Apple makes Find My iPhone service free for iOS devices. By Slash Lane Apple on Monday announced that Find My iPhone (and iPad, and iPod touch) is now free to use without a MobileMe subscription, allowing users to locate their lost iOS device at no extra cost. The service is free to any iPhone 4, iPad or latest-generation iPod touch running iOS 4.2, which will be released on Monday. The "Find My" functionality is built in to the new mobile operating system update. Previously, Find My iPhone was only available to iOS users who had a MobileMe subscription for $99 per year. Users set up MobileMe using the Settings application on their iPhone, iPad or iPod touch.
From there, select "Add Account" and choose "MobileMe. " Users must then verify their account via e-mail. After Find My iPhone is set up, it can be tested by signing in to me.com from a computer. Apple has been rumored to make at least some features of MobileMe free for basic users. While MobileMe runs $99 a year, since 2008 Apple has offered a free 60-day trial of its service. Why One Company is Ditching Sales Laptops for iPads CIO. CIO — In the next few months, Jeff Letasse, vice president of IT for Conceptus, will hand out more than 220 iPads, one for every salesperson in the company.
He plans to wean them off of their trusty laptops and PDAs, with the hope of never having to buy another laptop for a salesperson again. The dam holding back consumer devices in the enterprise "has broken wide open," Letasse says. Soon, salespeople for Conceptus, a Silicon Valley medical manufacturer of a non-invasive, permanent female sterilization device called Essure, will be able to show glitzy presentations to doctors on the iPad. They'll be able to fire up a custom enterprise iPad app that taps into a back-end CRM system. Further down the road, a Citrix iPad app may let sales staff access a Windows desktop in a virtualized environment. [ How big are the iPad's enterprise security risks? Today more than 65 percent of Fortune 500 companies are deploying or piloting the iPad, Apple said during its most recent earnings call.
Bank of America, Citigroup testing iPhone to replace BlackBerry [u] By Daniel Eran Dilger Two of America's largest banks are actively testing Apple's iPhone as a replacement of their existing RIM BlackBerry devices for corporate email. According to a report by Bloomberg, the two banks are evaluating the security of new software designed to support corporate messaging on the iPhone. Bank of America, the largest bank holding company in the United States, and Citigroup, the world's largest financial services network, each employ over a quarter million people.
The trials reportedly involve over a thousand users between both banks, although neither has made their plans public yet. Both banks were among the first to support Apple's iPhone App Store with custom banking apps with the ability to perform secure transactions. Update: AppleInsider has also heard from a source who reported Citigroup "is also testing iPad for remote workers and business travelers.
" BlackBerry's slip, Apple's grab The Bloomberg report cited research by Sanford C. Apple iPad rival HP Slate sees demand fizzle at 9,000 units. By Daniel Eran Dilger After announcing that demand for its HP Slate had "exceeded expectations," it has now leaked out that HP only planned to build 5,000 and ended up having to retool to build a total of 9,000 of them. Compared to the average 46,555 iPads Apple sold per day over the last quarter (during constrained supplies), a total run of 9,000 isn't exactly the kind of demand tablet observers would describe as "exceeding expectations," instead positioning the Slate PC in the same dismal category of failure trailblazed by Microsoft's Zune and KIN phone.
Jointly unveiled by Microsoft and HP at an event just weeks before Apple first debuted the iPad, the HP Slate was supposed to herald a new generation of Microsoft Tablet PCs running Windows 7 under the new moniker "Slate PC," hopefully cutting the connection with the past decade of generations of failed Tablet-sized devices running either Windows CE or the full desktop version of Windows. Waiting for an avalanche of iPad competitors. Apple partners with Unisys to reach enterprise, government clients. By Daniel Eran Dilger Apple has contracted with Unisys Corp to help it sell the Mac, iPhone and iPad to corporations and US government agencies outside of the company's core markets in education and consumers. According to a new report by Bloomberg, Unisys will "provide maintenance and other services to companies and government agencies that purchase Apple devices. " Unisys, similar to its competitor IBM, has morphed from being a mainframe hardware vendor in the 1980s into a provider of information technology services today.
Its clients include large corporations, branches of the US military; the FAA, TSA and numerous airports; the US General Services Administration, Department of Homeland Security and the IRS. Gene Zapfel, a managing partner at Unisys, said in an interview with Bloomberg that the deal was a first for Apple, and noted that the contract was signed this month. “Most of those organizations are still pretty heavily [Windows] PC-based,” Zapfel said. There's an app for that. Apple's iPad finds enterprise adoption at Wells Fargo, SAP. Apple iPad Popular Among Financial Services Firms: Good - Desktops and Notebooks - News & Reviews. Financial services firms proved to be the biggest users of Apple's iPad tablet computer, followed by high-tech and health care sectors, according to a new study by mobile management software provider Good Technology.
Good, which just upgraded its Good for Enterprise iPad app, surveyed its user base of more than 4,000 enterprise customers, whose iPad deployments range from one to over 1,000 iPads per shop. That's a shocking number of tablets for business use, considering the iPad launched in April. It took more than a year for iPhones to become prevalent in the enterprise; the iPad is already a useful business tool.Good found that financial services firms accounted for 36 percent of iPad deployments. Surprisingly, this bested the high-tech sector, which accounted for 11.4 percent of deployments.
Good's health care customers made up 10.5 percent of the company's iPad numbers. Innovative Electronic Health Record Takes a Bite Out of Apple. At the beginning of this year Kevin Pho, MD, Tom Gehring, CEO of the San Diego Medical Society, and myself discussed the iPad and its potential impact on healthcare in a piece published by HealthLeaders Media. As Kevin said, "The iPad could serve as a simple digital electronic medical record system that communicates easily with pharmacies and other medical record systems.
" Well now ClearPractice has accomplished this feat with its new Nimble EHR, an innovative technology delivered via SaaS. Nimble is an EHR solution that connects either through Wi-Fi or 3G to the ClearPractice cloud so no data is stored on the device, making it secure and HIPAA compliant. The application contains all the features of the company's existing SaaS based EMR solution including scheduling, charting, prescribing, inpatient rounds, lab review/ordering, messaging and more. I spoke with Joel Andersen, the President of ClearPractice and discussed this new EHR designed specifically for the iPad. The CMIO's Dilemma » ocb - Citrix Community. Better Healthcare Right at Your Doctor’s Fingertips - Apple and Citrix. From HealthNewsDigest.com Better Healthcare Right at Your Doctor’s Fingertips - Apple and Citrix By Apr 13, 2010 - 9:33:51 PM (HealthNewsDigest.com) - New Apple devices always get a lot of buzz—they give you new ways to enjoy digital media and connect with friends, not to mention the cool factor—but it’s not often that they deliver a major impact on the way healthcare is provided.
But that’s just what the iPad is going to do (with a little help from Citrix). Before long, we’ll see iPads in the hands of medical professionals everywhere—clinics, hospitals, and doctors’ offices—and we’ll be glad when we do. Why will the iPad make such a difference for healthcare? Many doctors seeking a better way to work have already embraced the iPhone as a way to access medical records, information, and applications.
Mobilizing Access—Not Data At first glance, the iPad looks like the solution healthcare professionals have been looking for. But it’s still not perfect. A Cure for the Healthcare IT Blues. Prime Time for iPad–Or Not? News >> - Apple iPad Helps Ease EMR Concerns. Nimble: could this be the first real high-powered EMR running on an iPad ? | iMedicalApps. [Editors note: Be sure to check tomorrow for our interview with ClearPractice co-founder Dr. Tom Doerr and president Joel Anderson] Lately, it seems almost anything medical regarding Apple’s iPad generates immediate interest.
Nimble, the new iPad electronic health record (EHR) by Clear Practice, has been no exception. In the few short weeks since its release, this application has rapidly generated interest across medical blogs, mainstream press and, most importantly, from doctors themselves. Most prominently, the coverage included a lengthy piece last month in the New York Times, which apparently resulted in a dramatic spike of physician interest. One reason why the heightened interest in Nimble may be justified is that the application, although written natively for the iPad operating system, is actually the front end for a mature and feature complete web-based EHR named ClearPractice that has been in use for more than a decade.
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