1. Information Technology and Manufacturing Today
... $200 and $700, depending on the needs of the business. Countrywide Home Loans, a real estate mortgage provider, uses handhelds to allow their salespeople to look up rates, locate branches, estimate a home's market value and evaluate how much a customer can afford to spend. Countrywide decided to use existing back-end technology that they already had in place so they wouldn't have to spend money ... get an extra hour of productivity out of their workers every week by using the devices. Handheld computers do carry some unique problems. The most common problem is losing the wireless signal...
- Word Count: 2093
- Approx Pages: 8
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- Grade Level: High School