Your iPad app for construction just got better

It’s been less than three weeks since, in a past article, I introduced the first construction application for the iPad. So much has changed already in that short time, such as:

Over 3 million iPads have been sold, making it by far the most popular device of its kind
Hundreds of people in the construction industry interested [...]

Did you buy an iPad or iPad 3G for your construction project?

Both the iPad and iPad 3G work great for lots of things you need to do on your construction project like tracking issues, accessing documents or running a QA/QC checklist. For $629.00, I bought the iPad 3G + WiFi.  Here’s what happened when I opened the box containing my iPad last week:

The box (left) is [...]

Three Exciting Things About Using an iPad on Your Construction Job Site

The iPad has arrived, and we love it.  Why?  We’ve already talked about the big game changing things like how it is cheaper, lighter, and the battery will last a long time.  And, after some hands-on time this week with a few iPads at Vela, we have more thoughts to share on why you’ll want [...]

Will the iPad Help Change Construction?

The iPad is more than a new way to consume multi-media — it is “…blazing a path to the future of computing…” according to news pundits.

The cover story of Wired magazine this month, April 2010, by Steven Levy features the iPad and the revolution of tablet and touch screen computing that has now come [...]

Moving towards a tipping point in field mobility

In Q&A about the The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, author, socio-economic pundit and The New Yorker staff writer Malcolm Gladwell highlights how the phrase “tipping point” originated in epidemiology.  Gladwell notes that “..it's the name given to that moment in an epidemic when a virus reaches critical mass. It's [...]

Surprise! It's the iPad

On Wednesday, behind Steve Jobs on the projection screen was a quote by The Wall Street Journal that read “the last time there was this much excitement about a tablet, it had some commandments written on it.”  So, I’m guessing that by now almost everyone has heard the news about Apple announcing their new mobile [...]

Apple Tablet: Three reasons we’re looking forward to it

Image courtesy of Gizmodo, includes some Vela Systems embellishment (hard hat)

If you’ve been following Apple news recently, there have been a ton of articles speculating about a new product coming this year. It's widely believed to be a new Tablet PC, although they will probably call it the “iSlate,” being careful not use “PC” [...]