Workers want to choose their mobile devices, survey finds

	Jonny Evans: Rumor: Apple iPhone 5 ships US September 5 | JR Raphael: Hands on: Google's Android 3.2 upgrade
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	Workers want to choose their mobile devices, survey finds Employees enjoy using work-related mobile apps, especially on smartphones and tablets that they choose themselves, according to a new survey. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: CIO 100 2011 CIO 100 Awards Ceremony Join us at the 24th annual CIO 100 Awards as we celebrate 100 organizations (and the people within them) that are using information technology in innovative ways to deliver business value, whether by creating competitive advantage, optimizing business processes, enabling growth or improving relationships with customers. Register today! In this Issue Jonny Evans: Rumor: Apple iPhone 5 ships US September 5 JR Raphael: Hands on: Google's Android 3.2 upgrade Is Apple's iPad unbeatable? Hands on: The Google+ Android app is a winner Windows Phone OS Mango sent to manufacturers, carriers Qualcomm aims for gesture recognition in mobile devices Facebook blocks access to hidden iPad app LTE version of Galaxy Tab 10.1 to ship Thursday App Store, Android Market spur explosive app download growth Verizon joins cellular booster vendor in FCC plan Jonny Evans: iPhone 5 lessons from the iPod nano Apple boom VIDEO: Cisco Leadership Through Innovation True innovators need to do more than develop ideas. They must shape those ideas into tools that will help customers improve their own businesses. True leaders need to do more than bring successful products to market. They must partner with their customers to help ensure their success. Cisco can help. Learn More> Jonny Evans: Rumor: Apple iPhone 5 ships US September 5 Apple seems set to introduce its next-generation iPhone in the US in early September, rolling the new product(s?) out internationally in subsequent weeks. Will the company introduce the new device in August? This seems more likely as the rumors begin to coincide... Read More JR Raphael: Hands on: Google's Android 3.2 upgrade Android 3.2 is making its way to Honeycomb tablets right now. Here's a detailed look at what the upgrade includes and how well it performs. Read More Is Apple's iPad unbeatable? Like Clint Eastwood in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, Apple is looking unbeatable in the wild tablet market. Will the iPad be the last man standing after the smoke clears? Read More Hands on: The Google+ Android app is a winner An Android app allows Google+ members to keep up with the new social networking service on their smartphones. Read More Windows Phone OS Mango sent to manufacturers, carriers Mango, the latest version of the Windows Phone mobile operating system, was released to manufacturers Tuesday. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Securing the Cloud Cloud computing has become another key resource for IT deployments, but there is still fear of securing applications and data in the cloud. With F5 devices, you can keep your most precious assets safe, no matter where they live. Read Now. Qualcomm aims for gesture recognition in mobile devices Qualcomm said it wants to make smartphones and tablets more interactive through the acquisition of gesture-recognition assets from GestureTek, which holds patents related to motion-based human-computer interaction. Read More Facebook blocks access to hidden iPad app Researchers over the weekend uncovered a Facebook app for Apple's iPad, and showed how 'jailbroken' tablets could run the still-unreleased software. Read More LTE version of Galaxy Tab 10.1 to ship Thursday Two Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet models go on sale this Thursday at prices of $529.99 and $629.99. Read More App Store, Android Market spur explosive app download growth Researcher In-Stat projects some 48 billion mobile application downloads by 2015 as the explosive growth continues. Read More Verizon joins cellular booster vendor in FCC plan Verizon Wireless has teamed up with cellular booster company Wilson Electronics to propose federal standards for boosters, which sometimes help to overcome weak signals but can also interfere with mobile operators' networks. Read More Jonny Evans: iPhone 5 lessons from the iPod nano Apple boom Apple now sells as many Macs in a quarter as it once sold in a year, is the world's biggest smartphone maker and dominates the tablet industry in the absence of anything like credible competition. The iPod nano was arguably an early catalyst for part of this growth... Read More
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