Robert Randall

Attend any meeting with middle and senior management and you’ll quickly become accustomed to the sound of vibrating handhelds like the RIM two-way messaging...

Two case studies highlight the approaches taken by two government organizations towards providing field employees with mobile computing technology.

Mobile computing promises to do what the Internet did a decade ago: liberate, empower, transform. The proliferation of wireless connections to the network broadband backbones that lie beneath the urban landscape is providing unbridled access to information, without hard connections to the Internet. Wireless Fidelity (WiFi) hotspots dot the cores of many cities across North America, in public places like coffee shops.