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The IT paradox: A diminished role in technology, but greater clout in the business

There is a paradox in the technology that IT employs and deploys. As it becomes easier to use and simpler to manage, it is actually increasing in complexity. And there is a paradox within this paradox concerning how IT relates to the business. More on that in a bit.

By Nicholas D. Evans | 08 May, 2012 00:08

Tags: salesforce.com, Mobile and Wireless, Management and Careers, internet, cloud computing, Apple

Smartphone screens are getting bigger

Smartphone screens are getting larger, although vendors will likely continue to offer many sizes to woo a wide variety of users.

By Matt Hamblen | 03 May, 2012 20:11

Tags: smartphones, Motorola, Mobile and Wireless, htc, hardware systems, hardware, consumer electronics, at&t, Apple

BYOD battle: A tale of two opposing IT viewpoints

EdSouth is a bank holding company active in the student-loan arena, and Arrow Container Corp. manufactures cartons and containers. Their ideas about letting employees use their own mobile devices at work for business — what's often called "Bring Your Own Device" (BYOD) — couldn't be more different.

By Ellen Messmer | 19 April, 2012 20:33

Tags: Android, Apple, Apple iOS; Android; iPhone; Pad, at&t, AT&T Enterproid Divide, Configuration / maintenance, consumer electronics, Data Center, hardware systems, iPhone, networking, pc, smartphones, wireless

Hot for this quarter: The best smartphones

Device manufacturers are starting to roll out some of their marquee smartphones in an effort to generate some buzz before Apple inevitably drops its newest iPhone this (northern) summer.

By Brad Reed | 19 April, 2012 08:45

Tags: Apple, consumer electronics, Evo 4G, Galaxy Nexus, htc, HTC Evo 4G LTE, HTC One X, networking, Nokia, Nokia Lumia, Nokia Lumia 900, Samsung Galaxy Nexus, smartphones, wireless

Open for business: It's the year of the corporate app store

With more employees using smartphones and tablets for business, enterprises are setting up their own app stores for application distribution, leveraging a consumer model for mobile application access that is tuned to the workplace. Instead of saddling already overburdened IT personnel with getting applications to individual devices, these app stores provide a central distribution mechanism for employees to download applications themselves.

By Paul Krill | 16 April, 2012 20:11

Tags: Apple, applications, consumerization of IT, Google, mobile apps, mobile technology, software

In depth: Nokia's great Windows Phone hope - Beauty without brawn

Nokia may sell more cellphones than any other company in the world, but it's been all but excluded from the United States for years -- and it's seen its global sales steadily shrink as the iPhone and Android smartphones have become the darlings of buyers in an increasing number of countries. Nokia's relevance has been fast receding, and its Symbian, Maemo, and MeeGo efforts became a pattern of failure for a company that just didn't get it. In response, a year ago, Nokia bet its future largely on Windows Phone 7, Microsoft's answer to Apple's iOS and Google's Android.

By Galen Gruman | 10 April, 2012 20:13

Tags: Apple, Computer Hardware, consumer electronics, consumerization of IT, Google, Microsoft, mobile, Mobile OSes, mobile technology, Nokia, smartphones, symbian, Windows Phone

Case study: Designing 'iPad WLANs' poses new, renewed challenges

Complications that the influx of Apple iPads and iPhones bring to enterprise Wi-Fi networks and wireless LAN administrators are illustrated vividly at The Ottawa Hospital in Ontario.

By John Cox | 26 March, 2012 15:31

Tags: Apple, aruba, Aruba networks, enterprise wifi, enterprise WLAN, health care, iFixit, industry verticals, iPad deployment, meru, networking, Ottawa Hospital, wi-fi, wireless, wireless lans, WLANs, WLANs / Wi-Fi

'Siri, I have some some suggestions for you'

When Apple's new iPad was unveiled last week , one of the features users had hoped for didn't come with it. Siri, the voice-controlled personal assistant that's been such a hit on the iPhone 4S, wasn't among the tablet's new features. (Apple did add a dictation feature, but it has none of Siri's interactivity; all you can do is one-way dictation.)

By Michael deAgonia | 13 March, 2012 21:16

Tags: Apple, consumer electronics, Macintosh, Mobile and Wireless, Mobile Apps and Services, smartphones

FAQ: What you need to know now about the 'new iPad'

Yesterday, Apple pulled off the wraps from the new iPad -- yes, that's the official name -- and spent more than an hour on a San Francisco stage touting what's changed, like the screen, and what hasn't, like the price.

By Gregg Keizer | 09 March, 2012 08:00

Tags: Apple, at&t, Macintosh, Mobile and Wireless, Mobile Apps and Services, networking, wireless, wireless networking

I dumped my iPhone 4 for the Android Galaxy Nexus

I like a lot of things about my iPhone 4. For starters, the whole "antennagate" thing was overblown. Lots of phones drop bars if you grip them a certain way while in a weak signal area. (My new Galaxy Nexus does.) And although I live in a dead zone for both AT&T and Verizon, right out of the box my AT&T iPhone 4 got noticeably better reception than my original iPhone. A simple iPhone 4 case prevented any loss of signal reception due to hand shielding.

By Scot Finnie | 02 March, 2012 21:54

Tags: Apple, at&t, consumer electronics, Macintosh, Microsoft, mobile, Mobile Apps and Services, Mobile OSes, smartphones

FAQ: What's what in OS X Mountain Lion?

Last week, Apple took most Mac users by surprise when it released a developers preview of Mountain Lion, the company's newest desktop operating system, and announced it would ship the upgrade later this year.

By Gregg Keizer | 20 February, 2012 22:15

Tags: Apple, Macintosh, Mac OS, operating systems, software

OS X Mountain Lion: A big cat for business?

Apple surprised the tech world by unveiling a developer preview of OS X Mountain Lion, the next generation of its desktop operating system set to ship this summer - just a year after OS X 10.7 Lion arrived.

By Ryan Faas | 19 February, 2012 09:13

Tags: Apple, cloud computing, internet, Macintosh, Mac OS, mobile, Mobile Apps and Services, Mobile OSes, operating systems, software

Analysis: Will this be the year of Apple in the enterprise?

Apple has never been considered an enterprise technology company, but it owns a significant share of the mobile enterprise market, largely due to the success of the iPhone, iPad and MacBook Air.

By Ryan Faas | 01 February, 2012 02:49

Tags: Apple, hardware systems, Mac OS, operating systems, software

Dig deep into Lion: The best overlooked, underrated features

Apple billed this summer's release of Mac OS X Lion as having more than 200 new features, but most coverage of Lion in the intervening months has focused on only a handful of them. While iOS-like navigation and app-launching interfaces, autosave/restore capabilities, AirDrop file sharing and an emergency restore partition are by all means important, there are a lot of helpful tweaks and enhancements that can easily be missed.

By Ryan Faas | 28 January, 2012 10:52

Tags: Apple, Mac OS, operating systems, software

In depth: Apple's new vision of education

Apple has made it clear that one of the next industries it hopes to disrupt and reinvent is education. It's an arena the company has a long history of working with: schools have been one of Apple's biggest market since the days of the Apple II.

By Ryan Faas | 24 January, 2012 02:35

Tags: Apple, hardware systems, iPad, tablets

What smartphones will be like in 2012

Since the advent of the first modern smartphone--arguably the original Apple iPhone in 2007--the power of these mobile computing devices that also happen to make phone calls has advanced by leaps and bounds.

By Jared Newman | 12 November, 2011 01:31

Tags: Android, Apple, apple iphone, batteries, Batteries / fuel cells, Components, consumer electronics, Google, htc, iPhone 4S, Micro Express, mobile, Mobile OSes, nvidia, Phones, qualcomm, samsung, Siri, smartphones, t-mobile, verimotorola, Windows Phone

iPhone 4S 'meets every expectation, and then some'

On Friday, Apple's new iPhone 4S began to reach the hands of eager buyers -- a record 1 million pre-orders, including mine, were made as soon as the phone went on sale. With a noticeably faster dual-core A5 processor, more storage (up to 64GB), an improved 8-megapixel camera, a revamped antenna design and an artificial intelligence-powered assistant called Siri, the new iPhone promised to be the best Apple phone yet.

By Michael deAgonia | 19 October, 2011 01:26

Tags: Apple, consumer electronics, iPhone, smartphones

Mobile deathmatch: Apple iOS 5 vs. Google Android OS

After months of hype, Apple has released iOS 5 for current iPhone 3G S and 4 owners, for iPad and iPad 2 owners, and for third- and fourth-generation iPod Touch owners. But the fact is that iOS doesn't exist in isolation. It competes with Google's Android OS, and the group of smartphones running Android now significantly outsells the iPhone. (It's a different story in tablets, where the iPad is trouncing everyone, including Android.)

By Galen Gruman | 13 October, 2011 06:24

Tags: Android, Apple, applications, Google, iOS, mobile, Mobile OSes, Telecommunication

Apple and Samsung: What's behind the patent fight

Samsung took a step toward finding a kind of "pax tabletica" with arch-foe Apple in an Australian court last week, offering to remove features from its Galaxy Tab to avoid a court ban on sales of the device in that country. But what's really interesting about the case isn't the technical litigation, but the underlying attempt to define how much of a product's design is actually protected under existing, fragmented international laws.

By Jonny Evans | 06 October, 2011 05:45

Tags: Apple, consumer electronics, hardware systems, intellectual property, legal, patent, Samsung Electronics, smartphones, tablets

Apple iPad 2 vs Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet: Tablet showdown

Apple's iPad 2 may be flying off the shelves, but the launch of the Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet (available in September) makes for an interesting battle. Though it's yet another Android tablet, the Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet is one of the first that will be targeted directly at business and corporate users.

By Ross Catanzariti | 23 August, 2011 15:35

Tags: Android tablets, Apple, Apple iPad 2, iPad 2, Lenovo, Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet, tablets

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