These days, most of us probably know a sports fan that uses a tablet to keep up with their favorite team. What may not be quite as obvious is just how pervasive tablets are becoming among athletes, sports franchises and leagues. Here’s a sampling: Read more
A recent IDC survey revealed that the majority of enterprises, across most global industry segments, are embracing tablets and mobile devices as a way to augment and improve their employees’ productivity.
The IDC Mobile Benchmark Study reveals what enterprises are thinking and doing about mobile device policies, tablet adoption, and the costs and practices involved with developing apps for them. Read more
Originally Posted by Doug Drinkwater, TabTimes
The bring-your-own device (BYOD) trend has been seen by many as another way in which enterprises can use tablets and smartphones while cutting costs, but a new report has cast doubt over that theory, while also suggesting tablets could one day replace laptops.
Mobile expense management company Xigo commissioned telecom industry association CCMI to carry out the study, which found that only 9% of businesses have been able to cut expenditure by deploying some kind of BYOD program.
Another 67% saw no difference with expenditure, while 24% somehow saw an increase in spending after putting a BYOD plan in place. More than half of enterprises (60%) are still in charge of purchasing, managing and securing smartphones and tablets for their employees, while also paying the monthly network fees.
A tablet is no fun—nor does it serve any practical purpose—without mobile apps. So it’s no surprise that new devices and platforms are routinely launched with triumphant claims of vast libraries brimming with nifty new apps—or at least the promise of them. Read more
Sometimes—okay, most of the time—we’re better off learning from the experiences of others. If you are faced with (or enticed by) opportunities to take advantage of tablets in the workplace, there are definitely things to learn from organizations that have jumped in early. Here’s a sampling. Read more
The Android operating system is continuing to take market share from Apple in the enterprise market for tablet computing, due in part due to a preference from IT professionals for openness and flexibility. That’s according to a recent IDG Connect research effort and white paper: “The Global Shift to Android: Business & IT Professionals.
The survey at the core of the project, involving more than 3,000 business and IT professionals across five continents, explores the rapid rise of tablets in the workplace, how tablet buyers’ priorities change once they’ve owned a tablet for a while, and a range of related, predictive topics.
Here’s a quick overview of the key findings: Read more
I’m sharing with you a post that I think is quite interesting—from Lenovo’s workforce mobility blog—on tablets in the military.
In October 2011, the U.S. Department of Defense approved an Android-based mobile OS for its military networks, providing access to information on their mobile tablets or PCs covering everything from high-level command and control programs to terrain data mapping.
Using Android’s open source foundation, a custom build of the OS was certified by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). It is expected to be the foundation for more, typically branch-specific iterations as tablets continue to prove their efficacy on the battlefield.
Read the full post on how tablet adoption is growing in the military.
