Why Your BYOD Platform Will Fail in Tablet Kiosk Marketing Deployments

The industry as a whole has gotten more sophisticated in understanding the unique requirements that come with using tablets and smart phones. And businesses are moving beyond internal BYOD deployments to embracing the huge advantages of tablet kiosk marketing, mobile point of sale (mPOS), digital signage and countless other opportunities increasingly sophisticated tablets are offering.
The bad news? Deploying thousands of devices as a mobile POS is very different than deploying thousands of personal devices in a BYOD scenario. And if you're trying to use your in-place BYOD platform to deploy purposed mobile solutions, your deployment is going to fail.
At a very basic level: the requirements for a platform that manages personal devices are far different than the requirements necessary to manage purposed devices, both from a technical standpoint as well as a business process and workflow standpoint.
In BYOD deployments, your business user manages her device, and uses it in all arenas for both personal and enterprise data. Your focus--and the purpose of your BYOD software platform--is very simply maintaining the separation of that data and keeping enterprise information secure.
But on the purposed side, you are facing legions of users who need to be left out of managing the device. Your BYOD software solutions, while designed to manage a large fleet of mobile devices, do not have the capability—or focus--to deal with the complexity of multi-user mobile devices. And deploying and managing thousands of tablets in commercial shared-use environments creates significant technical and operational challenges that BYOD scenarios will never present.
Key issues include:
User experience, security, and monitoring challenges. You need to maintain both the physical and data security of your tablet kiosk solution, lock users out of personalization and management while maintaining your own control, and stay up-to-date on every aspect of the device, from battery to location to installed content to connectivity to app updates and more. And you need to manage, control, and secure every aspect of your mobile solution in real-time, from a central location.
All this plus the need to maintain the essential tablet experience, including access to the Internet and apps, but you need to lock down that access, ensure the experience is curated, and stay on top of security. You need to eliminate the possibility of customization or vandalism, and ensure users can't change or remove content, or worse, add content that's inappropriate. Users must also be prevented from interrupting network connectivity and ruining the experience of other guests who come after them.
Things like App Store purchases, iTunes downloads, deleting apps, rearranging icons, and changing the home screen wallpaper need to be disabled without affecting the user interaction experience and reducing the need to restore or re-image the tablet.
And finally, you need to safeguard your users as well, ensuring their personal information and their session information is cleared when the application quits, and that any information collected is encrypted and inaccessible to any other user.
Technical and device management challenges. Unlike your BYOD deployment, with personal devices safely in the hands of your employees, your fleet of purposed devices require constant maintenance, upkeep, and update after being battered by the public. From restores to refreshes to data caching, from pushing fresh dynamic content to uploading customer information and feedback, the day-to-day administration of mobile kiosks requires sophisticated management tools.
Purposed devices also require rapid development and accelerated deployment of content, end-to-end wireless network and mobile device visibility, and advanced system reliability, availability and scalability (RAS). The complexity of these environments makes routine BYOD tasks such as device and network component roll-outs, updates and maintenance and support/problem resolution difficult without a specifically designed mobile device management platform for commercial deployment.
BYOD platforms are not up to the challenge of delivering a fully secure, constantly updated, always-reliable mobile kiosk, mPOS, and digital signage experience. To ensure that your deployment is completely successful, rely on a mobile management platform specifically built to manage and monitor your innovative tablet solutions.
Check out our infographic, Purposed Devices vs. Personal Devices, to learn more about how managing mobile devices used as mobile point-of-sale, kiosks, digital signage or any other purposed use case is very different than managing personal devices.

Merrick Kennworth is a blogger that writes about many things including tech related issues for Moki Mobility. He has a passion for life and living it to its fullest.  Follow them on Facebook to learn more.

Updated Android 4.4 for Nexus 4, 7 and 10

Google has published a revised version of the update to Android 4.4 alias Kitkat. Only the build number has changed but the version number remained the same. The update is now also go wireless distributed for the Nexus 4 and the Nexus 7 with modem.

The update to Android 4.4 alias Kitkat is now available for the Nexus 4 and the Nexus 7 distributed with UMTS modem. A week ago, the distribution of Kitkat update for the Nexus 7 launched without a modem and the Nexus 10 These models also receive the revised update. A week ago, the build number KRT16O was distributed, then there is the build number KRT16S.

According to Google, few of the unspecified bugs were fixed but no further details. The update will be distributed wirelessly. Because the update is not everywhere at the same time on the devices, it may take a few days until all devices receive the update.

Google has also provided the updated Factory Images for Nexus models already available for download. Google's Smartphone Nexus One, Nexus S and Galaxy Nexus will not update to Android 4.4 alias Kitkat. Technical reasons were not disclosed.

 Many buyers have deliberately opted for Nexus devices because they assumed that they receive in the future early upgrades to new versions of Android. For the Galaxy Nexus there are already alternative Android distributions, bringing the Android 4.4 on the Smartphone. Android 4.4 brings a number of improvements with which the Smartphone or tablet to make use more comfortable than before the user.

The phone app also scans the numbers of nearby shops or the directories of Google Apps accounts. In addition, the app's contact list, sorted by frequency of contact - important people are easier and faster to find. On Android 4.4; now disappear when watching movies or books, the navigation buttons at the bottom completely.

Previously they were just hidden, but still have taken place and were visible as black bars with three points. In addition, the voice search was expanded, with the voice command “Ok Google" it is now ready for system-wide.

 The design of the e -mail client of Android, Google has adapted to the Gmail app, so that they look very similar now. In the E -mail client messages can now be deleted with a wiping gesture, which is also possible directly from the notification bar.

How to protect your email address from the hackers

In the today world of technology, internet has playing a crucial role in everything. Suppose if you want to visit the Disney world, you can go through the all the stuffs regarding the Disney world from your place itself. Simply by hitting the search button, you can get lot of information in the Internet. In the meanwhile, internet is very vulnerable. The hackers around the world start to learn more technology which brought them to hack into your personal system and gather your personal details as well as your important stuffs. It might possible that hackers were hired by your competitors to hack into your system and make your clients to run away from your business. So this creates a big loss in your field; you can easily make your stuff more protected as well as secured by simply following these little steps:

The main thing that you need to concentrate is that yours EMAIL; since all of the internet activities need your email details to perform something. You might use your personal email id for most of the things and also you might have used them for online payment stuffs. So the main motto of this article is to protect your email from the hackers which in turn gives you an ultimate security and privacy for your personal things. Here are the tips which help you to protect your email from the hackers;

1.Strong password: 

Password is the main criteria which are always used to access you email account. If anyone has your email id, then they can easily access your personal details from your email account by very easy way. By providing a stronger password, you can prevent your email account from the hackers primarily. A strong password in the sense, password which is made up of combination of letters, numbers, uppercase letters as well as special characters. It will take longer time to crack your password and difficult to guess.

2.Password with space in between the characters will be very harder to crack the password.

3.Do not include your name, nick name, family name as well as birthday with your password. It will be very easy and provides a key to hack your password by the hackers. It is strongly advised to create a password which is strongly immune to the hacking tools.

4.Always keep different password for unauthorized websites and keep in mind that phishing sites are there in the internet which will grab your all information and stores it in their database.

5.If anyone of your website is get hacked by the hackers, he will use the same data for other websites too. This will create a thread to your all personal information and important data; you can use different passwords so that you can protect your personal from the hackers. In order to use different passwords, you need a password manager to remember all passwords which you’re using.

Log out the email account if you’re using it in the Public Internet cafe and prevent use of those kind internet centers. They might use keylogger to store your all details. These also give you a thread for your privacy.

Sony Playstation 4 Technical problems “Blue Light of Death”

In the U.S., many gamers report total failures of the new Sony console. Comes after the “Yellow Light of Death “is now the "Blue Light of Death”; many gamers report of defective Playstation 4 consoles give the strips a blue flash of light itself.

The gaming world is waiting for the launch of the Playstation 4 we have already received a developer console! It should be the gamer’s highlight of the year, but for many players, the release of the Playstation 4 has degenerated to the annoyance. The official Playstation forum is littered with indignant and disappointed contributions of PS4 owners whose console has given up the ghost later out of the box or in a very short time.

The symptom is the same everywhere: the light bar in the center of the case flashes blue after power, output picture and sound do not take place, a short time later, the device switches off - a start in Safe mode is also not possible. Sony took up position on the subject already, and advises to check hard drive, power cable and TV firmware.

However, according to many user contributions creates none of the points help. Some gamers had their Playstation 4 already be picked up by Sony, as the blue light can also refer to various other hardware defects by the manufacturer.
The repair will take about three weeks, according to the gamblers. Let's hope that Sony will solve these problems before the European launch on 29 November gets to grips with.

Should Your Business Use Appointment Setting Software?

Ask a new sales professional what she dreads most about her job and you may hear, "cold calling prospective customers." The Robertson Training Group says that people dislike cold calling because they hate feeling rejected. This one reason stops not only sales professionals. It stops everyday people from asking for experiences they want.

For example, the fear of feeling rejected stops men and women from asking people they have strong feelings for out on dates. The fear of rejection also stops workers from asking for promotions or pay increases, even when the employees have completed higher levels of work, clearly demonstrating that they have earned promotions and/or salary increases.

To reduce their fear of rejection, sales professionals are turning to appointment setting software. The software can be customized for certain businesses. Certain industries may find the software more critical to their bottom line than other companies. Intelliverse’s appointment setting service, http://www.intelliverse.com/services/appoinment-setting.shtml ,is built to reduce the fear of being rejected in that it calls or contacts customers, eliminating the need for sales professionals to dial prospective customers themselves.

The appointment setting software can be used to schedule a specific number of outbound calls for one or more members of a sales team to make each day, week, month or quarter. Because the software automates calling systems, it can be set to dial a range of customers directly. During this time, sales professionals can rehearse sales messages. They can also review statistics, recent news reports and other analytics they plan to discuss with clients.

Busy sales professionals may want to use the time to respond to customer questions or to finalize presentations. After appointment setting software successfully connects with prospective customers, a warning flashes across a dashboard screen, alerting sales professionals to the fact that the prospect they want to speak with is on the line.

In addition to reducing, possibly even eliminating the fear of rejection, from sales professionals, appointment setting software can also help rid sales professionals of other reasons they dislike making cold calls. For example, the software can be used to keep sales persons from feeling as they are coming across as desperate commission-based workers.

No longer sounding like a telemarketer, losing the fear that they will be interrupting a prospect at home or at work and feeling the pressure to close sales on the first call are other barriers that the software can reduce or eliminate. Because the software is not an auto dialer, sales persons stay in control of which prospects are contacted and when.

To get the most out of the software, businesses that use the software should monitor the results of outbound calls on a daily basis. Furthermore, if businesses test different sales pitches or scripts, they can measure which pitches or scripts generate the best results from which types of customers. For example, businesses could use the software's reports to find out if young adults living in the western part of the country respond more positively to their active sales pitches than retirees do.
Tom Hanson