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CDW are one of the US’ leading providers of technology and infrastructure to businesses of all sizes. So when they share their latest survey data on tablets – and iPad – adoption in the enterprise with me, I’m interested right away.

And their latest data offers further evidence of the iPad’s growing momentum in the enterprise arena. Here’s some of their findings from the latest CDW IT Monitor:

Nearly six in 10 IT decision-makers reported tablet computer use in their organization, with 61% of those choosing Apple’s iOS over other mobile operating systems.

85% of IT decision-makers see implementing tablets as an opportunity to increase productivity.

Of those who have not incorporated tablets, 31% are planning to employ them within their organization in the next six months. If this figure holds, it would mean tablet use in more than 70% of businesses by October.

The only surprise in those numbers is the 61% figure for the iPad in terms of tablets in use. Although that’s clearly the majority, it still seems a low number, given the near non-existent competition there’s been for the iPad so far.

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The iPad is a wonderfully easy and intuitive device to use. This is generally nothing but a major advantage – but at times it can cause issues if you have children who share your iPad or are allowed to use it from time to time. Problems you might encounter range from a child inadvertently deleting a frequently-used app to discovering that your child’s favorite new iPad game has allowed them to rack up hundreds of dollars worth of charges to your credit card via In-App purchases.

Fortunately, the iPad (and iOS) comes with a strong set of parental controls that you can choose to apply to reduce the chances of seeing any problems when you allow your kids to use an iPad, it’s a shared one or one of their own. On the iPad these are called Restrictions – and here’s a quick rundown of how they can be setup:

You’ll find these controls in the iPad’s Settings app – under Settings > General > Restrictions.

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See. Touch. Learn. is a hugely impressive looking iPad app from Brain Parade, a publisher dedicated to creating solutions for children with autism and other developmental challenges. The app is described as a picture learning system for the iPad that brings picture cards into the 21st Century – and is designed specifically for those with autism and other special needs.

Here’s a slice of its App Store page including some of its most notable features

Parents and professionals use See.Touch.Learn.™ to build custom picture card lessons and automatically track their child’s responses. Includes a starter set of stunning, high-quality images and 60 exercises created by a certified assistant behavior analyst! Additional libraries of images and lessons are available for purchase from within the app.

✔ Build, save, copy and reuse your custom lessons
✔ No more organizing and reorganizing cards for each student
✔ Create unlimited scenarios and prompts
✔ Thousands of gorgeous picture cards to choose from
✔ Your entire collection is portable – take it with you everywhere
✔ Never misplace a card – Images are automatically backed up
✔ Save hundreds of dollars – only a fraction of the cost of physical cards
✔ No cards to wear out
✔ No cards to lose

With all the myriad use-cases for the iPad, this is still one of the areas that makes you recall Steve Jobs’ initial description of it as a ‘magical and revolutionary’ device – and makes you feel as if the device is living up to those words.

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Here’s an iPad at work role I’d not seen before. As Wired reports, it comes as standard on the 2013 Cadillac XTS.

The inclusion of the iPad is part of a larger launch strategy by Cadillac to reassert itself as the world leader in luxury, and part of that is getting owners familiar with the range of new technologies incorporated into its largest sedan.

One of the hot new technologies that Cadillac wants its customers to get comfortable and familiar with is their CUE (Cadillac User Experience) infotainment system – and the iPad is set to play a key role in achieving that.

Each Apple tablet given to XTS owners will come preloaded with OnStar RemoteLink, MyCadillac and an app that simulates the CUE user experience, allowing owners to familiarize themselves with all the functionality of the new infotainment system from the comfort of their couch.

So I’ve never been in the market for a luxury car like a Caddy before, but I suppose soon this will become part of the standard list of questions at the dealership – warranty coverage, luxury bells & whistles, car safety ratings, and Oh Dear it comes with a Blackberry PlayBook – sorry no deal.

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A Fact Every Day – 365 Fun Facts for Kids is a simple and entertaining iPad app. As the name suggests, it offers up an interesting fact for each day of the year – and every day a new fact page is unveiled in the app.

The topics covered by the daily facts include animals, nature, people, history, and more. The app’s interface is very basic and intuitive – it should be easy to navigate for even very young children.

Each day’s fact is given a full page to itself. The fact is read out loud, stated in a way that’s easy to understand, and accompanied by an illustration.

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Avernum: Escape From The Pit is probably the most classically designed and executed role-playing game out of all the RPGs played so far in my recent review series. It is the one iPad game that looks and acts like a tried-and-true RPG one would play on Windows 95 or an early Macintosh computer.

Unfortunately, that’s probably why this game doesn’t really work: It belongs on a computer, not on the iPad.

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This week we ran our first-ever iPad Insight Site Survey. It’s something I’d been wanting to do for ages – as I really wanted your feedback on what you like and dislike about the site, and your thoughts on how we can improve it for you.

I am very happy to say that we got a great response to the survey – with hundreds of surveys completed and just a mountain of invaluable feedback and some excellent suggestions.

Thanks so, so much to all of you who took time to fill in the the survey! The feedback is incredibly helpful. Our gift card winner, for the Amazon gift card, is Peter K. I’ve already contacted him by email, verified it was a valid account with a real person behind it, and sent off his gift card.

I’ve been watching survey results and responses throughout the week and also spent a couple of hours scanning them this afternoon. I’m going to spend lots of time going going through them thoroughly in days to come, but for now I thought it might be fun to share with you some of the results that are already shining through quite clearly.

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This weekend’s picks are more lovely retina wallpapers for the new iPad, once again posted to our Flickr group by Brett Jordan (no relation).

Three that caught my eye this weekend are his Obscure Blues (shown above), the dark and simple Vinyl Microgrooved, and a cool Marble wall. Hit the break for the other two walls and home screen screencaps …

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Who doesn’t like free? And who doesn’t like great iPad apps? When the two come together it’s good stuff. With that in mind, we’d like to share our Best Free iPad App of the Week here every weekend.

This week’s pick is Boeing Milestones, a fantastic collection of archive images and videos celebrating Boeing’s innovations and history in aviation and aerospace. I’ve often said that I enjoy a number of great ‘coffee table book’ type iPad apps and I love that this app is described as a digital coffee table book.

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One Amazon Gift Card To Be Won

Entry Deadline: Sunday May 13, 3:00PM US Central

Just a quick reminder – there’s a little over 24 hours left to take part in our first-ever site survey, and be entered for a chance to win a Amazon gift card.

The survey is quite short and you should be able to get through it in 5 minutes. It’s a simple set of questions about what you like and don’t like on the site and what you’d like to see more or less of.

The response to the survey so far has been excellent and it’s giving me lots of great ideas on how to improve iPad Insight.  This feedback is invaluable to me in working to make this site better in every possible way. If you have time to take the survey it will be hugely appreciated.

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