May 24, 2013: Salt Lake City has improved inspection dispatching and tracking using GPS data.
Salt Lake City’s Building Services and Civil Enforcement Divisions employ more than two dozen inspectors who collectively make hundreds of stops per day at properties around the city.

Apr 5, 2013: Healthcare organizations with lots of always-mobile workers – people who spend their days in the field or traveling from one client or patient to the next – will be “investing in mobile tools to provide real-time access to required data and information in the field” this year.

Apr 1, 2013: Stateson, from ServiceMaster, said his operation has saved close to $50,000 in a year with a mobile worker-centric system, including about $800 a month in fuel use alone from reduced idling and more efficient routes. Stateson is using a mobile system from Xora Inc.

Mar 25, 2013: City will equip code enforcement officers, contractors with Samsung tablets running Xora software to keep them safer, more efficient on the job.

Mar 7, 2013: As a new wave of younger, more social-media friendly employees joins the workforce, resistance to GPS has declined, given that these employees tend to broadcast their whereabouts readily anyway. The impact of this demographic change will take a while to filter through, but there definitely will be less resistance from the workforce in the future, analysts say.