Today's Top Stories Data security remains a major concern of bring-your-own-device (BYOD) practices, and a new survey finds that 100 percent of those polled use open public Wi-Fi networks for work activities. That means some training is definitely called for to help employees better understand the risks BYOD poses. A blog at Tech Radar reports on a recent survey by GFI Software of workers in the U.K. "A staggering 100 percent of those queried said they use open public Wi-Fi for work activities – and much of this access is from personal devices that likely have a lower level of installed or enabled security than company-issued machines." The study also found that 20 percent of respondents have no security enabled on their devices, while just 5 percent have corporate security policies enforced on their devices. The problems also don't end with public Wi-Fi. "While public Wi-Fi presents major security concerns, corporate Wi-Fi presents both security and bandwidth challenges," Doug Barney, director of IT research at GFI Software writes in a blog post. "Combine BYOD unknowns with Wi-Fi uncertainties and you could have real security problems." Regardless of how secure an organization may feel its data is, without a clear BYOD policy, the security efforts may be for nothing, Barney states. "Doing BYOD right means having a policy, training users on it, and sticking to it," Barney concludes. "A well-designed and implemented policy can help mitigate these issues:" - Hacker access to a network
- Infecting a network with viruses and malware
- Failing to follow compliance regulations, opening a firm up to lawsuits
- Data theft and improper distribution of confidential information
- Misuse of BYOD creating help desk nightmares
For more:
- check out Doug Barney's blog
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More than half of mobile health and fitness app users plan to use wearables to track their health, according to a survey of 1,000 app users by mobility firm Mobiquity. Of those who plan to use wearables, 63 percent say they will use their wearable device every day. In terms of devices, more than half say they will use pedometers, 48 percent cite wristbands and 45 percent name smartwatches as their wearable of choice. Android and iPhone smartphone users are more likely to become wearable users in the future compared with BlackBerry and Windows Phone smartphone owners, the survey finds. Mobiquity has put together an infographic summarizes the findings of its survey, and FierceMobileIT recently compiled an informative history of wearable devices to provide some context about the exploding popularity of wearables: 
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The increasing demand for wireless connectivity is fueling shipments of wireless chipsets, which ABI Research forecasts will reach nine billion units in 2019. The demand for chipsets spans the range of technologies, including Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, NFC, GPS and ZigBee, the research firm notes. From 2010 to 2014, more than 21 billion wireless connectivity chipsets were shipped cumulatively. Over the next five years, 39 billion are expected to be shipped. "That is over 60 billion wireless connectivity chipsets that will have shipped over the ten year span from 2010 to 2019, driven by the emergence of new device types. There is constant change in the wireless connectivity space across wireless connectivity technologies, versions of technologies, and levels of integration at the same time," says research director Philip Solis. This year, 60 percent of wireless connectivity chipsets will be standalone, increasing to two-thirds in 2019. Leading vendors in standalone chipsets include Bluetooth, Broadcom, MediaTek and RDA. That growth will be at the expense of combo chipsets, which will fall in market share over the next five years. By contrast, the market share of integrated platforms will remain steady, according to ABI. Leading vendors for integrated platforms include Broadcom, Intel, Marvell, MediaTek and Qualcomm Atheros. "Wireless connectivity chipsets go into a vast array of types of products, and the dynamics of connectivity technologies and integration levels varies among them resulting in the aggregate effects we see. The technologies and integration level are going to be different in smartphones versus home automation versus other product types in the Internet of Things," adds Solis.
For more:
- check out the ABI release
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