Features

• Review: Apple iPad (third-generation)

  By Ross Catanzariti | 19 March, 2012 15:40

  Apple's new iPad is an incremental upgrade rather than a revolutionary one.

• Your guide to the new iPad

  By Ross Catanzariti | 08 March, 2012 14:34

  Apple's new iPad has been unveiled. It is worth your hard earned dollars? Let's find out.

• How the iPad will change IT forever

  By Nathan Clevenger | 03 August, 2011 02:01

  When evaluating the adoption of mobile enterprise applications, it's important to understand the overall trends driving the adoption of the iPad within the enterprise. As I worked on the book, iPad in the Enterprise: Developing and Deploying Business Applications, I spoke to, interviewed, and received feedback from dozens of technology authors, industry analysts, enterprise software executives, Fortune 1000 CIOs, and other visionaries of enterprise IT. I felt that the best way to explore this concept was to hear from those industry leaders directly.

• Apple iOS: Why it's the most secure OS, period

  By Robert Lemos | 06 June, 2011 20:04

  In June 2007, Apple released the iPhone, and the device quickly took off to become a major brand in the smartphone market. Yet when the iPhone shipped, security on the mobile operating system was nearly nonexistent. Missing from the initial iOS (then called iPhone OS) were many of the security features that modern-day desktop software has as a matter of course, such as data-execution protection (DEP) and address-space layout randomization (ASLR). Apple's cachet lured security researchers to test the platform, and in less than a month, a trio had released details on the first vulnerability: an exploitable flaw in the mobile Safari browser.

• Why Apple's iPad 2 will be another hit

  By Michael deAgonia | 08 March, 2011 04:26

  Apple's iPad 2, unveiled by CEO Steve Jobs in a surprise appearance Wednesday at an invitation-only media event, is thinner, lighter, faster and more full-featured, and incorporates enough changes and updates to maintain Apple's strong sales in the tablet market.

• Motorola Xoom: To buy or not to buy?

  By JR Raphael | 24 February, 2011 01:59

  To buy or not to buy? That's the question right now as the Motorola Xoom, Google's first Android Honeycomb tablet, gets ready to make its grand debut.

• iPad 2 and iPhone 5: What's coming?

  By Tom Kaneshige | 03 February, 2011 05:01

  Kyle Wiens and his team at iFixit, a Web site that provides free repair manuals and advice forums, are some of the smartest Apple geeks around. They've taken apart countless iPhones, Macs and iPads to see what makes them tick-and, of course, to find out how to repair them.

• iPads garner favour in Australian education

  By Jenna Pitcher | 22 September, 2010 15:30

  Schools and universities right around Australia had jumped headfirst into trials of Apple's hyped iPad tablet as they rush to discover exactly what the device's use will be in the educational field — sometimes with the support of their overarching education departments, and sometimes without.

• Tablets: Real and rumored

  By Brad Reed | 31 August, 2010 16:33

  With more than a million units sold in its first month, it's pretty clear that Apple's iPad touchscreen tablet has been a success so far.

• Nine real iPad alternatives

  By Howard Wen | 04 August, 2010 10:05

  Even since Apple released its "magical and revolutionary" iPad, other vendors have been scrambling to deliver products that go Apple one better.

• Healthcare IT Dilemma: iPad Lust Meets Software Reality

  By Kevin Fogarty | 12 February, 2010 08:02

  In addition to being a top priority for legislators and the press, healthcare has become a major target for IT vendors. Driven by economic pressures that force hospitals to merge and consolidate, regulations that force better documentation and security, and legislation that may fundamentally change the industry's business models, healthcare companies will spend more on technology this year than any other type of company, according to a study released Jan. 31 by Enterprise Strategy Group.

• Will iPad Invade Enterprise as Quickly as iPhone Did?

  By Tom Kaneshige | 05 February, 2010 05:12

  Remember all the smug IT guys who scoffed at the iPhone-even forbade users to bring iPhones into work? Yeah, the iPad's going to give them a jolt too, says Mort Rosenthal, a tech sales vet who says the iPad will be a big hit, coming into enterprises through the front door and back door, much like the iPhone did.