Author: DCT Solutions Group

Last week’s announcement that Zebra Technologies had agreed to purchase the Motorola Solutions Enterprise Business was greeted by nearly everyone in the industry as a positive. Under Motorola’s leadership, the former “Symbol Technologies” business of scanners and handhelds had grown increasingly stale. Most surprising to industry old timers like myself, was market share gain in retail point […]

Gaurav Borkar and his wife Rashmi welcomed their son, Shlok on Wednesday, April 9th.  Gaurav is a developer for DCT located outside of Mumbai, India. Congratulations!

Route sales and DSD are perhaps the oldest “mobile computing” application in use since the 80’s. Way back when, DCT created its first “outside the four walls” system for Paris Brothers Distributing. It included a pocket PC made by Symbol and a custom-built cable that connected to a Sprint cell phone to enable order processing […]

Although Microsoft has attempted to stay mum on sales figures of their tablet, the Surface, it is no secret that the numbers haven’t been strong. The IDC recentlyreleased datasuggesting that sales of the Surface didn’t even reach the one million mark in the first quarter of 2013. Microsoft had undoubtedly hoped that the Surface would […]

The new generation of low cost smart phones and tablets opens up a wide variety of new business opportunities for route sales and DSD companies.  However, while running a direct store delivery program on an Android-based device is easy to understand and train, barcode scanning is a challenge, to say the least. Cameras don’t work well […]

Years ago, Apple revamped and positioned itself as the “trendy” name in the world of mobile communication and computing. It has held a top market spot for years, but that could all be changing very soon for several reasons. One reason why Apple could be on its way down? According to the latest IDC report, […]

Sprint has gone from ugly duckling to belle of the ball recently, with two large corporations in a heated battle to woo shareholders and executives with large dowries. Japan-based SoftBank Corp. first offered $20.1 billion for 70% ownership of Sprint, an offer that resulted in an unsolicited $25.5 billion offer from Dish Network. SoftBank and […]

At DCT, we’ve been offering customizable business solutions and software for years. The trend toward customization is now hitting IT departments, where “one size fits all” software has typically dominated. Companies are beginning to realize, however, that the old approach needs to be updated to fit with the also updated issues and needs that advances in […]

Ever wonder how your cell phone provider’s mobile network speed stacks up against its competitors? In today’s world of instant access, it is easy to feel entitled to faster download and upload speeds and lightning-fast internet. Every cell phone provider claims to have the fastest network, so it can feel like a gamble when choosing […]

It’s no secret that Microsoft’s Windows 8 sales have been off to a slow start since its launch in October of 2012. What you might not know is that sales figures have been quietly increasing and are now on pace to, at the very least, equal the record-setting sales of Windows 7. Complaints about Windows 8 […]