Month: May 2014

Wait, How Did I Get Here Again?

When employees use hand-held cell phones while driving, whether to text message, read and respond to e-mails, make phone calls or even view GPS maps and directions,  they pose a serious danger to themselves, other motorists, and the company’s bottom line. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), on-the-job crashes cost employers more […]

Android Gets Rugged

A first look at the Motorola MC67 and TC55 and the Intermec CN51 In November of 2012, I sat in a meeting room in Chicago with some of the brightest minds from the leading companies in the bar code, data collection, and field mobility industries. The event was an executive summit organized by the market […]

C# Comes to Smart Phones?

Recent rumors of a Microsoft investment of an acquisition of Xamarin has our development staff giddy at the thought of creating native code for IOS and Android in the familiar IDE of Visual Studio. We actually started our R&D into developing software for iPad with Xamarin’s predecessor Mono in late 2010. At that time, the code produced by […]

Is the iPad Suffering from Shrinkage?

iPad sales are shrinking and that is big news in the world of tech pundits. If you want more of the dirty details you can find it here, here or here if you like your news with an Apple-Centric spin. I particularly like the Apple-Centric article because it explains all of the opportunities Apple missed because they were too busy racing with […]

And… We’re Back!

Welcome to the most recent reboot of our Blog Site. We attack this project with fits and starts it seems. There are a number of reasons that we have lacked consistency in producing this site. Primarily, it has been an issue of quality. We have always felt that sending out a collection of warmed over […]