While Android has been a market leader in handset sales over rival iOS , it’s trailed Apple in enterprise adoption. But a couple of new tools announced by Motorola and AT&T may help close the gap for Google’s operating system and allow Android to thrive in the new era of bring-your-own-devices.

Motorola’s subsidiary 3LM, which it bought in February, has finally launched its security, management and remote access platform for Android devices that provides BlackBerry Enterprise Server-like support for devices. The service, which can be controlled through a server console, allows IT managers to control the devices they support and protect corporate data while still enabling users to bring their own devices, something more and more workers are doing now.

Specifically, 3LM will enable:

• Device encryption of full memory and SD card data; selective encryption of corporate applications; remote wipe capabilities and whitelist/blacklist of applications; and control applications’ access to corporate resources.
• Enhanced security and control of device, OS, and applications; remote installs of critical enterprise application; device tracking.
• Secure remote access to enterprise resources and device health and status checking.

The 3LM software, which has been in trials in the first half of this year with government, healthcare, retail and education customers, will go on sale this month.  Motorola also announced a new enterprise tablet called the ET1, a rugged tablet with a swappable battery, business apps and a HTML5 web-based developer environment called RhoElements.

Meanwhile, AT&T announced a new application called Toggle that allows workers to create two modes for their Android devices that separate business and personal use. The technology appears to be based on software from Enterproid, a company I profiled, which just raised million.

With Toggle, users will be able to segregate their personal usage on the device, which allows them keep all their private data like text messages and web and app usage private from IT managers. When it’s time to work, users can enter work mode and access  corporate email and applications, and all the work environment data can be managed by IT managers. From a web portal, IT managers can remote wipe enterprise data from a device; add, update or delete business apps; and control employee access to company resources.

Toggle works for Android 2.2 devices and higher and will be available later this year with any service provider. The plan is to have Toggle work on other platforms in the future.

The new software solutions help Android in a world in which now 60 percent of companies support devices brought in by their employees, according to Forrester Research. Forrester also recently found that 48 percent of information workers buy smartphones for work without considering what their IT department supports.

In this new era, iOS has proven more popular than Android with workers and IT departments. Good Technology, which offers a popular mobile device management service for non-RIM devices, said in the second quarter of this year, the iPhone represented two-thirds of all smartphone activations while Android smartphones represented the remaining activations. When tablets and smartphones were tallied together, iOS commanded 75 percent of activations compared to 25 percent for Android.

IOS has had more early success with users and it’s been well received by companies, which have been incorporating iPhone and iPads at a high rate. Apple, for example, said that 93 percent of Fortune 500 companies are testing or deploying iPad. The iPad’s success over its Android tablet rivals is a big part of the iOS’ lead in the enterprise. But with better management tools that augment what already exists on Android, it may help boost Android’s acceptance in the enterprise, more likely with handsets at first but perhaps more so down the line with tablets.

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Netvibes, the San Francisco-based startup that allows people and brands to create personalized RSS feed dashboards, has added social analytics capabilities to its web content monitoring platform. But can the six-year-old company hold its own among today’s super-charged social media analytics startups?

Netvibes’ new product suite, dubbed “social pack,” is currently available in private beta for existing Netvibes premium dashboard customers. The features will be available to individuals by month’s end, Netvibes CEO Freddy Mini told me in an interview this week.

With the latest additions, Netvibes is solidifying its new status as a enterprise software-as-a-service company — a significant step beyond the consumer RSS feed aggregator it started as.

Netvibes is smart to move from courting individual people to entire companies: The web monitoring space has proven to be a lucrative one for startups targeting brands in recent years. Social media monitoring company Radian6 was acquired by Salesforce.com  for some 6 million back in March, and brand management startup Scout Labs was acquired last year for a reported -plus million.

That said, Netvibes itself is not exactly green to the startup game. The company was founded in 2005, and has had its fair share of managerial drama and strategy pivots along the way. But the company has stood on its own throughout: Netvibes has turned a profit since 2009 and has only one round of funding in its history, Mini told me. In a press release Friday the company claims it still has an edge on the newcomers, saying that its newest offerings provide monitoring and analytics “in ways never before possible.”

I demoed the new Netvibes offerings — and though I’m not in charge of a brand or company (beyond my own, I suppose) I can see the appeal of the social pack service. The social analytics capabilities are quite comprehensive, and should prove popular among the company’s existing customers, many of whom populate the Fortune 500 list. But it bears mention that Netvibes is not the only company offering products to help brands and customers monitor what is being said about them in real-time on the web.

Netvibes’ solid position as a safe bet for its existing customers have kept it in the game thus far, and its strategy to go after the growth market or brands and social media is a wise one. Whether it can continue to hold its ground in today’s world of hyper-funded and hungry social media analytics startups remains to be seen.

Here is a screenshot of Netvibes’ new social pack dashboard:

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725.35 meters. A whoppumental 2,379.75 feet. That’s how big the new super-sized Enterprise is. Here you can see it compared against the Galactica, the good old Enterprise, the Blockade Runner, and the ISS. UPDATED

Click on this image to see the full picture.

When JJ Abrams said that he wanted to put some Star Wars into Star Trek, apparently it also applied to the scale of spaceships (and matching viewscreens.) And while the new Enterprise doesn’t even reach half of the 1,600 meters—that’s a mile long—of an Imperial Star Destroyer, it’s still amazingly big compared to the 288 meters of the old Enterprise. Maybe now you would be able to take down an Star Destroyer with a couple of these.

The battle I would really want to see now, however, is not the old Star Trek vs Star Wars (we already know who would win that one.) No, you know what I want to see.

Yes, Starbuck vs Uhura. In a chocolate pudding pit.

Maybe Galactica vs Enterprise too, but that’s a distant second. [Thanks to David B. from Bad Robot Productions]

UPDATE: Since we did the original ISS comparison, the specifications for the new Battlestar Galactica have changed. After the end of the series, one of the visual effects guy shared information about the actual size of Adama’s new ship. It measures 1,438.64 meters. Almost a mile, so it’s bigger than the new Enterprise and less than 200 meters shy of an Imperial Star Destroyer. I changed the graphic to display the old Galactica, which has the correct size. [Thanks to the readers who pointed this out]