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WiebeTech Drive eRazer Ultra provides super-secure drive wiping

by Steven Sande (Feb 7th, 2012)

For Mac repair shops, enterprise tech support teams, and consultants who need to wipe all data off of hard drives before selling or recycling old Macs, there's now a fast way to erase those drives without tying up a machine for a long time. WiebeTech has a new device called the Drive eRazer Ultra ...

Halliburton dumping BlackBerry, switching to iOS

by Chris Rawson (Feb 6th, 2012)

RIM's star just sank a bit closer to the horizon. Halliburton, a household name in the energy industry and once a BlackBerry bastion, is dumping RIM's platform and switching to iOS. The company once relied heavily on RIM's platform, but after evaluating RIM, Windows Phone, Android, and iOS, ...

Other World Computing at Macworld iWorld 2012

by Steven Sande (Jan 27th, 2012)

If there's one company at Macworld | iWorld 2012 that epitomizes the leading edge of Apple accessories, it's Other World Computing (OWC). At this year's event, the company is showcasing a number of new or soon-to-be-released products for Mac and iPad. In the Mac realm, OWC is about to release two ...

Good Technology report shows Apple still dominates enterprise activations

by Chris Rawson (Jan 26th, 2012)

Good Technology's quarterly report on device activation statistics among its Fortune 500 clients has been released. Just like previous quarters, the results show a marked dominance of iOS device activations in enterprise environments. In the consumer arena, Android has been running away with the ...

How the iPad is succeeding in healthcare

by Mike Schramm (Dec 5th, 2011)

Wired has posted a profile of one Afshad Mistri, an Apple employee whose goal is quite focused. As the medical market manager, he's tasked with connecting medical professionals and Apple's technology. Mistri couldn't chat with Wired for the article itself (Apple's less-than-press-friendly ...

Dear Aunt TUAW: Does Siri work well in the office?

by Erica Sadun (Nov 22nd, 2011)

Dear Aunt TUAW, I am still debating about updating to an iphone 4s from an iphone 4. As someone overwhelmed at work (corporate life). I was wondering if there has been feedback on how someone has been using the iphone 4s' Siri function on a day to day basis at work to help stay organized? I ...

NYT: Cook may be more enterprise-friendly than Jobs was

by Steven Sande (Nov 15th, 2011)

Tim Cook may not be the charismatic Apple CEO that the late Steve Jobs was, but at least to the business world, he's much more apt to meet and work with the chief information officers (C.I.O.'s) at enterprises than his predecessor ever was. The New York Times reported today that Cook is ...

Forrester does a 180 on Macs in enterprise, finds most productive staffers are Mac users

by Mel Martin (Oct 27th, 2011)

I'll bet a lot of us have fought the Mac wars in our own companies. I won some, I lost some, so it's especially gratifying to see Forrester Research urging IT to get over itself and enthusiastically support Macs in the enterprise. A new report from the research company, authored by senior ...

Q3 enterprise adoption: iPhone slips, Android gains, iPad owns the tablet space

by Michael Rose (Oct 20th, 2011)

Along with Apple's quarterly results earlier this week, there's another report hitting today that covers a growing segment of the mobile device market: Good Technology's roundup of device activation statistics, compiled from the company's range of Fortune 500 clients that use Good's service to ...

'Bring your own device' programs give Apple a boost in the enterprise

by Michael Rose (Sep 25th, 2011)

Programs that offer corporate some latitude and personal discretion in their technology choices are growing, said the NYT on Friday, and while the relaxing of IT standards mandates means there are plenty of market losers (HP, Dell, Lenovo, RIM and other enterprise-centric vendors), there's one big ...

OS X Lion accepts any LDAP password, creates enterprise network nightmare

by Steven Sande (Aug 29th, 2011)

There's nothing more frightening to a network administrator than to have a potential security hole that can open a network to attacks from outside. Unfortunately, the latest incarnation of Mac OS X -- Lion -- reportedly has a major security issue related to Lightweight Directory Access Protocol ...

Tech support for iPhone is cheaper than BlackBerry, Android

by Chris Rawson (Aug 11th, 2011)

Research into IT administration has already shown that Macs are cheaper to manage than PCs. According to analytics firm ClickFox, the same is true of the iPhone versus its competitors. InfoWorld reports that ClickFox found the iPhone requires far less tech support from the carriers than phones ...

The iPad's incredible effect on the PC industry is only beginning

by Chris Rawson (Jul 27th, 2011)

We already know based on Apple's latest quarterly earnings report that the iPad is pretty much eating the PC industry's lunch. Writing for Forbes, Bob Evans points out that as impressive as the iPad's effect on the industry has been thus far, we've only begun to see the sea change Apple's ...

Good Technology reports blowout quarter for iPhone 4, iPad 2

by Chris Rawson (Jul 21st, 2011)

Good Technology's latest report on enterprise deployment of mobile devices shows that iOS device activations continue to dominate the enterprise sector. Last quarter, iOS devices accounted for just under 70 percent of device activations, with the iPhone retaking the lead from Android ...

Parallels introduces Enterprise Edition for easy deployment

by Steven Sande (Jul 11th, 2011)

Parallels has announced Parallels Desktop 6 for Mac Enterprise Edition, giving IT departments a configurable, policy compliant Windows-on-Mac solution. Corporate IT departments can pre-configure deployments of Parallels Desktop 6 for Mac Enterprise Edition, allowing them to enforce change ...