SAN DIEGO – When a trend or shift requires a new phrase or way of thinking, you can bet it carries tremendous impact – the implication being that it goes beyond words. If there’s one factor that’s impacting the mobile enterprise more than anything...
SAN DIEGO – You don't even need access to mass media to know that app stores are all the rage in mobile these days. But how app storefronts and their ecosystems play in the enterprise sandbox is an entirely different animal.
Michael King, a research...
Diversinet Corp. is expanding its mobile security solutions to address the mobile healthcare business, as the fledgling space evolves and mobile technology becomes more integrated into the healthcare system.The broad-reaching solution is designed to connect people with their healthcare information, as well as physicians...
T-Mobile USA Inc. is attacking the machine-to-machine space with four SIM form factors to enable companies that want m2M solutions to use the one that best fits their needs, said John Horn, national director of M2M at the carrier. “Our strategy for many years...
Exalt Communications said the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection deployed microwave backhaul systems from Exalt to support video surveillance in its unsupervised lookout towers in El Dorado County.The system of tower-mounted cameras and backhaul allows CAL FIRE dispatchers to gather information...
The Port of Los Angeles is using Reality Mobile's real-time mobile video technology to enable its police department to monitor more than 350 fixed cameras on site. The contract win for the 30-plus person Reality Mobile is indicative of its plans to change how...
Editor's Note: This story originally appeared in RCR Wireless News' January Special Edition, Wireless Infrastructure: The Engine for Economic Recovery. Look for our March Special Edition coming soon.The Department of Energy's $620 million in awards for smart grids and other energy-related projects should provide...
Motorola Inc.’s Enterprise Mobility Solutions unit announced two deals with health-care organizations. The company said Agilysys, a Motorola Premiere Solution Partner, has been chosen to deploy Motorola’s end-to-end wireless LAN and AirDefense solutions at Miami Jewish Health Systems. The deployment will support both current...
The realization that IT departments are going to have to support a wide range of devices as mobility spreads across the enterprise has led a couple of companies to try to find innovative ways to manage those devices, especially as business users bring their...
The Challenge Konica Minolta Business Solutions (UK) Ltd markets business machines manufactured by Konica Minolta Business Technologies Inc, in the United Kingdom, through a direct sales force and a network of independent dealerships. The company maintains over 56,000 multi-functional printing devices, in situ at...
Numerex Corp. said it will offer machine to machine communications services on Vodafone Group's network in the United Kingdom. Today's announcement is the latest in a series of tie-ups between wireless operators and M2M technology companies as operators prepare for an expected onslaught of...
According to online publication Hitechnews.biz, Oulu is the core of mobile technology in the world enhancing new business. The expertise in R&D in wireless communications has been verified on several global forums, which has encouraged Nokia, the mobile phone manufacturer, to increase its workforce...
As the West Wireless Health Institute prepares to open for business next month in San Diego, Qualcomm Inc.'s initiatives to develop a mobile healthcare ecosystem are becoming more tangible, starting with a physical building where scientists, doctors and engineers can work to prove the...
President Barack Obama on Tuesday will announce $3.4 billion in government grants to help build a "smart" electric grid that will save consumers money on their utility bills, reduce blackouts and carry power supplies generated by solar and wind energy, the White House said.It...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.There are two embedded myths in your company that must be shattered to emerge from this recession...
Door-to-door sales have been a mainstay of the cable industry for years, but managing the team has been a hit-or-miss effort. However, wireless technology is changing that for one company. Suddenlink, a top 10 cable broadband provider in the United States, said it has...
Sprint Nextel Corp. is targeting businesses with new pricing and a new business unit. The No. 3 carrier said it added unlimited wireless-to-wireless calling to its business customers in new Sprint Business Advantage programs, which the carrier said are simpler than its previous Business...
Wireless technology will be used to help utility grids become smarter as the technology can help better manage in the delivery of electricity in real time in a more efficient manner. But how great a role wireless plays in the evolving smart grid has...
The hospitality industry is realizing the increasing importance of adding mobility and wireless technologies to its business processes, according to a recent survey commissioned by Motorola Inc.’s Enterprise Mobility Solutions unit.The survey found that 82% of respondents said that mobility was becoming more important...
Research in Motion Ltd. is hoping that the latest version of its BlackBerry Enterprise Server will help convince skeptical IT managers that smartphone technologies can meet rigid corporate standards for management and security .
Vodafone Group plc, Europe's largest network operator, and Microsoft Corp. have teamed up to offer the operator's enterprise customers a unified communications and collaboration solution for mobile and fixed data.Vodafone will initially offer the combined solution in Germany and Spain this year, before expanding...
Despite the disastrous ramifications the global economic crisis has had on other business sectors, a new report from research firm IDC predicts the global mobile industry will remain relatively unscathed - and could even benefit.The wireless industry has become the dominant driver of the...
Motorola Inc. will spin off its enterprise-focused mobile e-mail business just two years after entering the space.The troubled handset maker said it will sell Good Technology to Visto, a Silicon Valley-based mobile e-mail player, for an undisclosed sum. Motorola acquired Good in late 2006...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.There have been some press releases lately announcing the formation of a White Spaces Database Group that...
