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Recently, we learned that a majority of organizations are planning to deploy line-of-business apps in the next twelve months. What does that really mean for the BYOD policies and mobile device management? A new survey from Fiberlink, a leader in cloud-based solutions for secure mobile device management (MDM) and mobile application management (MAM) reveals that business users are growing more concerned about privacy.

Your Mobile App is Watching You
Whether or not employers will be actively collecting employees' personally identifiable information (PII) through mobile devices is not clear, but just the idea that they could (or will) have access to it, is alarming to users. Yet no one denies the utility of having smartphones and tablets in the enterprise — or that using apps specifically developed by the company does help to keep sensitive information secure.

The information collected is only as good as it is used to make business smarter. Information like location and app inventory is available whenever employees "opt-in" to a mobile device management application — the solution that enables BYOD, security, policy enforcement and app management for many organizations. Tracking the location of drivers and other utility workers is helpful to keep productivity high. However, it’s also possible that employers can remove personal files, such as pictures and music, even if the user is simply getting access to corporate email through Exchange ActiveSync. Unless they are specifically informed, through an acceptable user agreement and mobile policy, many employees have no idea that this kind of control is possible. There is definitely a fine line between what is needed to help run businesses efficiently and what isn't. >>Read more

Source: CMSWire

Smartphone apps are great, but – particularly if you live in a developing market – the data they need can be quite pricey. And in those countries, chances are you won’t be opting for the latest, top-of-the-line handset model either.

That’s why the idea of cloud-based app platforms is taking off. These platforms run their apps partly on the device, but the heavy lifting is done on some remote server. You’d think this would result in more rather than less data usage, but heavy compression – not dissimilar to that used by Amazon’s SilkBrowser or Opera Mini – takes care of that problem.

One such platform, Finland’s Blaast, launched in Indonesia in January, in partnership with local operator XL. Now it’s opened up customer and developer availability to the rest of the world as well, and also has a couple of other tidbits to share: two more as-yet-unnamed South-East Asian carrier partnerships have been struck (creating a total market of 76 million potential customers), and an Android version will be coming out by the end of the year.

Blaast’s app, which is funded by investors including Skype’s founding engineers and ex-Nokian Pekka Vartiainen, can be used on more than 2,000 handset models, as all it really needs to run is Java.

However, the company does have competition in the form of the Australian biNu platform, which picked up $2m from Eric Schmidt’s Tomorrow Ventures this month, and the U.S.-based Peek. >>Read more

Source: Gigaom