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F-16 pilots may soon be using small Windows 8 tablets in flight

How New York drivers are using mobile apps to disrupt the taxi business | Salesforce encourages an "app renaissance" with updated tools

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August 01, 2013

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F-16 pilots may soon be using small Windows 8 tablets in flight

The smaller 8-inch Windows tablets were chosen for the project because of their size and security advantages over iPads inside cramped F-16 fighter cabins.

How New York drivers are using mobile apps to disrupt the taxi business

Future Cab -- a grassroots, six-year-old Brooklyn-based venture -- is taking advantage of cloud tools, mobility, and BYOD to help cab drivers in New York City and across the country get out from under restrictive oversight, make a little more money, and help people get where they're going.

Salesforce encourages an "app renaissance" with updated tools

The archetypal Renaissance man Leonardo Da Vinci was an artist, a scientist, and an engineer, and today's app developers need to have all those skills to build what Salesforce calls "micro-moment apps" that focus on specific needs and tasks. That's why Salesforce has added a set of mobile templates to its development platform.

Chromecast has definite business potential, but it's no Apple TV

Google's latest attempt to capture the connected TV market has lots of promise in both the living room and the conference room or classroom. For enterprise and education settings, however, Apple TV's IT-friendly management capabilities and broader sources of content mean Apple's "hobby" a serious major lead on Chromecast.

Apple: From innovation to segmentation

Remember in the 1990s when Apple had all those different models of Mac? The latest reports suggest the company is about to do the same thing with the iPhone.

The fastest-growing tech companies are in the cloud

Pure cloud vendors are growing faster than the tech industry at large, and the spending has only just begun, according to stats compiled by venture capital firm Bessemer Venture Partners.

Shift to corporate-owned tablets could knock the iPad off its perch

A survey of 270 companies found that corporate-issued tablets will grow at an average annual growth rate of 64 percent over the next three years, compared to 31 percent for BYOD tablets. The shift could spell opportunity for Android and Windows tablets.

Employees actually applauded when this collaboration product was introduced

In the past, employees at the Children's Hospital Foundation communicated ineffectively through shared drives and digital file folders. Now they work together using Igloo's cloud-based intranet.