Category Archives: smartphone

iPods are more acceptable than Facebook to IT chiefs

Despite more and more businesses using social media to market their goods and services themselves, IT Managers are more likely to let their staff use iPods and iPads at work than to use twitter or Facebook, according to the second … Continue reading

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The march of the Tablet

Forrester predicts that by the end of this year, Apple will have sold more than 13 million iPads and such is the unstoppable march of the tablet – 30 per cent of IT departments are now piloting or planning to … Continue reading

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Will mobility kill newspapers?

According to futurist Ross Dawson, by 2019 the traditional UK newspaper industry will be dead – just two years after the funeral is held for the US newspaper industry and 11 years ahead of the German newspaper industry’s death. The … Continue reading

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The Walkman is dead…. long live the pretender!

Sony confirmed today that the well-loved Walkman is finally dead and will no longer be produced. I was a little surprised to see that it was still being built if I’m honest, but it’s passing is a shame for those … Continue reading

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Collaboration on a Tablet scale?

About a third of all iPad owners have never downloaded an app for their device according to a study of 5000 users by research firm Nielsen. It found that 32% of the iPad owners it quizzed had never downloaded any … Continue reading

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Is flexibility to work where you want more important than salary?

More than 6 out of 10 people would take less money when starting a new job if it meant they were given flexibility to work wherever they wanted, according to the first Cisco Connected World Report 2010. Custom Market Research … Continue reading

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Are security concerns slowing the adoption of mobile workforces?

Security fears are the largest inhibitor of widespread adoption of mobile and distributed workforces in business, according to the Cisco Connected World Report 2010.  Custom Market Research questioned 1,303 people and 1,309 IT decision makers across 13 countries of the … Continue reading

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Look who’s calling…. Facebook?

Facebook and Skype are reportedly on the verge of announcing a strategic partnership that would allow users of the social networking site to send text messages and make internet telephone calls from their Facebook profile page. When you think about … Continue reading

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Hail the all conquering Smartphone?

By 2013, mobile phones will overtake PCs as the most common Web access device worldwide according to Gartner’s PC installed base forecast at the beginning of the year and looking around the average office you’d be hard pressed to disagree.  … Continue reading

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