Educational Technology

May 15, 2012

Are Smartphones Secure on Your Campus?

Filed under: Educational Technology — admin @ 12:30 am

By Tanya Roscorla, Converge

More smartphones and tablets pop up on college campuses every year. And whether they’re personal or university devices, they contain information that shouldn’t be shared. U.S. residents were using nearly 96 million smartphones and PDAs through June 2011, a 57 percent increase from the previous year, according to a 2011 CTIA Wireless Association report. And they also lost mobile phones at a cost of approximately $30 billion last year, reports mobile security firm Lookout Labs, which located 9 million lost smartphones through its app.

http://www.convergemag.com/policy/Smartphone-Security-Campaign-Infiltrates-UC-Davis.html

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