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Tablets have finally made it through the struggles of childhood and are now entering their rambunctious teenage years. We’ve weeded out the “me too” products and are left with three major players in the tablet market: Apple, Google, and a resurgent Microsoft. The products from the former two are reaching a state of maturity, where they can reliably serve enterprise computing functions, while Microsoft is gearing up for a major push into the market it once owned. With the market maturing, how might tablets evolve and be serving the enterprise in the coming three years? Personalized, schizophrenic Just as mobile phones and laptops have increasingly become tools of personal expression, tablets have continued the trend. This has created a difficult task for CIOs, who are now asked to allow any and all devices into the corporate network while simultaneously maintaining security. I believe users will win out in terms of bringing their personal tablets to work, but we’ll in...

Adobe ’s capitulation on mobile Flash , which began last year with the announcement it would be scrapping further mobile Flash Player development, got real today with the official abandonment of the player on Google’s Android mobile OS. Early this morning, Adobe dropped the Flash Player browser plugin from the Google Play store. While pre-Jelly Bean versions of Android can continue to run Flash if it’s installed, and Jelly Bean devices can install it via workaround, Adobe recommends against doing so, as it doesn’t plan to offer security updates and bug fixes for existing versions of Flash for Android after September 2013, and attempting to run the plugin on Jelly Bean may result in “unpredictable behavior.” The removal of Flash from Google Play comes as Adobe refocuses its mobile video efforts around HTML5 , something the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs suggested it do years ago. “New open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5 , w...

Signing certificates for Android apps are a seemingly simple thing, but it can get a little more complicated when you develop apps for a client. If you’re not familiar with signing, you may want to read Google’s instructions on signing Android apps . Read on for a few things to look out for when you build apps for a client. Why signing keys are important First, the obligatory reminder: Back up your keystore–without it, you can never update an app on Google Play again. You would need to create a new app and start over. This is because once an app is released to Google Play, all future updates must be signed with the exact same signing certificate. No exceptions, no excuses. Now, backing up your keystore may be easy when you’re developing apps for yourself, but what about when you’re building apps for a client? What if you have a very large number of clients, each with a different certificate? The same rules a...

Bangalore: Can you live a single day without checking your favorite website? Well, rest of the world can’t! It takes a lot for a website to become a favorite destination of millions who surf the web. Alexa, the web data company released its latest list of most popular websites, a ranking based on several criteria, including the number of visitors to the website and its global reach. From the entire list, here we compile the 17 top websites in the world 2012. #17 MSN Website: www.msn.com Global rank: 17 Last year's rank: 9 Global reach: 5.882% Global page views: 0.1278% Sites linking in to MSN: 418,039   MSN.com, once a simple online service for Windows 95 has now become the 17th most visited website in the world. The portal is mainly visited for shopping, news, money, e-mail, search, chat and more. The site has been online for more than 17 years. According to Alexa, about 28% of visitors to it come from the US. #16 Yahoo! Japan Web...