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iDevices, IT & business

Thursday, 23 February 2012

iPhones and iPads a big challenge to IT, maybe, but vital to business — A new survey from Symantec on mobile device use in business says we've reached a tipping point. 
The survey identified that not only are the numbers of mobile devices increasing, but so also are the tasks they perform. A dramatic number of companies are now seeing core business tasks being completed on mobile devices. That’s driving the need for companies to develop comprehensive mobile apps for access to corporate information systems.
The survey included responses from IT professionals in 6275 organizations in 43 countries. It also included a mix of enterprise companies and smaller businesses.

Clear recreated in pure HTML5 — The elegant, zen-minimalist to-do app for the iPhone released by Impending and Realmac Software doesn’t actually push the bar very far technically… which, as it turns out, makes it a fairly trivial feat to recreate in HTML5, reckons Cult of Mac.

Mountain Lion's threat to Android — Apple is bringing more of the iOS experience into OS X. And that’s bad for Android, writes Kevin C Tofel on GigaOm, and Android already started losing US market share to iOS last quarter.

Your iPhone is handmade — 141 human steps needed to assemble it, and that's what the video report on Foxconn revealed. 

Beatles' ringtones — The Fab Four (more like The Drab Two, these days) has just released the first ever batch of iTunes ringtones. Full list at Cult of Mac. [Taxman ...]

Twitter updated — Twitter has pushed out an update for Android and iOS, bringing back a few popular features as well as adding a couple of new ones. CoM has more.
Owners of the Kindle Fire will be happy to know that the Twitter app is now available via the Amazon App Store, and if you happen to own a Barnes & Noble NOOK Color or NOOK Tablet, you can expect to receive the app on February 23rd.