The influx of personal devices makes the management of mobile phones and the lifecycle of mobile applications more complicated and creates security and manageability issues for corporate IT organizations.
Also common between the three platforms is something Microsoft's calling "the Zune experience, " which is really just a tagline associated with the Zune look and feel for the music management and playback features of the devices.
There is a need for a platform that is user centric for application management, a possibility of your different devices connecting to a web-based platform, so the device is not as important.
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Sanjay Mehrotra, CEO of SanDisk, won more than 70 patents earlier in his career, before rising into top management at the maker of flash-memory devices.
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Ultimately, companies need to recognize that tablets are a new breed of devices that require new methods of management.
Thus encrypted drive key management can be offered as an on-line service, eliminated the cost and complexity of implementing key management for laptops and other storage devices.
"Motorola is committed to providing rich location services for our customers and developer partners, " said Christy Wyatt, corporate vice president of software and services product management for Motorola Mobile Devices.
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The ZENworks product line allows customers to set business and IT policies to automate the management of servers, desktops, laptops and hand-held devices.
Leviton, the Melville, NY-based manufacturer of lighting management systems, data networking solutions and electrical wiring devices, said it plans to buy Obvius, the energy-management start-up company based in Portland, Oregon.
It supports both corporate-owned and personal-owned (BYOD - Bring Your Own Device) device deployments and mixed environments of BlackBerry and other devices, providing mobile device management, mobile application management, and secure access to corporate data.
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It works with one or two startups at a time, helping them navigate intellectual property agreements with universities, giving them office space to work, lending them tools to prototype their medical devices and lending a hand with the management and administration of the startup.
If you look to the early days of stolen vehicle management, via LoJack and others, or homing devices such as what we saw in No Country for Old Men when Anton found his money, you know everything you need to know when it comes to the Internet of Things.
Managers must become skilled at employing whatever devices circumstances require to retain assets under management, in spite of performance.
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While Data Leak Prevention attempts to provide an overlay of classification, network monitoring, and end point management (for USB devices), there is another approach that uses advanced agents on the desktop that continuously check for abnormal behavior that is indicative of root kits and custom Trojans.
Afraid of being overbearing, the Germans left the British management largely to its own devices.
Well, securing and managing those devices, aka Mobile Device Management, aka MDM, is necessary, of course.
The GoFlex Net (nee DockStar) product seems to be a bid to regain the kind of management interface that integrated hard drive manufacturers lost to set top units like DVR devices.
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PayWizard has also announced an account management application for Samsung's Connected TVs, which increases the number and types of devices on which PayWizard customers can manage their balance and transactions and replenish their accounts -- all in a quick, simple and secure interface.
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Hewlett recently introduced a number of new multi-function devices, and CEO Meg Whitman said that previous management had failed to keep H-P competitive in the fastest growing portions of the market.
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All tracks will be DRM free, or without digital rights management, meaning users can move the files around between devices and convert them an unlimited number of times.
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Providing superior performance and outstanding display capabilities, the VIA EPIA-P910 Pico-ITX provides the ideal platform for a wide array of next-generation ultra compact devices for applications in health-care, logistics, fleet management and other vertical market segments.
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Every one of these devices will, one way or another, be connected to a datacenter for control, management, and analysis.
In addition, StreamBoost's simple, user-friendly interface features intuitive controls for complete network management, enabling users to see a graphical depiction of the bandwidth used by the entire home network, including connected devices and the applications in use by each device.
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Put another way, if left to their own devices, state public pension systems would have chosen to see apartheid go unchecked rather than disrupt their management of investments.
Savvy mobile users will not be satisfied with slow performance or short battery life, and innovations such as hardware-accelerated multimedia engines, more efficient power management techniques and multi-core architectures will all be key to ensuring that devices are able to fully take advantage of the newly broadened data pipe.
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