Netbooks are small, inexpensive, lightweight laptops with Internet connectivity and enough power to run the most common office software. Laptops come with WiFi connectivity and can access 3G cellular networks with special built-in 3G modems or plug-in receivers. If you add a new sales contact on the road, it will be saved on the corporate network so you can access it back at the office. The AMS (Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer) particle detector will be installed and operated on the International Space Station. The Post Office Department announced an expansion of the General Post Office in 1930. The western part of the block would contain an annex to the main facility, as well as a parcel post station called Morgan Station. Android phones, although much more limited in model selection, are now carried by each of the four major players as well. They’re familiar, they can double as an office computer and a (relatively) portable device and you don’t have to sync data as much, because much of it is right on your hard drive.

The same holds true for the section at the bottom: It rotates 90 degrees to the side and continues in its desire to move to the right. Could you place the Thunder in the right league? Sprint had slightly higher reliability — 90.5 percent — but showed an average overall download speed of 808 kilobits per second (kbps). The PC World research is the most scientifically rigorous, relying on software to record the connection speeds and network reliability at 283 testing locations within 13 large U.S. An important business feature of smartphones is their ability to synchronize or “sync” data with your office network. Now let’s take a look at the plusses and minuses of each kind of mobile business communications device. Most smartphones come loaded with the basic messaging apps like e-mail, SMS (text messaging), calendars and contact lists, but you can download thousands of other apps to customize your mobile business experience. 3G carriers. As the ads like to remind you, your smartphone is only as good as your network. You can share documents, view PowerPoint presentations and IM with other participants while teleconferencing through your smartphone. Blackberrys come in many flavors, some geared for global business travelers, others for a richer multimedia experience (video, photos and presentations).

To successfully conduct business in and out of the office, it’s important to have a shared suite of productivity tools. There are a host of powerful apps that extend the tools of online collaboration to the smartphone. There are hundreds of business-minded smartphones on the market, but most run on five core operating system technologies: Blackberry, Windows Mobile, Symbian, iPhone and Android. It has also added to its retail lineup Office Small Business Edition 2003, which will carry a $449 price tag, which adds to the core Office product bundle several applications tailored for smaller organizations. For managing a complex network of business contacts, few online services beat LinkedIn, which offers a native app for the iPhone and soon for the Blackberry. An advantage of Windows Mobile is that it allows users to run native versions of popular Microsoft Office software like Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Again, Verizon took the prize with users reporting average download speeds of 1,940 kbps. The PC World tests only include Verizon, Sprint and AT&T, since T-Mobile had not yet offered 3G service as of April 2009. Verizon 3G connections provided uninterrupted service 89.8 percent of the time with an average download speed of 951 kbps across the country.

Blackberry models are available on just about every big and small 3G network, including the big four: AT&T, Sprint, Verizon and T-Mobile. T-Mobile came in second with 1,793 kbps. 3G smartphones operate on 3G cellular telephone networks that offer broadband-quality Internet connectivity — download speeds of up to 1.4 megabytes per second (Mbps)– over the airwaves. Many smartphones are compatible with both Exchange and Domino/Notes. It also seamlessly integrates with Microsoft Exchange Server. The latest release of the iPhone 3G supports Microsoft Exchange and includes stricter security protocols like VPN support and remote wiping. Still, a tether and ballast system, like most solutions in our countdown, requires time. Home technology is especially interesting since that’s where most of us spend the bulk of our time. Every time the smartphone goes online, it communicates wirelessly with the office network, pulling in new e-mails, updating calendar entries, adding contacts that you entered on your desktop computer, and downloading any security patches sent out by the IT staff.