Private Apps function now available in the Google Play Store for Android

One of primary focus’s at Computer Connections is with our business customers. We spend a lot of our time supporting their software and hardware integration and maximizing their mobile and desktop productivity. With the emergence of more and more android development applications for us to use the ability to add customized applications to your mobile Android devices (phones and tablets) becomes a big bonus. This makes the Android environment more friendly business environment as well as better environments for government and educational users as well.

To setup this capability all you need to do is enable it in the developer console and then you can upload applications to the Play Store. This new section will allow a user to browse, download and update internal applications without the need to sideload them. To find out more information on this jump to Google Enterprise Blog located here.

• Google Play Private Channel for Google Apps

• Sign in to your control panel
• Google Play Developer Console help center

Windows 8 touch PC demand strong

I am seeing quite a few posts lately stating that they are starting to see a demand trend towards Windows 8 machines with touchscreens. Personally I wouldn’t want a PC running Windows 8 without a touchscreen because the ability to have direct interaction with the screen greatly enhances the Windows 8 experience.

We have recently set up a four screen set up in our showroom (see the picture to the right) and it turned out beautifully. We also have an All-in-One touchscreen and even though I like looking at the four screen setup I find the touchscreen on the All-in-One to be more enjoyable to use. I can only see this as getting more important to a user when the have a laptop, convertible or tablet with Windows 8 on it.

There are some reports of touchscreen shortages that are attributed to this demand. In general a touchscreen device is more expensive than a non-touchscreen one, which tells us that people really want this capability in their new purchases. It will be interesting to see if this trend continues and if the touchscreen products will start to be produced in greater quantity and hopefully the prices will start to come down.

Let me know your thoughts!

Windows 8 Drivers for Xerox Documate Scanners

Press Release: We are seeing drivers become available for Windows 8 very quickly. Xerox sent out this notification today. If you have a Xerox Documate Scanner go to: xerox.com

Dear Xerox Documate Scanner customer,

As a registered user of our Xerox Documate scanners, we are pleased to announce that all drivers for its most popular professional and consumer scanners have been updated and deemed fully compatible with the new Windows 8 operating system. New and updated drivers are now available for immediate download.

“We are committed to giving our customers a favorable scanner experience with full operating system compatibility and our engineering team has worked diligently to ensure that Xerox DocuMate® products are compatible with the new Windows 8 OS,” said Walter Thinfen, chief information officer and vice president of support and services at Visioneer, a Xerox licensing partner.

Availability of Drivers
Windows 8 drivers for Xerox DocuMate scanners are available immediately on the Xerox Scanners.com support page. Driver support for other Microsoft operating systems can also be found at this website.

We appreciate your business and loyalty. If you have any other product inquiries, please call us at 925-251-6399, Monday through Friday 7 am to 4 pm PST.

Thank you,
The Xerox Scanner Support Team
http://www.xeroxscanners.com/en/us/support/