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BES 5.0 a smart choice for smartphone management; App Stores and Tyranny Wireless Alert NetworkWorld.com | Update Your Profile Sponsored by CDW 5 Ways to Cut Energy Costs Considering the current economy, it's imperative to consider the obvious and not so obvious ways to minimize IT energy bills. Review these steps to a more energy efficient Data Center Spotlight Story Rural Michigan ISP on third broadband loan Read full story Related News: BES 5.0 a smart choice for smartphone management Many factors enter in when an individual end user chooses between a BlackBerry, an iPhone or another device – there's coolness, cost, cachet, ease of use, features, apps. But for IT execs deploying a fleet of mobile devices, it's all about management. App Stores and Tyranny I'm not sure we should be thinking of handsets as little PCs and trying to get a zillion applications running on them, but, OK, if we're going to run apps on our handsets, then what's the right model for distributing those apps? Apple has shown that the vertically-integrated hardware/software/services model has real legs, and other app stores from handset vendors, carriers, and OS developers are appearing.... 'The Internet of Things' now includes a human heart With the news that an American woman has received a pacemaker with a wireless connection to the Internet, the so-called "Internet of Things" has taken on a new dimension. Cheap smartphones set to boom in the pre-paid market Smartphones are set to become much cheaper as mobile phone vendors try to get data-centric devices in the hands of pre-paid subscribers. New Motorola Android Phones to Sport Beefy Specs Motorola's not messing around with its debut of two Android smartphones expected to launch this fall. The phones, code name Morrison and a the second Sholes, pack some serious specifications, according to reports at the site Android and Me. If these specs are the real deal Apple's iPhone may have some serious competition. 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