One of the best things about owning a tablet is the huge number of cool apps you can download to it. There are a lot of broad use apps for the daily tasks we all must accomplish, and even better are the focused apps that help us do little things in our life that we like to do. It might be an app for HVAC technicians, or a way to sort the key news feeds that a financial services professional needs to review on a daily basis. Read more
Over the many years that PCs have been a key part of the IT infrastructure, most organizations have written their own application software to run on Windows and PCs. This is very common in the larger enterprises, and a surprising number of SMBs have custom versions of existing application platforms like Office or SQL Server that they run on Windows. As would be expected, many of the end users now want to run these applications on tablets.
However the cost and difficulty of porting, testing, and deploying in-house developed apps on iOS or Android is difficult to undertake in today’s real world of limited IT budget and staff. In many cases the staff that wrote the application has long since departed making the porting project that much more difficult. This is where the new generation of Windows 8 tablets can provide a solution that doesn’t entail major re-writes and re-hosting of the software. Read more
Today’s enterprise employees rely on anywhere from two to four different computers or mobile devices to do their jobs, from desktop and laptop PCs to tablets and smartphones. Managing a variety of different devices and operating systems can become a nightmare for users and for IT departments.
Microsoft and Apple are aiming to make this easier. You may already know that both Windows 8 and OS X Mountain Lion are launching this year, but you might not know how these two operating systems—as well as iOS, which is already in the market—will help you manage all the mobile devices in your workplace. Read more
Originally Posted by Mary Branscombe, techradar.com.
You can already get a version of Photoshop for Android and iPad, but it only has a fraction of the features in the Windows and Mac versions.
Partly that’s because a touch screen doesn’t give you the fine control you need for complex editing, but it’s also because the ARM processor isn’t powerful enough to run all the processing intensive filters. On a Mac or PC, those features use both the CPU and the GPU to run faster.
Now that Nvidia has the VGX technology that lets multiple virtual machines use one Nvidia graphics card both for displaying the screen and running GPU calculations (like hardware accelerating a browser like Firefox or Internet Explorer), running a whole Windows desktop is only the first step. Why not just run part of the application in the cloud, inside a native Android or iOS application?
In the news industry, publishers are finding that mobile devices like tablets are heralding new opportunities for producing, distributing and monetizing their content. While most traditional print publishers have moved their content online to address consumer demand, if you’re like me, then you’d rather read the news on the go, through a mobile app on your tablet or smartphone, than through a standard browser. It’s easily accessible whenever I am.
Indeed the mobile device brings a completely different perspective to news content, and many news industry professionals are optimistic that tablets will help revive—and even revolutionize—the business. Read more
Originally Posted By Chris Preimesberger, eWeek
There’s no question about it: The ability to conduct business on the go, anywhere and at any time, is already an essential competitive element in most businesses. As more sophisticated and powerful mobile devices enter the market every few months, more companies and their employees want to use these devices for business purposes.
This means companies need to seriously consider mobilizing their most important business applications to adjust to the growing mobile workforce. Here are 10 best practices for mobilizing enterprise applications.
Our expert resource for this slide show is Regev Yativ, president and CEO of Magic Software Americas, which provides software as a service (SaaS) application and business integration platforms.
Originally Posted by Michael Miller, PC World
How do you best deploy tablets in the enterprise? It seems like the answer is “quickly but carefully” based on the TabTimes Tablet Strategy conference I attended in New York City on Friday.
QuickOffice: Tablets Driving “Work Anywhere” Ecosystem
The tablet is driving a “Work Anywhere” system in which mobile devices are connected to the cloud, according to the conference’s keynote speaker Alan Masarek, CEO of QuickOffice. He said that productivity applications on mobile devices only “became real” 24 months ago with the introduction of the iPad. Even then, most people were using their devices mainly for media consumption until the end of last year.
Today, Masarek said, the number of direct enterprise tablet purchases is quite small, but that is expected to change. Indeed, in the next three years, he expects enterprises to account for a third of tablet purchases.
