Tablets

The trend of dual-screen TV viewing is coming, so to make sure you get the most out of your tablet while watching TV, TabTimes looks at the eight best iPad apps to use while watching your favorite programs.

If your organizational skills could use a little, ahem, enhancement, consider one of the below iPad applications to help you make it to the end of the day.

Sprint's 7-inch Android tablet is easy on the wallet. It won't dazzle you with cutting-edge features, but the Optik offers a solid Android experience at an affordable price. (Rating: 3 out of 5)

Apple has little to worry about when it comes to competition from Samsung's latest Android tablet, the Galaxy Tab 2 7.0, but Amazon ought to be thinking about how it can up its tablet game. (Rating 4 out of 5)

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With this new memory architecture, you won't have to load apps and data into memory any more—they will be executed right where they are stored.

IT departments can successfully manage a successful tablet deployment by following a four-step program that includes basing policy on the end-user.

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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.

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.

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.

Mobility provides agility by making a company’s systems and processes more intelligent, instrumented and interconnected than they have ever been before.

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.

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.

Also inside: Samsung's record earnings, Google's sluggishness, and enterprise tablet strategies

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?