Mobilog

Thursday, September 12, 2002

Metric: Mobile enterprise to represent 58 percent of wireless Internet use by 2005

Mobile enterprise is considered a crucial tool for salespeople and executives who need to be connected in real-time to their company's systems and information. Yet according to new research from IDC, only ten percent of CIOs have implemented or are currently implementing mobile enterprise systems, while 35 percent are considering it and 34 percent have no intention to do so. Still, IDC predicts that business users will account for 49 million of the 84 million wireless Internet users by 2005. [courtesy of Fierce Wireless]
7:49:06 PM

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Shosteck Group states public hot spots an unprofitable idea from start to finish: A friend forwarded an email briefing from this interesting analyst group about the future of wireless hot spot profitability. The briefing states, Our analysis shows that despite increasing numbers of laptop computers equipped with WLAN capability, only a tiny fraction of those laptops will ever pay to connect to a public WLAN network. In short, we believe that wireless operators will find public WLAN networks to be an unprofitable loss leader.

[80211b News]
7:19:49 PM

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MobilCom's Fate Is in the Hands of the French Cabinet. The future of MobilCom, the second-largest long-distance carrier in Germany, hung in the balance as the French cabinet met late into the evening to devise a rescue plan for France Télécom. By John Tagliabue. [New York Times: Technology]
7:12:02 PM

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New fall fashion: Anti-radiation pants?. Forget stain-resistant slacks. Levi Strauss plans to sell Dockers with an "anti-radiation" cell phone pocket, for people distressed by the as yet unproven health risks. [CNET News.com]
6:41:58 PM

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VC watch: Entrisphere grabs $33 million. The telecommunications company receives $33 million...Broadsoft gets $32.5 million... Zeevo raises $20 million. [CNET News.com]
6:37:35 PM

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Nanowire or nanotube? Intel looks ahead. The company discloses a number of tech changes and research avenues that will direct future chip development. The nanotechnology era is here, and Intel is looking at all the options. [CNET News.com]
6:28:21 PM

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Intel Woos With Wireless. UPDATE: The chip making giant thinks outside the PC and promises big things out of its wireless camps if developers agree to climb aboard. [allNetDevices Wireless News]
6:27:15 PM

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Wireless Home Entertainment, Part III. Show me the wireless home entertainment system of the future before we'll believe it, say analyst. One company, Magis Networks, plans to show them soon. [allNetDevices Wireless News]
6:25:09 PM

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Small Times. IBM spokesman at nanotech conference (another strong indicator of acceleration):

Kelly also said he thought carbon nanotubes would find their way into semiconductor devices sooner rather than later. "When I was here last year, I said that carbon nanotubes were 10 to 20 years off," he said. "The progress the world has made in only a year has really surprised me." He cited research at IBM and elsewhere that has advanced from producing single nanotube transistors to building working circuits in less than a year.

[John Robb's Radio Weblog]
6:23:44 PM

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