A few months ago, Honeywell (HandHeld Products) filed a lawsuit against Datalogic over 2-D imaging.  This suit has now been settled.

From all of us at Z-Space Technologies, we'd like to wish you a Happy Holidays and a successful New Year.  We are looking forward to an exciting 2009.  Thanks to everyone who has helped make 2008 a very good year.

Just in time for the holidays, we have released the next ITScriptNet Solution Pack.  This one is for Check In / Check Out.  The system is intended for use in any scenario where individual items are inventoried, issued and returned.  These can include Tool Rooms, Security offices, Hospitality, Rental agencies, Maintenance departments, and many, many more.

All Solution Packs are built with ITScriptNet for portable data collection, and include the back end Database, Reports, PC Software for database maintenance and reporting, and the Data Collection programs.  Contact us for more information on this exciting new product!

Honeywell (Hand Held Products) has announced an update to the Dolphin 7850, adding a laser scan engine.  This is available in 3 range options: High Performance, Long Range, and Advanced Long Range.  This makes the 7850 an excellent choice for warehousing applications where scanning linear barcodes at a distance is required, and an Imager is not practical.  ITScriptNet supports the Dolphin 7850 with a native client.

We've added some now visual styles to help you make your data collection programs look even better.  Here is an overview of some of the changes:

Rectangular Shape objects now have a Gradient option, which allows you to fade a color from left to right, or top to bottom.  This example shows several shape objects combined with some text:

There are also Gradient options available for Buttons elements.  You can select a single Gradient, or a two-gradient Chisled look.

Text and Images can now be rotated to any of the 4 cardinal rotations.

We've added a Signature Line to the Digital Ink element, and also added the ability to rotate it.  When the signature image is saved, it is automatically rotated back to horizontal.

We hope these new visual enhancements will help you to make your data collection programs better than ever!

Z-Space Technologies, Inc. is a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) partner for the Westlake City Schools.  As part of the STEM initiative, Z-Space sponsored the Middle Schools First Lego League Robotics Team.  This year’s project theme is “Climate Connections”.  The team has to present research on the topic and also program a Lego Robot to earn points on a playing field that fits the climate connections theme.  The team used ITScriptNet in their research to create a survey about battery usage.  The team collected information from most of the students and all of the faculty about how many battery-operated devices used in 8th grade.  The collected data verified that battery use has increased and helped support the foundation of the project which used wind-energy to power batteries.   We proud to report that our team won the Research Quality Award at the regional competition and has been selected to move on to the STATE LEVEL COMPETITION! 

We've added several new Element Types to ITScriptNet V3.0, and improved some old ones.  Here is a brief overview of some of the changes:

Calendar and Date/Time Picker Elements

We've added support for the Calendar and Date/Time Picker controls, as shown.  These calendars allow you to select dates and time, while limiting the valid ranges that can be selected.

Status Elements

We've added a whole list of Status elements that help you keep track of Battery Life, Keyboard state, Free Space, WiFi Association State, and more!

GPS Location

There is a new element that saves GPS Location information into your collected data automatically.  This allows you to Geo-Stamp each data collection record for applications that need it, such as Route Accounting, Delivery, and more!

Keypad Element

We've added a Keypad element to simplify data entery for fields which have a limited set of valid characters on devices without a keyboard.  For example, if you are collecting a Quantity or a numeric Password field.

The keypad is fully configurable, and there is even a Custom keypad where you can define your own keys!