 Welcome to our April edition of The Mobile Message. By implementing mobile solutions, which provide workers with access to data and vital information when they are away from the office can benefit businesses in many ways. These solutions help improve the productivity of all types of professionals and organisations who need to access and report critical business information when they are working on the go. This month's newsletter focuses on delivering the right mobile solutions to help everyone work effectively, even when away from the office. In this newsletter we look at: * How a taxi firm's own goal was avoidable * How the Metropolitan Police is planning to embrace tracking technology * The up and coming Private Hire & Taxi Exhibition  No winners in football trip nightmare Blue would almost certainly describe the mood in the taxi when Earl Spencer’s daughter found herself on the receiving end of a confusion involving satellite navigation. While the day started with the teenager setting off with a friend to watch Chelsea fight it out with Arsenal at Stamford Bridge, a communication error led the driver to set off for the remote Yorkshire village where the original battle of Stamford Bridge was fought out in 1066. Click here to read moreMobility for the People-Ready Business A growing number of companies are supporting a workforce filled with people who perform their jobs outside of the office. By giving their people access to the real-time data and vital information they need to do their work while on the go, these companies are seeing many benefits. These benefits include greater worker productivity by decreasing time lost while on the road or telecommuting, greater efficiency by replacing paper-based processes, and increased customer satisfaction because workers can respond to customers quickly, even when they are away from the office. In addition, organizations can take advantage of scalable and flexible solutions that adapt to their business needs as they grow. Companies now realise that mobile solutions can be used to drive a competitive advantage and are making “mobile workforce enablement” a technology priority. Click here to download this full article as a PDF Long arm of the law extends a little wider  News this month that the Metropolitan Police is planning to embrace navigation and tracking technology that will allow the force to pinpoint any of its 31,000 officers to within a few feet of their location.The same technology that is used in Alamein’s Messaging, Navigation and Tracking Service (MNTS) will form the basis of the Met’s Automated Personal Location System (APLS). Click here to read more  Alamein supporting partners at 2008 Private Hire & Taxi Exhibition For the 2008 Coventry Private Hire Exhibition Alamein will have a presence on two of their partners stands and assist them to sell the software they provide within the Taxi & Private Hire industry. 'Asgard' and 'Softsol' will be exhibiting along with 100+ exhibitors at the Ricoh Arena on the 28th and 29th May. With free parking, all day cafe and bar plus cash prizes you certainly should not miss out. Come and visit Alamein at either Asgard or Softsols stand between 10am and 6pm on the 28th May or between 10am and 5pm on the 29th May. For Free pre registration please click here Techie Tip - Controlling XDA Voice Calls using 02 Fixed Dialing The XDA smartphone widely deployed for mobile workforce applications is in fact a hybrid of fully featured PDA with a mobile phone. Typically the mobile phone is disabled and only used to enable a mobile internet 'data' connection to the GPRS (2.5G) or more recently UMTS (3G) network. This is true of every XDA model from the initial XDA 1 to the most recent XDA Orbit 2. Click here to read moreIn some mobile workforce scenarios the use of the mobile phone may be required and can be controlled using an O2 network feature called 'Fixed Dialling'. This is typically accessed from the XDA 'Phone Options' on the 'More' Tab. The configuration options are; |
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