7,500 Surface 3s soar to the skies with SkyWest, ExpressJet AirLines

Microsoft has been eating up some good enterprise deals lately, including 30,000 Windows Phones for the New York Police Department. Satya Nadella’s Nokia impairment manifesto mentioned a refocusing of its target demos. While superficially similar to the audiences its always targeted, Redmond has really taken a rejiggering towards getting businesses on-board with its mobile hardware. Now, SkyWest Inc. is taking ...

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All NYPD officers to receive Windows Phones

Remember when Brazilian police snatched up a stolen Sony Xperia C5 Ultra demo unit? That was pretty cool. But what if police actually used smartphones in the line of duty instead of just seizing them? Police departments have been trying to push into the 21st century with their tactics and tools for … 15 years now. We haven’t reported much on the ...

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Blackberry vs. Blackphone: which would you buy? (Poll)

2015 is an interesting time in the high-security niche of mobile technology. Blackberry’s making a migration of sorts to Android with not only its services but a device in the works, too. In the meantime, privacy services provider Silent Circle is cranking gears for the second version of its forked Android phone, the

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An Android partnership with BlackBerry could be just what both need

Why do so many corporations support BlackBerry and iOS, but not Android? That’s a question I get asked quite often, and one that I find myself in the middle of with my own employer.I don’t work for Pocketnow full-time. I’ve got a day job with a manufacturing company right here in Northern Utah. While this takes time away from reviewing awesome new hardware and hacking custom ROMs and Kernels on my platform of choice, it gives me a unique perspective.I carry an Android that I bought with my own money even though my day job offered to buy an iPhone for me. That choice ...

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BlackBerry going all-in on Android could save its phone business

BlackBerry isn’t a name you hear mentioned in the mobile space anymore. It’s strange, since they used to be one of the biggest names in the smartphone industry, but like Kodak’s reign over photography, stagnancy deprecates relevance, and BlackBerry quickly fell by the wayside with the rise in popularity of the iPhone and similar products. Sure, they’ve picked back up a bit with

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In addition to low-end, Microsoft should focus on enterprise

Last week, we discussed a little company called Microsoft and talked about what kind of market they’d like to focus on. We also briefly chatted about the kinds of devices it would be wise to bring to those markets. But our analysis pretty focused on one market when another went largely undiscussed. And that previously undiscussed market is “Enterprise.” Microsoft should focus on enterprise, as well as the ...

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