Features

• iPad in the Enterprise: A videoconferencing dream machine?

  By Tom Kaneshige | 10 April, 2012 08:09

  Three IT workers with iPads gathered around a whiteboard in a conference room in Boston to figure out how to improve a long-standing technical service- and running into more questions than answers.

• BlackBerry PlayBook hands-on

  By Rosemary Hattersley | 15 February, 2011 06:01

  The BlackBerry PlayBook is nearing its final build with fully working tablets on public show at Mobile World Congress and one stand representative going so far as to refer to a PlayBook as "my own". All that's left, we're told, is battery optimisation - something that's actively being worked on.

• Can you manage an iPhone like a BlackBerry?

  By Doug Dineley | 23 June, 2009 20:33

  Users love the iPhone, but IT does not. The biggest complaints: The iPhone can't be managed for security and access policies like a BlackBerry can. Businesses can buy a BlackBerry Enterprise Server or Motorola Good for Enterprise server to manage user profiles over the air, ensuring that users conform to password policies, encryption policies, app-installation restrictions, and so on, as well as have their e-mail, VPN, and other settings preconfigured to reduce hands-on deployment effort.

• The importance of browsers for business

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 27 May, 2009 15:53

  Organisations have traditionally devoted minimum attention to Web browsers on users’ PCs, but IT departments are finding they need to change that hands-off strategy.