Technology advancement has it that a silent revolution is taking place in the Education sector, where teaching subjects is made easy for teachers and learning everything has become hassle-free for students.  Class room attendance apart, learning of subjects is computerized in many countries such as U.S.A., where the experiments have already started from the middle school level.

The heads of educational organizations accept that it is easier to get the students to make use of their hand-held devices for computer operations, rather than bringing all of them to a computer for a few hours in a day, for sharing educational information.  Many school authorities are of the opinion that the hand-held devices like PDAs, Palm Pocket PCs, Mobile Phones with computer interface are very useful to teachers and students, after studying the pattern of learning process in their respective schools.

By exchange of information between cross-platforms – the school computers installed at various departments and hand-held devices with the students and teachers wherever they are, has made appreciable changes in the education systems.  Whether it is learning languages, mathematical solutions, science formulae or systematic programming of calendar, time schedules or to-do lists, the hand-held devices with each individual go a long way in serving the purpose greatly.

But the awareness of using hand-held devices for educational purposes is just catching up and development of appropriate educational software is yet to get momentum. As of now software available for business purposes have to be made use of, as they have all the functions like synchronization of documents, emails and programs with the parent computer by the hand-held devices that are needed for education purposes.
Nokia Intellysync Mobile Suite is a multi-purpose software solution being used by many educational institutions presently.  This is a package of products that can be used individually or in combination with others for a comprehensive as well as flexible mobile solution.  It enables device management for efficient device tracking, over-the-air-remote management, deployment and configuration; wireless email accessibility and control; synchronization of files, documents, pictures and graphics with the parent computer; and also synchronization of various system applications.

Thus software intended for business management are brought to class rooms as well for educational purposes with hand-held devices on the move.