More numbers: Tablet sales

"Tablets are finding their way into organizations anyway; research firm Gartner says tablet sales worldwide will skyrocket from nearly 18 million last year to 108 million in 2012."

From article on HP WebOS.

Managing mobile devices SMB - numbers growing fast

Very interesting mobile device numbers in this article from Stephen Perciballi.

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"Most people feel naked without their smart phones and tablets. The adoption rates of these devices over the last five years have been explosive with an expected 10 billion by 2020, according to Morgan Stanley (to give you an idea of the magnitude – PCs and notebooks are at about 1 billion today.) Morgan Stanley also predicts that 95% of devices purchased for business will be by employees. This means that there will soon be a diverse selection of mobile devices in the office (for example right now Softchoice’s Employee Choice model has brought hundreds of iPhones into our environment.) How is IT going to cope with this?

Here is the complete posting including 7 tips for managing mobile devices for IT.

HP PCs and what it means for your business (from SoftChoice)

Here's a news release from SoftChoice (they are a major software and hardware reseller) about what it means for your business with HP's recent announcement about their personal PC division sell off.
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Our take on HP’s landmark announcement to evaluate their PC strategy [HP]

August 26, 2011 By Danielle Williams

With the media speculation about the future about HP’s PC division, how do you know what to believe? The truth is, HP is weighing their options right now and nothing has been decided for their Personal Systems Group. They have big decisions to make and there is a lot to consider for the future of their $42 billion PC division.

HP has assured Softchoice that they are committed to service, product availability and driving innovation for their PC business. And HP still has some of the best engineered products and best support in the industry.

Entire posting here.

Read Outlook 2010 Auto-Complete .dat files: NK2EDIT

NK2EDIT

This is a fantastic freeware app to be able to read .dat auto-complete Outlook 2010 files. (It will read .nk2 files as well, but the key option is reading and saving as .dat files - the new format in Outlook 2010 for auto-complete files). (The .dat auto-complate file is stored in the RoamCache folder under the Windows profile).

You can download the very small application from download.com and the install is a snap. Takes almost no space, and very simple to use.

You can do many things with this including copying the email address/contact data to an Excel spreadsheet, you can import it directly to create contacts in Outlook 2010... and lots more.

I had looked and looked for a tool to do this. They just need to change the name and I think more folks would find and use it for Outlook 2010 .dat files. There's even a 64bit version.

NK2Edit.exe from download.com

Additional info from the vendor.