Stories by Tom Kaneshige

Why one company is ditching sales laptops for iPads

In the next few months, Jeff Letasse, vice president of IT for Conceptus, will hand out more than 220 iPads to every salesperson in the company. He plans to wean them off of their trusty laptops and PDAs, with the hope of never having to buy another laptop for a salesperson again.

A small manufacturing company rolls out iPad: 3 tips

At Industrial Mold & Machine's 29,000 square foot manufacturing facility in Twinsburg, Ohio, a wall divided computer savvy office workers and shop floor workers unfamiliar with technology. Hence, communication between the two groups came in the form of e-mails sent from office computers to a handful of often-neglected PCs stationed around the shop floor.

Tablet wars: 3 reasons why iPad will prevail

Seriously, who bets against Apple in the tablet race? Maybe mobile tech giants such as RIM, Samsung and Dell, will, given that they're readying Blackberry and Android tablets to compete with the iPad, but not many others.

Mobile Wallet: Coming Soon?

For years, the dream of a U.S. mobile wallet was "just around the corner" only to be pushed back further down the road. Then came the iPhone, and the mobile wallet took form. Surely, the iPhone and its massive App Store would bring the mobile wallet to life.

6 Ways to Improve Your WiFi Network

Four out of five Cisco enterprise customers have to shore up their wireless networks, says Chris Kozup, director of mobility solutions marketing at Cisco. Many were caught unprepared to handle the sudden swell of mobile devices -- iPhones, Androids and now iPads -- during the last couple of years, he says.

4 Tips to Building a Better Wireless Network

More and more iPhones, iPads, BlackBerries, Droids, netbooks and even game consoles began appearing on Bryant & Stratton College's campuses--and CIO Ernest Lehman worried they'd lead to big trouble.

iPhone in the enterprise: 5 shortcomings

Sightings of iPhones and iPads inside companies are becoming more common, to the chagrin of those IT departments that prefer the enterprise-class features of the BlackBerry. One of the reasons: Apple has cleared some of the more daunting security hurdles, according to Forrester Research.

IBM unveils enterprise iPhone, social networking apps

Big Blue wants a piece of high-flying Apple, as well as a slice of the social networking craze. As Macworld Expo gets underway in San Francisco today, IBM unveiled enterprise-class social software for the iPhone and Mac.

Looking at a future without programming

A few years ago, self-proclaimed non-developer Kevin Smith worked for a software company that tried to build a project tracking tool using .Net. Some 15 developers spent a year with little success. "After burning though a million dollars and still without a product, the company called it quits," says Smith, who is now managing partner of NextWave Performance, a consultancy in Denver, Colorado.

Open source: what you can learn from the French

A decade ago, European countries leapt out of the gate to take the lead in the radical open source movement - none more so than France - and left US developers in the proverbial dust. Through policies and high-profile projects, the French Republic for years has been advocating for all open source all the time, in government and education.

Taking advantage of multicore PCs

Call it the great multicore discord: a parade of major hardware and software vendors promising desktop applications powered by multicore chips yet all marching out of step, leaving confused software developers in the dust -- but times are changing.

Can Google Apps move up market?

Although Google always seems to be up to something, the past few months have seen a flurry of activity in a space long associated with IT: Google has driven its cloud computing applications -- Google Apps -- into businesses.

Virtualisation's dirty little secrets

Everyone knows that server virtualisation shaves hardware clutter, boosts workloads, brings disaster recovery flexibility and slashes costs. But here's the dirty little secret: Many pitfalls await server virtualisation adopters.

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