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Best Apps (and a few Accessories) for Business Travelers

Tracy Sebastian
NovDec2010_BuyersGuide

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In today's world, business travel is a necessity. Whether you are on a big expense account going to Hawaii or a small per diem going to Poughkeepsie, iPhone apps and accessories can help take the pain out of travel. The following are some of the best apps and accessories available in terms of value, features, and reviews.

Before you leave:

There are a number of things you need to do before you travel, and there are plenty of apps to help you.


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Top 3 Business Card Scanning Apps

Best in their class, these iPhone card scanners give you the most bang for your buck!
jason.fanguy@14...
NovDec2010_BuyersGuide

Business Card Reader

$5.99, app2.me/2620


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Best iPad PDF Readers

A feature comparison of the top 5 PDF readers
Werner Ruotsalainen
NovDec2010_BuyersGuide

The iPad, with its gorgeous IPS screen, is particularly well suited for eBook reading. No wonder there are a lot of excellent PDF readers and even some annotator apps available for the platform. In this article, I look at the five top PDF readers and compare important features.


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Top Three Multi-Purpose Scanner Apps

jason.fanguy@14...
NovDec2010_BuyersGuide

Apparently, developers have finally recognized the need for a utility that lets users scan images and documents on the go. The number of scanning apps has increased dramatically in the last six months to a year. Predictably, the performance of a scanner app is affected by several different environment variables, including lighting, amount of text you're scanning, whether it's handwritten or printed text, and how still you can hold the camera when you take the picture. Still, these apps add a needed feature to the iPhone. Here are three of the best.

Scanner Pro

$6.99, app2.me/2948


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The 5 Best Apps for Business

These apps have the greatest potential to improve your business!
Nathan Clevenger
NovDec2010_BuyersGuide

Apple has achieved 80 percent penetration of the FORTUNE 100 and has demonstrated that the iPhone can provide powerful capabilities to business. And as the iPad continues to gain momentum in the marketplace, it is being embraced faster and even more openly than the iPhone has been.

This collection of the best five business solutions highlights the apps that have demonstrated a strong capability to extend business information, data, and systems to information workers wherever they might be. As small businesses and larger enterprises continue to embrace the iOS platform, this application segment will continue its explosive growth and deliver even more powerful solutions to the mobile worker.


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This Contact Manager is a Keeper

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This contacts manager is an app that will stay for ever on your iPhone once you try it. After you open it up you will see that the developer was thinking about the you and what you'd want to do.

Within each contact you can e-mail or text with one tap....and it will keep a history of them within that contact. So if you want to know, or document, when you sent a text, e-mail or phone call to a particular person, all you have to do is pull them up and look under the History tab.

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By Steve Overton, September 12, 2010

News Tidbits

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Lot's of app and product news this week, so how bout a leetle round-up... A United Airlines game that can earn you prizes and upgrades in the real world: New Grand Theft Auto released; a credit card swiper attachment; fabulous SOTI remote apps finally adding iPhone support, and a mail editor that supports full HTML markup.

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By Nate Adcock, September 11, 2010

iPhone and iPod touch Zoho Docs Viewer App Now Available!

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I have not tried Zoho Docs personally, but have heard good things. Currently am pretty tied into Google services, but will have to give Zoho a try. If you are a Zoho user, you now have another reason to love it! An iPhone/iPod touch viewer app you can use to get to your docs while on the go! Read on for the full press release details (iTunes link here).

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By Nate Adcock, August 28, 2010

App Review - WorldCard Mobile - business card reader & business card scanner

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Oh what a joy it is to not have to enter every single line of information from a business card.

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By Patrick Julian, August 27, 2010

Today, Today, Today....

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Sometimes all I want to do is quickly check what I have for today on my calendar. This app does just that.
It shows what's up for today.

Here is a brief description of what it does....

❑ Red badge on icon shows you at a glance how many appointments you still have.
❑ Shows all information you need about appointment time, location, and notes for the appointment without needing extra taps.
❑ Integrates with Maps so you can tap on location to open the route to your next appointment.
❑ Pick which calendars to show in appointments for today.

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By Steve Overton, August 15, 2010

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