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Wells Fargo spent two years studying the iPhone before letting bankers use the device at work. Apple’s iPad, released in April, took just weeks to get cleared.

This time around, safeguards against security breaches are stronger from the start, according to Megan Minich, a senior vice-president at the San Francisco company. Her colleagues used two of the first shipment of 15 iPads to demonstrate financial products at an investor conference in May. More are on the way, Minich says.

“We’ve got a bunch ordered that we can’t get yet,” she said.

Apple, known for courting consumers with sleek designs and easy-to-use software, is making inroads with corporations that say the iPad can make workers more productive without putting sensitive customer information at risk. SAP, Tellabs, and Daimler’s Mercedes-Benz are using the tablet computer for tasks as varied as accessing work e-mail, approving shipping orders, and calling up on-the-spot auto-finance options.

“This iPad thing has taken the world by storm,” said Ted Schadler, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research and co-author of “Empowered,” which explores how employees use new technology. “It came in as a consumer product, and very quickly the people who actually bought them were businesspeople.”

Last month, Apple said it sold 3 million iPads within 80 days of its release. The company may sell 9.7 million iPads in 2010, says Shaw Wu, an analyst at Kaufman Bros. in San Francisco.

More than half – 52 percent – of 770 smart phone users surveyed by Zogby International said they would most likely use a tablet device like the iPad to do work. The study, commissioned by Dublin software company Sybase, was released March 23.

“A lot of businesses right now are in experimentation with these devices,” said Dan Shey, practice director for enterprise at ABI Research in Oyster Bay, N.Y.

Many companies may keep their distance from tablet computers, which boast smaller screens and don’t allow switching back and forth between tasks as quickly as bigger machines. Apple rivals, including Hewlett-Packard and Cisco Systems, are getting into tablets, too – so the iPad-maker’s lead may narrow.

For now, workplace adoption of the iPad stands to benefit Apple while undermining rival makers of computers that run Microsoft’s Windows operating system. Many companies initially chafed at letting employees use iPhones for business amid concerns that it might not keep corporate data secure. That resistance ebbed after Apple released a version of iPhone software in 2008 with beefed-up security and better support for corporate e-mail.

With their smaller screens, inability to multitask and lack of keyboards, tablets may not soon replace bigger computers for many work-related tasks. The iPad’s display is 9.7 inches. By 2015, less than one-fourth of personal computers sold will be tablets, Forrester says.

As popular as the iPad may be for businesses now, it may soon face competition from Hewlett-Packard, Dell, LG Electronics and Samsung Electronics, which plan their own tablet computers. Cisco said last week that it will release a tablet that will be able to handle high-definition videoconferencing and may be available in early 2011.

Some companies may also be reluctant to entrust their data to the iPad after a breach on the AT&T website revealed the e-mail addresses of as many as 114,000 iPad users. Apple takes pains to keep its products secure in part by carefully vetting the applications that can be downloaded onto it.

Still, the process is “not foolproof, it will be subverted eventually,” said Mikko Hyppönen, chief research officer of Helsinki security firm F-Secure.

Reservations aside, Wells Fargo saw early on how quickly the iPad might take hold among business clients the weekend the device was released.

Finance executives of large companies – those that generate more than $50 million in revenue – accessed corporate Wells Fargo accounts with iPads, says Amy Johnson, a Wells Fargo vice president who works on the company’s online portal and mobile strategy. A finance official or account representative could use a mobile device like the iPad to approve multimillion-dollar wire transfers, she explains.

Johnson demonstrated one of the iPads bought by Wells Fargo during a May conference. She says she now carries the iPad with her everywhere.

Her fellow Wells Fargo executive, Minich, meanwhile, is waiting for an iPad after her boss made off with the one she expected to be assigned to her.

(C) San Francisco Chronicle 2010

6 p.m. Neon Trees: This glossy Provo, Utah, pop-punk band quickly rose to prominence after it was handpicked to open a tour for The Killers in 2008. A deal with Mercury Records soon followed, as did the release of the group’s full-length debut, Habits , earlier this year.

7:35 p.m. Mutemath: New Orleans alt-rockers with a Christian bent, this Grammy-nominated outfit has offered its own brand of layered pomp-pop – as well as an occasionally dance-oriented spin on the sound of Muse and Radiohead – over the course of two LPs and a handful of EPs.

9:15 p.m. Thirty Seconds to Mars: Fronted by actor/singer Jared Leto, this Los Angeles-based post-grunge trio – featuring Leto’s brother and band founder Shannon and multi-instrumentalist Tomo Milicevic – has been plugging away for more than a decade now. Though beset by label problems and lawsuits, the group released its third album, This Is War , last year.

10:55 p.m. Limp Bizkit: Setting the stage for a full-scale comeback, late-’90 rap-rock giant Limp Bizkit returns to the concert stage with its original lineup in tow. The group, led by erstwhile feature film director Fred Durst and guitarist Wes Borland, is set to release a new album, its first in seven years, this summer.

FedEx Blues Tent

6:15 p.m. Joanne Shaw Taylor: U.K. blues guitarist Joanne Shaw Taylor is one of the fresher faces set to entertain the Blues Tent crowd. Influenced by six-string gods like Jimi Hendrix and Albert Collins, as well as Hill Country greats like Jesse-Mae Hemphill and R.L. Burnside, she draws on a variety of musical touchstones for her studio debut, White Sugar .

7:45 p.m. Jimmy Thackery & The Drivers: Best known as one of the architects of the famed Nighthawks, Jimmy Thackery has carved out a solid niche as a solo performer and bandleader with the white-hot combo The Drivers. Having studied at the feet of Muddy Waters, Thackery’s latest CD, Live in Detroit , captures him on stage delivering a set of hard-charging Chicago-style blues.

9:30 p.m. Kenny Neal: New Orleans-born, Baton Rouge-raised swamp bluesman Kenny Neal has continued a family tradition – his father is harmonica master Raful Neal – of making music. The younger Neal is very much his own man, as a series of albums, including his most recent, Let Life Flow , have garnered a slew of critical praise and blues award honors.

11:15 p.m. Coco Montoya: A stalwart of the contemporary blues scene, this left-handed guitarist/vocalist – a veteran of John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers and the Albert Collins band – has become one of the kings of his craft. A tireless touring act playing an average of 200 dates a year, Montoya has still found time to record a series of much-lauded LPs, including his latest R&B-flecked release I Want It All Back .

Sam’s Town Stage

6:30 p.m. Blues Traveler: East Coast pop-soul band Blues Traveler enjoyed a massive commercial run in the ’90s (fueled by chart smashes like “Run-Around” and “Hook”). The Grammy-winning outfit has since endured the loss of founding bassist Bobby Sheehan in 1999 as well as vocalist John Popper’s health battles. Recent years have seen the band recharged on new recordings, including 2008’s North Hollywood Shootout , and as a live act.

8:15 p.m. Jeff Beck: A Rock and Roll Hall of Famer as a member of the Yardbirds and as a solo act, at 65 years old the irrepressible Jeff Beck continues to be one of the most innovative and breathtaking guitarists in the world. Beck recently released a new album, the genre-hopping collection Emotion & Commotion .

10 p.m. Widespread Panic: Athens, Ga., rockers Widespread Panic have become a massively popular group based on a tireless work ethic. Touring doggedly over the past 20-plus years, the band has merged an improvisational flair and some occasionally heavier musical leanings to create a sound that has transcended its jam band origins. The group will release its 11th studio album, Dirty Side Down , later this month.

Budweiser Stage

6:10 p.m. Al Kapone: Local hip-hop favorite Al Kapone returns to the music fest, helping kick off the opening night with a mix of his crunked-out classics (“Whoop That Trick,” “Get Crunk, Get Buck”) and his more recent explorations of organic soul, R&B and blues.

7:45 p.m. B-52s: Athens, Ga., new-wave legends the B-52s continue to roll into their fifth decade of making music. The group’s cheeky surf-fueled sound remains anchored by the harmonies of Kate Pierson and Cindy Wilson and the charismatic persona of Fred Schneider. In 2008, the band returned to the studio for the first time in 16 years, releasing an album of new material, Funplex .

9:30 p.m. Goo Goo Dolls: These onetime ragamuffin rockers from Buffalo hit the big-time in the mid-’90s, thanks to a succession of swooning pop hits and radio-friendly ballads (“Name,” “Iris,” “Slide”). They’ve continued to find favor on the adult charts and as a live act. The band is currently putting the finishing touches to a new album, titled Something for the Rest of Us .

SoCo Blues Shack

6:15, 7:45, 9:15 p.m. Kenny Brown: Mississippian Kenny Brown, keeper of the Hill Country Blues flame and the “adopted son” of the late great R.L. Burnside, will play a trio of sets on the Blues Shack stage.

7, 8:30, 10 p.m. Richard Johnston: Beale Street favorite and Blues Award winner Richard Johnston brings his eclectic set-up and sound to the festival masses for a pair of performances.

Originally published by Capsule descriptions by The Commercial Appeal music writer Bob Mehr and freelance music writer Mark Jordan. .

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