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Cisco announced on April 3, 2013, its intent to acquire small cell specialist Ubiquisys for $310m. Ubiquisys’s business model includes both the licensing of its software to other equipment vendors such as NEC and Nokia Siemens Networks and the selling of its own small cell technology.

Lately, I’ve been talking to a number of companies looking for an Enterprise App Store strategy. These are companies that have moved beyond mobile device management. They realise that device management alone does not address the true benefits in the Consumerization of IT – that is, to empower users to become more productive than ever.

Michael Moss, talking about his new book Salt Sugar Fat, said something that struck a chord with me. He was talking about the science of creating food and something called the 'Bliss Factor...that perfect balance that will ensure that the products are a smash hit with consumers'. That's where I want to go with BYOD policy...

Following slow adoption of Samsung’s Windows Phone 8 devices and the recent news that the Korean giant will launch a phone using its Tizen OS later this year, it appears that Samsung may be deliberately slowing Windows Phone 8 adoption.

Businesses have traditionally lagged behind consumer markets when it comes to adopting new devices, but tablet sales in the enterprise are set to grow substantially in the next few years, according to Gartner. Indeed, Gartner has heralded the devices as the “key accelerator to mobility” for the enterprise, and predicts that businesses will have purchased 53 million tablets by 2016.

I can safely say it’s been quite a long time since I mentioned the company HP but yesterday, as news from their shareholders meeting started to trickle out, I have to say I realised that something groundbreaking may be coming our way from HP and sooner rather than later.

Regardless of whether you approve of the buzzword itself, there is little doubt that the practices gamification embodies and promotes can be beneficial to a wide array of organizations in achieving overarching business strategies and tactical objectives. To reach a nirvana state with any gamification initiative, organisations need to consider the key factors discussed below.

How many devices are being activated per day? How many apps does the average user have? Do all the apps in the app stores really get downloaded? How long do people spend on their mobile devices? What are they doing? Who’s using smartphones the most? All those questions are answered in this handy infographic from New Relic.