Is It Time to Ditch Wired Data Synchronization?

"Is It Time to Ditch Wired Data Synchronization?" is the new editorial over on 1SRC this week.

Over the last eight weeks I have been dealing with a number of issues around the use of wireless computers in a corporate setting. The entire process starting me thinking that perhaps the time has come to rid ourselves of wired data synchronization.

All Tangled Up

My trouble started as I began to develop a project plan to upgrade a calendaring system for the company that I work for. I have been supporting this particular product for over 10 years and my team and I were confident that the upgrade would go off without a hitch. It was at that point that we discovered that the vendor had dropped support for wired calendar synchronization. I immediately saw that 40 of my customers would be directly impacted.

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