Originally posted by Public CIO
Thanks to the explosion in powerful consumer mobile devices, a growing number of government employees want to use their smartphones or tablet PCs for work. Instituting so-called “bring your own device” policies may make economic sense for cash-strapped public agencies, and they’ll certainly make users happy. But for CIOs, the trend also raises uncomfortable questions about security and retention of public records.
You’re all excited about giving your field service employees new tablet devices. The apps are in place to connect your mobile workers to your CRM and other backend systems, so they can provide better service, reduce errors, and submit invoices more efficiently. Everyone loves their new tablets…It’s going to be great!
Then you start getting complaints from the field, and realize you forgot a simple feature that can dramatically impact how your employees engage with essential corporate information: The sun-readable screen. Read more
Originally Posted By Sean Ludwig
Salesforce has revealed a new web-based application called Do.com that combines task management with social features to create a smart way to get things done on your own and in groups.
Do.com captures the laid-back style of an upstart web application with a simple interface and intelligent HTML5 deployment, but it’s also built with Salesforce’s emphasis on reliability, accessibility and security.
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10 Reasons Why Tablets Will Overtake Laptops In The Next Year
Originally Posted By Jack Wallen
Why are business users ditching their laptops in favor of a tablet when they hit the road? Many doubters think the tablet is nothing more than a gimmick to help boost sales. I was one of those doubters for quite some time. But after using tablets enough, I have come around to seeing just how incredibly helpful that technology is.
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Google: Android 4.0 To Be Open Sourced In “Coming Weeks”
Originally Posted By Paula Rooney
Google will make its Android 4.0 dubbed “Ice Cream Sandwich” available to the open source community in the coming weeks and is designed to fuel Google’s big push in both the smartphone and tablet war against Apple.
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IBM Opens Up Smartphone, Tablet Support For Its Workers
Originally Posted By Matt Hamblen
IBM has embraced — nearly — the growing “bring your own device” trend of allowing employees to buy and use their own smartphones and tablets for work tasks, said IBM’s CTO for mobility, Bill Bodin.
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If you work in the field, connectivity is crucial. When you lose Internet access—or you’re out of range of a wireless hotspot—your productivity takes a nose dive. We’re all so dependent on being connected anytime, anywhere.
One of the tablet’s most compelling benefits is its ability to provide the same quick and easy access to the web as you expect with a smartphone. You can typically connect them to the Internet via 3G connections (with a subscription) or use Wi-Fi. Some less expensive tablets offer Wi-Fi only. However, if you need more reliable, cost-effective connectivity, the latest in tablet innovation is embedded 3G mobile broadband. Read more
Whether stolen from an employee’s car, left in an airport bar, or otherwise pilfered or misplaced, mobile devices—and the data that resides on them—aren’t exactly safe. According to the Ponemon Institute, a laptop disappears every 53 seconds. And once they start compiling statistics on smaller, thinner, lighter tablets, it’s a safe bet that the disappearance rate will be even faster. Read more
Originally Posted By Nicholas Kolakowski
Apple’s iPad will lose its current domination of the tablet space by 2014-15, according to a new analyst report. Meanwhile, Microsoft will gain.
Apple will lose its overwhelming dominance of the consumer tablet space within the next three years, according to a prediction from analyst Jack Gold.
His research note also predicts that Microsoft will own roughly 10 percent of the consumer tablet market by that 2014-2015 timeframe, beating out Research In Motion’s QNX operating system with less than 10 percent but losing out to iOS (30 percent) and Android (50 percent).
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