Lest you think we're all about iPhones here at Business Hacks, we've got two -- count 'em, two -- new goodies for BlackBerry users, both straight outta RIM: BlackBerry Media Sync Nothing wrong with listening to a little music while you're working, right? This new utility for...
In honor of today's iPhone 3G launch, here's a clever new app that taps the new model's GPS capabilities: G-Park, which helps you navigate back to where you parked your car. All you do is tap the Park Me button optionally adding details about where you parked. Later, when you...
Backup, backup, backup. You just never know when data disaster will strike. If you're a Windows Mobile PDA or phone user, you can back up your entire device with the aptly named PIM Backup. Best of all, it's a freebie. The program archives not only contacts, appointments,...
BlackBerry users can quickly look up businesses and get directions using Poynt, a free service that's currently in beta. Optimized for GPS-enabled BlackBerry models but compatible with other models as well, Poynt aims to simplify business-listing lookups. Here's the feature rundown: Set your location by GPS, IP...
Some people are never happy --- more work and income than they can poke a stick at and still they grumble and complain. Others scrape to make a living, yet whistle away and smile all the time. How does that work? Well, it's either...
When project execution begins, a project takes on a life of its own. The project schedule that you so carefully craft during the planning phase becomes obsolete almost immediately, if not sooner. But taking the time during project planning to define task dependencies correctly results in a schedule that's easy...
As a manager, you probably have incidental meetings and other unplanned events happening to you all the time. Maybe someone you pass in the hall needs to chat about an ongoing project. Maybe you have an idea or think of a task to assign while you're on a plane or...
Emily McHugh needed one more class to finish her master's degree in business at Columbia University. The course - "Managing New Business Ventures" - required her to write a business plan for a new enterprise. So, Emily developed a plan for a company that would make laptop and Palm Pilot...
When a handheld computing subsidiary's parent company decided to spin it off as a separate entity, the first challenge was creating a technology infrastructure, applications and systems to support the new organization. Outsourcing with EDS provided the solution. EDS quickly deployed a new data warehouse and converted mission-critical data. Then...
A pioneer in the GPS, navigation, and guidance technology market was experiencing a progressive, but dramatic, shift in its business. The company had thus become interested in expanding its market position, specifically by broadening its presence in the emerging location-based services business. To capture profits from this market, management believed...
Founded in 2003 by Dr. Sumathy Pathy, Family Medicine Center in Bellevue, Washington, provides primary and preventative medical care to people of all ages. After witnessing operational inefficiencies at her clinic of residency, Dr. Pathy was determined to use technology to help her create an efficient, paperless family medical practice....
Find out how Palm® Treo™ smartphones and Good Technology's Good Mobile Messaging service are enabling employees of the District of Columbia to provide better government service to the citizens of Washington, D.C. This case study highlights the benefits that employees are realizing through the smartphones, including the ability to: ...
This whitepaper recaps the findings of a Harris Interactive Market Research Project on wireless email solutions. Online quantitative research was conducted in the U.S. among 959 firms and targeting individuals who play a key role in wireless email solution purchase and deployment decisions. Respondents were representative of a wide...
This white paper by Frost & Sullivan presents an ROI model that can be used to build a business case for the deployment of Palm Treo smartphones. Smartphones combine the features of wireless handsets with the flexibility of PDAs. They enable mobile employees to: Use their time...
There are many good scheduling tools available, including diaries, calendars, paper-based organizers, PDAs and integrated software suites like MS Outlook or GoalPro 6. The scheduling tool that is best for each individual depends on his situation, the current structure of his job, his taste and his budget: The key things...
Sometimes a person just has to take the business to the streets - or onto the plane or down the highway to make the pitch face-to-face. But savvy road warriors know that doesn't mean leaving the office behind or being incommunicado. These top business travel accessories run the gamut from...
The challenge for Kiesel Bauchemie was to make it possible to access the on-line product catalog and information library even using a PDA. The solution was the development of a new presentation layer on the basis of HTML templates and servlets within the architecture. In this way, developers were able...
This paper examines the relationships between employee reactions to specific technological changes and the job-related attitudes of these employees. The specific changes include the transition, by the organization's clinical professionals, from the use of laptop computers to smaller palm-sized Clinical Assistant CE devices and the automation of clinical pathways into...
Read this case study to find out how Palm® Treo™ smartphones are enabling Public Works field staff in California's Contra Costa County to expedite services for the county's taxpayers. The paper highlights the advantages that California's ninth most populated county has gained by being able to send and receive numerical,...
Handheld computers, known more widely now as PDAs Personal Digital Assistants, are the Swiss Army knives of the tech world. They began as address books on steroids and have turned into pocket-sized multimedia communication machines. Combining PDAs with cell phones or digital cameras - two handheld products in one -...
