When he's in his Miami offices or visiting any of four clients who also are located in his building, Itchon will tell Wildfire to forward calls to the 900-mhz. During meetings, the headset rests around his neck. Depending on Itchon's instructions, Wildfire will take a message or put through priority calls. Technology is the power tool of small business, and for entrepreneurs like Itchon, it has made competing with larger companies on a national scale a reality. Yet it has only been in the past decade that technology has evolved to become pervasive in small and home offices.
Notebooks are small and light enough to fit in a legal pad holder.
Cellular phones are measured in ounces, and are as small as pagers. Work is increasingly information-based, and that's exactly the kind of work that you can take with you wherever you go and do it anytime. The technology has brought power and equality to the smaller enterprise. The change has enabled workers ranging from home-based entrepreneurs to employees with large corporations to hit the field without the high costs once associated with owning the latest tools. Some 64 million cellular phones are scattered about the U.S. market, and 37 percent of the South Florida market has a cellular phone, according to RCR News, an industry trade journal.