Mobilog

Tuesday, December 3, 2002

Healing Touch of a One-Company View. Aetna executives are using a new executive information system to help them gather critical financial and operational information from around the company and react faster to changing business conditions. [Computerworld Software News]
2:41:03 PM

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FedEx Readies Rollout of Wireless Handheld. The package delivery company early next year plans to start installing new Pocket PC-based handheld terminals for its FedEx Express couriers as part of a $150 million technology upgrade. [Computerworld Mobile/Wireless News]
2:38:31 PM

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Trucking Company Expects Quick ROI From Handhelds. Trucking company Old Dominion Freight expects a quick ROI from a $3 million project to equip its 1,700 drivers with wireless handheld computers. [Computerworld Mobile/Wireless News]
2:37:47 PM

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Holt Deploys AvantGo Software. Holt Caterpillar has adopted AvantGo Pylon Pro software to extend Lotus Notes and custom database applications to handheld devices, giving employees access to up-to-date business information while working in the field. [allNetDevices Wireless News]
2:36:55 PM

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The Changing Face of Wi-Fi. If two recent developments are any indication, the familiar face of wireless computing is about to change. Could the days of individual Access Points be numbered? [allNetDevices Wireless News]
2:36:30 PM

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Metro Ethernet Redux. Metropolitan-area network services built on native Ethernet protocols could deliver cheaper, more scalable bandwidth, but only if IT demands that carriers deliver them. [Computerworld App Development News]
2:36:02 PM

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IBM touts voice, handheld tools. Big Blue bolsters its WebSphere lineup with software for building voice-enabled applications and ships a series of tools for non-PC devices. [CNET News.com]
2:35:14 PM

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He doesn't talk while he's driving: Wireless consultant Ken Berger becomes the Salon photo subject in this article on cell wireless data and safety (safety as in driving). I include this article partly because it demonstrates the extent to which automotive networking may drive 3G and other technologies (Bluetooth in the garage, for instance), and partly because Ken is so deeply involved in Wi-Fi.

[80211b News]
2:34:43 PM

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WLAN Chase Reaches Endgame. Mathias finally closes in on illegal -- and carefully hidden -- wireless LAN access points. [Computerworld Security News]
2:33:01 PM

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Xerox Says New Material Will Allow Plastic Transistors. A Xerox researcher is expected to discuss a new material that can be used to make transistors for cellphones, laptops and TV's. By John Markoff. [New York Times: Technology]
2:32:24 PM

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We humans are strange primates. We walk on two legs, carry around enormous brains and have colonized every corner of the globe. Anthropologists and biologists have long sought to understand how our lineage came to differ so profoundly from the primate norm in these ways, and over the years all manner of hypotheses aimed at explaining each of these oddities have been put forth. But a growing body of evidence indicates that these miscellaneous quirks of humanity in fact have a common thread: they are largely the result of natural selection acting to maximize dietary quality and foraging efficiency. Changes in food availability over time, it seems, strongly influenced our hominid ancestors. Thus, in an evolutionary sense, we are very much what we ate.
1:20:35 PM

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