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Published at Enterprise Mobile Today – 4/30/2010

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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Published at Computerworld – 4/11/2010

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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Published at Enterprise Mobile Today – 4/9/2010

When Apple unveiled the forthcoming iPhone OS 4 in early April, the company showcased seven “tent pole” features. Among them were feature specific to making it easier to implement the iPhone OS in business and enterprise environments. Find out why these specific “enterprise features” and several other features that Apple outlined have the potential to reinvent how the iPhone is used in the business and education spaces.

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Published at Computerworld – 4/4/2010

Just who is the ultimate market for the iPad? Families, students, professionals? In this piece, I examine how the iPad can be utilized in very different ways for a wide range of different users as well as how it can be successfully used by professionals across a wide range of industries including education and training, sales and marketing, real estate, health care, law, management, travel and tourism, and information technology.

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Published at Computerworld – 3/26/2010

If the iPad is to be successful in business and education settings, tools to view, edit, save, and present files that are commonly used. For most of the world, this implies the ability to interoperate with Microsoft Office. Apple is shipping iWork for iPad along with the iPad’s launch, but it will it be enough? What other options are on the horizon if it isn’t and how could will the those option be? In short, does the iPad need its own version of Office?

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Published at Computerworld – 3/16/2010

Mac OS X Server offers any business or school a powerful and scalable server solution without complex or costly licensing requirements. For small organizations, Apple offers simplified management tools in addition to the array of enterprise-caliber features. With the addition of the Mac Mini Server to run Snow Leopard server, Apple has create a flexible, low cost, and easy to configure server that is ideal for any small business. Find out all the details in this review.

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Published at Enterprise Mobile Today – 3/10/2010

Does the iPad belong in your business, school, or enterprise environment? That’s a question that many IT professionals (as well as many end-users) have been asking since the iPad was unveiled in January. While the jury will still be out on the ultimate answer to that question at least until the device ships in April, here are 19 concerns and questions that every IT professional and end-user considering the iPad as a business or educational device should understand and consider.

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Published at Computerworld – 1/30/2010

After the initial hype surrounding the iPad’s unveiling and despite the overall “cool factor” of the device, many people still seem confused as to how the device will be used in homes, offices, and schools. In this commentary, I look at the potential for the iPad as well as what it represents as a part of Apple’s overall product line.

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Published at Computerworld – 1/12/2010

There’s been a long debate about just how enterprise-worthiness of the iPhone. But even IT managers and sysadmins that don’t want to sanction the device may have little choice as managers and employees demand it or simply use their own personal iPhones at the office. This article offers some guidelines for finding the right balance for support and security.

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Published at Computerworld – 12/11/2009

Apple’s push to make the iPhone business-friendly has included some business-specific features (encryption, remote wipe, Exchange support) and there are thousands of business and productivity apps for the iPhone. But what about the built-in consumer-oriented features? Turns out a few of them offer powerful professional uses as well as being just for fun.

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Published at Computerworld – 11/24/2009

Snow Leopard Server offers up a wide range of advances and improvements over previous versions of Apple’s server platform. Performance gains similar to those seen in Snow Leopard as a client to a 50% price are obvious enhancements, but Apple has also revamped many of the platform’s collaborative tools, making them more complete, reliable, and easy to use for both administrators and end users. Snow Leopard Server also boasts a number of new technologies that make the platform a rival for Exchange when it comes to supporting iPhone and iPod touch users. Get all the important details in this review.

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Published at Computerworld – 8/28/2009

Apple describes Snow Leopard as a completely 64-bit operating system, yet the kernel of that operating system and some other system components run as 32-bot code in most installations. Does this mean Snow Leopard isn’t as 64-bit as Apple claims or is there more to 64-bit/32-bit computing on the Mac than meets the eye.

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Published at Computerworld – 8/26/2009

Now that Snow Leopard is announced and ready to ship, find out what you need to know about installing Apple’s newest version of Mac OS X including requirements, a revamped installer, and different choices for new and upgrade installs.

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Published at Computerworld – 6/10/2009

The 2009 Apple WWDC keynote gave plenty for Mac users to crave – a faster and more compact Mac OS X, over a hundred new iPhone features for free in just over a week ($9.95 if you own an iPod Touch), new MacBooks that are both cheaper and faster, and a new iPhone model that promises both speed and unique new features. But what does this mean for business and IT staffers? Join me as I take a look at the announcements from the IT/business perspective.

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Published at Datamation – 6/9/2009

Apple’s marketing may lead you to believe that your Mac is 100% secure out of the box, but the truth is that Macs can be as susceptible to malware and viruses, network attacks, and excessive spam as other computing platforms (particularly as their market-share rises, giving malicious users more reason to target them). In this guide, I profile the best Mac security tools on the market (from freeware to business tools) to help you find the best way for you to keep your Mac safe.

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