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BlackBerry Is Allowing Rivals AirWatch,Citrix,SAP and IBM to Directly Manage Smartphones

May 15, 2014

BlackBerry is allowing rivals AirWatch, Citrix, SAP and IBM to directly manage its smartphones with the Blackberry 10 operating system as part of its strategy to open up management of its devices to third parties. The move by BlackBerry ...

Tags: Blackberry, cellphone, Smartphones

IDC Has Released Its Predictions for The IT Industry in 2014

Dec 12, 2013

IDC has released its predictions for the IT industry in 2014, and said it believes that Middle East spending will exceed $32 billion in the coming year. It predicts that the region will make a 7.3 percent year-on-year growth, one of the ...

Tags: It Predictions, Computer

There Is Insufficient User Demand to Include Support for Windows Phone

Dec 5, 2013

There is insufficient user demand to include support for Windows Phone on BlackBerry's mobile device management platform, the company has told Computing. While echoing the company's latest "back to its roots" enterprise-focused message, ...

Tags: Blackberry, Windows Phone

John Chen Has Sent an Open Letter to The Company's Customers

Dec 5, 2013

New BlackBerry CEO John Chen has sent an open letter to the company's customers telling them that BlackBerry is "very much alive, thank you". The letter to customers is intended to reassure them that the investments that they have made in ...

Tags: Blackberry, New Blackberry CEO

Kristian Tear Have Both Left The Company with Immediate Effect

Nov 27, 2013

BlackBerry's chief operating officer, Kristian Tear, and chief marketing officer, Frank Boulben, have both left the company with immediate effect, while chief financial officer Brian Bidulka will leave at the end of the financial year, the ...

Tags: exec, BlackBerry, management, shake-up

BlackBerry Has Continued Its Clear out of Top Level Staff by Removing COO,Kristian Tear

Nov 27, 2013

BlackBerry has continued its clear out of top level staff by removing COO, Kristian Tear, and CMO Frank Boulben. Interim CEO, John Chen, who was appointed on November 4 after the ousting of Thorsten Heins, hasn’t hesitated to pull ...

Tags: BlackBerry, corporate, clearout, Tear, Boulben, axed

Mobile Management Vendors Are Increasing Their Efforts to Pitch Android and IOS

Nov 19, 2013

Mobile management vendors including Good Technology and MobileIron are increasing their efforts to pitch Android and iOS as alternatives to BlackBerry, thanks to improved security and management tools. On Monday, BlackBerry announced it ...

Tags: management, vendor, BlackBerry, Android, IOS

IBM Yesterday Announced an Agreement to Acquire Fiberlink Communications

Nov 19, 2013

IBM yesterday announced an agreement to acquire Fiberlink Communications, saying the purchase is a key part of a broader mobile-security strategy to provide assurance in transactions conducted via devices such as iPhones and Android ...

Tags: IBM, Fiberlink, mobile-security, strategy, lynchpin

BlackBerry Will Change Its CEO and Accept a US$1 Billion Loan

Nov 6, 2013

BlackBerry will change its CEO and accept a US$1 billion loan from a consortium involving shareholder Fairfax Financial Holdings as it struggles with inventory and strategy problems. The company has abandoned plans to sell itself. CEO ...

Tags: Blackberry, Computer Products

Will It Be Apple? Samsung? Or Microsoft? Or It Will Be All of The Above

Nov 6, 2013

BlackBerry's dramatic fall in the enterprise has left CIOs scrambling to pick a new mobile platform provider. Will it be Apple? Samsung? Or Microsoft? Or it will be all of the above. "The entire landscape has shifted in a very short ...

Tags: Samsung, Apple, Microsoft, Blackberry

Microsoft Is in a Position to Surpass Apple and Android Smartphone Makers

Sep 6, 2013

With its $7.2 billion agreement to buy Nokia’s handset business, Microsoft is in a position to surpass Apple and Android smartphone makers in providing an enterprise-class mobile platform, experts say. However, whether Microsoft is ...

Tags: Nokia, Mobile Enterprise

New Cloud-based Software Lets Employees Register,Secure,and Manage Their Personal Devices

Aug 30, 2013

New cloud-based software lets employees register, secure, and manage their personal devices without IT department involvement. And a simplified Web interface automates a lot of management tasks. The software, dubbed Anyware, is completely ...

Tags: Computer Products, Cloud service

Apple Didn't Really Have a Solution for Identity Management or for Linking Macs

Aug 21, 2013

When Microsoft shipped Windows 2000 and Active Directory, Apple didn't really have a solution for identity management or for linking Macs to an enterprise network. The company was just beginning the transition from its classic Mac OS ...

Tags: Computer Products, software

DWF Is to Extend Its Use of Mobile Device Management (MDM) Solution Mobileiron

Jun 27, 2013

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 ...

Tags: Computer Products, software

Businesses Risk Failure to Comply with Privacy and Data Protection Laws

Jun 26, 2013

Businesses risk failure to comply with privacy and data protection laws due to the rise of"regulated data"being accessed via smartphone and tablet devices. So says a new report by independent research firm Ponemon Institute and security ...

Tags: Mobile Devices, IT, Businesses risk, privacy

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