Stories about: iGo

When you're on the road, you can't call upon the resources that officebound employees enjoy. But whether your temporary workspace is a table at Starbucks, a hotel lobby, an airport or a client's lunchroom, you've still got to get the work done.

Calling all digital nomads -- you may not be wearing a dark suit, a tie and shiny shoes, but you're out there with at least a full day of work to get done. Chances are that, more times than not, your workspace is a table at Starbucks, a hotel lobby couch or a client's lunchroom. In other words, you labor where and when you can, without the kind of resources that a more office-bound employee can call upon.

When you're on the road, you can feel more like a juggler than a traveler: You've got your notebook, your smart phone, your camera, your GPS device, your MP3 player -- and all the power cords, USB drives and other gadgets that go with them.

Finder technology developed by a location-based services developer in Melbourne, Tenzeng, is being rolled out in seven countries across the globe.

Can you really deliver a PowerPoint presentation directly from an Apple iPod, RIM BlackBerry, or Palm Treo? The answer is "yes," and I'm going to tell you how to do it.

When Made2Manage Systems Inc., an Indianapolis-based provider of ERP systems for small- to medium-size manufacturing companies, decided to step up its B2B e-business offerings, senior management pulled a dozen people out of the 80-member IS department to form a separate "Eport" group. Their mission has been to launch and maintain m2mEport.com, a slick new website that houses Made2Manage's Web-based tools and services.

In what has become a constant trade-show theme, vendors at Spring Internet World in Los Angeles today made a flurry of wireless announcements, including application development plans, services and alliances.

Participants in this year's Mobile Insights show were given a sneak preview today of a Web portal called Portable Life, which will feed targeted and highly personalized content and technical support to connected or disconnected wireless devices.

Your company just finished developing a hot product, and the directive to sell it over the Web has come from the top. You've done your research and know that to reap the benefits of e-commerce fully, you'll need an extranet. Just as you'll sell your product online, you'll order materials and conduct business with distributors via the Web. You've got the technology - but hold on. A great extranet means more than an unstoppable IP network. At least as important is the contract with your extranet business partners.