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john_cox
Senior Editor

Managing Smartphones Calls for New Realism and Flexibility

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Dec 06, 20101 min
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The smartphone's impact on the enterprise can be seen in a small bank in Needham, Mass., where its full-time staff of 95 forms a mobility microcosm. Today, over one-quarter of them are using Apple iPhones and more recently iPad tablets, where once they used Microsoft Windows Mobile phones.

The smartphone’s impact on the enterprise can be seen in a small bank in Needham, Mass., where its full-time staff of 95 forms a mobility microcosm. Today, over one-quarter of them are using Apple iPhones and more recently iPad tablets, where once they used Microsoft Windows Mobile phones.

Also read: How to best manage enterprise mobility

Apple met the minimum requirements to make [the iOS operating system] enterprise-friendly for me,” says James Gordon, Needham Bank’s vice president of IT. For the bank, that means support for Microsoft Enterprise ActiveSync to connect users with Exchange Server e-mail, calendars and contacts, and to support a range of basic management features as well as on-device encryption.

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john_cox
Senior Editor

I cover wireless networking and mobile computing, especially for the enterprise; topics include (and these are specific to wireless/mobile): security, network management, mobile device management, smartphones and tablets, mobile operating systems (iOS, Windows Phone, BlackBerry OS and BlackBerry 10), BYOD (bring your own device), Wi-Fi and wireless LANs (WLANs), mobile carrier services for enterprise/business customers, mobile applications including software development and HTML 5, mobile browsers, etc; primary beat companies are Apple, Microsoft for Windows Phone and tablet/mobile Windows 8, and RIM. Preferred contact mode: email.

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