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Communications Leader Videotron Hopes to save $1.6 Million by Automating Service Calls on Blackberry Smartphones by BlackBerry
  • Improves market competitiveness
  • Encourages more effective, happier technicians
  • Improves customer experience

“With the BlackBerry smartphones and the Soluteo application in hand, our technicians are handling all of their work orders themselves. That is going to push us out ahead of our...
Adoption of Mobile Devices in the Workplace: Striking the Right Balance by Lumension
Whether the economy is doing well or not, business leaders are always looking for the technological edge to bump up productivity and get more out of their workers. But new innovations always introduce new risks. The hallmark of a good C-level executive is the ability to balance...
Upgrade Strategies For Mass Market Mobile Broadband by Motorola, Inc.
Data traffic has been increasing at unprecedented rates (triple digit percentage increase has been observed in many instances), and many operators are considering their options for near and long term growth. This paper studies aspects of choosing an evolution path, with the...
VeriSign Mobile Enterprise Services: Enabling Next-Generation Mobile Messaging for Enterprises by VeriSign, Inc
Mobile Messaging, an offering of VeriSign Mobile Enterprise Services (VMES). Around the world, more than three billion people rely on their mobile phones and PDAs to stay connected with friends and colleagues. As new mobile applications and services become available, mobile devices present a...
Service Excellence Comes Easy with Antenna Software on Blackberry Smartphones by BlackBerry
Toshiba America Medical Systems deployed Antenna Software's Field Service Solution to dispatch service calls, help CEs check parts inventory and debrief completed work. The solution had the advantage of integrating with their internal Amdocs Clarify CRM system. Toshiba America Medical...
School Bus Operator Drives Competitive Advantage with Blackberry Solution by BlackBerry
Southland Transportation, providing school bus and other transportation services, deployed BlackBerry® smartphones, with a custom-built application, to their drivers so they can...
Sybase and SAP Team Up to Bring the Power of the Desktop to the Mobile Workforce by Sybase, Inc.
people need to maximize efficiency when working outside the office. Now more than ever, executives and business managers alike need their mobile phones to have the same tools and applications as their desktops to handle critical tasks and speed decision making.

In this video you will learn how...
Mobile Contact List for Blackberry Smartphones Is the Right Insurance for Busy Financial Institution by BlackBerry
an application from Tenet Computer Group, helped them overcome this issue. City Securities Corporation provides a full range of Investment and Insurance products and services to clients throughout Indiana and the U.S.

City Securities Corporation wanted an easy way to maintain a...
Getting Mobile - Whose Smartphone is it anyway? by BlackBerry
This webcast analyzes the pros and cons of corporate versus personal ownership of smartphones as they relate to security, compliance and cost. The issue of corporate versus...
Nucleus RTOS by Mentor Graphics
Complex microprocessors lie at the heart of every electronic device and embedded system in use today - from mobile phones to brain scanners. Such products demand sophisticated software to get the job done, and that's where operating systems come in. Product Type: Real...
Tokenless Two-Factor Authentication: It Finally Adds Up by PhoneFactor, Inc.
This paper discusses the technical architecture of PhoneFactor, along with related security and deployment considerations. It also includes an overview of other currently available two-factor authentication solutions. Securing access...
Introducing Blackberry Provisioning System v4.4 by BlackBerry
In the webcast you will also learn how BlackBerry® Provisioning System is used to assign BlackBerry services to BlackBerry smartphones and activate BlackBerry services for BlackBerry smartphones. This webcast introduces the BlackBerry® Provisioning System and includes...
County Law Enforcement Agencies Use PocketCop on Blackberry Smartphones to Access Police Information by BlackBerry
deployed PocketCop on BlackBerry® smartphones, a wireless application that allows secure, over-the-air access to law enforcement and motor vehicle databases. The Franklin County Sheriff's Office serves a population of 1.7 million people in Franklin County, Ohio.

As the lead...
Best Practices for Mobile Development by BlackBerry
In this webcast, author Mike Kirkup tells about mobile development with their features and limitations and describes Smartphones which store data in the memory. In this webcast, author Mike Kirkup tells about mobile development...
Managing Devices Intelligently: Hurdles Remain, but a Promising Opportunity by Wipro Technologies
The goal of the survey was to study how companies can intelligently manage devices to create value and, particularly, to look at implications for improving energy efficiency. The goal of the survey was to study how companies can...
Successful Mobile Deployments Require Robust Security by Lopez Research
in a rapidly changing environment. Not only is IT now faced with the challenge of supporting numerous devices including laptops, smartphones, and other mobile handhelds, but they also have to support numerous types of hardware and software including various versions of Windows Mobile...
Carphone Warehouse Creates 'ERP for IT' - A Tideway Case Study by Tideway Systems
Carphone Warehouse accelerate several key data center initiatives. The Carphone Warehouse is Europe's leading independent retailer of mobile phones and services, with over 2,400 stores in 9 countries. Carphone Warehouse had a bold vision, to create an internal 'ERP for IT' -- a single system of record...
The Carphone Wearhouse Case Study Podcast: How to Get an Accurate Infrastructure Baseline of your Entire Estate by Tideway Systems
Carphone Warehouse with an automated, accurate inventory of their estate. The Carphone Warehouse is Europe's leading independent retailer of mobile phones and services, with over 2,400 stores in 9 countries. Carphone Warehouse was faced with a big challenge - executing on a global vision to create an...
Doing Medical Right with Nucleus by Mentor Graphics
off-the-shelf (COTS) software to address the cost issue. The question is, while COTS software is used in arenas such as consumer electronics, mobile phones, etc., can it also be used in the production of safety critical devices? This paper discusses the similarities and illustrates the benefits...
Bringing Wi-Fi and Cellular Together in One Smartphone by BlackBerry
mobile user. Now, with the introduction of the Wi-Fi enabled BlackBerry smartphones, organizations can leverage capabilities, superb usability and centralized management over 802.11 a/b/g wireless LAN (WLAN) networks in addition to cellular networks. This paper provides an overview of...
Going Mobile: Developing an Application Mobilization Plan for Your Business by BlackBerry
BlackBerry Enterprise Solution is a comprehensive platform, designed to meet your organization's needs to mobilize enterprise applications and systems. To compete in today's marketplace, it's not enough to be efficient on your home turf. Successful enterprises understand that...
Mobile Sales Force at Growing Company Benefits from Mobilizing CRM Information to the Field by BlackBerry
a solution that would help maximize the productivity of the sales force by tracking sales activities, handling territory management, and creating a high level of accountability for the sales representatives working... The company used Flowfinity Actions to mobilize their in...
TowerGroup Mobile Banking Forecast 2009 by VeriSign, Inc
Check out this TowerGroup report to review a forecast for consumer mobile banking between 2008 and 2013. It also provides a call to action for banks and vendors seeking market leadership in the fastest-growing...
Airline Personnel Fain Quick, Easy Access to Flight Information on Blackberry Smartphones by BlackBerry
When Sun Country Airlines needed a solution to give employees data about flights and information to improve customer service and operations management, they turned to Blackberry. The Solution? Six highly useful applications...
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More mobile phones jostle for attention
Device vendors jostled for attention this week at CTIA, unveiling smartphones and other new handhelds... More...
Mar 25, 2004
Progress, innovation coming to cell phones
Smartphones aren't really smart, but concept behind them is. According to one columnist, the key feature of these next-generation... More...
Oct 20, 2003
U.S. smartphone sales soaring by Ed Hardy, Editor-in-Chief
only make up 17% of current U.S. mobile phone sales during the first quarter, it is a significant increase over the same quarter last year.

Although the overall U.S. market for mobile phones declined in the first quarter of this year, sales of smartphones increased.

According to market-research firm NPD Group... More...

May 27, 2008
U.S. smartphone sales strong as cell phones sales slip by Ed Hardy, Editor-in-Chief

Q2 sales of smartphones are still strong though overall sales of mobile phones are declining in the U.S. Though customers are increasingly willing to pay more per new device, standard cell phone sales... More...

Aug 21, 2008
Nokia gives Series 60s a boost
forward in its quest to fortify applications for its Series 60 smartphones. The Finnish phonemaker has teamed with Borland Software to unveil the Borland C++ Mobile Edition for Series 60, Nokia Edition and fashioned a deal with Opera to let users download the Opera for Symbian OS... More...
Apr 30, 2003
Related Definitions
single stream 802.11n
802.11n wireless local area network (WLAN) specification. The goal of single-stream 802.11n is to improve the quality of service on mobile devices by taking advantage of 802.11n's wider radio frequency channel and mechanism for decreasing time between transmissions. Single-stream 802.11n takes advantage of the fact... More...
Apr 6, 2009
distributed antenna system (DAS)
system (DAS) is a way to efficiently distribute wireless connections inside a large building or urban area where steel columns and layers of concrete can interfere with wireless signals. A DAS gets rid of "dead zones" by routing radio frequency (RF) signals from a base station over fiber or copper cabling to... More...
Mar 17, 2009
Open System Authentication (OSA)
that uses the Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) protocol. With OSA, a computer equipped with a wireless modem can access any WEP network and receive files that are not encrypted.

For OSA to work, the service set identifier (SSID) of the computer should match the SSID of the wireless access point. The SSID is a sequence of... More...

Sep 30, 2008