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• Slater & Gordon law firm selects Good Technology for its mobile strategy

  "Secure container approach" will cover BYOD smartphones and corporate devices in Australia.

• CIO-plus: Message to tech superstars: Quit while at the top - or regenerate

  A roundup of news, reviews and trends for business technology leaders.

• Smartglasses should be part of BYOD policies: Gartner

  CIOs are taking a fresh look at impact of wearable electronics on the enterprise.

• Prepare for the Digital Industrial Economy: Gartner

  This results in every budget being an IT budget; every company being a technology company; every business becoming a digital leader; and every person becoming a technology company, says Gartner senior vice president Peter Sondergaard.

• 7 characteristics of a secure mobile app

  When it comes to building secure mobile applications, errors most often occur in session management. By themselves, these mistakes do not present a significant risk, but the more mistakes made, the more vulnerable the application. And therein lies the problem: I often find several of these errors in any given app.

• Break in the clouds

  Many organisations that use cloud services can find themselves saddled with unexpected responsibilities. What challenges can businesses expect to encounter as part of consuming cloud services, and how may these challenges be overcome?
  

• What 'consumerisation of IT' really means to CIOs

  The latest trend (or over-hyped term, if you like) is "consumerisation of IT". As with cloud computing, the term is somewhat ambiguous and is applied to a number of things that are recognizably related, but which differ in details.

• Business apps on the iPhone - dos and don'ts

  A retail manufacturer wanted to replace a 3-ring, 4-inch thick binder carried by field sales reps with an iPhone app, recalls Quinton Alsbury, co-founder of Mellmo, maker of mobile BI app Roambi. But the manufacturer fell into a common trap: creating a monster app that is virtually impossible for users to navigate on the iPhone's 3.5-inch touchscreen.

• CIOs must join the era of empowerment

  Talk to any CIO and one issue inevitably surfaces: How do CIOs cope in a world where they can’t keep up with what their employees are doing?

• Consumer IT strikes again

  If you are happy with Windows 7 on your personal laptop, but grumble every time Windows XP boots up on your work computer, it may be time to tap your company's IT pro on the shoulder and ask for Windows 7. You might be surprised at the response you get.
  As Windows 7 migrations begin at many enterprises, satisfied Windows 7 consumers are pushing the "consumerisation of IT" envelope by asking enterprise IT to adapt. This trend has been prevalent with smartphone users and now Windows 7 users are doing the same. Research firm Forrester highlights this trend in a recent Windows 7 adoption report - and recommends that IT give users what they want, for several reasons.

• CIOs and the ‘app store effect’

  Of the many consequential effects of the "app store" phenomenon, there is one staring down IT departments today: Not only does your average consumer now expect application selection, purchase and delivery to be pretty darn seamless, so too does your smartphone-toting knowledge worker and line-of-business manager.
  If the app store can do it, the thinking goes, then why can't my corporate IT department roll out that Web-based application just as easily and quickly?

• How to deal with Gen-Y in the workplace

  Let's get something straight: Gen-Y wants to work with you, not for you. Yes, its members have short attention spans, their attention to detail is poor, and they expect instant access to any level of the organisation. But they also have abundant energy, they are IT savvy, and they want to work for organisations that are ethical. One final thing: they are ambitious.
  If you're the type of manager who can't deal with such mercurial types then there are rough days ahead.