New Stuff 07/17/12
Symantec Corp. added more security measures aimed at enterprise Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) programs, including Symantec Mobile Security for Android, Mobile Management for Configuration Manager, Mobile Management for secure Android email and native enterprise-grade management for Windows 7 Phone platform, the Nukona App Center to protect data on iOS devices with FIPS 140-2 certified encryption, and the PGP Viewer for Android…RDA Microelectronics is marketing the RDA6585 high-power, high-efficiency, multi-mode front-end module for quad-band GSM/EDGE and TD-SCDMA handset apps. The module is pin compatible with the RDA6582, allowing customers to upgrade current designs by adding quad-band EDGE capabilities and enhanced GSM performance…Available next month, the new flat-rate T-Mobile Open Europe unlimited data feature for business customers costs $50/line/month, and it includes as much as 500 MB of data within 28 European countries with no international roaming tolls…Mobile risk management (MRM) company Fixmo is offering Fixmo Sentinel 4.3.2, the latest update to its defense-grade enterprise mobility platform for enabling protected and compliant mobile computing across the workplace, enabling IT admins to proactively detect and solve system errors, performance issues and non-compliance scenarios. Fixmo says its Sentinel can centrally secure, monitor and manage both corporate-liable and BYOD mobile devices as well as Good Technology, BlackBerry Enterprise Server and Fixmo SafeZone server deployments through a single unified management console…The SMART Xlight end-to-end fiber-optic cabling solution from RiT Technologies has been certified by Intertek to exceed 10 Gb/s and 100Gb/s performance requirements as specified in the ANSI/TIA-568-C standard…Trend Micro Mobile Security (TMMS) 8.0 gives enterprise customers the tools to enforce essential corporate security policies while still allowing employees to use their own devices at work by enhancing the enforcement of existing password and encryption policies as well as providing more granular remote-wipe capabilities. It also allows IT to automatically push corporate apps to iOS, BlackBerry and Android devices. New customer can expect to pay around $31.50 the first year for 500 users and $9.50 for subsequent years per user…Xilinx shipped its first Artix-7 Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) devices that extend the reach of FPGA technology to apps requiring performance capabilities traditionally served by Virtex FPGAs. The Artix-7 family offers 65-percent lower static and 50-percent lower dynamic power consumption than older devices while delivering as many as 16 6.6 Gb/s transceivers. For 4G microwave backhaul, Artix-7 devices enable developers to integrate modem and packet processing functions on a single device…Wireless smart-grid provider Grid Net added Platform v2.7, a centrally managed, highly distributed smart-grid network OS that supports more point-to-point public and private broadband networks – including 4G WiMAX, 4G LTE, Ethernet over Fiber Optic, and 3G UMTS and EVDO CDMA…AppKinetics has been added to Good Technology’s Good Dynamics platform, reportedly making it easier to create and modify specific app policies