Some companies will pat you down looking for personal technology devices as you walk in the front door; others don't care if you carry in an iPad or your lunch. Here's how to know. Can you bring your iPad to work? Or will you get in big trouble? With a nod to David Letterman’s Top Ten list Signs You’ve Purchased a Bad iPhone, here are our signs that grease the wheels for iPads to roll into the enterprise.[ Considering the iPad 2? Check out these 15 best iPad apps for newbies, reports CIO.com. ]10. CEO has long hair and calls you “Dude.”9. Your boss has a picture of Steve Jobs hanging on his wall, a Steve Jobs plush doll on his desk, makes Steve Jobs cheese heads for parties—creepy! 8. The intern snickers, “Nice Newton PDA, Grandma.”7. Your co-workers let you in on a secret: a rogue wireless router that keeps iPads free from detection. 6. You tell your boss, “I saw you with an iPad, so naturally … “5. Executives play Angry Birds during company meetings.4. There’s a real business case for your company with the iPad (sure).3. You’re in high school, everyone’s doin’ it, deuces!2. IT department, in charge of restricting iPads, has been outsourced to India.1. You are the IT guy. Tom Kaneshige covers Apple and Networking for CIO.com. Follow Tom on Twitter @kaneshige. Follow everything from CIO.com on Twitter @CIOonline and on Facebook. Email Tom at tkanshige@cio.com Related content brandpost Resilient data backup and recovery is critical to enterprise success As global data volumes rise, business must prioritize their resiliency strategies. By Neal Weinberg Jun 01, 2023 4 mins Security brandpost Democratizing HPC with multicloud to accelerate engineering innovations Cloud for HPC is facilitating broader access to high performance computing and accelerating innovations and opportunities for all types of organizations. By Tanya O'Hara Jun 01, 2023 6 mins Multi Cloud brandpost Survey: Marketers embrace AI at expense of metaverse investments Generative artificial intelligence (GAI) has quickly rocked the world of marketing. Sitecore polled B2B marketers on their perceptions of GAI. Here’s what they said. By Dave O’Flanagan, Sitecore Jun 01, 2023 4 mins Artificial Intelligence news Zendesk to lay off another 8% of its staff, cites macroeconomic issues The new tranche of layoffs comes just six months after the company let go of 300 staffers and hired a new CEO in order to navigate its operations through macroeconomic distress. By Anirban Ghoshal Jun 01, 2023 3 mins CRM Systems IT Jobs Podcasts Videos Resources Events SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe