Ford replaces BlackBerry with Apple with 9,300 iPhones for staff

The winds of change are slowly and surely blowing through the corporate space as companies upgrading their systems are making choices on what mobile solutions to run. Ford has seemingly moved away from BlackBerry and has gone with Apple by deploying 9,300 iPhones for its employees for the next two years.

This is a huge commitment and a vote of confidence for iPhone following the announcement that Apple and IBM would be teaming up for an unprecedented mobile enterprise push.

Ford finds the iPhone secure and simple to use. "It meets the overall needs of the employees because it is able to serve both our business needs and a secure way and the needs we have in our personal lives with a single device," said Sara Tatchio, Ford's Manager for Integrated Global Communication. Enterprise is an area that BlackBerry owned but since its decline in popularity, Apple has become the logical choice for enterprise and corporations looking to provide acceptable and secure BYOD policies. 98% of the Fortune 500 are said to already be running on iOS and Apple expects to grow this even further.

Source: AppleInsider

Plantronics to share Insights on wearable tech for offices at Enterprise Connect 2014

Plantronics  announced that Joe Burton, CTO and SVP of Technology, Development and Strategy, and Cary Bran, senior director of Innovation and New Ventures will be speaking at Enterprise Connect 2014, on related topics that address the growing opportunity for businesses to leverage wearable technology in the enterprise.

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Review: Samsung Galaxy TabPRO 8.4

 

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Samsung’s  Galaxy TabPRO 8.4 is a business and enterprise-focused tablet that gives us a more premium look and feel and a simplified user experience that does away with Samsung’s earlier touchy-feely nature-focused paradigm into a refreshingly sober Magazine UX.

At first glance, the white Galaxy TabPRO 8.4 can be easily confused with any of the Samsung Galaxy Tabs from the years past. But once you get a closer look, you realize the shiny plastic and rounded edges has been redone to reflect the faux stitched leather look that Samsung has used on its more premium devices like the Note 3.

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First look at Samsung's TabPro and NotePro slates from CES 2014

It's no secret that Samsung is shooting for a big enterprise and BYOD play, it's KNOX security solution has been a huge part of recent model releases and now it has a bevy of 'Pro' focused tablets and notes that have a higher-spec than the consumer versions.

The TabPro models appear in 12.2-inch, 10.1-inch, and 8.4-inch sizes and are expected to come in both WiFi and LTE enabled versions. TouchWiz on these devices is running the new Magazine UX, which at first glance looks a lot like Windows 8. The NotePro slate comes in a 12.2-inch version and seems to be a variant of the TabPro. Is a business oriented Android tablet something that will excite the knowledge workers? That remains to be seen, but Samsung seems confident these are the tools pro users will want.

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Photos by Alex Davies - Shot with a Sony CyberShot RX10 courtesy of Sony Canada