Research in Motion Thursday released an upgraded version of its mobile management software designed to help its users prepare for a"simple and straightforward upgrade"to the BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 release slated for early next ...
Tags: RIM, Mobile Fusion management software, BlackBerry, ActiveSync
Apple iPhones and Android smartphones will replace BlackBerry as the top smartphones used by workers around the world in 2012,IDC said in an updated forecast. The IDC report on enterprise use of smartphones notes that businesses are ...
Tags: IDC, Apple, Iphones, smartphone, BlackBerry
Barclays is rolling out 8,500 Apple iPads across branches to improve interaction with customers. Shaygan Kheradpir, COO at Barclays' retail and business banking division, told Computer Weekly earlier this year that the company was ...
Tags: Barclays, iPads, tablets, interaction with customers
Tom Baker, head of ICT at Sunderland City Council, has an office in the council's datacentre. It is not a bad place to have an office because the datacentre has been somewhat rejuvenated, thanks in part to modern IT that takes up far less ...
Tags: Interview, ICT, datacentre, commercial IT, cloud computing infrastructure
Shares in Research in Motion(RIM),maker of the BlackBerry handheld devices,rose by 17.3 per cent on the Toronto Stock Exchange yesterday,as investors demonstrated their faith in the forthcoming BlackBerry 10 operating system and a new range ...
Tags: BlackBerry, RIM, smartphone
The National Transportation Safety Board in the U.S.plans to drop the BlackBerry smartphone from Research In Motion for Apple's iPhone,citing performance issues. The iPhone 5 smartphone will replace the NTSB's existing BlackBerry ...
Tags: BlackBerry, Apple's iPhone, NTSB, transfer
Research In Motion's(RIM)BlackBerry is being dropped in favour of the Apple iPhone by yet another US government agency,with reliability being cited as the key reason. The National Transportation Safety Board(NTSB),a body that investigates ...
Tags: US, Agency, Blackberrys
IDG News Service - Shifting ANZ Banking Group from an Australian and New Zealand centric bank to a super-regional Asia Pacific financial services entity while implementing new technology is Anne Weatherston's top priority for the next five ...
Navigation technology provider TomTom today announced developer tools and a platform for location-based services(LBS)in the cloud to help in the rapid creation of apps for finding locations that are used by truck fleets and other ...
Tags: Amsterdam, TomTom, Location-Based App, LBS, cloud
SAP announced strong support for the Windows 8 platform this week,including six upcoming mobile apps that focus on business training,recruiting and sales. One of the six apps announced Tuesday was built first for Windows 8.Called SAP ...
Tags: SAP, Windows 8, mobile apps, mobile device management software
AT&T announced general availability of its Enhanced Push-to-Talk service on Tuesday,taking on Sprint's Direct Connect Now app as the carriers vie to attract users of the fading Nextel network. Nextel pioneered push-to-talk(PTT)long before ...
Tags: AT&T, Enhanced Push-to-Talk service, Sprint's Direct Connect Now app
IBM,Good Technology and several other mobile device and app management software vendors today separately announced a variety of new or enhanced products. The announcements primarily focus on providing tools and services to help IT shops ...
Tags: IBM, mobile device, app, management vendors
Existing enterprise mobile device management [MDM] solutions come with "really serious constraints," Westminster Council CIO Ben Goward has told Computing. Speaking at Aditi Technologies' GoCloud 8 conference in London today, Goward said ...
Tags: Ben Goward, MDM, BYOD, Outlook intregration
During the Gartner Symposium, earlier in November the analyst firm predicted that IT departments will be expanding their budget to support bring-your-own-device (BYOD). As Computer Weekly previously reported, Gartner expects IT budgets ...
Tags: Gartner Symposium, bring-your-own-device, smartphones, tablet computers
In case BlackBerry users needed another reason to upgrade to a newer smart phone, research released today suggests there could be a health benefit to doing so, at least for people with skin allergies. In a small study presented at the ...