It’s more than 8,400 miles from Goa, India to the Kansas City, Mo, but the 22 hours of flight time was endured by two of our off-shore teammates, Ivo Costa and Gaurav Borkar proved well worth it for our whole development team. At DCT, we have employed an offshore team through Creative Capsule, a Kansas […]
Introducing the wireless Bluetooth CS4070 Companion Scanner from Motorola. This scanner empowers tablets, smart phones, laptops and other devices with enterprise-class scanning technology. The current challenge with most consumer devices is they can’t offer the highly accurate bar code scanning that most applications require. The best feature is the simplicity – connect the CS4070 via Bluetooth to
Small Scanner – Big Difference Read More »
The announcement of Android Wear and the imminent battle between Apple and Google to build a computer that people will actually wear, reminded me of DCT’s first experience with wearable computer technology. In the summer of 2000, DCT was involved in a warehouse management project with Sony Electronics. The solution seamed right in our wheelhouse: we
Calling Dick Tracy Read More »
A first look at the Motorola MC67 and TC55 and the Intermec CN51 In November of 2012, I sat in a meeting room in Chicago with some of the brightest minds from the leading companies in the bar code, data collection, and field mobility industries. The event was an executive summit organized by the market
Android Gets Rugged Read More »
Recent rumors of a Microsoft investment of an acquisition of Xamarin has our development staff giddy at the thought of creating native code for IOS and Android in the familiar IDE of Visual Studio. We actually started our R&D into developing software for iPad with Xamarin’s predecessor Mono in late 2010. At that time, the code produced by
C# Comes to Smart Phones? Read More »
iPad sales are shrinking and that is big news in the world of tech pundits. If you want more of the dirty details you can find it here, here or here if you like your news with an Apple-Centric spin. I particularly like the Apple-Centric article because it explains all of the opportunities Apple missed because they were too busy racing with
Is the iPad Suffering from Shrinkage? Read More »
Welcome to the most recent reboot of our Blog Site. We attack this project with fits and starts it seems. There are a number of reasons that we have lacked consistency in producing this site. Primarily, it has been an issue of quality. We have always felt that sending out a collection of warmed over
Last week’s announcement that Zebra Technologies had agreed to purchase the Motorola Solutions Enterprise Business was greeted by nearly everyone in the industry as a positive. Under Motorola’s leadership, the former “Symbol Technologies” business of scanners and handhelds had grown increasingly stale. Most surprising to industry old timers like myself, was market share gain in retail point
Back to the Future? Read More »
Route sales and DSD are perhaps the oldest “mobile computing” application in use since the 80’s. Way back when, DCT created its first “outside the four walls” system for Paris Brothers Distributing. It included a pocket PC made by Symbol and a custom-built cable that connected to a Sprint cell phone to enable order processing
What’s New in Scout: Software Enhancements for Route Sales Read More »
Although Microsoft has attempted to stay mum on sales figures of their tablet, the Surface, it is no secret that the numbers haven’t been strong. The IDC recentlyreleased datasuggesting that sales of the Surface didn’t even reach the one million mark in the first quarter of 2013. Microsoft had undoubtedly hoped that the Surface would
Can Microsoft Boost Sales of the Surface? Read More »