 Welcome
to our January newsletter and a happy New Year. Alamein helps organisations thrive by enabling their workforce to perform their best, while mobile. This newsletter looks at how you can help extend the reach of your operation and uniquely equip users to stay on top of work with a PC-like experience. Mobile applications extend your existing IT infrastructure to provide highly scalable cost effective solutions, providing mobile workers with the information they need to make decisions on the move. In this newsletter we look at: * Alamein mobile solutions enables patients to arrive on time for their hospital appointments. * Field service engineers achieve improved customer service and productivity benefits by deploying Windows Mobile solutions. * O2 has announced the release of the super fast XDA Orbit 2 PDA. We
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ask that you forward it to any colleague who may find it of interest. Hospital Appointments on Time! Greater efficiency for hospital departments, greater efficiency for drivers and more convenience for patients - it sounds like an ideal world - but it is an achievable goal with the mobile data technology developed by Alamein. Getting patients to non-emergency hospital appointments involves a great deal of organisation, a well drawn up driver’s list will save time and fuel, and if both the driver and the hospital can be kept up to date with any changes that might occur, the process runs smoothly and efficiently. Click here to read more Field Service Benefits from Windows Mobile This white paper presents the experience of field service organisations that have improved customer service for competitive advantage as well as increased productivity, by deploying solutions based on Windows Mobile software. Although these organisations vary in size and operate within different industries, each of them improved service scheduling and dispatch, service delivery, and job close-out. They achieved these gains in business value by using Windows Mobile to link the field service agent to back office-systems. Click here to download this full article as a PDF New Device Announced - XDA Orbit 2  O2 has announced the release XDA Orbit 2 PDA phone a year after its launch of the original flagship handset. The 02 XDA Orbit 2 runs Windows 6 Professional with it's super quick 400MHz processor, increased RAM and the device can now accept Micro SD cards of up to 1GB in size. The handset includes high speed 3G connections, Wi-Fi, and the Orbit 2 has bluetooth and USB connectivity options for short-range data transfers. Click here to read more Techie Tip - QuickGPS speeds up GPS fix time on XDA Orbit The O2 XDA Orbit includes a useful bundled program from the manufacturer (HTC) called QuickGPS. The purpose of QuickGPS is to speed up the location fix time for it's onboard GPS, basically the time it takes from switching on the PDA to it figuring out where you are located for SatNav or Tracking to start working. QuickGPS works by downloading Ephemeris data (current satellite orbital info published by the US Department of Defence) via the mobile data network. This download can happen silently without the user being aware or interupted while it's happening. Click here to read more |
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