Mobility Tips and Tricks


Recent Mobility Tips and Tricks Articles

A Netbook with Juice

The Lenovo S12 uses the same chip as the Apple MacBook and is powerful enough to run Windows 7.  Read more

Is Your iPhone Backup Adequate?

You rely on your iPhone to handle critical business matters, but are you as careful backing up data on your iPhone or smartphone as you are on your PC? Maybe...  Read more

Can You Run Your Business from an iPhone?

iPhone applications for business are expanding at a mind-boggling pace. You can manage payrolls, bank accounts, transactions, appointments, and more. But doe...  Read more

Which Cell Phone Is Smartest for Business?

Many businesses depend on mobile phones that also browse the Web, send and receive e-mail, and use other applications. But how do you choose between not only...  Read more

Ask a Sales Clerk: Netbook Buying Guide 

Looking to buy an inexpensive ultra-portable? Here are some of the top contenders, considered by one of the sales associates at J&R Music and Computer...  Watch video

Cut Costs With a New VoIP Phone

Check voicemail from a cordless handset at the touch of a button.  Read more

Tech Talk: Mobile Platform Delivers for Furniture Co.

An Ohio-based furniture chain discovered that mobile workforce management software helped cut the delivery window for customers from four hours to two -- and...  Read more

Thumbs Down: Mobile Device Hazards

E-mailing and texting can help get work done -- but too much typing on a smartphone can take a physical toll. Businesses need to heed warnings to to avoid pa...  Read more

Road Warriors' Bloopers Revealed

Survey finds that even veteran business executives spill food and mispronounce clients' names.  Read more

A Quick Look at the Palm Pre 

Last week Palm's long-anticipated Pre debuted, and Inc. got to take it for a spin. With sleek styling and a physical keyboard, this could be serious compe...  Watch video

How to Put Your Website on Cell-Phone Screens

Ubik and DotMobi help you reformat your website for cell phone screens  Read more

Design PowerPoint Slides for Smart Phones

Remember how bad big-screen movies looked on TV before broadcasters came up with formats to make sure everything fit? By following a few simple rules, it’s...  Read more

Baseball on your Smartphone

Watch the game on your smartphone or laptop using MLB.TV or MLB.com At Bat app  Read more

How to Get Better Mobile Reception Indoors

Tools for improving cell service at home  Read more

A New Crop of Portable Camcorders

The best digital camcorders from Flip cams to new offerings from Kodak, Panasonic, and Sony  Read more

New Nokia N97 Smartphone 

At CES over the weekend, I got a brief demo of the N97, the smartphone that Nokia officially announced last month. The phone will be released in Europe th...  Watch video

The Portability Revolution

Reviews of four netbooks for CEOs on the go  Read more

University of Missouri:
A New Life for Old Phones

How 16 innovative college kids from Yale to the University of Missouri juggle school work and running a business.  Read more

Smartphone Showdown: iPhone 3G vs. Storm

Smartphones have become a staple of doing business on the go. Here's a rundown on how two of the newest, Web-enabled, multi-purpose phones stack up.  Read more

Mobile Workers Use GPS "Points of Interest"

GPS "points of interest" (POIs) are locations that can be loaded into your portable or car-based device. POIs have a number of important uses for business, f...  Read more

Texting on the Company Tech

As texting becomes more popular so do compliance issues regarding what can and cannot be sent via text by people in business. Is there liability for text mes...  Read more

New Tools for the Mobile Presenter

Increasingly, your staff is making presentations on the go -- either at conferences, with clients, or even one-to-one in airport lounges. Here are new techno...  Read more

Road-Ready: Printing on the Go

Whether you need to print out a last-minute sales proposal on the road or get a printout of a document in your hotel before a client meeting, a portable prin...  Read more

Google's Android: Phones for Your Business?

It’s here: the first mobile device powered by Google's new open-source mobile software platform, Android. But do these new smartphones, such as the new HTC...  Read more

Netbooks: The Smartphone Alternative?

Small-sized and small-priced PCs are taking off with consumers. But are they ideal for your business?  Read more