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bazaarboy

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Quick question, and sorry if this isn't the right forum...

At work we need to use mobile devices to access the intranet, and initially we looked at android tablets

Someone suggested the iPod touch. it's much cheaper, small and has a nice screen

for security reasons the mobile devices have to lock down after inactivity and we don't want people accessing any other features (like playing music!)

soooo:

it is possible to use a custom app, to browse the intranet and to limit access only to this app?
 
hmm sounds interesting, though jailbreaking them might be bad in terms of warranty issues - we'd need about 100 devices, so they need to have valid warranties
 
Myshra said:
There is no way that you can lock down a phone to the way you want due to it being an end user sole device by design, gpedit world this is not. BB's/Android 2.2+/iOS come with exchange policy override such as PIN requirement, remote wipe, device encryption but they don't lock down network access very well (guess you'd need proxy access too?).

Netbooks will honestly be cheaper and more secure.
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in terms of security perhaps win 7 tablets would be the best, but whats the smallest form factor they come in?
 
Chillimonster said:
Just to put a slightly different spin on this.

We found that by locking down devices at work and restricting use to just work related tasks the 'device' was treated as a 'tool', with high incidences of repairs.

However when we relaxed the restrictions and allowed a little bit of 'freedom' in the use of the device then they were looked after more.
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we're not trying to be draconian, the only use for the mobile devices would be accessing the intranet application - people can still check their emails, facebooks etc, just on normal PCs
 
thanks myshra - that's helpful, I've had feedback from elance, and a couple of developers seems sure they can develop an android app for me that ticks all the boxes for about 500 dorrah - will keep you guys posted
 
SKILL said:
Think I've just found your proposal on Elance (gonna have a further look later, seen a few sites of this type this seems a bit higher quality than average though...)

Anyway, you mention the user logging in and being logged out after a period of inactivity, surely this is something the intranet pages themselves should handle rather than the app?

I do kinda agree with Chillimonster though, depending on what the actual information is it might be better to simply create an app for android and allow the rest of the phone to be used as-is, the whole tool vs possession kinda thing, but your choice obviously
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hehe u found me by the sounds of it ;)

in terms of the logout, just like normal browser sessions the webserver can end a session but the client machine will still display the last page. currently i use a piece of javascript on the client side that redirects to a logout page. i need to be sure that any android app would also logout, either by javascript or the app it self just locks after say 10min of inactivity
 
ok thats helpful - if the client side js works as it does on a PC browser
but: the mobile device must also lock up too after inactivity

just to unveil some of the mystery, we want to use these mobile devices at our hospital.
nurses carry out tasks on the ward, eg measure temperature, blood pressure, give medications etc etc we think we can speed things and improve safety if they can document their work with a mobile device, and by accessing a central web-application

soo: data security is supremely important
 
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