iPad at Work

iPad at Work: In My Hometown, Austin

by Patrick Jordan January 31, 2012

Image Source: Destination360.com The City of Austin is putting a ‘fleet of iPads’ and the FileMaker Go app to work to help streamline exhibitors management at the Austin Convention Center. As Apple Insider reports, the city has been able to deploy specialized apps based on the FileMaker database software … … Austin’s database administrator Jeff [...]

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iPad at Work: Huge Rollouts at SAP and Genentech

by Patrick Jordan January 17, 2012

One of my favorite blogs to follow is UberMobile, run by Eric Lai – as it covers lots of interesting topics around mobile technology in the enterprise. It offers a great look at how mobile tech (both hardware and mobile apps) are being put to use in enterprise environments. Two recent posts at UberMobile caught [...]

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iPad at Work: at Lebron James’ New Clothing Store

by Patrick Jordan January 6, 2012

Looks like the iPad has decided to take its talents to South Beach. Well, Lebron James has decided to make use of its talents in his new hometown that is. No less than 45 iPads are being used in Lebron James’ new ‘Unknwn’ store at the Aventura Mall in South Florida. Unknwn is James’ ‘interactive [...]

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iPad at Work: Showing Its Versatility in Hospitals

by Patrick Jordan January 2, 2012

Hospitals around the world are yet another area where the iPad is seeing increasing use. As Apple Insider reports, the range of use for the iPad in hospitals is also expanding. What strikes me about their report is the number of different uses being found for the iPad – by nurses, doctors, and now patients [...]

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iPad at Work: with a Custom App for the UK’s Prime Minister

by Patrick Jordan December 28, 2011

We’ve known for a long time that the UK”s Prime Minister, David Cameron, is an iPad user. Now it looks like he’s set to be getting even more job-related use out of it. TUAW reports today that a custom iPad app is being written for the Prime Minister. The app, which is being developed in-house [...]

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iPad at Work: on the High Seas with Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines

by Patrick Jordan November 25, 2011

We already know that the iPad is being widely adopted by commercial airlines, for use as an electronic flightbag and other purposes in the cockpit. Now it looks as if it may also soon rule the waves. This week Royal Caribbean International, one of the world’s largest cruise ship lines, has announced that they will [...]

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iPad at Work – Replacing MacBook Pros at Apple Store Genius Bars

by Patrick Jordan November 13, 2011

This sounds like a great new job for iPads. According to a report this weekend at 9to5Mac, iPad are set to be replacing MacBook Pros soon at at least some Apple retail stores. Apple Store Geniuses currently use these MacBook Pros to access a piece of software called GCRM. This software allows Apple Store Geniuses [...]

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Jailbroken iPad at Work – at a Lexus Dealership

by Patrick Jordan September 18, 2011

Here’s an iPad at Work story you don’t see very often – a jailbroken iPad in use at a Lexus dealership in Florida. These photos, courtesy of ModMyi forum member Auntuell Mills, show an iPad with Cydia installed in use at an ‘iPad Station’ for waiting customers. I wonder how many of those Lexus customers [...]

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iPad at Work: Making Performance Enhancement in Baseball All About Information, Not Steroids

by Patrick Jordan August 31, 2011

According to a recent article at ESPN.com baseball is well and truly past its Steroid Age and is firmly into its Information Age. And the iPad is playing a starring role in this new age for the national pastime. Here’s a line even I didn’t expect to see when reading the article: • All of [...]

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iPad at Work: for the NFL’s Tampa Bay Bucs

by Patrick Jordan August 25, 2011

Who are the 90 iPad users you would least like to argue with? Odd question right? Well here’s the answer: The coaching staff of the National Football League’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers has equipped every one of their 90 players with an iPad 2 to view playbooks and watch videos. I’m thinking if any of those [...]

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iPad at Work: iPad Rules the Skies for United, British Airways & Others

by Patrick Jordan August 23, 2011

The saying used to be ‘Britannia rules the waves’ – maybe it should now be ‘iPad rules the skies’. Just in the last week or so there are reports out detailing: – United Airlines’ plans to deploy 11,000 iPads to all pilots at United and Continental. United views the ‘paperless flight deck’ as ‘the next [...]

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