their smartphones and tablets as a work tool, the parliamentary head of ICT, Joan Miller, has claimed. Speaking at the Cloud World Forum in London Olympia today, Miller said that about ...
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The bring your own device (BYOD) trend is gaining steam, thanks to the cost benefits and increased productivity that can come from allowing employees to provision their own technology. Mobile workers are more likely to put in more hours, so ...
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Computing is in the midst of a flexible working trial. Over the next couple of months we'll be testing various virtual desktop solutions, IP phones, multi-person video conferencing, unified communications toolkits, and also lots of ...
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Law firm DWF is to extend its use of mobile device management (MDM) solution MobileIron, to support the widespread use of apps in the enterprise. Richard Hodkinson, CTO of DWF, explained that the law firm has 1,000 mobile workers, who use ...
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Microsoft has told Computing that enterprise users will see "a marked difference" in the Windows 8.1 patch's effects on productivity. Speaking at Microsoft's Build 2013 conference in San Francisco today, the operating system's principal ...
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The adoption of iPads and iPhones by enterprise was predictable and Apple should have stolen a march on its competitors by creating its own mobile device management(MDM)software,according to law firm DWF's CTO,Richard Hodkinson. In an ...
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Gartner today projected that the overall decline in shipments of desktop and laptop PC's will be 10.6 percent in 2013,while tablet shipments will grow by 67.9 percent. The trend toward'anytime-anywhere'computing has been underway for ...
Microsoft today must deliver on expectations that have been mounting since the sluggish start of Windows 8 eight months ago, analysts said. "This is an important turning point; this is about keeping the energy in Windows 8 and keeping ...
As the consumerisation of IT takes a tighter grip on IT users' daily lives, and BYOD becomes an increasingly common way to work, the importance placed on developments in the devices market has grown, even in the last six months. Further ...
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AT&T and NEC Corporation of America today announced Friday's launch of the ultimate workhorse among ruggedized 4G LTE smartphones, the NEC Terrain™. The NEC Terrain is equipped with AT&T Enhanced Push-to-Talk (EPTT), and it ...
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Millions of mobile phone users across the European Union (EU) are set to benefit from fast-tracked reforms of telecoms regulation, which include an end to roaming charges. The 27 European Commissioners voted on Tuesday in Brussels to end ...
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Apple is looking into the possibility of launching iPhones with bigger screens, in addition to a range of cheaper models that come in colours other than black or white. The Cupertino, California-based firm is discussing the idea of making ...
Zscaler has added mobile security to its arsenal of cloud-based security services, which the firm is pitching as a flexible way to fix the risk of employee-owned devices bypassing conventional filtering layers. The firm's alternative is ...
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Enterprises are under heavy pressure to change their approach to IT security because of a "nexus of forces" that include big data, social networking, mobile and cloud computing, according to Gartner. Ray Wagner, managing vice president of ...
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Global retailer Walmart has selected Good Technology's Good for Enterprise solution and AirWatch's enterprise mobile device management (MDM) solution to manage 10,000 employee devices. Speaking exclusively to Computing at ISACA's World ...