Tuesday, April 30, 2002



Cingular Targets Youth With Portal. Features communities, romantic horoscopes, ringtones [allNetDevices Wireless News]
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RIM Expands Enterprise Server. Expanding past e-mail to all corporate data [allNetDevices Wireless News]
12:36:14 PM    comment   



Visualizing Googlespace. I've received a number of interesting responses to my current BYTE.com column on the Google API. Nelson Minar, former Popular Power CTO who's now with Google, wrote to point out that since HTML doctitles are of uncertain quality, the snippets (relevant text chunks) returned by the Google API might form an interesting search space. When I tried that, though, the results didn't seem to diverge enough. The name of the game, in this kind of surfing, is to chart a course through googlespace that diverges enough to turn up interesting new connections, but not so much as to end up off in the weeds. [Jon's Radio]
12:31:00 PM    comment   

NTT Communications Plans Dual-mode Public Wireless LAN In Tokyo

Japan will be the first country in the world with dual-mode public access wireless LAN service when NTT Communications next month turns on 200 of 1,000 nodes expected to be in place by year's end.
10:58:59 AM    comment   

Air Canada, IBM To Market Wearable Ticketing Kiosks

Air Canada and IBM will jointly sell wireless, wearable kiosks developed for the airline to help move airline passengers more quickly through check-in.
10:57:45 AM    comment   

CA Pushing Customer Focus, Unveils Wireless Products

As it rolls out new wireless and Web services technologies to its installed base, CA is still pushing the message that its focus is on customers. That, and other announcements, emerged at the CA World user conference.
10:57:11 AM    comment   

Next Generation Wireless: Will Users Pay The Price?

Pricing, which runs from $2 to $7 per megabyte, may determine how quickly speedier wireless data services are actually adopted.
10:56:23 AM    comment   

Sidebar: Pepsi Uses GPS To Locate Technicians

Pepsi Bottling uses GPS receivers to dispatch and track service technicians.
10:55:37 AM    comment   

Coke, Pepsi Service Technicians Go Mobile

Coke and Pepsi bottlers have deployed mobile, wireless computers to speed service and eliminate mountains of paper.
10:54:59 AM    comment   

When Markets Go Mad

About $4 trillion in market wealth vanished between the April 2000 bursting of the Nasdaq bubble and its recent stabilization at lower levels. Could investors have seen it coming? Better yet, could financial regulators have picked up on subtle clues and acted beforehand to prevent the crash? Perhaps. Researchers have found an increased level of predictability in certain complex systems just before large changes. Such changes, they say, can be the result of information encoded within the system's global state.
10:26:35 AM    comment   



Interview: Ozzie's Groove moves toward edge services [IDG InfoWorld]
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Interview: IBM's software chief speaks out [IDG InfoWorld]
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InfoWorld interviews Macromedia's Kevin Lynch on Web Services.  [Scripting News]
10:20:29 AM    comment   



Many Bidders May Pursue New Method to Carry TV. It's new. It's digital. It's wireless. It's local. It offers high-speed Internet access. It is akin to digital cable but without any cables. By Jennifer 8. Lee. [New York Times: Business]
10:18:05 AM    comment   



Hospitals Sometimes Lose Money by Using a Supply Buying Group. Some hospitals are raising questions about the need for huge buying groups, which negotiated contracts last year for $34 billion in medical products. By Mary Williams Walsh and Barry Meier. [New York Times: Business]
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Many Bidders May Pursue New Method to Carry TV. It's new. It's digital. It's wireless. It's local. It offers high-speed Internet access. It is akin to digital cable but without any cables. By Jennifer 8. Lee. [New York Times: Technology]
9:57:36 AM    comment   



Sprint PCS to Provide Access to Corporate E-Mail. OVERLAND PARK, (Reuters) - Sprint PCS Group (PCS.N), the nation's No. 4 wireless telephone company, on Monday said it planned to offer businesses a new service that will allow its employees to access corporate e-mail via cell phones or handheld computers in mid-2002. By Reuters. [New York Times: Technology]
9:54:14 AM    comment   



Nortel Executive Sees Rapid Mobile Network Consolidation. LONDON (Reuters) - Nortel Networks said on Monday it expected a rapid consolidation of the global wireless network industry and planned to be among the three or four surviving companies. By Reuters. [New York Times: Technology]
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The Chicago Tribune has picked up Mike Langberg's Bluetooth overview. [The Bluetooth Weblog]
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