New Apps for GPS in Phones: Benefit or Big Brother?

摘要

Enterprises nationwide are turning to novel uses for mobile phones equipped with GPS technology. And if your enterprise has road warriors, chances are you can make use of it, too. DoodyCalls is using a tracking application to head off customer complaints. Pacer International is streamlining dispatching using GPS. Team Excel Service Management compares location and time data to ensure jobs are completed on schedule. The latest host of GPS offerings available from Sprint Nextel is beginning to prove the value of the two providers' merger roughly nine months ago. The move to add GPS applications from Sprint was a natural one for Thompson Grading, CFO Shanna Fields reports, because the company already was hooked on Nextel's push-to-talk phones.