Mobilog

Wednesday, March 27, 2002

CIOs split on Web services picks. Chief information officers are divided when it comes to choosing between Microsoft and Java technologies for Web services, according to a new study from Merrill Lynch. [CNET News.com]
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The evolution of Web services [IDG InfoWorld]
3:13:36 PM

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GoAmerica, VoiceStream in GPRS Deal. W-ISP to offer carrier's GPRS data network [allNetDevices Wireless News]
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App Blends Java, .NET Messaging. Enables .NET use of Java messaging platform [allNetDevices Wireless News]
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Cell World Awaits 500-Lb. Gorilla. Microsoft is entering the mobile phone business. Will it be able to throw its weight around like it has everywhere else? By Elisa Batista. [Wired News]
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So Many Phones, So Little Need. Cell-phone manufacturers are cranking out new products at an astonishing rate, even though the market is flat. They sound confident, but the analysts are worried. Story by Elisa Batista. Photo gallery compiled by Lisa Delgado. [Wired News]
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The enemy: Rhetoric meets reality in Microsoft. special report Behind their long history of sniping, Sun's renewed Java campaign faces more competition from the software giant than ever before. [CNET News.com]
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Ad Age. New WSJ site to be launched. According to the article, this was the result of a $232 m project and will include a $21 m ad campaign. Wow! The site currently has 650,000 subscribers that pay for access. Now, I can imagine that their business models project that they will expand their subscriber base to 2-3 m people over the next three to five years at an average subscription cost of ~$75 a year. However, that is unlikely given that nothing has on the site has really changed. Why? From everything I've read, it sounds like it is going to be a one-way website in the old model. Yawn.

What they need are subscriber weblogs that enable their smart readers to cover the news on the ground in financial markets, corporate offices, and points of sale around the world. That would change the equation, boost the amount of news generated by 20 to 30 fold, and make the WSJ something you couldn't do business without. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]
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Infoworld. Akamai is working on a private extranet service to provide corporations "edge" services. Dear Akamai, the REAL edge of the network is the desktop. Pushing services and sites to a managed installed base of desktop databases and content management systems is what will really improve performance and reduce infrastructure costs for corporations. This is what push was supposed to be, but the technology wasn't available. It's available now.

The reason that Akamai can't see this opportunity is that it is paying a strategy tax. They invested billions in a distributed server architecture when they should have been deploying a dynamic desktop Web platform. Now they can't see the forest for the trees. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]
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Compare this estimate of personal storage space to this page of examples of what can be stored. Note: we are currently at year zero on the storage estimate. A standard Dell machine now sold has 120 Gb of personal storage or 0.120 Tb of storage. We will pass the ability to store all the printed materials of the Library of Congress in 2008. If we had copyright term reform, we could see a world where people carry around the Library of Congress -- legally -- on their laptop. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]
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Sun Rises On Wireless Web Standards. Announces "unified" wireless services platform [allNetDevices Wireless News]
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Major Vendors Unveil Java Apps, Delivery. Add to wireless Java momentum [allNetDevices Wireless News]
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Dan Bricklin: Handspring Treo 180 Review, Part 2. As more and more services become available, and people figure out how to program devices like the Treo to invent even more services, this type of interface is really nice. Typing and touch-screen is a great combination, much better than "1=Yes, 2=No...". [Tomalak's Realm]
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Sharp Linux Device Coming Real Soon Now?. Handango set to distribute Zaurus apps [allNetDevices Wireless News]
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Bluetooth-802.11 "Battle" Bogus: Report. White paper says both will prevail [allNetDevices Wireless News]
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JavaOne: Tools vendors grapple over Java vs. .Net [IDG InfoWorld]
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JavaOne: Carriers call for value-based pricing with 3G [IDG InfoWorld]
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Sun: Speeding Java for cell phones. The computing giant says new software technology makes Java run at least five times faster on gadgets such as cell phones. [CNET News.com]
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BBC uncovers thousands of open networks in London: Merry Olde Englande is looking rather Swiss (as in cheese), as London wireless networks are found in the thousands, and mostly open to all comers.

[80211b News]
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David P. Reed: Holding our email hostage. Just as terrorists win when they trigger a breakdown in the system, the spammers, through their unwitting agents and amplifiers, the blackhole vigilantes, seem to be on the verge of causing email providers to create larger and larger disconnects among us poor users. [Tomalak's Realm]
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The Dot-Net Guy wants to kick James Gosling's butt. I just sent an I/O to Bull. He says "Get in line."

[Scripting News]
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News.Com: "Mankind needs your help." Loser.

[Scripting News]
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Deloitte Picks Light, Flexibility and Link to History. Deloitte has leased three floors for 15 years in the Cunard Building and has rebuilt them to reflect the consulting firm's corporate culture. By Edwin Mcdowell. [New York Times: Business]
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Foreigners May Get Control of German Media Group. Leo Kirch is about to give up control of the company he built from scratch into one of Europe's biggest media conglomerates. By Edmund L. Andrews. [New York Times: Business]
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