Last summer, Boston-based Where, which runs a mobile ad network and location-based recommendation service, opened a development center in Croatia to supplement its 18-person U.S. mobile engineering staff.
In the last two months, the company hired two mobile developers, bringing its Web and mobile development staff to 15, said Debra Robinson, the company's chief information officer.
Ning, a Silicon Valley start-up, plans to almost double its mobile development staff to 17 to work on a hybrid instant-message and social network it launched in February, said Chief Executive Jason Rosenthal.
Though Safeguard has 1, 000 full-time employees, it only has two mobile developers on staff.
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The school now has a mobile resuscitation trolley and staff have been alerted to the condition.
In some stores, such as a nearby T-Mobile store, Nokia staff would find their Lumia 710 smartphone had already been moved off the main display despite being a relatively new entrant in the market.
T-Mobile has 6, 500 staff in Britain, about 2, 000 of whom work at its Borehamwood head office in Hertfordshire.
When his luggage was searched, security staff found one mobile phone taped to a medicine bottle, three other mobile phones taped together and several watches, also taped together.
Unsurprisingly, he is not enamoured with the proliferation of mobile phones and argues that staff in venues should be more pro-active about silencing those who disturb others - ejecting them if necessary.
Journalists will have to hand in their mobile phones to Vatican security staff to prevent them tweeting or communicating with the outside world until the morning session has ended and they have briefed the numerous members of the Vatican Press Corps waiting for information at the Press Centre.
Another motel hired housekeeping staff to carry around mobile pinhole camera detectors at unspecified intervals rather than using the 24-hour system it had claimed to have.
Mainstream business tasks from sales and marketing to customer service and consumer research are quickly making their way from desktops to smartphones, as companies try to take advantage of increasingly powerful mobile devices to free up sales staff and pare back paperwork.
The American Forces Press Service notes that more than 600, 000 DoD staff use government-issued mobile phones, mostly BlackBerry devices.
When Accident Group, an insurance company in the UK, ran out of money earlier this year, 2, 500 staff received an SMS on their mobile phone telling them to call a number.
With the advent of electronic medical records, along with the established role of computers and broadening impact of mobile based platforms in healthcare, having a staff that is technically proficient will likely ensure success in this new healthcare environment.
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The company also reorganized its staff so that all teams have web and mobile developers working together.
The staff at 360mind, a 20-person mobile development shop, doubled last year, and is likely to double again this year, said CEO Nick Dalton.
While the back office staff remain glued to desktops, senior executives want mobile access so they can monitor transactions and approve them wherever they are.
Mr. Spalter, chairman of Mobile Future, a national wireless industry association, served on the staff of the National Security Council during the Clinton administration.
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For more than three hours, all of its calls were diverted to ambulance staff in Scotland, who then contacted NIAS workers via their mobile phones.
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By 2010, one year after launch, they had 7-figure revenue, hired 16 in staff, and sent text messages out to over 1 million mobile phones.
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Baron agreed to handle all the marketing--not the company's forte--and by 2005 he had built a sales and marketing staff of 18, 10 of them devoted to drumming up mobile customers.
The Finnish handset maker has announced it may cut 6, 000 jobs, or 38% of its research and development staff, as it prepares to adopt the Windows Phone 7 mobile platform across all future smartphone offerings.
Increasingly Chief Information Officers and their staff are pushed against the wall to support the latest and greatest mobile handset.
It emerged that Keith Grimmett, of the LAS emergency planning unit, had urged a return to the use of pagers to alert senior staff in the event of a disaster because they were more reliable than mobile phones.
Staff should be trained to operate the critical communications system from both computer and mobile devices to achieve an aptitude with the system ensuring more consistent results in high anxiety situations.
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Until November, access to this store, which Microsoft calls Windows Marketplace for Mobile, will be limited to developers who are familiar with Microsoft and have contacted its staff to pitch their apps.
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As such, the partnership has the potential to trip up both consumers and retail and support staff, who are accustomed to simply dialing calls rather than placing them from within a mobile application.
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