How today's tablets and smartphones will morph into remote controls in 2013
Because of the powerful cloud-based applications, today's smartphones and tablets are giving mobile users capabilities they never dreamed of a few years ago. Those capabilities will get even wider in...
View ArticleGlide lets you access content across devices and services
Suppose you have an iPad, an Android phone and a Windows laptop and you use Facebook, Flickr, and Dropbox. With the new Glide, you'll be able to conduct a single interface search across all of those...
View ArticleSurprise: Windows tablets top the wish list for info workers
Windows topped the wish list among information workers who want tablets, showing that Apple's grip on the market might not last forever.
View ArticleHow Hadassah University Hospital's "no" to BYOD later turned into "yes"
When doctors and other hospital workers started to bring in their personal smartphones and tablets to use at work, there was a lot of concern about keeping patient data secure. Here's how Hadassah...
View ArticleLessons from the consumerization trenches
CITEworld talked with numerous IT professionals and business leaders over the past few months about how their enterprises implemented various social, mobile and cloud projects emanating from the...
View ArticleMore screen sizes will help drive tablets past notebooks this year
Tablet shipments are expected to surpass laptop shipments for the first time this year, according to NPD, which just six months ago predicted that wouldn't happen until 2016.
View ArticleSurface Pro to be released on February 9th
Microsoft this morning announced the release date for the next member of its Surface family: Surface Windows 8 Pro. An Intel Core i5-powered tablet, the new Surface will launch in the US and Canada on...
View ArticleRed Hat to employees: yes, please bring new apps to work
Enterprises are often worried when employees want to bring their own smartphones, tablets, and consumer-based apps to work. Red Hat takes the opposite approach, all with an eye on finding new ideas...
View ArticleA supermassive iPad deployment in Turkish schools could be a model for business
If Apple does secure the contract to roll out 15 million iPads as part of Turkey's FAITH project, it could provide some great lessons for other huge iPad deployments.
View ArticleThe changing role of IT in a BYOD world
With this new device, IT issues a standard tablet (or perhaps smartphone), but locks it down to a few work-related functions. It's sort of like the special-purpose embedded devices of yesteryear.
View ArticleBad news for Android: enterprise share dropped in Q4
Apple’s iOS increased its dominance of the enterprise market in the fourth quarter, based on activation data from mobile device management vendor Good Technology. But Android tablets are making some...
View ArticleWhy American Airlines chose Galaxy Notes over iOS devices
It fits nicely in their hands, and Android was easy to customize. Samsung's SAFE management technology also helped tip the scales.
View ArticleAn inch becomes a chasm between Windows Phone and Windows 8
Smartphone OEMs will soon be allowed to build 6-inch Windows Phonesat the same time that tablet OEMs will be allowed 7-inch Windows 8 machines -- so devices that are just an inch different in size...
View ArticleIf PC sales dropped 14%, how did Microsoft keep Windows revenue stable?
Microsoft reported no change in revenue for its Windows division, despite recent dire reports about a dramatic drop in PC shipments.
View ArticleMicrosoft hints it will build a smaller Surface
Outgoing Microsoft CFO Peter Klein implied that a smaller Surface might be in the works and also talked about Windows Blue in a new light.
View ArticleHuge upside for the iPad: Only 20 percent of tablets are used for work
A JD Powers tablet satisfaction survey found that only 20 percent of people surveyed said that they use their tablets for business, indicating that there's huge upside for the iPad and other tablets...
View ArticleThe future of tablets: Smaller, cheaper, and everywhere
IDC says that traditional PC shipments peaked in 2011, making room for the booming tablet market. There's still lots happening with tablets though, as smaller sizes and cheap prices make gains.
View ArticleWhy I (almost) never use my Surface RT
My Surface RT is slow -- to startup and to launch apps -- defeating some of the purpose of porting Windows to the ARM architecture in the first place.
View ArticleSmall Windows 8 tablets are great news for everyone
With the arrival of so-called "small tablets" running Windows 8, Microsoft jumps into the fray to compete head-on with Apple on its most popular iPad. Here's why these smaller tablets hold a lot of...
View ArticleWith slow consumer sales, Microsoft pushes Surface to enterprises
The BYOD trend hasn’t been very successful at getting Surface tablets into the enterprise, so Microsoft is launching a couple new programs that go the traditional route.
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