Bye bye, corporate phone

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	Bye bye, corporate phone Once a status symbol and a perk, the subsidized corporate phone is being phased out as users demand their own devices -- and are willing to pay for the privilege. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: CIO Perspective Balancing Business Needs with the Chaos of Mobile Security Hear an engaging panel discussion featuring prominent IT leaders from Boston industries discuss how their companies are managing today's mega-trends for maximum business benefit. Learn about the CIO role around enablement vs. security, agility vs. integration, and business vs. IT technology resource control at CIO Perspectives Boston. Register Today! In this Issue Beyond BlackBerry: 3 steps to prepare for its demise 11 mobile apps to enhance your travel experience Update: RIM stock plunges after $518M loss and BlackBerry 10 delay Google Play seen as pivotal to success of Nexus 7 T-Mobile USA CEO Philipp Humm resigns Preston Gralla: RIM may abandon BlackBerry OS and standardize on Windows Phone Six ways to make mobile networks perform better Google launches Chromebook retail push via Best Buy Virgin Mobile starts selling prepaid iPhones Has Google done enough to keep Android phones up-to-date? Reports: FTC investigates Google over Motorola patents Qualcomm introduces updated augmented reality platform, new SDK JR Raphael: Google's Nexus 7 tablet: Hands-on impressions RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: EMC Transform End User Computing Turn to EMC to bring new simplicity, power, and efficiency to end user computing-any user, any device, anywhere. Click to continue Beyond BlackBerry: 3 steps to prepare for its demise It's easy to switch to iOS or even Android, no matter what type of company you are. Read More 11 mobile apps to enhance your travel experience We showcase 11 apps for iPhone, Android and other devices that can help travelers with flights, hotels and sightseeing around the world. Read More Update: RIM stock plunges after $518M loss and BlackBerry 10 delay Research in Motion's stock price plunged 19% early Friday following RIM's announcement of a $518 million first quarter loss and that its BlackBerry 10 smartphone has been further delayed. Read More Google Play seen as pivotal to success of Nexus 7 Central to the success of Google's Nexus 7 tablet, the Nexus Q media player and other Android ventures sits Google Play, formerly called Android Market. Read More T-Mobile USA CEO Philipp Humm resigns Philipp Humm has resigned as CEO of T-Mobile US, the fourth-largest U.S. mobile operator, and will be replaced by Chief Operating Officer Jim Alling on an interim basis. Read More Preston Gralla: RIM may abandon BlackBerry OS and standardize on Windows Phone RIM is in such bad financial shape that it has considered abandoning its BlackBerry operating system and having new devices run Windows Phone instead. So reports Reuters. If true, it could be a big win for Microsoft. Read More WHITE PAPER: Amazon Web Services Microsoft SharePoint on the AWS Cloud Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides services & tools for deploying Microsoft® SharePoint® workloads on its cloud infrastructure platform. This white paper discusses general concepts regarding how to use these services and provides detailed technical guidance on how to configure, deploy, and run a SharePoint Server farm on AWS. Deploy SharePoint quickly at lower total cost on AWS Cloud. Learn how Six ways to make mobile networks perform better To achieve higher download and upload speeds, vendors and operators are planning to use a number of different technologies over the coming years in both HSPA and LTE networks. Read More Google launches Chromebook retail push via Best Buy Google's Chrome OS-based laptops could now be on the shelves of a nearby Best Buy store. Read More Virgin Mobile starts selling prepaid iPhones Virgin Mobile consumers can now purchase iPhones on the carrier's prepaid wireless plans. Consumers will have to pay full price for the phones -- $649 for a 16GB iPhone 4S and $549 for an 8GB iPhone 4 -- but pay less for service than they'd pay for a plan that subsidized the cost of the phone. Read More Has Google done enough to keep Android phones up-to-date? Google announced a new version of Android this week with some impressive new features, but it's unclear if it's done enough to solve a problem that has dogged its mobile OS: fragmentation. Read More Reports: FTC investigates Google over Motorola patents The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is investigating Google's Motorola Mobility unit to determine whether it is stifling innovation in the mobile market by refusing to license certain patents to its competitors, according to published reports. Read More Qualcomm introduces updated augmented reality platform, new SDK Qualcomm has expanded its augmented reality platform with cloud-based image recognition, and announced a new SDK for adding contextual information to apps and a developer competition for Windows 8 RT. Read More JR Raphael: Google's Nexus 7 tablet: Hands-on impressions Google's Nexus 7 tablet is here. JR Raphael takes a hands-on look at the new Android tablet and what it's really like to use. Read More
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