SNEAK PREVIEW The new DK10 has quality you can see. We’ve upgraded the standard NITS rating, improved the graphic card, and added a night vision option. The processor is more powerful and the mobile broadband option offers a greater choice of carriers. Since we designed the DK10 to require minimal reconfiguring, upgrading your solution will be easy. To preview the specs, click here.
COMING SOON! The new ROCKY DR10 8.4-inch fully rugged tablet will be faster, brighter, and tougher. AMREL added a faster processor, brighten the display, improved the memory, and upped the battery power. We even added to ROCKY’s legendary ruggedness with an improved IP rating. To preview the specs, click here.
I used to work in healthcare, and like many people involved in that field, I became quite cynical about its practice. For one thing, modern medicine may be hi-tech, but people can treat it as if it was magic. Patients sometimes demand prescriptions from a doctor for medicines that they can get over the counter. The prescription is unnecessary, but it is “magic,” because it is from a doctor. Doctors have been known to take x-rays, not for diagnostic purposes, but because the “magic” image impresses patients and helps ensure compliance.
What about so-called “medical-grade” computers? Do doctors really need one? What exactly is a “medical-grade” computer, and is it good for anything else besides healthcare? Are they magic or hi-tech?
Originally, only the IT guy was supposed to attend the trade show. He had a tech background and frequently doubled as a purchasing agent. However, the police sergeant had performed Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD) missions in the military. The chief thought the experienced, older man could bring insight to the department’s process for acquiring an Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV)…
Read the rest of the article about handheld controllers here.
Are the tablets the primary or secondary platform at work? What’s the most popular OS for business tablets? The infographic below answers these and other questions.
This article is a second in a series. To read “Part I: It’s an iPad world, not Windows 
8’s” and the article in full, click here.
The PC is not dead; it’s just not at home
With 300 million sales this year, it may be a bit premature to mourn the passing of PCs. What the decline in PC sales really signifies, some argue, is the death of the home desktop. Take a look at these Business Insider illustrations:
Way back in the antediluvian ages of 2010, when everyone thought the “Harlem Shake” was 
something you drink, Apple introduced the iPad. Nobody, even Apple, really knew how the market would react. After all people already had smartphones, laptops, netbooks, and the old standby, the desktop PC. Did folks really want another form factor?
Turns out they did. Tablets sales took off, while PC sales stagnated. As the above chart from International Data Corp (IDC) demonstrates, the first quarter of 2013 reported a 14% drop in PC shipments, falling below 80 million units for the first time since 2009. This is the worst quarterly report since IDC began tracking PC shipments in 1994. Read more
As noted in Wired, the Defense Department has taken a major step toward its goal of “a smartphone for every soldier.” They recently released their Commercial Mobile Device (CMD) Implementation Plan, which details dates, stages, and buys over the next several years. The DoD may be purchasing as many as 600,000 smartphone devices. As expected, the Pentagon is deliberately being “device agnostic.” They are looking at Apple and Google –based communication devices, and they have promised to support Blackberry smartphones as well. See below for links to the CMD Implementation plan as well as their overall strategy, which was released last June.
Exerpt from; DoD Commercial Mobile Device Implementation Plan
“As a result of a JROC Capability Gap Assessment, OSD guidance, and strong end user demand for secure classified and unclassified mobile solutions, DoD is orchestrating an effort to provide wireless network services infrastructure, approved devices, applications management, and policies to protect and secure the mobile DoD information ecosystem. The Implementation Plan updates the DoD Mobile Device Strategy, Reference (a), to establish wireless voice, video, and data capabilities in accordance with DoD Instruction 8100.04, Reference (c), by October 2013. The CMD Implementation Plan establishes the framework to equip users and managers with mobile solutions that leverage commercial off-the-shelf products, improve functionality, decrease cost, and enable increased personal productivity….”
AMREL now offers a turn-key fully rugged avionics tablet complete with an integrated MIL-STD-1553 card supplied by Data Device Corporation (DDC). DDC is the world’s leading MIL-STD-1553 hardware and software provider. DDC has supplied integration support along with their 1553 Mini-PCIe card to help design this turn-key solution. Read more
The new ROCKY DT6 rugged tablet is a powerful new mobile solution, designed to match the needs of military and enterprise applications, the DT6 is:
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