Welcome to my official home on the web. Below, you will find a list of the most recent technology articles that I have published and the sites/magazines where they have appeared. You can also subscribe to this list via RSS and be constantly updated of any new features that I write.

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Warmly,
Ryan J. Faas

Recent Articles

With it’s recently announced Cius tablet, Cisco is taking aim at the iPad in the workplace and healthcare (an industry that has already begun to embrace the iPad) is likely to be the first battleground for the two devices. After speaking with a range of healthcare professionals about the potential for tablet devices in hospitals and medical practices, I tackle the question of whether one is inherently better or more likely to win over the industry… and the answers might surprise you.

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Supporting the iPad in business and education environments presents new challenges for IT departments in terms of how deploy, manage, troubleshoot, and secure the devices. Part of the challenge is that the iPad is a new form of device and part of it is that iPads used in an organization may be a mix of organization-owned and personally-owned devices. Here are the major questions, potential issues, and concerns that IT staff need to consider when the iPad begins to show up in the office or on campus.

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Apple’s latest revision of its Safari web browser advances the cause of HTML 5 and patches security holes. It also improves performance and comes with some great new features that place on par with Chrome and Firefox. In this list, I pick the top five features that will help you get the most out of Safari 5 and your web browsing experience.

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There wasn’t a lot of real surprises in the WWDC keynote delivered by Steve Jobs this year, but that doesn’t mean there wasn’t a lot of important news. Join me as I break down the important details about the new iPhone 4 and iOS 4 (both coming later this month). I’ll also look at how those details play into daily life at home and at work and what they could mean for Apple and the mobile industry going forward. I’ll even examine the things some people expected to see that were not part of the keynote.

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Developers eyeing Apple’s iPhone and iPad for the first time have a choice to make: go for distribution in Apple’s App Store (which requires ponying up $99, learning Apple’s development tools, agreeing to Apple’s sometimes changing rules and restrictions, and hoping your app makes it through Apple’s approval process) or create a web-based application (which has no content restrictions, can be done with ordinary web tools, can work on multiple platforms, but can only access the most basic of iPhone/iPad hardware features). Join me as I weigh the pros and cons of each option.

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The saga of potential announcements at Apple’s WWDC this year has included the usual slew of rumors and leaked reports as well as the soap opera-like saga of a prototype iPhone that was lost or stolen, sold to a media outlet, and triggered a criminal investigation (not to mention other prototype parts that found there way online in countries across the world). But what do all these pieces of information add up to? Check out my list of iPhone/iPad related predictions (and check Monday afternoon to see how many I got right).

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Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference is a set to open in under a week. Unlike years past, the even is completely centered around the iPhone and iPad with developer sessions specific to Mac OS X development scaled back or removed. Along the way, Apple has also removed the IT track that in years past has served as information, training, and professional networking resource for Mac and multiplatform systems administrators and IT managers. Here’s a look at what’s missing for those folks and the potential longterm impact of Apple’s devision.

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In early April, Apple provided a preview of some of the forthcoming enterprise features of iPhone OS 4. In order to understand the importance of these new features, it helps to look at the challenges that the current iPhone OS and its limited management features pose to IT departments considering implementing the iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. In this piece, I review the status quo as well as the presumed changes and how they could make life easier for IT staffers supporting the iPhone OS after this summer’s significant upgrade.

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Apple previewed many of the features coming to the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad with the next release of iPhone OS 4. While there are many new features, including lots of additional abilities for developers, here are five big reasons that the next version of the iPhone OS stands to reinvent Apple mobile platform with implications for consumers, business, and the mobile landscape.

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