Mobilog

Friday, April 19, 2002

Scientific American: Wireless Data Blaster. The high-speed data-transfer capabilities of ultrawideband systems have spurred a group of inventors and entrepreneurs to promote this short-range technology as a nearly ideal way to handle the burgeoning flow of wireless information among networks of portable electronic devices. [Tomalak's Realm]
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How lean can Amazon get?. Taking a page from Dell's book, the e-tailer used inventory management to push itself into the black for the first time. Can the trend continue, or was it just a fluke? [CNET News.com]
3:48:03 PM

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PCs to Kick Rebooting Habit. Nonvolatile memory chips remember what you were working on, even after the power is turned off. Soon, fast-starting PCs could make conventional RAM a memory. By John Gartner. [Wired News]
3:40:28 PM

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Bio-IT market to reach $38 billion in 2006
3:28:32 PM

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WLAN security tools on the horizon
3:26:49 PM

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WSJ. AOL to avoid selling broadband. Why? Other cable companies don't want to partner with AOL. >>>The most sensitive issue of all may be the cable sector's desire to retain its customers. Cable executives worry that if consumers can jump between high-speed America Online on either cable or telephone companies' DSL high-speed services, they will have no loyalty to cable -- much as satellite TV's ability to offer cable programming has enabled satellite operators to skim off roughly 17 million households in the past few years.<<<

This is a killer graphic:

[John Robb's Radio Weblog]
3:20:40 PM

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LA Times: The Invisible Lightness of Beams. Founded five years ago by an eccentric inventor, the company delivers high-speed Internet access via laser beams zapped through office windows. It might sound like science fiction, but Terabeam is actually borrowing technology developed by the military during the Cold War... [Tomalak's Realm]
3:18:51 PM

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IDC: Asia set to get its IT groove back. The region's sagging information technology sector is expected to bounce back by the second half of the year, according to one market research firm. [CNET News.com]
3:12:51 PM

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Sega to launch U.S. wireless division

The North American Internet wing of video game publisher Sega yesterday said it plans to establish a new divison to produce wireless games for handsets and handhelds. The new division, to be called Sega Mobile, makes Sega one of the few mainstream U.S. game publishers with a wireless unit. The company said it plans to mode its approach on its work in the Japanese market, where analysts estimate that as many as two million people play games on their mobile devices. Sega Mobile will begin releasing titles this summer.
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