10 alternative carriers that can save you serious cash on your smartphone bill

	10 alternative carriers that can save you serious cash on your smartphone bill | How not to waste your money on the second wave of 802.11ac wireless gear
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Learn More In this Issue 10 alternative carriers that can save you serious cash on your smartphone bill How not to waste your money on the second wave of 802.11ac wireless gear Apple updates Yosemite, again claims to fix Macs' Wi-Fi flops Cisco integration gives Samsung Knox users more options for secure connectivity Good wants to manage your smartphones for $3 a month, per user INSIDER Appery.io review: Pairing mobile app builder with back-end services Marriott CIO: FCC message on WiFi blocking loud and clear 4 problems Google needs to fix in the Google Play Store WHITE PAPER: LogMeIn Collaboration 2.0 Death of the Web Conference This new study from Ovum and join.me by LogMeIn is based on a survey of over 3,900 full time professionals worldwide regarding their collaboration and meeting-related behaviors and activities. Learn More 10 alternative carriers that can save you serious cash on your smartphone bill These mobile carriers piggyback off the big guys and save you some serious dough in the process. Read More How not to waste your money on the second wave of 802.11ac wireless gear The best way to avoid wasting your money on Wave 2 of 802.11ac access points is to not buy them right away, and the second-best is to not overreact to their presence on your network. Asus Early 802.11ac Wave 2 product: The Asus RT-AC87U Wi-Fi router Wave 2 APs have been on the market for about a year, dating back to last January's release of the Asus RT-AC87U, but the technology hasn't yet become commonplace among enterprise users.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Apple updates Yosemite, again claims to fix Macs' Wi-Fi flops Apple today released OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 that again aims to improve -- or in cases simply enable -- Wi-Fi on Macs that have suffered connectivity issues since October.The second update to Yosemite, 10.10.2's release Tuesday followed a string of a half-dozen previews that were seeded to developers between Nov. 20 and Jan. 21.At the top of the list of changes and improvements touted by Apple for Yosemite 10.10.2 was "Resolves an issue that may cause Wi-Fi to disconnect," the same phrasing noted Monday by 9to5Mac.com.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Cisco integration gives Samsung Knox users more options for secure connectivity Samsung Electronics smartphones and tablets protected using the company's Knox security technology have been integrated with VPNs from Cisco Systems, giving enterprises more options for communicating securely.Integration with Cisco's VPN platform is important because most enterprises use Cisco gear, according to Leif-Olof Wallin, research vice president at Gartner. Samsung's Knox platform is used to protect applications and data on the smartphone or tablet and Cisco's AnyConnect for Samsung Knox is used to secure the communication.These kinds of collaborations are about making it easier to reuse existing equipment for new functions. In this case, enterprises don't want to invest in new VPN gateways, so its up to Samsung to provide the widest possible support for different software and hardware.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More : Apperian App Adoption eGuide The use of employee mobile apps has boomed, even in the face of the high costs to develop and curate them. Download this eGuide to get the maximum value from your enterprise mobile app investments. Learn More Good wants to manage your smartphones for $3 a month, per user Good Technology is hoping its cloud-based Management Suite for mobile devices will make life easier for IT departments that don't want to rely on products from multiple vendors to manage the seemingly countless phones and tablets that employees are using for work these days.The market for mobile software is maturing and becoming more competitive, as vendors offer more functionality for less money. Good is best known for the company's app containerization technology—software that separates an app from other apps and the OS to improve security—but has been expanding its offerings to include mobile- device and application management."It's a natural step since Good wants to be a more complete supplier," said Leif-Olof Wallin, research vice president at Gartner.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More INSIDER Appery.io review: Pairing mobile app builder with back-end services The Appery.io online mobile development platform crosses categories, but support for native apps and offline operation are lacking. Read More Marriott CIO: FCC message on WiFi blocking loud and clear The FCC's sternly worded warning about illegal Wi-Fi blocking earlier this week got through to at least one organization: Marriott International's Global CIO issued a statement Friday that the hospitality outfit is withdrawing efforts to gain clarification from the commission on what methods can be used to protect corporate Wi-Fi networks.It was a complaint against a Marriott hotel in Nashville that blocked visitors from using personal Wi-Fi hotspots at a convention center -- and a subsequent $600K fine by the FCC -- that sparked the FCC's investigation into what it now calls a "disturbing trend in which hotels and other commercial establishments block wireless consumers from using their own personal Wi-Fi hot spots on the commercial establishment's premises."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More 4 problems Google needs to fix in the Google Play Store Android's app marketplace still has a few kinks it needs to work out. 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