[December 17, 2011] UNITED STATES : IBM releases a number of smartphone and tablet apps [TendersInfo (India)] Tweet (TendersInfo (India) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Wednesday, IBM unveiled a number of smartphone and tablet apps. The apps enable workers to join to their enterprise applications from their own devices. The altogether 7 apps range from social networking app downloadable by current IBM connections customers for free. For attending online conferences Lotus live meeting , for larger participation and sharing documents real-time IBM Sametime , instant messaging that even enables photographs to be inserted, Sametime Telephony that allows internet calling facility and an app to access Open Document Format (ODF) based documents. IBM Country Manager for Lotus (IBM Software Group) Karthik Padmanabhan said: Our idea is to let knowledge workers have all-round connectivity. The apps is available in popular mobile platforms like Android, iOS and BlackBerry and are moreover based on the findings by IBM that nearly 73% of business leaders enables mobile devices and tablet PCs of their workers to be linked to corporate network. Karthik added: Smartphones and tablets are most popular medium of computing currently amongst Indian enterprise workers. These devices are gradually becoming primary computing devices and it s important that they have secured interfaces to work with corporate IT resources. (c) 2011 Euclid Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]