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Tablets for Creativity: Because You Never Know Where Inspiration Will Strike Next

Posted on by Lane Jesseph Posted in Apps, Consumerization





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People who get paid to be creative have always broken the rules when it comes to workplace behavior. Ad writers and art directors play ping-pong in the office. Architects travel the world. Rock stars trash hotel rooms.

While it doesn’t always look like it, creative people are always working, playing with ideas in their minds and gaining inspiration from the sensory world around them. Read more

Yankee Group’s Predictions: Instability Will Rule Mobility in 2012

Posted on by Lane Jesseph Posted in Blog, Mobility Strategy





Originally Posted By Market Watch

With 2 billion new mobile users in just the last five years, 2012 promises to be a year of challenges, change and disruption.

In its new report “2012 Mobility Predictions: A Year of Living Dangerously,” Yankee Group looks ahead to 2012 and sees the mobile industry preparing for a year of uncertainty and global transition. As the fiscal balance tips to new economies, mobile players must adapt quickly or disappear. In 2012, mobile workers and consumers will embrace tablets, mobile content, mobile video and personal cloud services at unprecedented levels. At the infrastructure level, operators will feel the squeeze and look to new policy solutions to help them monetize all-IP networks. Amid these shifts, even Internet players must prepare for a year of change that will create new challengers for industry leadership.
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The Weekly Round-Up – Enterprise Tablet Style

Posted on by Lane Jesseph Posted in Blog, Weekly Round-up





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Tablets in the Enterprise: Risks and Rewards
Originally Posted By Shane O’Neill
At the Enterprise MobileNext Forum this week in San Francisco, one of the more discussed subjects was the benefits and challenges of adopting iPads and other tablets and mobile devices in the enterprise.
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Cisco Grows its Cius Tablet Brand
Originally Posted By Jeff Wiener
What’s happened to the enterprise tablet market? The question came out of a conversation I had with a customer last week who was exploring the full gamut of telecommunications solutions on the market. I smiled because while the enterprise tablet market is alive and well, it seems like almost no one knows about it.
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Microsoft’s Shrinking Window For Tablets: Its Fifth-Mover Product Strategy Is Late
Originally Posted By JP Gownder
Forrester is bullish on Windows 8 as a product for consumers. With Windows 8, Microsoft is adapting Windows in key ways that make it better suited to compete in the post-PC era, including a touch-first UI, an app marketplace, and the ability to run natively on SoC/ARM processors.
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The Rush to Connect: Are We in a Tablet Bubble?

Posted on by Lane Jesseph Posted in Connectivity, Tablet Adoption





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I came across this presentation, from Karan Bhujbal in India, that has some interesting statistics about how, where, and to what extent people are connecting with tablets.

My favorite slide is number 26, at the end, which plots tablets on the Gartner Hype Cycle. Developed by the analyst firm, the Gartner Hype Cycle is “a graphic representation of the maturity and adoption of technologies and applications, and how they are potentially relevant to solving real business problems and exploiting new opportunities.” Read more

How Secure Is Your Connection? Top Tips for Tighter Security on the Road.

Posted on by Lane Jesseph Posted in Connectivity, Security





 

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If you’re always on the move, chances are you’ve had occasion to jump onto a Wi-Fi network at an airport, café, health club, hotel, or other venue. While this can make getting work done more convenient, Wi-Fi networks can put any data you transmit or receive online at risk. Even if your tablet is encrypted, your data is vulnerable as soon as you connect to the Internet through a Wi-Fi network.

The best solution is to make sure all your Internet connections go through a virtual private network (VPN). Android tablets offer built-in VPN support in your network settings, so you can enter your VPN address once and never worry about it again. Read more

Gartner’s Top 10 Business Apps for Tablets

Posted on by Lane Jesseph Posted in Apps, Blog





Originally Post By Jennifer Lawinski

As Apple’s iPad and other tablets move from the consumer world into the corporate IT ecosystem, business applications are moving beyond simple personal productivity applications to include enterprise heavy-hitters such as CRM and ERP. Vendors are launching tablet applications to meet enterprise demand, following where users want to take the tablet platform, says Gartner vice president and analyst David Willis, and CIOs should be aware of the ways software is evolving to conform to the tablet platform.
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The Weekly Round-Up – Enterprise Tablet Style

Posted on by Lane Jesseph Posted in Apps, Blog, Security, Tablet Adoption, Weekly Round-up





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Secure Mobile Access for BYOD Smartphones and Tablets Now Available With Flowfinity Reverse Proxy
Originally Posted By The San Francisco Chronicle
Flowfinity Wireless Inc., a proven provider of enterprise mobile apps for business process automation, today announced the availability of the Flowfinity Reverse Proxy, a solution for delivering secure access to Flowfinity mobile apps deployed within corporate networks for users of popular smartphones and tablets.
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One in Three Online Consumers to Use a Tablet by 2014
Originally Posted By eMarketer
Tablet devices, in their current incarnation, have only been available for a couple years, but the iPad has propelled them to rapid increases in ownership and usage. eMarketer estimates that by the end of 2011, 33.7 million Americans will use a tablet device at least monthly—a rise of 158.6% over last year, the year the iPad was released.
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Black Friday – Tablet Doomsday For Many Phone Vendors
Originally Posted By Forbes.com
The Black Friday promotional support for tablets seems notably weak – Amazon’s price aggression may have been the final nail in the coffin of several major tablet projects. Old school phone vendors like Motorola, Samsung, HTC and RIM are staring at an early death of their tablet projects as Apple, Amazon and Barnes & Noble basically split the market.
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