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Boundaries are being drawn in the app dev world. Champions of consumer apps, advocates of enterprise apps - they're forming distinct camps, and the implication is that each requires different developmental approaches, but for us, mobility is mobility is mobility.

Consumer operating system and smartphone habits are not being aped in the enterprise, according to the latest report from MDM providers Good Technology. The report, a quarterly Mobility Index for Q1 2013, revealed that iOS is still the main OS player in the enterprise, despite the stranglehold Android has on the consumer market. Yet the gap could be closing...

Security provider McAfee has released its Complete Endpoint Protection range for the enterprise, which promises ‘complete protection, simplicity and performance’. But what are the benefits? There are certainly some interesting new capabilities to this software, which integrates McAfee’s enterprise mobility management (EMM) solution with its ePolicy Orchestrator to become a mobile device management (MDM) product of sorts.

Analyst house Gartner has released its latest Magic Quadrant on mobile device management (MDM), featuring the key players, visionaries and leaders in the space. So who’s made the list and who’s missed the cut?

Mobile application management refers to both a significant problem facing today's enterprises, and its possible solutions. The problem has increased in intensity over the past couple of years with the rise of BYOD in the workplace. Now IT must contend not only with secure mobile application management on company-provided devices, but also for employee-owned units. Yet the MAM challenge is far more complex than that...

Over half of respondents polled in the latest survey admitted that they had no plans to implement mobile device management (MDM) technology. That’s the big takeaway from a Spiceworks survey covering 1000 small to medium business IT pros from its ‘Voice of IT’ panel. Of that number, 61% said they had a BYOD policy in place, yet 56% they had no plans to implement MDM within six months.

Although vendors such as Samsung are venturing into the enterprise market, BlackBerry retains an edge over the competition due to customer perceptions around the relative security and vulnerability of different manufacturers’ devices. BlackBerry is well positioned in the emerging markets due to its existing footprint across consumers and the enterprise, which is based on its robust messaging and Internet access platforms.

The mobile content management (MCM) space is predicted to hit over 110 million subscribers by 2018, according to the latest report from ABI Research. According to the ABI study, entitled ‘Enterprise Mobility Applications and Services Research Service’, there is determined growth in the sphere, with North America and Western Europe the strongest-growing markets year on year.