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The path to tablet adoption

IT departments can successfully manage a successful tablet deployment by following a four-step program that includes basing policy on the end-user.
by Barton Hetrick
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This Week in Tablets: Are the rumors about Apple's 7-inch iPad true?

Also inside: Citrix makes a household pitch that counts, and Intel attacks ARM on Windows 8 compatibility.
by George Jones
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Tablets in the wild: The iPad pretenders you may have missed in the last week

With the media continuing to bleat on about iPad sales, and new Ice Cream Sandwich upgrades from top-tier vendors, you're likely to have missed a host of unknown tablets in the last couple of weeks, one of two of which may yet suit your needs as a consumer or for wide-spread company deployment.
by Doug Drinkwater
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Are low cost tablets in the enterprise a good thing?

The iPad's popularity in business is one of the most interesting trends in the industry today. But a gripe we hear frequently from some interested buyers is the price of the iPad.
by Ben Bajarin
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This Week in Tablets: Microsoft is (finally) learning to play nice with Windows 8

Two years into the tablet revolution, we know one thing for sure: Unless you’re Apple, your tablet platform is only as good as your partnerships, your licenses, and your investments.
by George Jones
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Four Ways Mobile Transforms Business Processes

Mobility provides agility by making a company’s systems and processes more intelligent, instrumented and interconnected than they have ever been before.
by Maribel Lopez
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How to choose the right tablet for your business needs

With the right discovery work, tablet deployment decisions can be based on strategy rather than employee hype. It’s difficult, though. With the recent “consumerization of IT decisions” trend, it’s easy to get swept up in the momentum of new product excitement.
by Patrick Smith
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Working through a financial client's tablet deployment challenges

It’s important to examine each client’s specific deployment issues and then tackle the problems one by one. When a client of my company in the financial services sector, recently started to deploy a small number of iPad tablets, it encountered a number of challenges.
by Paul Hill
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This Week in Tablets: Apple's amazing iPad sales figures, and scary BYOD ramifications

Also inside: Samsung's record earnings, Google's sluggishness, and enterprise tablet strategies
by George Jones
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Ubiquitous Wi-Fi is coming for tablets, but security issues must be addressed

Ubiquitous Wi-Fi will emerge around the globe, but Wi-Fi and cellular players need to come together, and security issues need to be tackled.
by Steve Shaw
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The top 5 most frequent mistakes in enterprise iPad rollouts

The road to a successful iPad rollout needn’t be long or bumpy.
by Jordan Stolper
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Tablets in the enterprise: How to enable and empower your mobile sales force

With tablet sales rapidly eclipsing PCs, it's time to ask the question: How can your mobile sales representatives best use them?
by Brendan Cournoyer
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Generation Z aren’t pushing tablets in enterprise, but they might be in future

You’ve undoubtedly heard that Generation Z (16-24 years old) are leading us into the digital age, flinging smartphones and tablets left, right and center. But is that view really true when it comes down to business?
by Doug Drinkwater
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Three important issues to address when devising BYOD policy for tablets and smartphones

How will your organization counter the inevitable friction resulting from securing personally-owned devices?
by Alan Brill
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How the BYOD trend is perpetuating Advanced Persistent Threats

All corporate mobile device management should include 9 fundamental security-enhancing features.
by Don DeBolt
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This Week in Tablets: Apple and Amazon’s proxy war, plus Windows 8

Also inside: First Windows 8 hardware details for Intel-based tablets, and Paper’s phenomenal App Store success.
by George Jones
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Apple digs in against the government’s ebook lawsuit - impact on consumers is far from clear

Technology and legal analysts are divided over whether Apple and its codefendant publishers will successfully defend themselves against the government’s charge that they colluded to raise eBook prices.
by David Needle
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Is iPad the Goldilocks of tablets, or is Apple just complacent?

Things are really starting to get interesting in tablet hardware once you venture outside of the iPad.
by David Needle
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Enterprise beware: Rein in your roaming, or suffer the consequences

As ridiculous as it sounds, a $75,000 roaming bill is a very real possibility in the age of 4G. Smart organizations will take steps to make sure this never happens.
by Dan Rudich
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Print Plus: How digital publishing is moving beyond eBooks and into the enterprise

With the explosive growth of tablet devices worldwide, the necessity for packaging content in a standard book format, along with the limitations in doing so, have effectively been eliminated.
by Ivan Dwyer
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This Week in Tablets: The secret inequity of app store pricing

Also inside: The cause of blurry text on the new iPad is…licensing?
by George Jones
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A stylish database for iPad? First impressions of FileMaker 12

Most database forms are rarely glamorous or good-looking, but that’s a view which Apple subsidiary FileMaker is hoping to change with its latest database software, FileMaker 12, which launched yesterday. Here's a closer look.
by Doug Drinkwater
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Six guiding principles for any organization considering tablets for their business

Is it possible to craft a tablet strategy that encompasses both BYOD and corporate provisioning, and also satisfies everyone?
by David Heit
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Tablets are making business deskphones a dying breed

The advent of tablet-based smartphones has some less-than-obvious implications for corporate telephony
by Todd Carothers
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This Week in Tablets: Why smart tablet makers are diversifying for the long haul

Also inside: RIM’s big loss, Dropbox’ continuing siege, and Microsoft’s tremendous upside with Windows 8.
by George Jones
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The new iPad is great, but there are plenty of ‘good enough’ tablet competitors

How does Apple's new iPad stack up against older tablets? Surprisingly well.
by Larry Magid
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Technology companies are completely misreading the value and significance of tablets

Technology companies that underestimate the significance of the touch-tablet revolution will suffer greatly.
by Ben Bajarin
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How tablets are fueling the democratization of video conferencing

This past year ushered in the era of mobile in unified communications, with the proliferation of front-facing camera tablets fueling the fire.
by Mariette Johnson Wharton
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The changing role of IT in the evolving mobile workforce

The rapid, widespread adoption of smartphones and tablets has undoubtedly changed the way we work today.
by Pat Lee
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This Week in Tablets: The new iPad plays great defense, but what about 4G providers?

Also inside: Toshiba drops a giant 13.3-inch TV tablet, and the cloud storage market continues to expand
by George Jones
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Tablets are coming to the fore for dual-screen TV viewing

London, England -- With market researchers and app developers long since convinced that the tablet is becoming the preferred second screen for TV viewers, TabTimes attended the TV Connect summit in London today to find out how tablets and television are meshing together one user experience.
by Doug Drinkwater
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Heavy lifting: How Duff Quarry used iPads and LogMeIn Ignition to upgrade its operations

Owner Ross Duff explains how his family's company overhauled its productivity using state-of-the-art machinery and iPads.
by Ross Duff
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The new iPad's Retina Display has no equal, but there's still room for improvement

Much has been made of the new iPad's Retina Display, but how does it hold up in lab tests? Very well, with some interesting ramifications for professionals.
by Raymond Soneira
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BYOD vs. company deployment: Why you don’t have to choose anymore

When combined with good policy-making, mobile application management offers an efficient escape from the BYOD/corporate trajectory.
by Chad Udell
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This Week in Tablets: The iPad effect is real, and so is the Dropbox problem

Also inside: Android can’t lose despite its OS fragmentation, and the BlackBerry PlayBook doesn't appear to be able to win
by George Jones
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Why the latest iPad forecasts are wrong

Colin Crawford sees holes in the research company's latest reforecast of worldwide tablet market share.
by Colin Crawford
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Why I'm disappointed in Apple's new iPad

Presentations specialist Rick Altman explains that while the new iPad is gorgeous, it's useless for the presentation community.
by Rick Altman
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Going deep: What's in the new iPad's Retina Display technology and why?

Display expert Raymond Soneira answers these thorny questions, and explains why Apple's Retina Display isn't technically accurate for the iPad, even if the results are glorious.
by Raymond Soneira
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Apple's new iPad: Everybody wins, except maybe the other guys

What are the broader implications of this Friday's highly anticipated release for business? For developers? For the competition?
by Ray Aguilera
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One bad way (and four good ones) to access your documents on your tablet

Now that you have badgered your boss into letting you expense an iPad for “work purposes” and you are ready to get productive, I have one thing to ask of you:
by Todd Barr
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Why your company should be preparing for the new iPad—even if you’re not buying

Apple's new iPad may have some unintended consequences for the enterprise.
by Michael Dortch
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This Week in Tablets: OnLive gets busted, media matters, and Apple's iPad stunner

Also inside: The Economist's big winner, and why no one ultimately loses when Apple sells out of iPads.
by George Jones
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Why Apple's nameless 'new' iPad makes a lot of sense

Amid all the news at Apple’s iPad launch party on Wednesday, there was some confusion over the lack of a new name. Here's how it could impact the tablet market.
by Doug Drinkwater
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The new iPad is more of the same -- and that’s bad news for tablet competitors

Apple didn’t name it an iPad 3 or an iPad HD, but went with the name perhaps it thought everyone was going to say after the device was released anyway, as in: “Have you heard about the new iPad?"
by David Needle
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Top 5 ways the new iPad will impact business

Apple didn't talk business very much in today's announcement of The New iPad. But it's clear that the business customers are a key target.
by Ben Bajarin
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Eight ways the iPad HD could transform today's tablet market

Apple's iPad HD looks likely to have a profound impact on consumers worldwide. But what impact will it have on today's tablet market?
by Doug Drinkwater
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Todd Barr: You will feel tablet buyer’s remorse - here’s a three-step cure

What happens after the shine wears off of your company's new work tablets? For smart organizations, a whole lot.
by Todd Barr
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This Week in Tablets: iPad 3 clarification, Windows 8, and a great move by Condé Nast

Despite the fact that numerous new tablets were announced at Mobile World Congress 2012, Apple and Microsoft continue to dominate the headlines.
by George Jones
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The 9 most important tablet trends and topics from Mobile World Congress 2012

This year, MWC was dominated by new smartphones, tablets, and lots of talk about ‘paradigm shifts’ to cloud computing, BYOD and HTML5 web-apps. But what were the main tablet trends, and who emerged from the Barcelona show with their reputation intact?
by Doug Drinkwater
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5 Tablet-driven challenges facing enterprises in 2012

What keeps you up at night? BYOD? Security? Windows? All of the above?
by Michael Dortch

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