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• Give middle managers better collaboration tools

  You say we need to move from systems of record to systems of engagement. What's the difference?

• My first 48 hours with iPad 2: One CIO's story

  After weeks of waiting for an iPad 2 on back order, CIO Rob Rennie of Florida State College at Jacksonville finally got his hands on the slick, new device. "My assessment so far is, I love it because it is faster, lighter and the FaceTime capability makes a lot of difference for me," Rennie says.

• iPhone-iPad app spotlight: The Masters golf tournament

  Billed as the sporting event unlike any other, the hallowed Masters golf tournament at Augusta, Georgia, is probably more important to middle-aged executives than March Madness is to 20-somethings.

• 10 signs you can bring an iPad to work

  Can you bring your iPad to work? Or will you get in big trouble? With a nod to David Letterman's Top Ten list Signs You've Purchased a Bad iPhone, here are our signs that grease the wheels for iPads to roll into the enterprise.

• Do iPad 2, iOS 4.3 make enough gains for enterprise?

  Charles Edge, author of Enterprise iPhone and iPad Administrator's Guide and director of technology at IT consultancy 318, was talking to a CIO as Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad 2 today.

• iPad 2 launch: Top 10 headlines you won't see

  Tired of all the iPad 2 predictions? So are we. With a nod to David Letterman's Top Ten list Signs You've Purchased a Bad iPhone, here are our favorite (yet fake) headlines that will no doubt be lost in the iPad 2 hoopla.

• iPhone banking: How USAA launched mobile apps for customers

  The Project -- Become the first major bank to develop a mobile deposit application and make it available to USAA's 5 million customers.

• Why 2011 is the year of the tablet

  I'm still thinking about the fascinating projection that 70 million tablet computers-50 million of them iPads-will be sold in the United States this year and next. The source was eMarketer, the respected digital marketing and media researcher, which also expects the global market for tablet sales to reach more than 80 million units in 2012 alone.

• Future iPhone and iPad Apps: Smart, engaging, maybe costly

  Goodbye, $.99 iPhone apps.

• BYOT: Hype or a hiring dealbreaker?

  Bring Your Own Technology, or BYOT, can strike fear in the hearts of CIOs and security officers, who are split on whether the concept is an urban legend or the wave of the future. Regardless, the CIOs I've spoken with say it has not yet become a standard question that applicants ask. Sure, there are CEOs and salespeople who want to sneak tablets onto the network, but at this point, the roar of the consumers is really just a whisper.

• How to build a network in 12 days (before Christmas)

  The holiday season is an ideal time for re-connecting, making new contacts and strengthening relationships. Networking is, in fact, the best job search method: It generates more than 80 per cent of new hires.

• Apple trips up enterprise iPhone apps

  Apple has come a long way, secretly courting the enterprise to adopt iPhones and iPads, but a closer look at its iOS Developer Enterprise Program shows that Apple still has much to learn about the needs of companies.

• Emerging tech: Disaster-proof your mobile app before rollout

  So you've created an iPhone enterprise app, and your sales folks and executives are thrilled. They want more functionality, say, tapping into location-based services or-gulp!-using the camera to capture product images. A few people are requesting the app run on their brand new Droids. Now the CEO wants the app on his soon-to-be-available BlackBerry PlayBook tablet.

• iPad enterprise invasion and security risks

  IT organisations have come to a stunning realisation: There is no stopping the great iPad enterprise invasion. Risks abound as companies must deal with securing iPad apps without much help from Apple, says Julie Palen, senior VP of mobile device management at Tangoe, a telecom expense management software and services provider.

• How retailers are using location-based services

  What's happening -- Businesses are integrating location-based services such as Foursquare, Gowalla, Loopt and Socialight into enterprise applications. For example, ice cream retailer Tasti D-Lite incorporated Foursquare into its loyalty program, providing extra reward points for customers who check in at a store using the application.