The Tablet Wars – Begun they have.

http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/171472/amazon-app-store-on-fire.html
What I think this means: With the recent huge success of Amazon’s app store we are seeing some new emerging trends. The first is that the Apple app store has a real contender on there hands. The success of the Amazon app store also represents a threat to Android and Google. (this despite the fact that Amazon Kindle Fire uses a re-skinned Android operating system.)

Advertising believes in mobility.

Great Story for the app industry!
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/170690/ipg-mobile-key-to-agency-growth.html?edition=44802

Great story on top Industries affected by new iPad.

Great story on top business’s effected by new iPad!

http://tabtimes.com/feature/ittech-tablets/2012/03/08/8-industries-will-benefit-most-apples-new-ipad

(Snapshot)
The addition of the 5MP iSight camera is big news for construction workers, who will now be able to take the iPad onsite and take pictures and videos of work done, work to be continued, or to file reports on general building inventory.

Plus, with iCloud integration and the availability of apps like Vela, Dropbox, Box and Evernote, the user should be able to feed these results back to the office in just a few minutes.

So iPad 3 came out yesterday, what is the feedback looking like?

Ok so first things first – everyone is raving about the higher resolution. What’s not to like when it comes to that? What else do we know? Well it also has a faster chipset, and it does not have the rumored SD Chip slot. So what is the most important thing about it – in my estimation? Well it WILL WORK on 4G LTE networks! So for you road warriors that depend on the iPad life just got a little better!

for more details I suggest you look here:http://nvonews.com/2012/03/08/ipad-3-review-all-you-need-to-know-about-its-specs-price/

 

Solid article on industries adapting tablets fastest.

http://tabtimes.com/feature/deployment-strategy/2012/02/24/8-industries-and-professions-most-rapidly-impacted-tablets

Apple sold more iOS devices in 2011 than Macs in 28 years!

http://mashable.com/2012/02/17/apple-sold-ios-devices-2011/

Xanadoo is arriving in multiple markets – Wireless High Speed Internet.

You might want to check this out if you need an economical broadband solution and DSL is not the answer.

http://www.xanadoo.com/

I’m hoping my Dad in Springfield Illinois signs up soon.

It’s nice to have choices!

 

 

Mobility and Healthcare update

http://paper.li/jonneiditz/1314655675

My friend Jon Neiditz has a fine blog that addresses mobility, Check it out!

real life examples…

Suppose you are a green power company looking to increase efficiencies around energy audits? Sure you could send your workers out with clipboards and manually enter the information when they get back – but wouldn’t it be far more efficient if they had iPads with an ap that allows them to quickly input the data using drop down menus? What if you were a trucking company where the driver always had to get out of the truck as he filled grain in from a silo to be sure the load was evenly dispersed – but instead had an iPhone synching to a bluetooth camera that allowed him to efficiently and safely move his truck forward to be sure the load was correct? These are just a couple of examples of how smart use of iPhones and iPads can increase business efficiency in a cost effective way. I bet most of you have some ideas as well but do not have an internal team to build it. Bring Lextech your ideas and we can give you some ideas on what it would take – working together.