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BlackBerry Loses Another Corporate User
February 9, 2012
[ by Melanie Gretchen ]
To BB or not to BB, that is the question!
If your firm or client has been toying with the idea of dropping its cellular network of Research In Motion BlackBerry smart phones for the latest generation of Androids or Apple iPhones, you might tell management that they are in very good company. The latest corporation to abandon the once invincible "BlackBerry network or nation" is Halliburton, which now is supplying employee with iPhones.
The Houston-based firm's departure follows another Texas company, Dell that, in late 2010, said it would move all 25,000 of its employees over from BlackBerry to its own smartphones running on Microsoft's Windows Phone 7.
A new standard. Halliburton decided to go with Apple's iOS platform because it "offered the best capabilities, controls and security for application development," according to a newsletter distributed to employees. This change reflects a growing trend among large companies, gradually easing IT policies and allowing employees to bring their own mobile devices to work.
Need more proof of this growing trend? Other to leave the industry-standard of the BlackBerry for the security of the iPhone within the past year include banking giants JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank, Bank of America, Citigroup, and UBS.
As we said - your firm or client would be in good company.
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