Handheld Computing Power: A Two-Edged Sword

If your vice president of marketing just ran to catch a red-eye flight, it might be sitting in her forgotten PDA at the airport lounge: product roll-out dates, details about your sales pipeline, strategic pricing, sensitive information covered by a nondisclosure agreement. Or it might be stored on a smart phone serving as chew toy for a sales rep's pup. Or blasted to nevermore by a failed handheld device battery. Or even glowing before the eyes of a determined industrial spy. If you think these scenarios are exaggerated, think again. Gartner Research estimates that a quarter of a million ...