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Order up! Will Tablets Take Over Restaurants?

Posted on May 30, 2012 by Lane Jesseph Posted in Apps, Blog, Tablet Adoption, Utility





BYOD: How to Manage a New Era of IT Support for Employee-owned Mobile Devices

Posted on May 28, 2012 by Lane Jesseph Posted in Blog, Consumerization, Enterprise, IT





Originally posted by Shahin Pirooz, Computer Technology Review

BYOD sounds like a recipe for happy hour. But in today’s enterprise environment, BYOD – or bring your own device – is less than a happy occasion for the IT staff.

Executives and employees alike are purchasing their own iPhones, iPads and Android-based smartphones and tablets, and increasingly using these devices for both work and pleasure. As a result, a figurative tidal wave of employee-owned mobile devices is flooding the enterprise workspace. There are distinct benefits to employees using devices with which they’re comfortable – they improve productivity and employee satisfaction. And BYOD is enabling enterprises to reduce their mobile expenses.

Despite these advantages, allowing employees to use their personal devices can introduce a number of complexities for the enterprise IT staff. Not only does it add to the tasks of already-overburdened IT employees, but if not managed properly BYOD can introduce security concerns and require greater in-house expertise for support and management of a wider array of technology.

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How Future Tablets Can Run High-end Desktop Apps

Posted on May 25, 2012 by Lane Jesseph Posted in Apps, Blog





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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?

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How to Find the Right MDM Solution

Posted on May 24, 2012 by Lane Jesseph Posted in Blog, IT, Mobility Strategy





Mobile Device Management (MDM) is becoming an increasingly important part of most companies’ tech management requirements. This means IT managers are under more and more pressure to provide access to corporate data via mobile devices.

According to blogger Kevin Beck, your best option might be to find a third party mobility and security vendor, as they are able to provide the expertise needed to manage this rapidly changing technology environment.

Read more on why you need a MDM solution

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Field Studies: How Tablets Are Transforming Sales & Service Organizations
Could tablets really help your organization improve productivity? This brief discusses real-world examples of how organizations are deploying these mobile devices outside the four walls of the office. Learn how tablets can help your customer service and field sales teams in particular interact more effectively with clients, close deals faster, and reduce administrative work.

The Tablet Revolution is Coming: Working Anywhere Without Compromise

Posted on May 22, 2012 by Lane Jesseph Posted in Blog, Connectivity, Tablet Adoption





Originally posted by James Kendrick, zdnet.com

The workforce is becoming more mobile than ever before, and the capable tablet is a growing reason why. It is why the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) movement is in the news so much, as many want to bring the tablet to work. The tablet frees folks up to work almost anywhere, in large part because mobile OSes have evolved to provide powerful mobile experiences.

Right now I am working as I do every day, performing all the tasks I need to do, dealing with work issues as they come up, and writing this column. It is business as usual, except I am at the car dealership having my auto repaired.

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Tablet News Apps: Transforming an Industry

Posted on May 21, 2012 by Lane Jesseph Posted in Apps, Blog, IT





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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

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This "Quick Tips" guide lists critical purchasing considerations for business tablets. Discover how to reduce security risks, simplify set-up and configuration, and improve collaboration. By choosing an enterprise-ready tablet and weighing your options carefully, you can excite and engage employees, while giving your IT department the peace of mind they need.

Hands On: Lenovo ThinkPad X230 Tablet

Posted on May 18, 2012 by Lane Jesseph Posted in Blog, IT, Windows 8





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Originally posted by Eric Grevstad, pcmag.com

With all the buzz about the touch-screen hybrid and convertible ultrabooks that we can expect to see when the touch-centric Windows 8 operating system arrives this fall, it’s easy to forget that convertible laptop/tablets have existed for almost 10 years thanks to Microsoft’s Tablet PC initiative. PCMag’s Editors’ Choice in the category, the Lenovo ThinkPad X220 Tablet, is getting an “Ivy Bridge” makeover and array of other enhancements in the form of the ThinkPad X230 Tablet, a.k.a. ThinkPad X230T, shipping in early June at a starting price of approximately $1,479.

As before, the X230T works like an ultraportable X230 (or X220) whose 12.5-inch screen swivels 180 degrees and folds back face up over the keyboard to turn the laptop into a tablet that works in either portrait or landscape orientation. A multitouch digitizer supports gestures, while a provided stylus handles fine movements and handwriting recognition.

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