The Veterans Healthcare System serves the needs of America's veterans by providing primary care, specialized care, and related medical and social support services. The VA Hospital in Portland, OR wanted to improve care for its diabetic patients with more flexible care options for both physicians and their patients. Working with...
Mobile marketing, which refers to marketing on a mobile device like a cell phone, allows you to target prospects anytime, anywhere. Assuming that mobile devices are always on and connected, they're always available as communications media. This means you can access customers and prospects when they are at home, at...
Sync a Windows Mobile Device with Your MacAnother choice to sync Windows Mobile with MacI use Pocket Mac and have been very happy with it. When I first started using it a few years ago, it had better reviews than Missing Sync. I don't know how the two...
If you're a Mac user who's been eyeballing a PDA or smartphone, you probably think your options don't include Windows Mobile devices (which can't sync with Macs). Think again: The Missing Sync enables any Windows Mobile handheld to sync with your contacts, calendar, notes, memos, documents, and even your photos...
The mobile phone is already becoming the most ubiquitous digital device across the world, and promises to reach two thirds of the world population by the end of this decade. The mobile phone is already the most popular digital device in the world in terms of frequency of use, and...
Wisconsin-based St. Joseph's Hospital wanted to increase the productivity of its nurses and the quality of its patient care through mobility. They required a remote access solution that could provide high-level security, critical medical records access from anywhere within their multi-story facility, and sustain application sessions as their clinicians roamed...
Mobile devices are limited by their very nature in terms of the user experience they can provide: to remain portable, mobile devices require a small form factor. With increased demand for powerful mobile software, small screens and clumsy keypads quickly become liabilities for users. The Federated Devices project balances portability...
While mobile handheld devices provide productivity benefits, they also pose new risks. User authentication is the best safeguard against the risk of unauthorized use and access to a device's contents. This paper describes two novel types of smart card with unconventional form factors, designed to take advantage of common interfaces...
Mobile devices are becoming an essential tool for both businesses and consumers alike. From Personal Digital Assistants PDAs to mobile phones to smartphones, these new devices combined with faster data speeds are helping to increase employee productivity and provide 24/7 communication for both voice and data - regardless of location....
This paper explores the possibilities of leveraging Standards based Identity System for a Telecommunication environment and provides a vision for the future trends in converged communication services. This paper is also based on the investigative/evaluative work done by the authors nowadays, using Sun's Identity System as a Security Framework/Environment for...
The AEC & FM-sector is aware of the potentials arising from the usage of mobile technology in construction for streamlining their business processes. Discussions are no longer on whether or not to use mobile computer-supported solutions but, rather, on how they should be implanted and used. The following paper describes...
This white paper deals with introducing an advanced generic Multimodal Interaction and Rendering System MIRS dedicated for mobile devices. MIRS incorporate efficient processing of XML specification languages for limited, mobile devices and come with the XML-based Dialog and Interface Specification Language DISL. DISL can be considered as an UIML subset,...
A key feature of the handheld is to provide a personalized and up-to-date list of patients for each physician. Through its direct connection to MEDITECH, PatientKeeper accomplishes this through three mechanisms. The first is to provide patients that are directly associated with the physician - those which have the physician...
There is a growing demand to port existing PC-based software systems to mobile device platforms. Systems running on mobile devices share basic characteristics with their PC-based counterparts, but differ from them in details of user interfaces, application models. Systems running on mobile devices must also perform well using less memory...
The paper concludes that as growth slows in the mobile telecommunications industry, companies along the value chain from component suppliers to carriers to retailers are searching for ways to optimize customer profitability while increasing customer retention. As a result, they are scrutinizing their supply chains both forward and backward. Many...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] AS THE world moves towards ubiquitous, seamless data connectivity to support a global economy, most people will have high quality access to almost any information, anywhere, anytime, on any device. However, as barriers to access fall away, one of the key challenges organisations will...
Stoneware, Inc. today announced it willdeliver a new webOS virtual desktop for the Apple iPhone 3G in its nextproduct update of webOS. An integrated webOS personality will giveorganizations a means of providing mobile workers with secure access totheir enterprise applications and data, all from their iPhone. Stoneware's revolutionary virtual...
Auctions International Inc. (PINKSHEETS: AUCI),a technology company that owns and markets proprietary software thatenables real time online auctions of virtually any commodity in thewholesale market, has broadened its alliance with NXGen, Inc., a whollyowned subsidiary of NXGen Holdings, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: NXGH). NXGen, Inc. isan emerging data solutions provider that integrates...
CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- The ICT group at Frost & Sullivan (http://www.ict.frost.com/) is pleased to announce that it will be hosting an online briefing on Mobile Handset and Operating Systems Choice in Africa on 23 July 2008 at 3pm BST / 4pm CAT. The briefing will present...
PORT TOWNSEND, Wash. -- Intelli-Check - Mobilisa, Inc. (AMEX:IDN), will feature its IM2700 - Transportation Worker Card Reader at the American Association of Port Authorities Port Security Seminar and Expo in Houston, Texas, on July 17th. The device reads the newly developed Transportation Worker Identification Credential, or TWIC,...
