Barcelona has once again hosted Mobile World Congress (MWC) which has lived up to previous events, revealing an insight of things to come in the mobile space.

The advent of the iPhone has brought with it a plethora of apps all available via the AppStore, now we also have Google’s app store in the ‘Android Market’. Both of these stores offer apps for as little as £0.59p and in some cases, even free. With anything from gaming and photography apps to personal [...]

The Consumer Electronic Show (CES), held in Las Vegas in early January, was an excellent showcase for what’s new in the consumer electronics field. It was also a pointer to what we can expect mobile computing as a whole to be like in the coming months.

For this installment on The Codegate Blog, we’re thrilled to bring you this post written exclusively for us by Rob Bamforth – Principal Analyst, Communications, Collaboration & Convergence, Quocirca. Advances in IT have had a liberating effect in most working environments. As well as providing employees with tools to automate mundane tasks, modern digital communications [...]

Knowing the location of your vehicle is important, but knowing your employee has access to the details of the customer they’re visiting, the sales history of each account, or even the model and history of the equipment he’s servicing, may be crucial to his role

Recent news headlines have illustrated an entirely undesirable aspect of our industry. Auto-ID provides the underlying technology used by international couriers and freight transporters to enable senders of packages to follow their progress on-line.

We’re just starting a major rollout of some 1,400 hand-held mobile devices for a client here at Codegate and our experience with larger installations means we know where the difficulties are likely to arise. For the purpose of this post, it isn’t important to know which manufacturer or which device is involved, what is important [...]

Now before we start, let’s make it clear that I don’t have the absolute answer, if I did I would be a rich man. What I have is experience over decades of working in the mobile technology industry and have seen how these technologies have evolved over time… so here’s my two pennies worth… Over [...]

What do you think of when you hear the word “Mobility”? A fully integrated mobile worker solution incorporating hardware and software, increasing visibility and remote worker management; or a four wheeled motorised scooter and other physical mobility aids? I have a sneaking suspicion that the majority would associate “Mobility” with the latter and this is [...]