It was hard to miss the headlines about the NSW Government’s return to work missive. If you did, here’s a sample: NSW public servants ordered back to the office; 400,000 Aussies ordered back into the office by NSW government; and NSW to lease more offices for public servants ordered back. These headlines were triggered when the secretary of the NSW premier’s department, Simon Draper pronounced that office-based public servants should head back to “an approved office, workplace or related worksite” to perform their duties.  

We reported recently on news that some 4G phones in Australia were caught up in the 3G shutdown which subsequently led to Telstra extending the deadline which is now scheduled for October this year. The reason for the extension is that there are more than one million 4G phones circulating in the community that do not support VoLTE emergency calling. This means users cannot connect to Triple zero services when in need.

Ten years ago, when enterprise mobility was still in its infancy, if you could give your people a top-notch e-mail experience on their mobile phones, then you were pretty much killing it.  But in our 5G world, as new enterprise productivity innovations emerge at an ever-faster clip, employees began to expect highly advanced task-specific tools on their mobiles to get their work done.

In modern organisations where mobile devices are the lifeblood of productivity and collaboration, any time that mobile devices stop working, so does the business. Not surprisingly, many companies make the decision to outsource enterprise mobility management

In our increasingly interconnected world, cyberthreats continue to evolve at a rapid rate. This past weekend’s global outage of PC systems created havoc in transport, retail, banking and many other sectors, and was a major wakeup call.