But a blank-check policy on letting any and every Internet-enabled device onto you corporate network?

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The bilingual scheme, called Hwb, will allow users to access and share information and is to be accessible from any internet-enabled device.

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Risks of soiling aside, parents also harbour worries over the safety of leaving children to enjoy playtime with a fully internet-enabled device.

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Customers can use Paga to send money to anyone in Nigeria either from their mobile phone or Internet-enabled device, or via any Paga agent across the country.

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With every innovation that results in a new Internet-enabled device, things like picture frames, automobiles, televisions and home appliances, more IP addresses are used up. 4.3 billion addresses are simply not enough to meet growing consumer demand.

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Affirmative answers to these questions can go a long way to protecting internet-enabled devices from the most common threats, which include unauthorized access to the device, compromised data and denial of service (DoS) attacks.

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Think of it this way: on one end of this device-to-data center world, we have streams of raw data coming from Internet-enabled devices.

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