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  • Creating a fluid mobile platform strategy to manage mobile diversity

    A fluid mobile platform strategy helps enterprises manage the growing diversity of smart devices including tablets.  Tip

  • Leveraging mobile cloud apps in the enterprise

    Benefiting from mobile cloud apps requires a proactive mobile strategy. Part one in this series outlines the requirements for cloud-based mobile application development.  Tip

  • Accessing mobile unified communications with virtual desktops

    Running virtual desktops for mobile unified communications provides users across many platforms access to the same UC apps available on their laptops or desktops. Learn about the benefits and challenges of integrating virtual desktops, unified commun...  Tip

  • Best practices for enterprise mobile device and smartphone security

    Using personal mobile devices and smartphones to connect to enterprise networks is a huge security risk. Here are some best practices for enterprise mobile device security and key criteria for enforceable mobile device management policies.  Tip

  • Smartphone insecurity: There's a smartphone app for that

    Available smartphone apps are so impressive that users are flocking to mobile marketplaces such as iTunes App Store, Android Marketplace and BlackBerry App World. To protect business-use smartphones, enterprises need to lock in IT policies and deploy...  Tip

  • Choosing personal mobile devices in a diverse mobile world

    Employees are carrying multiple personal and business mobile devices, and it will be some time before we see one mobile device fitting all of our needs. So how do you choose a mobile device in a diverse mobile world? Learn about the key consideration...  Tip

  • Can the smartphone replace the laptop?

    At the annual Interop conference in Las Vegas, I recently chaired a session titled "Is Your Next Laptop a Smartphone?" and the packed house had the opportunity to consider one of the most interesting possibilities in mobile computing and communicatio...  Tip

  • Mobile device governance

    Wasteful spending, weak security and lax usage policies often characterize enterprise mobile device governance (i.e., the people, processes and policies used to manage mobility). This article reviews common mobile device governance issues and provide...  Tip

  • Mobile devices: Upgrade considerations

    Mobile device upgrades can be a minefield involving a number of considerations. This tip focuses on how to evaluate a device's age, capability and adaptability for potential hardware or software updates.  Tip

  • Mobile devices: Keeping up with the upgrades

    Determining when and how to upgrade your mobile device arsenal is a challenge many mobility managers will face this year. In his first column of 2008, Craig Mathias discusses some of the important factors you'll need to consider for your upgrade stra...  Tip

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  • 2D barcode (two-dimensional barcode)

    A 2D (two-dimensional) barcode is a graphical image that stores information both horizontally -- as one-dimensional bar codes do -- and vertically. As a result of that construction, 2D codes can store up to 7,089 characters, significantly greater sto...  Word

  • mobile marketing

    Mobile marketing is promotional activity designed for delivery to cell phones, smart phones and other handheld devices, usually as a component of a multi-channel campaign.  Word

  • mobile search

    Mobile search is the practice of querying a search engine from an Internet-connected handheld device, such as a smart phone.  Word

  • cell phone jammer

    A cell phone jammer is a device that blocks transmission or reception of signals, usually by creating some form of interference at the same frequency ranges that cell phones use... (Continued)  Word

  • Open Handset Alliance (OHA)

    The Open Handset Alliance (OHA) is a coalition of more than 30 technology and mobile companies that introduced Android, an open source mobile phone operating system. (Continued...)  Word

  • Web texting

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  • texting (text messaging or wireless messaging)

    Texting is the common term for sending a short text messages between cell phones or other handheld devices.  Word

  • short message service center (SMSC)

    A short message service center (SMSC) is the portion of a wireless network that handles SMS operations, such as routing, forwarding and storing incoming text messages on their way to desired endpoints...(Continued)  Word

  • SMS gateway

    An SMS gateway is a Web site that allow users to send SMS messages from a Web browswer to people within the cell served by that gateway. An SMS gateway can also serve as an international gateway for users with roaming capability, allowing SMS communi...  Word

  • iPhone

    iPhone is a combination of an iPod, a tablet PC and a cellular phone made by Apple that pairs the ease of use of an iPod with robust multimedia, Internet browsing and networking capabilities...(Continued)  Word

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