Bringing IT mobility to the workforce

By Adrian Bridgwater on Monday, August 04, 2008 With mobile computing now reaching wide scale enterprise level deployment status, Adrian Bridgwater examines the technical challenges for companies seeking to truly mobilise their workforce. Modern Arab enterprises have been rolling out mobile computing technologies in a bid to raise their employees' productivity for some years now. But as recently as a decade ago users were still largely concerned with how small a mobile they could get their hands on, while laptops and PDAs (personal digital assistants) were still in their relatively early ascendancy. But times have changed. Mobile devices have now come full circle and encompass diary, camera, text edit and telephony capabilities. Laptops have become ultra thin, ultra light and sometimes even ultra small. Unless a significantly... [read full story]