A longtime friend of mine set up camp today in the pro-Flash region, tagging the iPad as having a serious blind spot to the wonders of Adobe’s visual software. As the world knew in April, the iPad doesn’t support Flash. As it has learned after 3.2 million sales of the iPad in 90 days, users [...]

Even though it’s illegal to text and drive in 30 US states by now, people still want to capture their drive time for business productivity. A new iPhone app proposes a way to review email while driving — by having messages read to you over your iPhone. Text’nDrive, sold for a hearty $19.95 for the [...]

Bloomberg BusinessWeek has posted a report that chronicles the methods that businesses are using to adopt iPads. “Businesses including beauty salons and restaurants are experimenting with new tasks for Apple’s tablet computer,” reads the intro to a 650-word overview of how the three-month-old tablet is already taking hold. “In a warehouse, your travel time to [...]

Organizers for next February’s Macworld 2011 have opened up free Exhibit Only registration on the show’s website. Full registration for the conference is also online, but Expo-only registration will be free through July 26. The show’s organizers are also offering attendees immediae discounts on selected products for the Mac and Apple mobile systems. In addition [...]

After creating the VPN Tracker client for Virtual Private Networks on the Mac, equinux has released what it calls an “over the air solutions for setting up iPhones and iPads in business.” TARMAC is billed as the first professional provisioning tool tailored specifically for the Apple platform. Medium to large enterprises can use it to [...]

Quickoffice has taken its mobile office productivity suite to the iPad with a $14.99 release. The Quickoffice Connect Mobile suite software provides a spreadsheet, word processor and presentation tool, all connected to Web-based storage sharing services such as MobileMe, Dropbox, Google Docs or Box.net. This connection aspect gets around one of the iPad’s weakest features [...]

Absolute Software has announced that it will provide what it calls “enterprise-caliber” management software for the new iOS 4 Apple devices such as the iPhone. The company, which sells a solution for business computer asset management called Absolute Manage, will move core components of that software to the new Apple mobile OS. Although the iPhone [...]

Apple has pushed out an update to the Snow Leopard version of the OS that adds new security guards against malware. It’s the first release in 10 months that improves this sort of hacker barrier. If only the new iPad could be so lucky to be so well protected. We’ve been using the tablet since [...]

Apple’s Steve Jobs waltzed around onstage for more than 90 minutes this morning, much of it showing off the soon-to-be-shipping iPhone 4 at the Apple WorldWide Developers’ Conference. While the new phone is 24 percent thinner than the current iPhones, the most impressive business feature comes from the new iPhone OS. Apple has renamed this [...]

In its public beta version, Chrome was just an experimental browser, at first without even bookmark management. In spite of Infoworld declaring “Firefox is dead” this year, at least that browser for the Mac is years beyond experimental status. But as of this week, Chrome for the Mac is out of beta test and into [...]