Swiss Safety Council enhances unified communications, improves productivity
Date: 03/20/2010
The Swiss Council for Accident Prevention (bfu) works to improve safety in the fields of road traffic, leisure, and sport. Most of its 130 employees work in Berne, with the remainder in nine regional offices. All rely on the communications capabilities inherent in Microsoft unified communications solutions, including Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and Office Communications Sever 2007 R2. bfu deployed a pilot of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 as part of a Microsoft Rapid Deployment Program. With Exchange Server 2010, bfu can improve employee productivity and responsiveness by enabling larger mailbox sizes; decrease spam and improve mailbox security; and take advantage of the enhanced functionality in Microsoft Outlook 2010.

In auto racing, speed is everything, both on and off the track
Date: 03/19/2010
Robby Gordon Motorsports, the only single-car, owner-driver team on the premiere NASCAR Sprint Cup Series circuit, competes with teams three times its size. To increase its ability to compete, the company upgraded to Windows Small Business Server 2008 beta software, deployed on an HP ProLiant ML350 G5 server. The organization’s efficiency and collaboration have been significantly increased, making a positive impact on the increasing communications and operating more efficiently.

Medical school improves communication and data transmission using mobile solution
Date: 03/18/2010
Students and residents at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) often train at distant rural clinics. They needed to reliably transmit clinical activity data and communicate better with NOSM. Using Windows Mobile phones, hosted Microsoft Exchange Server, and mobile access to healthcare applications, NOSM learners communicate better and can transmit data directly from the field, helping NOSM track clinical activity and maintain accreditation.

Wine and Spirits distributor empowers employees with new mobility solution
Date: 03/17/2010
M.S. Walker is a wholesaler of wines and spirits in the American Northeast. A rapidly expanding, midsize company, it needed to provide sales reps and executives with mobile messaging and collaboration technologies, but M.S. Walker wanted to do more than just distribute cell phones. The company chose Windows phones because the latest version of the Windows Mobile operating system provides a rich platform for third-party applications that can be used to automate paper-based business processes. With this move, M.S. Walker has cut yearly paper consumption by 2.5 million sheets, reduced warehouse staff overtime by 75 percent, and trimmed the average cost per order from U.S.$2.20 to just five cents. Employees are empowered with mobile access to information for better collaboration, smarter decision making, and greater agility in capturing sales opportunities.

Cleaning service cuts days off response time, boosts compliance with mobile solution
Date: 03/16/2010
Metropolitan Building Services, Inc. (MBS), a cleaning service, needed a better way for its staff to collect and transmit information from the field. With handheld devices that run Windows Mobile software, and a partner line-of-business (LOB) solution based on Microsoft SQL Server 2005, MBS has improved company oversight, helping the company meet its service level agreement. MBS has cut days off the time it takes to address cleaning issues.

Mobile phones provide fast, reliable environment for medical application
Date: 03/15/2010
LifeWatch uses smartphones to run the software that continuously monitors the heart rhythms of its patients and sends abnormal electrocardiogram data to LifeWatch for analysis and follow-up. The company needs extremely stable and high-performing smartphones, so it is deploying Windows phones with Windows Mobile 6.5 for longer battery life, faster processing speed, and reduced risk of failures.

Construction company boosts productivity, communications with mobile solution
Date: 03/14/2010
Lee Company, a construction company based in Franklin, Tennessee, needed better communication while its staff worked at job sites. With Windows Essential Business Server 2008, and Windows Mobile phones, staff have easy access to mobile messaging. Lee Company also plans to give Windows Mobile phones installed with line-of-business solutions to field technicians and sales staff. It expects to improve business knowledge and productivity, and boost revenue.

Home Care clinicians use synchronized mobile solution to coordinate patient care
Date: 03/13/2010
Home care agencies play a vital role in the healthcare industry, with an increasing number of patients receiving treatment at home rather than in the hospital. Not only is home care more economical than hospitalization, but studies have shown that patients recover more quickly when cared for in the comfort of their own homes. One of the challenges faced by home healthcare agencies is the ability to exchange patient information between home care providers (nurses, therapists, and home health aides) and the agency office. Dallas, Texas–based Homecare Homebase developed a dynamic wireless solution using Windows Mobile software and devices manufactured by HTC, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. Home care agencies using the solution report a reduction in IT and transportation costs, increases in cash flow, and simplified information exchange that helps improve patient care.

Hospital boosts patient quality of service, legal compliance with mobile solution
Date: 03/12/2010
Fundacio Salut Emporda, a small hospital in Spain, needed to better manage its patient consent forms and comply with a government mandate to digitize its records. Using Windows Mobile 6, PDAs, and a custom line-of-business (LOB) application, the hospital has created an efficient electronic forms process. Its customer service has improved, and staff can more easily comply legally. Now they are finding other innovative uses for Windows Mobile.

Pharmaceutical Consultant saves time, boosts clientele 50 percent using mobile solution
Date: 03/11/2010
A pharmaceutical consultant with VCG & Associates, Randy Carpio needed a more effective way to respond to e-mail messages, access contact data, open documents, and communicate with clients and colleagues while traveling. Using a Windows Mobile smartphone and a hosted Microsoft Exchange Server solution, Carpio can now communicate quickly and efficiently wherever he is. Best of all, his clientele has increased by 50 percent.

Palm demonstrates new games at Game Developers Conference
Date: 03/10/2010
Palm, Inc. today announced that a public beta version of the Palm webOS Plug-in Development Kit (PDK) is now available at the Palm Developer Center. Palm is demonstrating new games from early PDK developers in its booth at GDC (No. 2016).

Investment firm gains competitive advantage with mobile phones and financial software
Date: 03/09/2010
Sinco International Investments (Sinco) staff needed a way to access financial information during laborious investment negotiations. They were also looking to shorten the expensive deal resolution process. After deploying Windows Mobile phones equipped with Liquid Scenarios Mobile 2008 financial software, Sinco gained an important competitive advantage, shortened the process, saved money on legal fees, and improved employee work-life balance.

Mobile solution saves busy Realtor up to three hours a day, increases response time
Date: 03/08/2010
Realtor Kris Anderson was using a smartphone running Windows Mobile 6 to respond to client needs and conduct business while out in the field. For more agility and speed, she decided to try a Windows phone with Windows Mobile 6.5. The software provides new touch features and a new Web browser that Anderson uses to help her work smarter, respond faster, and save up to three hours a day, which could translate into a savings of U.S.$35,000 a year.

Realtor boosts efficiency, competitiveness with mobility and messaging
Date: 03/07/2010
To stay competitive, realtor Nicholas J. Humphreys (NJH) needed a more efficient way for employees to send and receive information while on the road, and to synchronize data between their smartphones and the office. With Windows Mobile 6, Windows Small Business Server, and Microsoft Exchange Server, NJH employees save time and communicate more efficiently. NJH is now at the cutting edge of technology in its market.

Highly mobile employees stay synchronized; Hosted messaging solution saves money
Date: 03/06/2010
The employees of Minority Supplier Development UK (MSDUK) set up and travel to many meetings in order to help link businesses with minority suppliers. They needed a way to access their e-mail and collaborate while on the road that didn’t require a large infrastructure investment. MSDUK deployed a Microsoft Exchange Server hosted solution and Windows Mobile 6.0 smartphones. With this cost-efficient solution, staff can now conduct business anywhere.

Attorneys boost information access and billable hours with mobile solution
Date: 03/05/2010
The highly mobile lawyers of Hermelee & Geffin, a boutique firm in southern Florida, needed instant access to documents and other case information while in court or traveling. With a technology solution that combines Windows Mobile 6 with a legal application from Client Profiles, lawyers now receive timely information wherever they are. The attorneys’ increased efficiency has helped boost their quality of service, as well as their billable hours.

The re-making of Microsoft's Windows Phone 7
Date: 03/04/2010
Microsoft unveiled a completely new smartphone operating system last month that in no way resembles its past corporate image. The new Windows Phone 7 fits somewhere between Bing's visually appealing user interface and the consumer friendliness of a Zune music player.

IT firm trims administrative time, boosts efficiency with synchronized mobile solution
Date: 03/03/2010
To keep ahead of its competition, IT provider Digital Systems & Solutions (DSS) needed a tool that would help its field employees make the most of the technologies available to them. With Windows Mobile 5.0, the Microsoft Messaging and Security Feature Pack, and Microsoft ActiveSync 4.5, the company saw an opportunity to increase efficiency, promote innovation, and improve responsiveness to customer inquiries.

Mobile solution boosts medical practice's revenues 20 percent while enhancing care
Date: 03/02/2010
Carrollton Surgical Group used an electronic health record (EHR) and practice management solution to access patient information and enter coding for invoices within the practice. Physicians, however, spent most of their time at the local hospital. Carrollton Surgical Group turned to its EHR provider, Greenway Medical Technologies, for a solution that would give its physicians mobile access to the EHR. Greenway teamed with IQMax to provide the PrimeMobile solution, which works on any Windows Mobile phone. Physicians can enter information from the hospital and access their schedules and patient information from home or elsewhere. Because the practice captures all relevant billing information, revenues have risen about 20 percent. By using IQMax technology, Greenway delivered a more robust and feature-rich solution in half the time—and for half the cost—of an in-house developed solution.

Chamber of commerce increases revenue by 20 percent with seamless mobile solution
Date: 03/01/2010
“With Windows Mobile, our sales team can be productive from wherever they are.”Kenneth Oplinger, President and CEO, Bellingham/Whatcom Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Faster responses to customers, better quality of life for staff using mobile solution
Date: 02/28/2010
IT provider ACES needed a solution that would help after-hours staff respond quickly to customers without having to find an Internet connection and receive disruptive pages. With Windows Mobile phones, the company greatly improved its response time and the quality of life of its on-call staff, as well as the ability to address issues before they became crises. Greater efficiency has improved ACES’s profitability.

Elevator firm improves data transmission, saves field workers time with smartphones
Date: 02/27/2010
Lack of mobile data communication was limiting growth at Accel Lifts. Field engineers lost time transporting paper documents and sales staff faced ongoing e-mail backlogs. Manual data duplication overburdened administrators. With Windows Mobile phones running line-of-business software, communication and data transmission greatly improved. Accel Lift’s engineers save more than 150 hours a year, and sales staff expect to save more than 10 days a year. The company is poised to grow.

Mobile communication solution saves users at engineering firm one hour a day
Date: 02/24/2010
VINCI Energies wants to standardize the use of Windows phones in its environment, so the company is evaluating Windows phones with Windows Mobile 6.5. Faster operation and improved ease of use are saving users more than one hour a week, and Windows phones are about U.S.$150 less expensive per user than BlackBerry phones.

Sharp electronics gains market intelligence 400 percent faster with mobility solution
Date: 02/22/2010
Sharp Electronics needed the most accurate, most detailed intelligence possible about how its products were faring in retail stores nationwide, and it needed to get that intelligence quickly. But the paper-and-pen–based surveys that its field marketing managers took during store visits were time-consuming to collect, error-prone, and not very thorough. To meet its needs, the company turned to Windows Mobile powered devices and the FAST (Field Adapted Survey Toolkit) solution from Microsoft Certified Partner GeoAge. Sharp now updates its surveys 400 percent faster, gains 400 percent more information, and cuts survey time by 67 percent, so that field managers can spend more time building rapport with store personnel and selling product. Sales by field managers are up 500 percent in the year since Sharp adopted the solution.

Retailer links 450 stores to head office systems with innovative mobile solution
Date: 02/21/2010
Lithuania-based retailer Lietuvos Spauda needed to connect its chain of kiosks and convenience stores to head office. Manual processes restricted efficient management and delayed stock replenishment. Working with Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Etronika and mobile provider Omnitel, the retailer rolled out its “Virtual Sales” solution. Based on the integration of Windows Mobile devices with cash registers, and built using the Microsoft .NET Framework, the solution automatically transmits sales and product data to and from each store from head-office systems. Automated business processes help sales assistants work more productively, without having to learn new technology. Complete transparency of real-time data offers managers valuable insight into business performance. And the company has extended its offerings to new virtual services unique to the local market.

Your mobile business solution: Optimized
Date: 02/20/2010
New phones, new infrastructure? Not with these mobile business solutions.

Microsoft CEO unveils Windows Phone 7
Date: 02/19/2010
The new OS for phones features a completely new interface that focuses on real-time updates.

Windows phone for Business
Date: 02/18/2010
As a business, you want to help your mobile workers be more productive while on the go, by deploying the phones, technology and applications your business needs and your employees want.

Mobile web access boosts solution provider's productivity, customer responsiveness
Date: 02/17/2010
IT infrastructure provider BMS Digital Solutions needed a way to help its field staff stay in better communication with customers while on the road, as well as receive and respond to critical information faster. Now equipped with Windows MobileR 6 phones, BMS staff are more responsive to customers, arriving at site visits armed with the very latest information.

Mobile device management and security
Date: 02/15/2010
Mobile devices must meet demanding data and device security policy requirements, as well as offer an efficient enterprise-wide management solution. Windows phones can be deployed and managed like PCs and laptops, making the most of your existing technology investments while providing the flexibility and control you require.

Products and technologies
Date: 02/14/2010
Staying productive and keeping information within reach gets easy with a Windows phone. The Windows Mobile platform encompasses a range of products and technologies designed to work with existing business assets, helping your mobile employees and IT staff to achieve more with the tools they already have, and helping you lower your total cost of ownership.

Meet Windows phone for business
Date: 02/13/2010
In an increasingly mobile world, you need quick, on-the-go access to more types of communications, including e-mail, instant messaging, SMS, voice mail, calendar, and contacts. Meet Windows phone, your access to customers, colleagues, applications, information, and familiar productivity tools like the ones you use every day on your desktop.

i-mate 810-F, the toughest Windows Mobile 6.1 smartphone ever
Date: 01/25/2010
The 810-F is, in fact, more than a simple rugged handset. Under its tough, rubberized case, there's a powerful Windows Mobile 6.1 device with a set of features that offers almost anything you'd want from a smartphone.

Samsung OMNIA Lite B7330
Date: 01/18/2010
Samsung OMNIA Lite B7330 puts fun and functionality at your fingertips. With the finger-friendly Touch Wiz 2.0 interface’s cool, colourful graphics, you’ll enjoy effortlessly tapping and touching your way to your favourite features without a stylus. Samsung OMNIALite widgets provide a user experience that’s customized, fast and fun.