The development of software for mobile devices takes place in a dynamic environment where constraints, technologies and user needs change very frequently requiring enhanced approaches and methodologies in software engineering essential to deal with the concept of bring your own device (BYOD). Mobile apps are developed for various purposes in different categories. This paper discusses about the ...

The growing popularity of mobile apps, the “bring your own device” (BYOD) phenomenon, cloud computing, and big data, seem to have created the perfect storm for traditional identity technologies and solutions. Service providers and certain users too are increasingly aware that the features and benefits offered by an identity solution are worth nothing if a crafty attacker breaks through critical...

In enterprise networks, the concept of bringing your own devices (BYOD) to work and also allowing guest nodes to connect to the network is encouraged. As a factor the need to control access to the network is critical as visibility of nodes attached to the network is paramount in determining potential threats. The use of opensource technology is not mostly patronized by the corporate world becau...

Most employers believe blind and visually impaired people (BVIP) cannot perform essential job tasks and require expensive accommodation. The emergence of smartphones, enabling applications, screen readers, and Internet access provide a personal assistive mobile technology (PAMT) bundle which dramatically extends sensory capabilities for BVIP. PAMT should afford new workplace capabilities. Howev...

Mobile technologies are increasingly rooted in society and, therefore, intuitively, teachers begin to take advantage of devices that students carry with them daily in a logic of 1:1 bring your own device (BYOD). In fact, it becomes crucial to use this media to promote/increase new pedagogical activities to motivate and challenge students to acquire and discover knowledge. This was the inspirati...