The iPhone (News - Alert) is now proving more popular than the BlackBerry among the corporate crowd, at least according to a recent study from mobile services company iPass.
Among the enterprise workers polled for iPass’ (News 
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RIM’s BlackBerry, once the dominant device in the business world, lost market share among those surveyed, dipping to 32 percent from 35 percent in 2010. Google’s Android doubled its share, inching its way into third place past Nokia’s (News - Alert) Symbian with a 21 percent share among all respondents.
Beyond the enterprise horse race, mobile usage has surged in the workplace. A full 95 percent of mobile employees now use smartphones, a jump from 85 percent in 2010. And a whopping 91 percent use their smartphones for work, a 26 percent increase from 2010.
“Today’s mobile employees are critical to the success of every enterprise, contributing 240 more work hours a year than their non-mobile counterparts,” said iPass CEO and President Evan Kaplan. “Connectivity is essential because work is no longer where you go but what you do. While increasing iPhone usage in the workplace was inevitable, this is the tipping point when the iPhone has overcome the Blackberry on its traditional enterprise turf, and business smartphones are in the hands of nearly every knowledge worker... Read More
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