Mobilog

Thursday, August 1, 2002

France Télécom sells cable company to Liberty Media. Sale is part of FT's effort to reduce debt [InfoWorld: Top News]
12:39:01 PM

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USC Docs, Nurses Go Wireless. SpectraLink believes that its latest deployment of its NetLink Wireless Telephones is the largest VoIP installation ever done in healthcare. [allNetDevices Wireless News]
12:36:58 PM

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Wireless Authentication for Solaris. Meetinghouse Data Communications claims that its AEGIS line of network authentication software is the first to offer TTLS authentication server software that supports Sun's Solaris operating system. [allNetDevices Wireless News]
12:35:32 PM

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Palm Hands Out New Software Download. The handheld software developer updates its nifty handheld/PC synchronizer with a Windows XP feel, available as a free download to test or use. [allNetDevices Wireless News]
12:34:39 PM

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Notebook sales trounce overall market. Worldwide shipments of notebook PCs grow 6.1 percent in the period, as overall PC shipments slip 1 percent. Dell and HP? They're in a virtual tie for first place. [CNET News.com]
12:33:45 PM

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AT&T Broadband opts for tiered pricing. The company offers a new level of cable Interent access, dubbed UltraLink, that's faster and pricier, in places including Dallas, Denver, Seattle and the San Francisco Bay Area. [CNET News.com]
12:16:28 PM

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China to overtake Japan in PC sales this year - Intel. Biomass wins the day [The Register]
11:24:03 AM

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Zoom Out, Then Nosedive: A Bird's-Eye View of Your Burg. TerraFly offers Web surfers the chance to fly virtually over any place in the United States. Enter a street address or a ZIP code, and TerraFly displays a bird's-eye view of the location. From there, a click of the mouse is all it takes to fly in any direction. While there are Web sites that allow users to pull up satellite aerial views, TerraFly, a project of the High Performance Database Research Center at the School of Computer Science at Florida International University, stitches these static images together into a dynamic presentation that feels a little like a video. By Amir Tusher. [New York Times: Technology]
11:17:23 AM

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Microsoft Word Formats Brought Into Full View. Some law firms and other heavy users of formatting commands in word processing documents have stuck with Corel's WordPerfect for a single reason. Unlike Microsoft's ubiquitous Word software, WordPerfect can display all of the formatting commands within a document. By Ian Austen. [New York Times: Technology]
11:16:59 AM

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IBM's PwC purchase a smart strategic move, analysts say [IDG InfoWorld]
11:16:37 AM

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Buffett Is Seen Set to Invest in Williams. Warren E. Buffett is close to a deal to invest as much as $500 million in a troubled energy concern, the Williams Companies, executives close to the negotiations said Wednesday night. By Andrew Ross Sorkin. [New York Times: Business]
11:16:18 AM

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I.B.M. Opening a $2.5 Billion Specialized Chip Plant. I.B.M. opened a sprawling, highly advanced semiconductor factory in the Hudson River Valley of New York on Wednesday, the largest single capital investment the company has ever made. By Steve Lohr. [New York Times: Business]
11:15:46 AM

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SAP wins Ford, Caterpillar contract. SAP software will become part of an order-management system used by more than 15,000 Ford dealers around the world. [CNET News.com]
11:14:47 AM

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Car-tracking system raises hopes, concerns. General Motors plans to begin installing sensors and communications systems into vehicles in a move that could save lives but that also raises privacy concerns. [CNET News.com]
11:09:39 AM

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David Harris gathers scramjet links on his science weblog. The idea of flying at 1.5 miles per second is very, very cool. That's coast to coast in about 1.5 hours (including departure and arrival). NY to Tokyo in under 2.5 hours. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]
11:09:20 AM

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Numbers, we got numbers: 802.11 Planet summarizes two expensive reports on wireless networking revenue from the manufacture and deployment sides. It's all up, up, up. A cluster of Wi-Fi manufacturers (Linksys, Agere, and SMC) are now tops for shipments, beating out Cisco. [via Sifry Alerts, Werblog]

[80211b News]
11:08:35 AM

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Military imposing limits on wireless device use: Although not focused on Wi-Fi, this new set of limitations is intelligent. But listen to this: President Bush's top cybersecurity adviser, Richard Clarke, said the technology industry was acting irresponsibly by selling wireless tools such as computer network devices that remain remarkably easy for hackers to attack. That worries me, because it's incorrect. The operating system is at fault, here. The fact that Mac OS, Windows, and Unix, by default, rely on insecure transports. It's clear that the time for insecure transmissions is long past, and we're playing catch-up. But you can't blame Wi-Fi for that. You can't fix encryption in the AP, only in the OS. The AP can aid a link's security, but it can't be "responsible" for it.

[80211b News]
11:07:56 AM

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Microsoft and ATT Wireless Ally. Microsoft continues to target the mobile worker with an agreement designed to simplify the rollout of wireless data services by enterprises. [allNetDevices Wireless News]
10:51:34 AM

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Projection Keyboard Development Kit Available. For OEMs to integrate virtual keyboards into future mobile devices. [allNetDevices Wireless News]
10:44:16 AM

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Microsoft Bares More Code with New CE .NET. Microsoft's latest iteration of Windows CE .NET features more code for developers and even a browser for application-specific searches. [allNetDevices Wireless News]
10:40:15 AM

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Will Expensing Stock Options Create New Problems?

In the wake of a series of high-profile alleged accounting abuses, stock options have gained a bad name. Top executives are under fire for mismanaging earnings -- pumping up profits so they can cash in stock options that enrich them personally at the expense of their company's health. But even as politicians and the media vilify stock options, experts from Wharton and elsewhere are asking if the blame is being misdirected, and if the solutions being adopted might bring about new problems.
10:22:10 AM

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Challenges Ahead for Vivendi's New CEO

Vivendi Universal's Jean-Marie Messier, a very public casualty on the information superhighway, is buried alongside other such supposed telecom industry visionaries as AOL Time Warner's Robert Pittman and Bertelsmann's Thomas Middelhoff. Yet Vivendi differs significantly from these two companies. A water utility that tried to transform itself into a global media powerhouse, Vivendi and new CEO Jean-René Fourtou are in a life-threatening struggle for survival.
10:21:12 AM

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The Mega-media Business Model: Doomed to Fail, or Just Ahead of its Time?

With its drastically lower stock price and an SEC investigation into its accounting practices, AOL Time Warner appears to be the latest poster child of America's mega-corporate meltdown. What happened to the once-talked-of synergies between [greater equal]old media[approx equal] and [greater equal]new media[approx equal] and between content and delivery that these mergers once trumpeted? Is the mega-media concept flawed, poorly-executed, or just not quite ready for prime time?
10:20:21 AM

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How Soon Will the IT Spending Slump End?

Much of corporate America is slamming on the brakes when it comes to information technology spending. And the forecast for the rest of 2002 isn[not equal]t very upbeat. Reasons include a surplus of software and hardware from past purchases, disappointment with earlier-generation IT systems and an uncertain economy. Problem is, by reducing IT expenditures too much, firms can end up also reducing their ability to stay competitive.
10:19:26 AM

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