Monday, November 4, 2002

Paul O'Neill: Values into Action

Every company parrots the same phrase: "Our most important asset is our people." Real leaders know how to prove it, said U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Paul H. O'Neill, who spoke to students at HBS recently.
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What's Best for the Corporate Brain?

Two of the most important questions concerning the long-run health of the modern organization competing in an information economy are: (1) How do organizations learn? and (2) How does the "corporate brain" really work?
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WLANs at Sea

So you've just spent half a million dollars on a sweet little schooner. You're lounging dockside, watching the sun set. What's missing from this picture?
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Case Studies. McDonald's, a city in British Columbia, and Tim Beaty Builders are reaping the ROI of rolling out PDAs for a variety of uses. [Computerworld Mobile/Wireless News]
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Tying It All Together. Tips for working with teams of developers, service providers and the makers of handheld devices when creating PDA applications. [Computerworld Mobile/Wireless News]
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Beyond Cool. More companies are deploying hand-size personal digital assistants, or PDAs, rather than costlier PCs, to solve a wide array of business needs on the cheap. [Computerworld Mobile/Wireless News]
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IBM speeds up transistor for wireless chips. Scientists claim 'world's fastest' transistor runs at 350GHz [InfoWorld: Top News]
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Nokia offers mobile VPN software. New security system aimed at enterprises with large mobile networks [InfoWorld: Top News]
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Nokia: Open to everyone except Microsoft. Nokia open to all standards except Microsoft, VP says [InfoWorld: Top News]
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Vivato to introduce tuned antenna with remarkable reach: Vivato has apparently developed a clever antenna that could allow a business to distribute wireless network access throughout a building without the current high cost of distributed deployment of access points. (There's still issues about maximum number of users, the amount of bandwidth per access point, and other technical details, of course.) Vivato's project sounds reasonable, and the report comes from the New York Times (John Markoff), but what makes them most credible to me is that Jim Thompson works for them. Jim's a straight shooter, and I wouldn't expect to find him anywhere but on the cutting edge of contemporary technology.

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Suction cup 7 dBi antenna: Mike from Signull Techologies sent me the URL of a spec sheet for their 7 dBi suction cup antenna pictured deployed on automobiles! Wardriving made easy.

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Nokia tweaks cell phones for businesses. Some of the phone maker's products are designed to enhance security for workers connecting to corporate networks remotely; others aim to help manage privacy. [CNET News.com]
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Wi-Fi That Follows You Around. A new type of Wi-Fi system connects existing laptops and other computers by directing beams of coverage through hundreds of tiny antennas. Paul Boutin reports from San Francisco. [Wired News]
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Study: Mac OS among least prone to attack. Mi2g Ltd. said 1,162 new software vulnerabilities in operating systems, server software and third-party applications have been discovered so far this year. Of that number, fewer than 25 were attributable to the Mac OS. [Computerworld Security News]
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A New Cryptography Uses The Quirks of Photon Streams. MagiQ Technologies plans to announce code system that uses a technology called quantum key distribution to thwart eavesdropping on a fiber-optic communication channel. By John Markoff. [New York Times: Technology]
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Corporate Chiefs Aren't Amoral. Perhaps They Need More Data.. A recent survey found that corporate chiefs really don't know what is going on in their companies because they haven't set up integrated computing systems that offer a single view of business operations. By Tim Race. [New York Times: Technology]
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Trying to Shift Shape of PC Screens. Researchers are trying to develop technologies that could put computers and large-format screens onto wafer-thin glass, or even plastic that can be rolled up. By Bob Tedeschi. [New York Times: Technology]
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Antenna System Is Said to Expand Wireless Internet Use. A start-up company plans to announce antenna technology that it says can expand the limits of a popular wireless Internet format. By John Markoff. [New York Times: Science]
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Do's and Don'ts for wireless applications. A quick list of things to consider when developing for wireless applications based on a talk by Meryl Enerson, president of Enervision Media Inc. [Computerworld App Development News]
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Pharma Sales Reps Hampered By Poor Access. With more than 78 million remote and mobile workers in the United States, the need for wireless access to enterprise data and applications is critical. Yet, in at least one field, key information is not available to mobile workers when they need it most. [allNetDevices Wireless News]
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Markoff.  New WiFi attenna technology from a San Francisco start-up called Vivato.  Advertised range:  2000 ft indoors and 4 miles outdoors.  Sweet! [John Robb's Radio Weblog]
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