by Mobile Enterprise | Jan 17, 2012 | Mobile & Tech
Today we hand things over to Mobile Enterprise’s Tony Rizzo, who presents the Top 10 mobile enterprise Web applications. This article is excerpted with permission. To read the article in full, visit Mobile Enterprise’s site here. As we begin the New Year we can...
by Jessica Stillman | Jan 17, 2012 | Field Service Spotlight
With federal fuel-efficiency standards set to rise and new, greener tech being brought to market, now is a fascinating but complicated time for field service firms looking to invest in more efficient ways to run their vehicle fleet. To find out what factors operators...
by Derek Korte | Jan 13, 2012 | Mobile & Tech
The International Consumer Electronics Show, the giant circus-cum-gadget conference that’s finishing up today in Las Vegas, ostensibly serves as a sneak peek into the coming year’s batch of digital gizmos and blinking-lights toys — in other words, essential work...
by The Editors | Jan 12, 2012 | Field Service Spotlight
For the newly unemployed, life can sometimes feel like a train wreck. In which case, the best advice we can give is to straighten things out a bit, get back on track, and keep chuggin’ along. And in this week’s installment of the SmartVan’s regular...
by Darren Weiss | Jan 11, 2012 | Mobile & Tech
I got ninety-nine problems, but a dead battery ain’t one. … Or something like that. We don’t know what the next commercial from Powermat Technologies, the de-facto industry leader in wireless battery-charging technologies, will look like, but our suggestion...
by Jessica Stillman | Jan 10, 2012 | Field Service Spotlight
Just a few months ago, the Obama administration announced a whopping increase in the federal fuel-efficiency standards, a program known as CAFE, which will require vehicle manufacturers to achieve a fleet-wide fuel efficiency of 54.5 miles to the gallon by 2017. What...
by Patrick Peterson | Jan 9, 2012 | Strategy & Leadership
Sometimes businesses, in their endless drive to master new and complex technologies, can fail to embrace some of the lowest-tech solutions to basic problems. Patrick Peterson, author of the ZenHVAC blog, reminds us about one such feature that everyone in the field...
by Derek Korte | Jan 9, 2012 | Field Service Spotlight
As we (and, to be fair, everyone else) boldly predicted, Nissan indeed unveiled a concept electric version of its NV200 multi-use van Monday at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Nissan hasn’t yet indicated when it will begin mass production of the...
by Derek Korte | Jan 6, 2012 | Field Service Spotlight
The 2012 Detroit Auto Show kicks off on Monday, and Nissan may have a big surprise in store for field service vehicle fleet managers: an all-electric version of its popular NV200 van. Nissan’s been mum on the details, but auto industry analysts — Motor Authority’s...
by Jessica Stillman | Jan 4, 2012 | Field Service Spotlight
If you work for a field service firm that needs to replace its fleet’s vehicles, you face an often-tough decision: to lease or to buy? David Koelsch, a certified automotive fleet manager and fleet management consultant, has been helping firms both big and small manage...
by Darren Weiss | Jan 4, 2012 | Mobile & Tech
Buying 16,000 brand-new Apple tablet computers for its employees might not seem like the conventional move for a company that’s in the middle of closing over 100 stores, but that’s just what Sears said that it will be doing in an effort to upgrade the retail chain’s...
by Field Technologies Online | Jan 3, 2012 | Mobile & Tech
The turning of the calendar is again typically filled with bold predictions about what the future of life, business, and technology will look like. Some may end up being spot-on, others way off. But here’s a pretty safe bet for the near future, especially as it...
