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Nearly every day features news of high-profile hacks; clearly the “old school” password just doesn’t cut it anymore. PayPal’s chief information security officer Michael Barrett certainly agrees.

In a strange turn of events, the Pentagon has authorised BlackBerry (whose security was possibly questioned by the UK government) and Android-based manufacturer Samsung’s devices for use in the Department of Defense; but left Apple’s iPhone in question.

Over the last few years consumer devices have overtaken enterprise devices in a lot of ways. Many of the features originally developed for the enterprise are now leveraged in mobile phones that we all have. Does this mean it's a no brainer when it comes to choosing a device for an enterprise mobility project? Far from it - more choice brings more debate and more confusion.

Regardless of what features the latest smartphone has, plenty of discussion arises from what the manufacturer has missed off. With smartphones now carrying more potentially sensitive data, is a password enough to secure your phone?

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.

When you walked into the new venue for the GSMA Mobile World Congress (MWC2013), everything was unfamiliar. Indeed it only became properly clear that this was the MWC when a big screen reassuringly started to show four middle-aged white men in smart suits talking earnestly about how it was vital that the European mobile operators should be regulated less.

A research note from brokerage firm Detwiler Fenton has suggested that Samsung is looking further at an enterprise push following the release of BlackBerry 10 at the end of January. The note reads: “Our latest smartphone checks indicate that Samsung is making an aggressive push into the enterprise segment and it has BlackBerry’s enterprise and SMB business in its cross-hairs.

I know that I have said before I won't be making any predictions this year and I won't waver from that, but here I just wanted to take a look back at a year in enterprise mobility to highlight the main events of 2012 and how the ever-evolving world of mobility mutated last year.