IT solutions

News, stats, trends, reports and case studies about IT solutions for iPad and other tablet.

It’s no secret that today’s manufacturing landscape is in the midst of global upheaval. What may seem surprising to some is that the tablet is poised to become every smart manufacturer’s secret weapon in the battle to regain dominance and market share.

When Mark Rankin needs to review specifications and plans before a construction project starts, he doesn’t reach for a stack of blueprints, flip through a binder, or even wait for his laptop to boot up. He reaches for his iPad.

Who says you can’t teach businesses a new thing or two about streamlining costs using tablet computers? Executives at West Paw Design say deploying the iPad in their business allows them to innovate on their eco-friendly pet products while saving hundreds of thousands in operational costs each year.

System integrator Transoft expects an increasing number of companies to get their legacy systems to play nicer with their business mobile applications next year, but claims that many of these firms are still figuring out what to do with smartphones and tablets.

Airport food and beverage operator OTG has already deployed a thousand iPad-based kiosks at restaurants in New York’s JFK International and LaGuardia and plans to grow that number to 7,000 by the end of 2013 with additional deployments planned for Minneapolis-St. Paul International and Toronto Pearson International airports.

I just have one problem with the Note II …I don’t know what the hell it is.

The ‘bring-your-own-device’ trend for tablets in the enterprise is gaining popularity, but as Dimension Data subsidiary Xigo Networks explains, the pitfalls of such a scheme should not be overlooked.

Your email is out of control. Folders can help, but managing yet another filing system is cumbersome—and takes time. SaneBox automatically filters your messages, moving less important stuff to the side, and making sure your important messages stay front and center.

All corporate mobile device management should include 9 fundamental security-enhancing features.

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.

Is it possible to craft a tablet strategy that encompasses both BYOD and corporate provisioning, and also satisfies everyone?

Also inside: RIM’s big loss, Dropbox’ continuing siege, and Microsoft’s tremendous upside with Windows 8.

This past year ushered in the era of mobile in unified communications, with the proliferation of front-facing camera tablets fueling the fire.

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

The flood of Wi-Fi devices is choking wireless networks and consuming IT resources at schools, hospitals, hotels and business offices. Virtual wireless architectures are the answer.

Ultra mobile personal computers by companies like OQO were the vanguard of the on-demand enterprise. Tablets are the ultimate realization of this dream.

There are four important questions you should ask before your organization deploys tablets into its supply chain.

The market share leader for point-of-sale (POS) equipment sees tablets as complementary to retail checkout instead of a replacement.

Tablets are being deployed in the enterprise, but the usage of tablets hasn't really been big news to date. That's about to change.

Printing from your iPad just got much, much easier.

Academia is an enterprise, too, although it exhibits some markedly different characteristics.

The city of Austin’s Convention Center waves goodbye to over-sized, overstuffed paper binders by deploying iPads and developing custom apps with FileMaker Go.

DocScan HD is an ideal iPad 2 scanner for those looking to edit and upload images from their tablet to Dropbox and Evernote.

TabTimes spoke to Peter Marsh, EVP of Global Product Management at software provider Atex, to shed light on the firm’s Tablet Publishing suite, and to understand the current state of tablet advertising and news aggregation.

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - TabTimes is live from the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show, where tablet announcements are flowing thick and fast.

If you’re going to sell tablets to corporations, you should probably use them in your own organization. Verizon's solution enables both.