Archive for January, 2012
iPads For All: One Sales Team’s Story
Saturday, January 28th, 2012By Chris Murphy, InformationWeek Level 3 Communications just gave iPads to its 1,300 North American salespeople and sales engineers. IT didn’t take away their laptops, but it did load the iPads with software to do all the most important things in a salesperson’s life: offer price quotes, build and make presentations, send email, look up [...]
iPad dominates tablet market, but Android is closing fast
Friday, January 27th, 2012By Don Reisinger, CNET During the fourth quarter of 2011, 10.5 million Android-based tablets shipped worldwide, helping them secure 39.1 percent of the market. … For well over a year now, it has been believed that the iPad can fend off Android, due mainly to the general inability on the part of Apple’s competitors to [...]
Apple doesn’t fear Android tablet gains, but PC makers should
Thursday, January 26th, 2012By Darrell Etherington, GigaOm Compared to Android, Apple still has a dominant position in the tablet market, with a 57.6 percent share compared to Android’s 39.1 percent, according to Strategy Analytics’ most recent numbers. In terms of year over year growth, the tablet space has grown by 150 percent between the end of 2010 and [...]
Ownership of tablets, e-readers almost doubles in one month
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012By Doug Gross, CNN A new report from one of the Web’s leading researchers spells out what news reports have suggested: that tablet computers and e-readers made a huge leap in popularity this holiday season. The number of U.S. adults who owned tablets such as Apple’s iPad and Amazon’s Kindle Fire, or e-readers, like the [...]
Tablet Visitors spend over 50% more per purchase than visitors who use smartphones
Saturday, January 21st, 2012Last year was the year that the tablet became an online retailer’s best friend as it emerged as the preferred device for many shoppers to make their purchases. Based on its analysis of 16.2 billion visits to the websites of more than 150 retailers in 2011, Adobe Digital Marketing Insights found that Tablet Visitors spend [...]
Signature Capture for iPad – Sign on the Dotted Screen (New Version)
Thursday, January 19th, 2012Download Link: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/significant/id433375543?mt=8&ls=1 With SIGNificant you can load any PDF right from your inbox and add your handwritten signature. Once a signature is captured locally on the device and is embedded into the PDF, the document is sealed with a digital certificate. After e-signing, you email your document right back from SIGNificant! SIGNificant utilitzes the [...]
Signature Capture with Wacom Cintiq Pen Display
Wednesday, January 18th, 2012How to capture a signature with Wacom Cintiq and SIGNificant e-Signing Desktop .
The iPad – A Supplement to – Not Yet a Replacement For – the PC
Wednesday, January 18th, 2012By John Paul Titlow, ReadWriteWeb … the iPad is finding a place in business all over the world. About 67% of iPad-owning professionals use their tablets at work, even if the vast majority of the devices are not supplied by employers, according to a recent survey by IDG. Of those people, 93% use the device [...]
Half of computing device sales are mobile – Is the PC “dead”? By Kevin C. Tofel, GigaOM
Monday, January 16th, 2012… Starting around 2007, when Apple introduced the iPhone, sales of devices running mobile platforms have eaten into a large portion of traditional desktop and laptop sales. Apple sells far more iOS devices than those that run Mac OS X: in the last quarter of 2011, Apple sold at least 28 million iOS devices, vs [...]
How To Sign PDFs from DropBox, Evernote, Box, and Other Apps on your iPad
Monday, January 16th, 2012Download SIGNificant from the Appstore: SIGNificant Signature Capture SIGNificant utilitzes the iOS “Open In” functionality to allow you to open a document from most other applications that have documents and contracts in them – including your inbox, Dropbox, Evernote, and others – and sign them via SIGNificant on the go. How? Hold your finger down [...]
Signature Capture on the Lenovo Thinkpad
Friday, January 13th, 2012SIGNificant Signature Capture for Android – NEW Version
Thursday, January 12th, 2012We published a new version of our popular Android App which supports the native pens of a lot of new devices like Samsung Galaxy Note or Lenovo Thinkpad. Try yourself and sign documents right on your android device…for FREE. Download Link Some Reviews: Kenneth on January 11, 2012 (HTC Droid Incredible with version 1.0.2.248) ***** [...]
Halfway between phone and tablet, Galaxy Note is surprisingly good
Wednesday, January 11th, 2012Another positive article about the Samsung Galaxy Note. Dylan Tweney wrote on MobileBeat: With a 5.3-inch display, it’s a gigantic phone — but also a pretty small tablet. Unusually for a modern tablet, it comes with a stylus, though it works with your naked fingers, too. To my surprise, it works pretty well. I spent [...]
The dream of a common Android that developers can write/deploy apps to and users can become familiar with is burning.
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012Antonio Rodriguez was very skeptical in his last blog post about the future of Android and predicts that it will die in the next two years: The dream of a common Android that developers can write/deploy apps to and users can become familiar with is burning. More specifically, three events in 2011 burned it and [...]
Samsung Galaxy Note Overview – a device that fills a size niche between smartphone and tablet
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012The Galaxy Note phablet combines the calling abilities of a phone with the larger screen size of a tablet. Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/09/galaxy-note-us-att-samsung-ces-2012_n_1194634.html?ref=technology Signature Capture on Samsung Galaxy Note: With SIGNificant you can load any PDF right from your inbox, SD card, or Dropbox and add your handwritten signature. Once a signature is captured locally on the Samsung Galaxy [...]
Is Apple losing its cool factor? Apple’s iPhone was not the top selling phone at Christmas – Samsung’s Galaxy S II was.
Monday, January 9th, 2012Why did Android tablets flop in 2011? | TechRepublic
Monday, January 9th, 2012Why did Android tablets flop in 2011? There are four main reasons. Let’s count them down, and then talk about what 2012 looks like. By Jason Hiner, TechRepublic The price – Google and Motorola announced the first big Android tablet — the Motorola Xoom — for $800. The lack of tablet apps – Google has [...]
Is This the Ultimate Trench Coat for Gadget Lovers?
Sunday, January 8th, 2012SCOTTEVEST promises that a normal looking women’s trench coat can store an iPad, two smartphones, camera, glasses, keys, travel documents, change and lipstick. You can store a good sized water bottle inside the jacket. The coat isn’t very heavy, even with the iPad, phones, camera [...]
