Focus on Technology: Working with wireless, Part 1
How you can use this hot technology in your operations.
Would you believe that "modern" wireless technology had its debut in the United States almost 100 years ago on Cape Cod, Mass.? On January 18, 1903, inventor Guglielmo Marconi broadcast the first two-way transatlantic communication (by Morse code) between President Theodore Roosevelt and King Edward VII of Britain.
Today you may not be transmitting quite as far, but chances are your communiqu?- e-mails, Web site clippings, cellular phone calls - are just as important to your contemporaries as was that historic first transmission. Wireless technology has the potential to unleash us (pun intended) from our desk-bound PCs and yet keep us well connected to important data points found in our back-offices.