• The Wall Street Journal, Tuesday, August 24, 2010 12:52 PM

Long before the dawn of the iPad, tablet talk usually centered around the same questions: Who would use such a device, and for what purposes? But, no more. Apple's "tablet-style device seems to be sidestepping the resistance that the iPhone and other consumer-oriented devices have faced in the corporate environment," reports The Wall Street Journal.

"Indeed, many businesses have raced to snap up iPads." Apple, which said it sold more than three million iPads through the end of June, attributes at least some of the device's success to businesses, according to The Journal. In July, Apple Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook said that "very surprisingly" half of the Fortune 100 are testing or deploying iPads. Helping its cause, more than 500 of the 11,000-plus applications built specifically for the iPad are in the business category, according to The Journal. One free app from Citrix Systems, which lets users access internal corporate programs directly from the iPad, has already been downloaded more than 145,000 times.

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