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Leading up to the announcement there were plenty of rumours about a forthcoming Facebook Phone along with speculation that Facebook was moving into hardware. In such a dynamic space I would never rule anything out but it does seem sensible for Facebook to "Play" (pardon the pun) to their strengths.

During many mobile meetings, presentations, and discussions I've come across a collection of "Rules For Enterprise Mobility". These rules cover topics like selecting mobility tools, types of users and applications, mobility needs and a lot more. Let's start with three rules of three...

Security vendor Symantec has upgraded its mobile management suite to incorporate both mobile device management (MDM) and mobile app management (MAM) capabilities, among other features. Launched at the Symantec Vision convention in Las Vegas, the updated suite has other interesting features, including a mobile mail client, single sign on (SSO) for MAM, and MAM connection security, so that URL whitelisting can ensure apps send data to approved servers.

They both have the potential for huge growth in their respective areas, but a new industry report has shed light on how big the expansion for bring your own device (BYOD) and enterprise mobility management (EMM) could be. Analyst group MarketsandMarkets has assessed that the BYOD and enterprise mobility market will hit $181bn by 2017, with North American accounting for $58.6bn of that figure.

Keeping up with enterprise mobility news, I was skimming a Jack Madden blog post, and about halfway through I had to look back at the top to make sure I didn’t have the date wrong. It said March 22, 2013, but I thought I’d been reading something from the archive.

A report from the Inspector General of the United States Department of Defense has revealed a worrying lack of knowledge regarding personal device policy in the US Army.

Enterprise mobility, alongside cloud services, have been cited in an industry report as the biggest “game changers” for IT executives. “We are fortunate to live and work in an era and an industry where game-changing developments are plentiful. In the midst of so many developments, it’s important to determine which game-changers truly deserve the moniker,” the CommScope report asserts.

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.