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Groups add iPad to mobile toolkit

Staffers field-test Apple's newest flat-screen mobile computer. In recent months, several nonprofits took the next mobile technology leap, test-driving Apple’s new iPad, a touch-screen table computer with a base price of $499. “iPad [is] my primary computing device at work and at home,” said Reggie Henry, chief technology officer at ASAE, a group testing three of the devices. Henry called iPad “right-sized,” combining the functionality and large display of a laptop computer with the portability and ease-of-use of a modern smartphone. Typing, creating presentations and emailing are easy on iPad, he said. Henry said the device has two shortcomings—iPads aren’t compatible… Read More