MOBILE COMPUTING Mobile Computing



Mobile Computing in Business Environment

Applications and Benefits of Mobile Computing in Business Environment

In business environment, the applications and benefits of mobile computing are great and varied. They allow businesses to carry their virtual world where they are, and do so with the same or even greater ease than their stationary counterparts.

Freedom of movement: Businesses are no longer tied (in the literal sense) to a specific location while working on the computer. Mobile computers give organizations an unprecedented opportunity to take any action in motion. This is the main advantage of mobile computing in business environment.

Time saving: Mobile computer is something that will help organizations waste time more efficiently while travelling. This can be done by accessing and working on important business related data stored in the mobile computing device.

Increased productivity: organizations productivity is directly proportional to organizations' mobility, what you can do your work from anywhere, without delay, and attempts to access a computer, allow you to do much more. That's why most of today's companies offer employees access to their jobs from home.

Ease of research: Mobile Computing and the opportunities they offer, allow both businesses to conduct research on any topic, from anywhere in the world.

Thus, in context of benefits and applications of mobile computing in business environment, technology evolves as the need to communicate grows ever larger. With faster internet providers come the need to communicate better using as many mediums as possible, be it audio, both or both. Technology has a lot of effects on daily activities of business. In today's world, we are surrounded by technology and cannot find a way out. This is the reason technology is impacting our lives to a very great extent. These effects are positive as well as negative; therefore, it is up to us whether we get affected in a positive way or in a negative way. This paper discusses the mobile computing and its advancement, the usages of mobile computing in the business environments, its benefits and risks involved in the business.

In addition to this, for different organizations, especially small business, mobile computing is a great opportunity to increase productivity, make the conditions more flexible and reduce costs. At the same time all the staff provided a certain freedom that is not available previously. Working in a traditional LAN, employees to connect to the corporate network should remain in their jobs. But over the past two years, new technologies to connect to a network device located at a distance of 100 meters from each other - this means that people can move freely around the office. Wireless local area networks easier to deploy and maintain than traditional, but they function the same way (B'Far, 2004, pp. 67).

Furthermore, the mobile computing also has the potential to enable people in third world nations to capitalize on the economic advances of high technology. Mobile-cloud computing can contribute to the economy of scale of computing resources to promote rural development (Talukder & Yavagal, 2006, ...