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  • Workers Going Rogue With BYOD (and BYOA)

    On one side of the fence, lots of companies, especially those in Europe, won't have anything to do with the Bring Your Own Device programs. On the other side, an equal number of companies have jumped on the BYOD bandwagon, including at least a few going all-in with mandatory BYOD.

  • Vodafone activates tri-band carrier aggregation in Northcote

    Vodafone has activated three separate 4G spectrum bands – 2600MHz, 1800MHz, and 700MHz – on a cell site in Northcote. This theoretically creates three times the capacity of a single spectrum site, though actual speeds could vary depending on the number of users, device capability and radio conditions.

  • CIOs in Europe Say BYOD Is Stalling

    CIOs in the U.S. struggling with the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend might want to look across the pond to see what their European counterparts are doing -- or rather, not doing.

  • Want to Know What Millennials Want? Just Ask Them

    Just about every Silicon Valley tech company wants to fill its ranks with smart millennials -- the future of the workforce. Wooing them hasn't been easy. Competition for their services is fierce. Giants such as Google, Facebook and Twitter are throwing wads of cash at them.

  • In pictures: MIT opens $100m campus

    Manukau Institute of Technology (MIT) has opened a new campus that will house the faculties of Business and IT and Logistics. The $100 million building has been built to support BYOD devices, with provision of wifi and cloud storage, for students and faculty. The campus, housed on top of the train station at Manukau, was opened last week at an event that brought together Steven Joyce, minister for tertiary education, skills and employment, and mayor of Auckland Len Brown.

  • BYOD is fraught with legal peril, audience told

    Businesses worry most about security when it comes to bring-your-own-device programs, but the legal ramifications of letting employees use personal smartphones and tablets at work can be just as threatening, attendees of Enterprise Connect were told.

  • Attack of the BYOD-Killing MDM Software

    BYOD has been an enterprise hit because it allows employees the convenience of combining their work and personal lives on a single mobile device while offering companies a sense of security thanks to mobile device management software. However, a breed of monstrous new MDM software threatens to send users away screaming.

  • BYOD an opportunity for NZ businesses

    NZ businesses are being warned they risk missing out on substantial revenue and cost saving opportunities if they fail to take heed of the growth in mobile internet and technologies.

  • In pictures: 12 big BYOD predictions for 2014

    If you were just getting comfortable with BYOD, brace yourself for new twists and turns. CIOs can expect more devices to enter the enterprise in consumer clothing, real security threats to emerge, new MDM options and much more in 2014.

  • Employees to wear their own device in 2014

    IT managers should take note of the plethora of new wearable devices popping up at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. They just might show up in the workplace.

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