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• Santos embraces Windows 8 tablets at TechEd

  Santos has revealed a major move to Windows 8 tablets following a desktop migration from Windows XP to Windows 7.

• Samsung's smartwatch panned as a limited, 'overpriced toy'

  Early reaction to Samsung's new Galaxy Gear smartwatch, announced on Wednesday in Berlin, was decidedly downbeat if not downright negative.

• BYOD raises privacy concerns at Energy Australia

  Energy Australia has had to respond to employee concerns about location privacy as a result of rolling out a bring your own device (BYOD) strategy, according to Drew Ball, telephony analyst at Energy Australia.

• The three extremes of corporate BYOD policies

  Corporate attitudes regarding bring-your-own-device policies appear to fall into one of three categories, according to a survey of IT users: There's no official policy, devices are banned or no one talks about it.

• IT morphs as tech and users change

  As The consumerisation of IT and self-service trends gain momentum, IT shops are being restructured and IT professionals are learning to play new roles.

• Better IT makes for happier employees: Deloitte

  Employees who are happy with workplace IT are one-third less likely to leave their company, according to a Deloitte study commissioned by Google.

• IT departments won't exist in five years

  IT departments are quickly becoming consultancies in companies increasingly driven by consumer technology, and the control they once had over tech use is quickly dissipating.

• The next corporate revolution will be power to the peons

  BYOD is only the beginning of a shift away from traditional corporate bureaucracy, as companies begin to realize they have a deep creative asset -- their employee base -- just waiting to be tapped.

• In Pictures: 10 BYOD worker types

  The Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) movement affects everyone at a company, from CEO on down to the hourly worker. Here are 10 of the most common worker types taking shape in the new BYOD workplace.

• Half of world's companies to embrace BYOD by 2017

  About half of the world's companies will adopt BYOD programs by 2017 and will no longer provide computing devices to employees, a new Gartner report predicts.

• BYOD, or else! Companies will soon require workers use their own smartphone

  A Gartner study released today predicts that by 2017, half of all companies will require employees to bring their own smartphones for work purposes.

• 'Dual personality' could morph into Jekyll and Hyde for Samsung and BlackBerry

  BlackBerry and Samsung have separately launched security and management software with dual-personality features for their latest Z10 and Galaxy S4 smartphones, both designed to meet the demands of a growing BYOD marketplace.

• BYOD worries in mind, Novell and NTP bust out secure mobile file sharing

  Novell and NTP today announced their own versions of mobile file-sharing applications, both of which take advantage of a corporation's existing infrastructure to offer access to data behind the firewall.

• BYOD: More than 6 out of 10 US companies approve of personal device use for work

  CompTIA's second annual Trends in Mobility study found that 64 per cent of companies allow, or mandate, the use of employee-owned devices, with most stating that improving productivity is the main driver.

• Efficiency on the rise as BYOD expands at Intel

  Intel has expanded a BYOD program that it calls a resounding success, providing around 5 million hours of annual productivity gains last year.