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.
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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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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RIM Delays PlayBook OS Update
Originally Posted By Eric Zeman
Rather than release buggy, unfinished software for the PlayBook tablet, RIM will continue work on the next version of the operating system until it is truly ready for consumer and enterprise use, the firm said. It expects that PlayBook OS 2.0 won’t be ready until around February. The update had been scheduled originally for this fall.
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Schools Are Using Enterprise App Protector to Give E-Learning a Revolution
Originally Posted By Carrot App
Smart phones and tablets bring revolution into people’s life. This revolution now enters classrooms in schools. More and more schools replace their laptops with tablets, which are cheaper and easier to use, especially for young students. Facing the problem of how to prevent students from using the unwanted apps on the tablets, teachers are now seeking a solution.
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Tablets Readied For A Real Day’s Work
Originally Posted By Chris Murphy
On a recent visit to Waste Management, the trash hauling and recycling giant that’s No. 3 on the InformationWeek 500 list this year, I met a young IT pro whose assignment was to put Android tablets through their paces. On his desk were about a dozen Android-based tablets, some of them wrapped in basic rubber cases. Could these off-the-shelf $500 devices replace the costly, custom touch screens Waste Management drivers use in their trucks, for things like directions and pickup requirements? It’s experimenting to find out.
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How Tablets Could Reshape the Insurance Enterprise
Originally Posted By Raj Dhinsa
Notebook PCs, smartphones and now tablets. There is no shortage to the onslaught of cool new consumer electronic devices. Most of these devices have seen strong market successes largely due to ever-increasing utility and affordability. But tablets are different — tablets have reached an extra-high level.
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Supported by laptops, tablets and smartphones, half of all information workers in the U.S. are mobile, splitting their time between the office and home or other external locations. Not surprisingly, the higher up the ladder, the less time the employee spends in the office. Just 35% of managers and supervisors and 10% of executives remain tied to a regular office setting.
These are just a few of the recent findings from Forrester Research in its report “The State of Workforce Technology Adoption: US Benchmark 2011.” The results come from an online survey of 4,985 US information workers at organizations with more than 20 employees.
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Originally Posted By Michael J. Miller
In a session at Gartner Symposium yesterday, Gartner’s David Cearley listed the top ten strategic technology trends that the research and advisory company think will impact IT departments most of the next year.
The list (as shown) consists of media tablets, mobile-centric applications, contextual and social user experience, the Internet of Things, app stores and marketplaces, next-generation analytics, big data, in-memory computing, extreme low-energy servers, and cloud computing.
