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February 20th, 2019 — Mobile Mentor today announced it has joined the Android Enterprise Recommended program for Managed Service Providers. The Google™-led program is aimed towards giving customers more confidence in deploying Android™ and ensuring their enterprise mobility deployment is as consistent and as current as possible.   Under the program, validated MSP partners are trained on the latest best practices from [...]

What is the difference between mobility and portability?  From 1970 to 2010 we saw computing power move from large, expensive back-office infrastructure to smaller, less expensive consumer devices that we all use every day.  This unlocked the content we need from our back-office systems (e.g. medical records) to be available on progressively smaller screens.  This was the [...]

It’s that time of year that we review the benchmark of where the world of mobility management, specifically Unified Endpoint Management (UEM), is at according to Gartner.  I recently posted a similar article on LinkedIn reviewing the magic quadrant, but wanted to share my thoughts with everyone on the subject.Mobile Device Management (MDM)2011 was the start [...]

What is Microsoft Planner? Microsoft Planner is a task management tool offered within the Office 365 suite of solutions.  The Microsoft website lists it as “easy for your team to create new plans, organize and assign tasks, share files, chat about what you’re working on, and get updates on progress.” For those of you familiar [...]

Apps that create a Virtual Private Network (VPN) on devices are becoming more prevalent and organisations should be aware of what that means in terms of data loss for iOS and Android devices. A VPN allows users to create a secure connection to another network over the Internet. Traditionally VPN’s have been used to provide access to [...]