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Thursday, January 24, 2002 |
NHL Scores with Sun's Web Services - fourth interesting article from today's PC World
"Hockey fans will have access to a wide range of scores and stats online and on their wireless devices.... The companies demonstrated a hockey game being streamed live to a wireless handheld device. Another option they showed was to watch a representation of a game in real-time, with the ability to track play and chat with fellow fans and experts."
I'm not a big hockey fan so this won't really impact me (shucky darns), but let's go NCAA basketball - get with the program! In a few years, this will be normal. (Sidebar: Go Jayhawks!)
10:41:47 PM 
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Vendors Team on Voice-Enabled PDA - second interesting article from today's PC World
"The personal digital assistant will use RIM's wireless e-mail technology and Motorola's integrated digital enhanced network technology on Nextel's nationwide network in the United States, offering voice and two-way radio service, text and numeric paging, and Nextel Wireless Web online services, RIM said in a statement."
I was excited to read this until I realized that they just mean a phone-PDA combo. Not that this isn't great news, especially with the Nextel service for two-way radio, but I thought I was finally going to be able to talk TO my phone-PDA, not through it.
10:22:35 PM
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eTForecasts: PDA-Phones Will Revitalize the PDA Market After rapid growth for five years, the PDA market growth rate slowed significantly in 2001--especially in the USA. But help is on the way in the form of PDA-Phones, which will see explosive growth in the next five years. PDA-Phones, which is a web cell phone with PDA functionality or vice-versa, will grow from only 0.2M+ units in 2000 to nearly 19M units in 2007 for a compound annual growth rate of 87.5%. PDA-Phones in use will increase from 0.9M units at year-end 2001 to nearly 49M in 2007 or 21% of all PDAs in use. PDA-Phones in use in the USA will grow to over 14M units in 2007 or nearly 18% of all PDAs in use." [in PDABuzz]
So listen up, libraries. You have less than five years to make your library's electronic resources available to wireless users. Kids that are ten years old now are going to expect to be able to search your catalog, request a book, etc., all from their phone. Start thinking now about how you're going to provide this access. Don't say I didn't warn you....
7:38:43 PM
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Comments by: YACCS
© Copyright 2002 Jenny Levine.
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