MSC Mobility News

Good for Enterprise: Secure Docs Capability Available Now

MSC Mobility Admin — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:42:44 +0000

Good Technology announces general availability of Good for Enterprise Secure Docs

Good for Enterprise (GFE) Secure Docs capability improves user productivity by enabling the use of secure versions of popular 3rd party document editors that work with Good for Enterprise. Now users can open, view, edit, and save documents in a secure container. Good is the only provider that offers a complete, secure end-to-end mobile collaboration suite that separates enterprise and personal data.

Good Technology is pleased to share that iAnnotate® for Good(PDF editing) Secure Docs editor is now available to download from the App Store. More Secure Docs 3rd party editors will be available soon, among them QuickOffice® ProSelect HD for Good (Office doc editing).

AirWatch Announces Record Results and Growth in 2011

MSC Mobility Admin — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:09:55 +0000

Last week AirWatch announced explosive growth of their global MDM customer base by more than 800% and expansion of employee base by 250% secures AirWatch’s stronghold in Mobile Device Management industry.

AirWatch, a leader in mobile security, mobile device management (MDM), mobile application management (MAM) and mobile content management (MCM) announced record company and financial growth in 2011. AirWatch increased its employee base to 400 employees and added over 1,000 MDM customers during 2011. AirWatch’s MDM, with its proven scalability, enabled it to achieve installations for individual customers on a single instance of the software of more than 50,000 devices demonstrating its ability to quickly and efficiently manage an enterprise’s expanding mobility initiatives.

iOS and Android Security threat - Path and Hipster found to be uploading your mobile address book

MSC Mobility Admin — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:24:40 +0000

We all love our smartphones and we all love to download apps, but what happens when one of the apps you have downloaded copies your address book onto the their server.
Mobile social networking apps Path and Hipster are under fire for uploading user address books to its servers without consent. Developer Arun Thampi first discovered the issue while observing various API calls made to Path's servers from its iPhone app. He noticed that his entire address book (including full names, emails and phone numbers) was being sent as a plist to Path. He had not give permission to Path to access his address book and send its contents to its server.

Just 24 hrs after Paths issue was discovered Hipster was also ousted for the same reason. Mark Chang discovered that Hipster was sending data such as his password and iPhone UID to the company's servers in plain text - not even using the encrypted HTTPS protocol. "The Hipster app, in an unsecured HTTP GET request, sends a big chunk of your iPhone address book in the form of an email param that includes a comma-separated list of email addresses," Chang wrote.

iOS holds 94% of the enterprise market in 4Q 2011.

MSC Mobility Admin — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:05:29 +0000

Good Technolgies release quarterly smartphone market statistics based on the number of activations they see flowing through their Network Operations Center (NOC). This data is especially useful for us to be able to gauge the real uptake of smart devices in the enterprise. Most of the market data that is published includes the rapidly growing consumer market which can sometime skew the results.

Key Points from the report include:

iOS tablets represented roughly 94 percent of total activations for Q4 2011
The iPhone 4S represented 31 percent of all activations for the quater

MobileIron shows explosive growth in 2011

MSC Mobility Admin — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 03:02:47 +0000

Yesterday MobileIron announced explosive customer growth and financial achievements for 2011. MobileIron increased its customer base by 600% year over year including adding 435 new enterprise customers in the last quarter. MobileIron closed the year with more than 100 of the Fortune 500 and Global 250 companies as customers. Bookings grew by more than 400% year over year and the company added over 130 new employees, doubling its size.

Rapid adoption of mobile devices and applications is driving the growth of the burgeoning Mobile IT market. IDC reports that over 80 million new smartphones and tablets entered enterprises in 2011 and forecasts that number will reach over 140 million by 2013. Trends such as Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) are making iPhones, iPads and Android devices corporate standards, and IT is now required to support multiple devices and operating systems. The ubiquity of smart devices is also driving an explosion of mobile enterprise apps.

Good for Enterprise - iOS v1.9.6 now available

MSC Mobility Admin — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 07:16:00 +0000

Hot on the heels of the 2011 Q4 Server update comes the iOS Good for Enterprise client to support it.

It is great to see the secure containers supporting more 'native' features of the iOS device. 2012 looks like the most exciting year yet for Mobile Device Management.

Good Mobile Control Server Update - v6.3.2.35

MSC Mobility Admin — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 06:46:00 +0000

Good Technology is pleased to announce that as a part of our Q4 release a new version of Good Mobile Control is now available.

Key features in this release include:
Good File Repository:
Wide Support for New iOS 5 MDM Capabilities:
Compliance Reporting Improvements:
Enterprise Application Distribution Improvements:
Enhanced handheld information:

OnPoint Digital’s CellCast Solution Wins Three Mobile Star Awards™

MSC Mobility Admin — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 21:14:38 +0000

OnPoint Digital Inc. takes top honors for the fifth year in a row, winning two superstar awards and one shining star award.

OnPoint Digital, Inc., a leading provider of online and mobile learning solutions, today announced that, for the fifth year in a row, its CellCast Solution™ has won top honors in the 10th annual Mobile Star Awards™ program, hosted by mobile technology news portal MobileVillage.com. OnPoint’s CellCast Solution™ won Superstar Awards in both the Enterprise Software: Education or Presentation category and in the Enterprise Software: Field Sales and CRM category and a Shining Star in the Enterprise Software – Data Capture category.

RIM’s BlackBerry Mobile Fusion: What to expect.

MSC Mobility Admin — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 05:12:00 +0000

As an Elite BlackBerry Alliance partner for many years MSC had little choice but to react to the market swing towards non Blackberry devices. It's great to see some postitive news from RIM and we look forward to evaluating and welcoming BlackBerry Mobile Fusion to our ever growing stack of MDM platforms that we support.

RIM’s BlackBerry Mobile Fusion: What to expect.

Research In Motion (RIM) the maker of BlackBerry announced on Tuesday 29th November 2011, BlackBerry Mobile Fusion, its designed to help IT Departments manage not just BlackBerry smartphones and tablets, but Apple's iOS, Google's Android OS devices, via a web-based interface from RIM.

Should Companies Use Mobile Devices For Training

Martin Brown — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 04:08:01 +0000

Staff turnover rates are still above 10% in Australia. That's a significant cost to the business when the average cost of replacing an employee can be as much as 150% of their annual salary. With the ever growing mobile BYOD in the workplace, organisations are well positioned to take advantage of those smartphones and accelerate revenue growth, employee engagement and productivity. This interesting article from Business Insider explores how companies should start leveraging their smartphone fleet for mobile training...