Nine Hot Consumer Technologies You Can't Ignore
Like it or not, these much-discussed technologies are going to have a significant impact on your IT department.
Consumer GPS systems
Somebody's watching—but no one seems to care.
Consumer GPS system sales are booming.
Privacy advocates have screamed for years over our ever-degrading ability to live in relative anonymity. But convenience has trumped privacy time after time. (Note that even after reporting one of the largest data thefts in history, TJX's same store sales were actually up recently.) GPS devices seem to be no exception to "convenience uber alles," with practically every recent cell phone now GPS enabled (by law) and sales of consumer GPS systems reportedly booming.
Why You Should Care: GPS for tracking fleets and service teams is nothing new, but if your entering employees are simply going to expect tracking in their lives, don't you owe it to them and your company to find innovative IT tools that take advantage of the fact?
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