10 essential BlackBerry apps for travel

Have you been in an airport recently? It’s difficult avoiding the hordes of business people blindly walking around staring at their smartphones. While annoying, it also highlights an important trend: Smartphones are bringing the business anywhere.

For example, if your sales staff needs to check product availability on the road, it should be accessible from a smartphone. Need to send or receive those quarterly reports? Use your phone. Smartphones give companies the opportunity to operate more quickly and efficiently than ever. Here’s a great example of one IT guy taking advantage of his company’s iPhone adoption to empower the sales staff.

Smartphones also provide individuals with opportunities to save time and operate efficiently while on the road as well. If you do a lot of traveling, here’s a nice list of "10 essential Blackberry apps for travel" I recently found on Computerworld.com. Don’t worry if you don’t have a Blackberry, they have links to Android, WebOS, and iPhone apps in there as well.