Data Access Mobile Phones

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The mobile phone has seen rapid changes ever since the first smart phones emerged. At the current state of the art, we have phones that can do many functions. Try, push to talk, image exchange, photographic camera, video camera, voice dictation, even video playback all on one handheld device. With the addition of higher speed mobile networks, we have a massive amount of functionality waiting to be used and put into a operating procedure.
Let's look at one of the new uses of cell phones, accessing secure databases remotely. To access remote data on a cell phone, there are usually two choices:
a.)Use the built in browser interface on a web phone.
b.)Use an application built for the particular phone. Could be a windows CE application.

For our first example,In southern California there are police agencies experimenting with accesing police records with their blackberry phones. The database, called coplink http://www.coplinkconnect.com/ is used to store police records from multiple agencies. The officers use the built in browser to access a data warehouse that is searchable by the field officer, using their blackberry. Now a officer walking a beat can pull his phone out, type a drivers license name and date. Within seconds records are displayed on the cop's phone.

If you know computer technology, a few thoughts probably come to mind. You probably wonder if this is secure, is the data going over the internet, and can the blackberry device get a virus. If you are a police officer, you might be thinking is this something I'd use or just call dispatch to have them run the check. Whatever the case, I know the method is secure and seems to be useful by some of the people testing it. And it seems that applications like this are growing in public safety.

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