Category: DCT Mobile Solutions

We would like to congratulate our very own Max Blankenship and  his wife Rachael on the birth of their beautiful daughter Lorelai. All are doing well.

It’s more than 8,400 miles from Goa, India to the Kansas City, Mo, but the 22 hours of flight time was endured by two of our off-shore teammates, Ivo Costa and Gaurav Borkar proved well worth it for our whole development team. At DCT, we have employed an offshore team through Creative Capsule, a Kansas […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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!

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 […]

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 […]