Education

A new study on eLearning by Pearson and Harris Interactive indicates a growing desire by students to use mobile devices in the classroom. According to the study, 92% of elementary, middle and high school students believe that mobile devices will change the way students learn in the future, with nearly the same figure predicting mobile devices will make learning more “fun.” The survey revealed that 69% of students would...

As of February 2013, over 4.5 million iPads were sold to US educational institutions with sales to the K-12 market doubling in year over year figures for the end of 2012. As we discussed in our whitepaper, “Realizing the Promise of Digital Textbooks,” the demand for digital textbooks and e-learning is on the rise, though the use of iPads and tablets in the classroom is not without risk. Smartphones...

The Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) for 2011/2012 show that mobile theft affected more than 826,000 people in the 12 month period with teens and youth aged 14-24 more than twice as likely to be victims of mobile theft as other age groups. The full stats, as discussed here, indicate that almost half (46%) of theft from the person and robbery incidents involved theft of a mobile phone, up from 31% in...

This week we formally announced our latest service, Computrace Mobile Theft Management (MTM), the first and only iOS loss management and theft recovery service on the market for the enterprise. As we shared in our earlier blog post, Computrace MTM leverages the proven experience and expertise of the Absolute Investigations and Recovery Services team to the safeguarding of enterprise iPad and iPad mini devices. “The Computrace Mobile Theft Management...