Thursday, October 17, 2002|
Qualcomm BREW platform gets Java boost. Cell phones to include JVM from Insignia Solutions [InfoWorld: Top News] 4:31:51 PM  comment
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RealNetworks goes mobile with NEC. The company says a mobile version of its multimedia playback software is now available in NEC's MobilePro P300 handheld computers. [CNET News.com] 4:28:31 PM comment
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Magic4 adds SyncML to Mobile Messaging Platform. Mobile messaging software company Magic4 announced today that it has added Magic4 SyncML to its mobile messaging platform. [allNetDevices Wireless News] 4:21:02 PM comment
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PalmSource, Sony Ericsson link arms. The two companies plan to use Bluetooth short-range radio technology to make their cell phones and handheld computers interoperable. [CNET News.com] 12:39:19 PM comment
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Internet by Satellite. Living without a high-speed online connection can be onerous. But there is a wireless option: satellite service. By John R. Quain. [New York Times: Technology] 12:38:54 PM comment
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A Digital Pen That Recalls Your On-the-Run Jottings. Logitech plans to release the Io Personal Digital Pen, which allows users to store and retrieve their handwritten information digitally. By Michel Marriott. [New York Times: Technology] 12:28:42 PM comment
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Mobile Gamers Need Better Devices. Sony expects mobile gaming to become a billion-dollar industry -- but not until cell-phone manufacturers build gamer-friendly devices and wireless bandwidth improves. Elisa Batista reports from the CTIA show in Las Vegas. [Wired News] 12:25:04 PM comment
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HP Takes Printing On a Road Trip. With more and more workers prizing mobility, Hewlett-Packard announced a series of partnerships and initiatives to give the estimated 165 million mobile professionals access to printers from their many wireless devices. [allNetDevices Wireless News] 12:23:23 PM comment
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Mobile Command Systems Introduces Mobile Wireless Printer. Aimed at the enterprise market, Nomad seeks to enable field printing at an affordable price point. [allNetDevices Wireless News] 12:22:24 PM comment
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GSM may lose out to CDMA in 3G arena MUMBAI: Basic telephony operators using CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) technology for limited mobility in India may move closer to communication with third generation networks following faster deployment of 3G networks in CDMA areas as compared to GSM (Global System for Mobile) areas. Mobile networks based on GSM are still struggling with a number of issues from high license fees, deployment problems, lack of available handsets, frequency and patent issues related to technology. There is increasing segregation between CDMA and GSM in the world of mobile telephony. The business, commercial and technological problems with GSM are helping CDMA gain widespread acceptance.
Some global operators looking at CDMA in 3G are APBW in Taiwan, Ratelindo in Indonesia for Fixed Wireless, Win Wireless in Indonesia, StarHub in Singapore is doing market trials, in Thailand CAT with BFKT. |
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The 3G race is decided: Asia won, USA comes in second and Europe postponed its participation until 2003 Morgan Stanley, the famous investment bank, published a research report (report download) in early June, 2002, comparing the commercial success of the 3G technologies CDMA2000 and W-CDMA. The outcome of this report proves what Qualcomm and independent experts keep on preaching for a long time: wireless networks based on CDMA2000 1x and especially CDMA2000 1x EV-DO (Enhanced Version Data Optimized) are faster and cheaper to deploy than those ones based on W-CDMA. Moreover, the handsets, which are definitely a key success factor in the Mobile Economy Triangle, are cheaper in the CDMA2000 1x world, too.
Europe postponing until 2003? Fantasy -- they're in a terrible shape. |
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More 3G Gloom There was so much optimism for 3G a year or two ago. But more and more experts believe 3G is losing confidence from the public and the industry. Third generation handsets suffer from short battery life. The high power consumption has questioned the applications operators are able to offer. Many in the industry agree two way video conferencing is not practical. Multimedia applications such as picture messaging has had mixed reactions. In Japan, after two months of owning a 3G handset, many users stopped using the service. Mean while, mobile operators that have bought a 3G license are facing huge debt problems. Most still have to invest in the network as well as services. The situation for equipment makers is even worse. Some of them won't exist in the current form and even de-listed from the stock exchange.
Really, this is a European problem. They've chosen the wrong standards to move forward and are paying the price as a result. It's only going to get much worse for them as these large telecoms and telecom equipment providers go under. |
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Cutting Cord May Not Cut Costs With nearly 30 percent of total personal calling minutes in the U.S. being conducted on mobile phones, there is a strong consideration for many to eliminate their landline phone service entirely. Yankee Group is forecasting a 50 percent increase to 200 million in mobile phone subscriptions by the end of 2006, which could add up to massive landline cord cutting.
"Wireline replacement is a $50 billion opportunity in what we expect to be a $110 billion mobile market in 2006," says Keith Mallinson, executive vice president of the Yankee Group's Wireless/Mobile Research. "Even more significant than the 3 percent of people who have actually cut the cord and have a mobile as their only phone, is the major migration of personal calling minutes to mobile phones by those who retain landlines but use them less." |
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Businesses Balk at Hidden Costs of Mobile Devices Companies are discovering that the real costs for an enterprise adopting widespread use of handheld mobile devices for its employees may quickly outstrip the benefits, according to SupportSoft, Inc., a provider of support automation software.
Thirteen million PDAs were purchased last year in the United States alone according to the Gartner report "The True Costs and Benefits of Mobile Wireless Devices". While the average cost of a PDA is about $200, Gartner states that the total cost of business ownership, including administration and support, for a single device is about $3,000 per year. Gartner also estimates that the annual cost increases to $4,342 for more complex devices with wireless services. |
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Thomson Financial Makes A Good Move to PDAs Computerworld talked with Greg Agahigian, director of messaging at Thomson Financial Inc. in New York, about handheld usage at his company. 11:31:50 AM comment
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New systems ease support of handhelds Good Technology Inc. this week announced a system aimed at making it easier for IT departments to provide mobile device users with access to back-end information systems without the need to individually configure their handhelds. AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Microsoft Corp. jointly announced a similar hands-off approach to setting up remote users on corporate e-mail systems. [Courtesy of ComputerWorld] 11:23:13 AM comment
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