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News about consumerization of IT
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Is your BYOD policy out-of-date?
As consumerization continues to spread throughout the enterprise, IT decision makers must remain on their toes, tracking and anticipating end user behavior and deploying technology to protect against productivity losses and data breaches, one researcher says.
By Colin Neagle | 14 May, 2012 20:31
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Download InfoWorld's special report on IT consumerization
By now, IT has seen a stream of smartphones, tablets, laptops, and more enter the business. There's no stopping the consumerization trend, but IT can ease the transition and its own workload.
By InfoWorld staff | 02 May, 2012 23:41
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BYOD policy bites vacationing CEO
Mimecast CEO, Peter Bauer, recently found himself at the intersection of consumerization and IT management, falling victim to personal data loss as the result of the internal management policy he himself helped establish.
By Colin Neagle | 01 May, 2012 02:29
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'Ice Cream Sandwich' makes the Galaxy Tab a little sweeter
Samsung's original 7-inch Galaxy Tab from late 2010 was an awkward animal, fusing the Android 2.2 "Froyo" smartphone operating system onto a tablet too big for the phone-sized UI and too small for Web browsing and other computer-type work. The Galaxy Tab 10.1 released in spring 2011 with the tablet-optimized Android 3 "Honeycomb" OS became the first credible Android tablet, although it still paled next to the iPad. Then last fall came the Android-derived Kindle Fire, a 7-inch tablet from Amazon.com that was cheap and limited largely to Amazon offerings. It quickly became the dominant Android tablet, though many argue it's not an Android tablet at all.
By Galen Gruman | 19 April, 2012 20:11
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New Galaxy Tabs focus on the living room, not the office
The new Samsung Galaxy Tab Android tablets announced last night are a lot like the old Galaxy Tabs, with essentially the same hardware specs for processor speed, screen resolution, battery life, and wireless connectivity options. The 7-inch model to be released on April 22 and the 10.1-inch model to be released on May 13 sport two hardware enhancements meant to appeal to home entertainment and digital camera users: a MicroSD slot for easier photo sharing (although it can be used for files of any type) and an infrared port to be able to act as a remote control for home theater equipment such as TVs and stereos. An interim version of the Galaxy Tab 7 gained the IR capability in October 2011, but very few other tablets offer this capability.
By Galen Gruman | 12 April, 2012 20:23
Features about consumerization of IT
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Open for business: It's the year of the corporate app store
With more employees using smartphones and tablets for business, enterprises are setting up their own app stores for application distribution, leveraging a consumer model for mobile application access that is tuned to the workplace. Instead of saddling already overburdened IT personnel with getting applications to individual devices, these app stores provide a central distribution mechanism for employees to download applications themselves.
By Paul Krill | 16 April, 2012 20:11
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In depth: Nokia's great Windows Phone hope - Beauty without brawn
Nokia may sell more cellphones than any other company in the world, but it's been all but excluded from the United States for years -- and it's seen its global sales steadily shrink as the iPhone and Android smartphones have become the darlings of buyers in an increasing number of countries. Nokia's relevance has been fast receding, and its Symbian, Maemo, and MeeGo efforts became a pattern of failure for a company that just didn't get it. In response, a year ago, Nokia bet its future largely on Windows Phone 7, Microsoft's answer to Apple's iOS and Google's Android.
By Galen Gruman | 10 April, 2012 20:13
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