Best iPhone, iPad Business Apps for 2014

	Gartner: Microsoft sells more tablets in 2013, still lags far behind Android, iOS | Samsung tops in Android enterprise usage
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	Best iPhone, iPad Business Apps for 2014 Looking for iPhone and iPad business apps that can boost your productivity? These 12 lesser-known iOS downloads will help extend your mobile display to a desktop, schedule social-media updates, scan documents and much more. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Open Business Conference Attend the Open Business Conference May 5-6 and discover... How tools for leveraging data have opened up almost completely. From Hadoop to Open Stack to NoSQL and technologies like MongoDB, never have so many powerful technologies been available to so many. As Big Data matures, these tools are becoming increasingly accessible. Register and attend May 5-6, 2014, The Palace Hotel, San Francisco. Click to continue In this Issue Gartner: Microsoft sells more tablets in 2013, still lags far behind Android, iOS Samsung tops in Android enterprise usage 12 terrific techie TED talks 4 Ways Businesses Use Free Wi-Fi to Better Serve Customers iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending Feb. 28 Your turn, HTC: Why the M8 could be company's swan song Mobile Emergency Response App Keeps College Ready for Crisis Shrinking microcontrollers, means smaller wearable computers Boeing's new smartphone will self-destruct in 3…2… US House passes bill allowing mobile phone unlocking 10 attempts to reinvent the world that flopped WHITE PAPER: Collaborative Consulting Driving BPM Success Requires the Right People BPM is vital for businesses to improve and optimize their core processes. Too often, the "people" aspect is neglected, causing critical aspects of the BPM program to fail or underperform. By ensuring a "people" focus and using some specific people-oriented analysis techniques, program managers can help ensure success in their BPM efforts. Learn More Gartner: Microsoft sells more tablets in 2013, still lags far behind Android, iOS Microsoft sold more than double the tablets last year than it did the year before but still wound up with just 2.1% of total sales, according to Gartner. Read More Samsung tops in Android enterprise usage More than half of Android devices being used in the enterprise are made by Samsung, according to a report from mobile device management company Fiberlink that surveyed more than 250,000 devices worldwide. Read More 12 terrific techie TED talks The true meaning behind 404 pages, an optimistic George Orwell & more Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Software The Future of IT: A Customer First Approach Explore how customer-first policies can make use of social, mobile and cloud technologies to give workers the freedom and flexibility they desire to drive company productivity. Learn More. 4 Ways Businesses Use Free Wi-Fi to Better Serve Customers Wi-Fi is largely a given in today's homes and office buildings. Increasingly, though, retailers, schools and specialty shops are getting into the mix. Here four firms discuss the philosophy behind their free Wi-Fi. Read More iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending Feb. 28 The iOSphere's imagination was fired up this week by the prospect that iPhone 6 will plunge users into the exciting world of both nano crystals and quantum stuff. Read More Your turn, HTC: Why the M8 could be company's swan song The HTC One was one of the best-reviewed smartphones of 2013, garnering numerous accolades and winning a number of awards, including the MWC Smartphone of the Year. But it didn't really do much to raise the sinking trajectory of its manufacturer – who's now teetering on the brink of irrelevance. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Streamline Data Protection with Storage Manager IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) has been an industry-standard data protection solution for two decades. But, where most competitors focus exclusively on Backup and Restore, TSM is a far more comprehensive data-protection solution. Read Now Mobile Emergency Response App Keeps College Ready for Crisis A mobile app for smartphones and tablets delivers step-by-step procedures for responding to incidents from hurricanes to on-campus shooters, serving as Cliffs Notes for Miami-Dade College faculty and staff facing crisis situations. Read More Shrinking microcontrollers, means smaller wearable computers If you want a wearable Internet of Things, the electronics have to be as small and as energy efficient as possible. That's why a new microcontroller by Freescale Semiconductor is notable. Read More Boeing's new smartphone will self-destruct in 3…2… Aerospace and defense company Boeing this week rolled out the Boeing Black – a heavily secured Android smartphone designed for use by the U.S. military and intelligence agencies, which – no kidding – will essentially self-destruct if tampered with. Read More US House passes bill allowing mobile phone unlocking The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill that would allow mobile phone users to unlock their devices and switch carriers, overriding a 2013 decision by the Library of Congress to make the practice illegal. Read More 10 attempts to reinvent the world that flopped Every startup founder dreams of changing the world, and sometimes it works. But more often, even the best ideas run into resistance and obstacles from unexpected sources. Read More
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