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• BYOD: Enterprise must brace for Apple Watch release

  Businesses should brace themselves to deal with a wave of wearables in the workplace, with people almost certain to use the Apple Watch for work tasks according to Telsyte analyst Rodney Gedda.

• Bunnings drives productivity with iPod Touch rollout

  Bunnings is aggressively developing mobile apps for its retail employees following a deployment last Christmas of 1500 iPod Touch devices to store staff, according to the company's mobility team leader.

• BYOD++: Vic govt eyes 'bring your own everything' policy

  Victoria will look to develop policies that could see employees of government agencies not just using their personal phones or tablets in the office but choose to use their own applications in the workplace.

• BYOA 'shadow IT' grows in the enterprise: Telsyte

  Nearly two-thirds of Australian enterprises have staff using personal apps for work even though only about half of the organisations allow it, according to a Telsyte report.

• Enterprise to face more mobile operating systems

  It's not just Android and iOS devices that are likely to be making their way into Australian workplaces, with alternative mobile operating systems projected to gain in marketshare over the next four years.

• Employees to wear their own device in 2014

  IT managers should take note of the plethora of new wearable devices popping up at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. They just might show up in the workplace.

• BYOD 101: Getting user buy-in

  Employees may want to choose the device they use for work, but that doesn’t guarantee they will automatically buy into a business’s new bring-your-own-device (BYOD) strategy, according to analysts.

• NAB rolls out BYOD to 450 staff

  National Australia Bank has successfully piloted bring-your-own-device (BYOD) and plans to roll out the program to more of its employees, says NAB general manager of infrastructure, Kari Schabel.

• BYOD consultants practice what they preach

  After long espousing the benefits of mobility, Fifth Quadrant has rolled out a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) plan for its own management consulting business.

• BYOD 'a privilege, not a right': Fairfax

  Fairfax, Toyota and an Australian government agency described limited bring-your-own-device (BYOD) rollouts in a panel at the CeBIT Enterprise Mobility conference in Sydney.

• The science of app-wrapping

  BYOD brings out the classic problem between control of corporate information and individual freedom. It kicks it up to a whole new level because the devices belong to the users, but at least some of the apps and information belong to the company and as such need protection and policy enforcement.

• Microsoft Surface Pro arrives Down Under in May

  The Microsoft Surface tablet aimed at businesses, Surface Pro, is coming to Australia by the end of May, Microsoft has announced.

• BYOD vs CYOD: Bring or choose your own device?

  Offering employees a choice of approved devices may provide more control for IT compared to allowing them to bring any smartphone or tablet they want.

• NAB trialling BYOD

  The National Australia Bank is trialling a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) program for its top 200 executives, according to Adam Bennett, NAB executive manager of enterprise transformation.
  

• Enterprise app store adoption rises: Gartner

  One quarter of enterprises will have an enterprise app store by 2017, according to a Gartner report.