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TfL Has Overseen a Rise of More Than 500 Per Cent
Nov 29, 2013Transport for London (TfL) has overseen a rise of more than 500 per cent in its employees' use of mobile phones and tablets under its bring your own device (BYOD) scheme over the past three years. Official figures obtained under the ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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Public Sector Enquiries About Purchasing Microsoft Surface Hardware Has "Surged"
Sep 2, 2013Phoenix Software has revealed that public sector enquiries about purchasing Microsoft Surface hardware has "surged" since Microsoft gave the licensing, software and infrastructure solutions firm permission to sell the devices only two weeks ...
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Channel 4 Has a Bring Your Own Device Scheme in Place But Is Yet to Find a MDM Solution
Apr 22, 2013Channel 4 has a bring your own device (BYOD) scheme in place but is yet to find a mobile device management (MDM) solution that "truly works", according to its CISO, Brian Brackenborough. In an interview with Computing, Brackenborough ...
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The London Borough of Merton Is to Deploy Cloud and Networking Firm
Mar 29, 2013The London Borough of Merton is to deploy cloud and networking firm Citrix's virtualisation technology in a bid to cut costs and provide a flexible working environment to 2,000 of its employees. The Citrix solution will be implemented by ...
Tags: Merton Council, Citrix, Flexible Working
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Workers Won't Get a Penny Extra for Joining The Council's New BYOD Scheme
Jan 28, 2013Cambridgeshire County Council workers won't get a penny extra for joining the council's new BYOD scheme because the authority is worried about being "pilloried in the local press" if they did. Staff signing up to the scheme, which began ...
Tags: Cambridgeshire County Council, BYOD scheme, financial reward
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Civica CTO John Hood Has Branded Microsoft's Surface RT Tablet
Jan 28, 2013Civica CTO John Hood has branded Microsoft's Surface RT tablet "a bit of a lemon", telling Computing that the machine lacks the established ecosystem and standout features to separate it from existing products. Speaking to Computing at ...
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Enterprises Are Cutting Costs and Increasing Efficiency Through BYOD Programmes
Jan 25, 2013According to Good Technology, enterprises are reporting they are cutting costs and increasing efficiency through BYOD programmes. Organisations around the globe are slowly but surely implementing BYOD schemes in the workplace. Good ...
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Simon Moorhead Began His Career as The Bank of England's CIO with a Baptism of Fire
Dec 27, 2012Simon Moorhead began his career as the Bank of England’s CIO with a baptism of fire, having started in November 2008 – just two months after Lehman Brothers collapsed and a year after Northern Rock was rescued by the government. ...
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Businesses Opens Themselves up to Security Threats by Failing to Manage BYOD Programmes
Oct 24, 2012Businesses are opening themselves up to security threats by failing to manage bring-your-own-device (BYOD) programmes properly. According to a study of 4,000 workers, carried out by Ovum, 80% of corporate BYOD schemes are "inadequately ...
Tags: security threats, BYOD, Ovum, BYOD schemes
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O2 Gears up to Introduce BYOD Scheme to Operations
Oct 2, 2012Mobile phone group O2 is gearing up to introduce a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) scheme to its operations in Europe and South America, following a successful roll-out in the UK. O2, part of Spain's Telefonica, said the policy has helped ...
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UK Businesses Fail to Protect Themselves Against Risks Posed
Sep 21, 2012UK businesses are failing to protect themselves against the risks posed by staff using personal devices in the workplace. Two thirds of UK IT managers are concerned that the use of personally owned devices in the workplace poses a ...
Tags: personal devices, IT services, Equanet, company data