BYOD: Where the costs are

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	INSIDER BYOD: Where the costs are Few technology trends have inspired as many misgivings -- and as much misinformation - as BYOD, or "bring your own device." Is the idea of allowing employees to purchase and use their own laptops and mobile devices a security nightmare? A productivity boon? A drain on the service desk? And perhaps the biggest question of all, a cost-savings nirvana? Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Ipswitch Wired & Wireless Networks? Learn More in our Live Webcast BYOD, rogue access, bandwidth abuse and access point performance are key issues impacting your ability to control your wireless IT environment. Join Brian Jacobs, WhatsUp Gold Senior Product Manager, for a live webinar on Nov 15th where he'll cover ways to address these key issues through best practices and a wireless management software. 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Read More Most memorable tech industry apologies of 2012: From Apple to Google to Microsoft Tech vendors have been as bombastic as ever promoting the magical and amazing things their latest smartphones, cloud computing wares and network gear can do. When things go wrong, they're naturally a little less visible, but plenty of companies have sucked it up and done the right thing this year (perhaps with a little legal prodding here and there) and publicly apologized for minor and major customers inconveniences. Read More How Microsoft's Surface tablet got my family through a Hurricane Sandy outage We're a cynical bunch up here in the greater New York City area, so when meteorologists started reporting that a major hurricane was headed our way for the last week of October, many of us were initially a bit skeptical. But the news started to get more and more dire as the storm, which became Hurricane Sandy, got closer after having already devastated parts of the Caribbean. 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Arguably the biggest news is the HTC Droid DNA - or possibly DLX - which is the first non-Motorola device to use the "Droid" moniker and the latest in the long-running series called "HTC is terrible at naming things." Read More Samsung Galaxy S III is smartphone top seller - for the moment The Samsung Galaxy S III, for the first time, is the top-selling smartphone in the world, beating out both the iPhone 4S and iPhone 5, according to Strategy Analytics data for the third quarter of 2012. Read More Anatomy of an App Store: Russian search leader Yandex launches app store App stores, like Google Play and those from Apple and Amazon, emerged so quickly that few understand much about them other than that they distribute free and purchased mobile apps. Russian search leader Yandex announced its intention to enter the app store business at the Open Mobile Summit in San Francisco this week. A late entry, Yandex's App store for Android highlights the purpose and function... Read More WHITE PAPER: Fiberlink The 10 Commandments of BYOD The rapid proliferation of mobile devices entering the workplace feels like divine intervention to many IT leaders. It's as if a voice boomed down from the mountain ordering all of the employees you support to procure as many devices as possible and connect them to corporate services en masse. BYOD was born and employees followed with fervor. Read Now! Obama tech adviser says re-election sets stage for progress on spectrum Federal initiatives to make more spectrum available for mobile services are likely to take off running after President Barack Obama's re-election on Tuesday, a member of a presidential technology commission said. Read More BlackBerry 10 is FIPS certified in advance of platform's release Research In Motion took the unusual step of announcing a tough security certification for BlackBerry 10 in advance of the device's launch next quarter. 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