BYOD

Having a hard time controlling personally-owned tablets and smartphones in the workplace? Get used to it, because a new study claims that 50% of all workers will be required to bring in their tablets and smartphones to work by 2017.

Three years ago today Apple released the first iPad, and it’s fair to say that Apple’s tablet has had a profound effect on how people, especially in business, now use computers.

Yankee Group has some bold predictions on what will happen in enterprise mobility in 2013, including forecasts related to bring-your-own-device (BYOD), tablets and EMM vendors.

According to IDC, by 2013 the global mobile workforce will exceed 1.19 billion. It is expected that a large percentage of those workers will have smartphones and tablets.

The first wave of $99 tablets are coming, but could well materialize as the tablet equivalent of fast food -- pretty tasty, but ultimately not that good for you.

Mobile app management vendor Apperian reckons an increasing number of businesses are bypassing Mobile Device Management to secure corporate data, and says 2013 will be the year of HTML5 apps and Windows 8 tablets.

The Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend doesn’t figure to let up in 2013, and that’s good news for enterprises, according to execs from a trio of mobile device management companies.

Given today's devices and corporate data accessed with them, tablets in particular need more than application-level policy enforcement.

With the rising popularity of tablets, we hear a lot about what the post-PC world means to the consumer market but what we don’t hear quite as much is what the post-PC world means to enterprises.  

Panasonic admits that there are limited opportunities for manufacturers in the rugged tablet market, but believes that its latest Windows 8 model could see some enterprises ditch the iPad.

The iPad rules the roost when it comes to tablets in enterprise but could face some serious competition from Windows 8 tablets, according to a leading market analyst.

Move over Angry Birds and Words with Friends; business and productivity apps are ready to share, if not take center stage, says one app developer who reckons that 2013 could be the year when business apps become all the rage.

If a company doesn’t own a device, control of it no longer needs to be a top priority.

UK-based Rare Management shares how the bring-your-own device (BYOD) movement is helping the company reduce costs and boost reliability when it comes to testing out the latest ski equipment.

Managing smartphones and tablets has become a growing challenge for enterprises in this era of BYOD.

The ‘bring-your-own-device’ trend for tablets in the enterprise is gaining popularity, but as Dimension Data subsidiary Xigo Networks explains, the pitfalls of such a scheme should not be overlooked.

Zero footprint tablets? iPad-only meetings? BYOD as a profit engine? A number of innovative deployment strategies and usage scenarios were discussed at the recent TabTimes Tablet Strategy conference in New York.