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Feds have invested $1.6 billion in mobile workforce, study says

A new study from public-private partnership Mobile Work Exchange has found that the U.S. federal government invested $1.6 billion in mobilizing its workforce since the launch of the Digital Government Strategy Initiative. However, sufficient encryption and security training are still seen as emerging needs. A...

Reality Check: Enterprise mobility reaching maturity

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace. The onward march of mobile devices and apps is a strong indicator of the increasing maturity of the mobile market....

Survey: BYOD posing major challenges for networks, management

A new report by CDW looks at integrating mobile technology into work environments, and found a "support gap" between how IT departments perceive their performance and the experience of workers using bring-your-own-device programs. The report is based on a survey earlier this year of 1,200...

Report: Verizon makes offer for Wind Mobile, in talks with Mobility

Verizon Communications has reportedly moved closer to entering the Canadian wireless market, having offered to purchase beleaguered operator Wind Mobile and initiating talks with equally-troubled Mobility. Reuters reported that sources claimed Verizon has offered up to $800 million to purchase Wind, seeming to confirm reports...

Announcing Telecom Exchange (TEX) CEO Roundtable Participants

Co-Hosts Jaymie Scotto & Associates and RCR Wireless News Announce Telecom Exchange CEO Roundtable Participants Live from NYC, Zayo, Allied Fiber, Hibernia, NeXXcom, TW Telecom, Optelian, Atlantic-ACM, Bankstreet, Alteva, Colo Atl and Lightower Fiber Networks headline premier data center and telecom network industry event  Austin, TX – May...

Webinar: 2013 Regulatory Review: A deep dive into the wireless industry’s regulatory challenges

RCR Wireless News Editor-in-Chief Dan Meyer was joined by esteemed guests, including long-time industry analysts Roger Entner, former FCC Commissioner Harold Furchtgott-Roth, former Senior Attorney with the Competition Division in the FCC’s Office of General Counsel Lawrence Spiwak and former FCC Wireless Bureau Chief...

Webinar: Evolving to the Application Delivery Network

Service providers have been buffeted by the explosive growth in data traffic.  Meanwhile many networks remain highly siloed and are becoming more complex even as service providers move to converge infrastructure and adopt more flexible cloud-based approaches.  In this webinar, we'll share some of...

White Paper: The International Roaming Problem: How to Balance Cost, Connectivity, and Security Concerns

International communication doesn't have to be complex. In this white paper, you'll discover the challenges organizations with international travelers face to strike an appropriate balance between ease of use for those focused on being productive when traveling internationally, and the cost of using non-domestic...

TOA Technologies bets on mobility for growth in Latin America

TOA Technologies began its operations in Latin America two years ago. Focused on mobile workforce management, the company is betting on rising enterprise mobility to increase its revenues in the region. “There's a really strong trend toward mobility, and that's not just limited to  Latin...

MWC 2013: SAP moves to secure content management

With mobility a top priority for enterprises, software firm SAP has made the move into securing content management. The company launched its SAP Mobile Documents solution at this week's Mobile World Congress event(MWC – check all pieces), noting the solution is designed to meet...

Citrix makes mobile a strategic priority, announces enterprise MDM solution

Citrix has been moving into the mobile space, making mobility a critical part of its strategy. Indeed, Citrix sees itself as a cloud computing company that enables the mobile work style. “Citrix has been looking at mobile as the key to enable end-user productivity...

BroadSoft: LTE enables greater use of mobile UC solutions

BroadSoft recently released a global survey of worker attitudes toward mobile unified communications, showing that users are not just willing to adopt UC solutions, but demanding them. In a video interview, Leslie Ferry, Broadsoft's VP of marketing, explained that this attitude is due to...

Avanade: Companies are changing business processes to embrace mobile technology

Companies are changing their business processes to take advantage of mobile and consumer technologies in the workplace. Avanade's latest global study of consumer and mobile technologies’ impact on enterprises shows that 71% of companies have changed at least one business process and 20% have...

Survey shows BYOD increases IT frustration

A recent survey shows that the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend is impacting IT departments worldwide, increasing frustration and the loss of control as well as raising concerns over rising mobile data costs. In the 2013 Mobile Enterprise Report, released by iPass and MobileIron, the majority of survey respondents,...

Mobile ranked second on CIOs’ priority lists

Mobile technologies ranked second among CIOs' top 10 technology priorities for 2013. The first priority was analytics and business intelligence solutions, according to the latest Gartner executive program survey. The survey shows that CIOs' agendas are dominated by digital technologies, and CIOs see these technologies...

Reader Forum: Three steps toward mobility

You’re a security IT professional, and you think you’ve taken the steps to try to make your network secure. You feel relatively confident, safe even, as you walk the corridors of your organization.

Cloud, mobile and Hana push SAP revenues up

German enterprise software giant SAP's revenues were boosted by its key innovation areas: SAP Hana, mobile and cloud computing. When SAP released its full year and fourth quarter results, the company noted that its mobile business contributed more than €220 million (about U.S$293.5 million) to...

AirWatch: Companies should set strategies before picking mobile management solution

In the mobile era, both companies and employees want to access data from any location and at any time. Although it seems a great way to boost productivity, this trend creates new challenges for IT organizations, and CIOs are concerned about how to address...

Could Nokia’s partnership with Avanade boost Lumia sales?

Software and mobile manufacturer Nokia has teamed up with Avanade, a joint venture of Accenture and Microsoft, to sell Nokia Lumia devices, applications and services to large enterprise customers. Under the agreement, Avanade and Nokia plan to deliver packaged offerings combining Avanade's application development and...

Big data, cloud, mobile, collaboration to be main biz technologies over next two years

Big data, cloud, mobile, collaboration and business process management will be the top technologies over the coming 24 months, according to a survey by Software AG. The survey also notes that adoption of these technologies is guiding the software market at an inflection point,...

Reality Check: BYOD and mobility in emerging markets

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace. More than buzzwords, bring your own device (BYOD) and mobility are real technological trends that have been adopted widely by...

SAP pushes mobility with latest MDM solution

As mobility becomes a key driver for SAP's future growth, the German enterprise software giant is focusing on improving its mobile device management solution, SAP Afaria. “Our main goal is to enhance application management and the ecosystem for enterprise integration, and support existing platforms,”...

Security remains top concern for enterprise mobility adoption

Mobile device management, mobile app management (MAM), container-based apps, mobile virtualization, mobile backend as a service (MbaaS), network access control (NAC) and software-defined networking (SDN) are some of the various approaches that companies are using to manage fast-paced mobility adoption, according to a new...

Reality Check: Fulfilling the promise of mobility – Why it’s important and how it’s achieved

According to a recent Accenture survey of customers worldwide from a variety of industries, the greatest source of frustration