Mobile Technology

Mobile technology is the constantly expanding sector of equipment and related services that enable people to work away from their desks. The exploding mobile technology sector includes telecommuting, working from partner or client locations, from a plane or train or simply moving more fluidly around the company's own premise through the use of a wireless local-area network. The key to mobile technology is balancing the benefits from mobilizing vital data against the security challenges that will be introduced.

Mobile Devices

Mobile devices are aimed at workers and consumers not working from a wired outlet. The mobile device category is expanding by leaps and bounds, and includes everything from cell phones, feature phones and smartphones to laptops, mobile Internet devices (MIDs), tablet computers and ultra-mobile PCs (UMPCs). Mobile devices are benefiting from the growth of 3G networks and will become even more ubiquitous as 4G grows. There is more diversity in the types of devices and operating systems than in the desktop world.

Cell Phones

Cell phones are portable telephones that connect to a mobile network. Increasingly, cell phones are dividing into a trio of categories: basic cell phones, feature phones and smartphones. Cell phones, which also are known as mobile phones, provide many services besides voice calling. These include short message service, location-based services, Web surfing and other data services. In general, phones are getting smaller and the user interfaces more creative. The iPhone has ushered in a new era of creativity.