As President Barack Obama digs into his second term in the White House, many are wondering what government information technology initiatives will take place over the next four years. If his track record and industry analyst predictions are any indication, we can look forward to a more mobile, cloud-based government ready to take advantage of …
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Rugged Tablets Enable ‘Third Platform’ Leap for Business
It’s true what they say about things coming in threes. In the tech industry, there is a lot of talk these days about the “third platform.” Many see computer users as being at a critical juncture in terms of how we interact with technology. The original, first platform was based on mainframes and terminals – think …
Insurance Adjusters Go Mobile
Today’s insurance agents and customers are demanding access to services via mobile devices—a demand that will only continue to grow. Mobile technology can streamline many facets of customer-company interactions; yet, insurers often buy wireless devices for the wrong reasons and deploy them ineffectively to the workforce. To deploy a mobile solution that will deliver a …
Wall Street Journal highlights the need to choose the right tablet for the job
Not all tablets are created equal. And as The Wall Street Journal highlights this week, many American companies are making big mistakes in taking a “one size fits all” approach to deploying tablets in the workplace.
In “Here Come Tablets. Here Come Problems,” reporter Shara Tibken takes a look at the spread of tablet computers in the enterprise, especially popular consumer-grade devices like the Apple iPad. She highlights some of the challenges companies are facing after rushing massive deployments to their workforce and failing to take into account some important factors, such as a comprehensive deployment and mobile device management strategy, device functionality and information security concerns. Crucially, many companies also are discovering the devices in which they’ve invested aren’t made to hold up to the real-world conditions their employees face.
Necessary Component to an Archaeologist’s Toolbox: Toughbook Computers
From high-altitude surveying in heat-stricken Nevada, to underwater excavation along the Jersey Shore, there’s no question that the work of an archaeologist requires constant digging and screening for artifacts in sometimes extreme environments.
Ginessa Mahar, a lab supervisor at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, and her team spend their time surveying sites with geophysical equipment and excavating 5000-year-old artifacts. The excavations can take weeks at a time. In one of her recent projects researching the Late Archaic period (3000 B.C. – 1000 B.C.) on St. Catherines Island, Mahar and her team detected fire pits, storage pits, living surfaces, subsurface ditches and mounds, and otherwise disturbed soils. These surveys allow the team to better understand the area, providing data about the site’s layout while helping to guide their excavations.
