Monday, December 9, 2002|
Study Refutes E-Mail Myth. A new study counters the belief that most employees are regularly overwhelmed by large volumes of e-mail. [Wired News] 4:52:37 PM  comment
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PSC and Velagio Partner to Facilitate Wireless Data Collection. Velagio's mobile enterprise business applications software suite will be integrated with PSC Falcon Windows CE-based mobile and wireless data collection terminals. [allNetDevices Wireless News] 4:50:59 PM comment
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New Management Clients for PDAs. Cirond Technologies this week released betas of its clients for Windows and PocketPC that run with its new management tool for WLANs. [allNetDevices Wireless News] 4:44:31 PM comment
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ReefEdge Eyes European Wi-Fi Market. The wireless network infrastructure maker opens facilities in the U.K. and France as it pushes for enterprise customers in the fast-growing market. [allNetDevices Wireless News] 4:41:50 PM comment
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SMS in the U.S.: Will it ever be big?. Reader Stephen MacDonald thinks SMS is about to take off in North America and could end up rivaling e-mail in popularity. [Computerworld Mobile/Wireless News] 4:39:25 PM comment
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RFID Journal. Gillete to purchase 500 m RFIDs to tag products. Wow. Embedded Radio IDs are going mainstream. From my friend John Smart's Accelerating Times newsletter: [John Robb's Radio Weblog] 4:37:18 PM comment
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Scienceagogo has a follow up article on break-through last month that may make inexpensive, super-efficient solar cells possible. If this is actually possible, then it would open up a clear path to decentralized energy. Solar cells on the roof would meet the needs of the household during the day and send excess energy back to the grid. At night, your home would suck on the grid for the power it needs. The net impact would be that power companies wouldn't have to invest in expensive systems to generate power at peak usage hours due to the contributions of individual home owners that employ solar arrays. The benefit to the home owner is that they would likely pay nothing to the power company since the day's contributions would net out the usage at night. If the array was very large, the excess power could also be used to generate hydrogen from electolysis. This would allow you to either use the hydrogen to power your home at night using new low cost home hydrogen fuel cell systems (GM is working on systems like this that will cost less than $2k), or use the hydrogen to refuel your fuel cell powered automobile. Wow. [John Robb's Radio Weblog] |
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Wired News: Saving Your Bits for Posterity. That's the idea behind MyLifeBits, a new Microsoft research project that aims to record the essence of a person's life on computer disks: every photograph snapped, home movie filmed, Web page browsed, e-mail scribbled, phone call made or bill paid. [Tomalak's Realm] 4:25:23 PM comment
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Useit.Com: In the Future, We'll All Be Harry Potter. Much of the Harry Potter books' charm comes from the quirky magic objects that surround Harry and his friends. Rather than being solid and static, these objects embody initiative and activity. This is precisely the shift we'll experience as computational power moves beyond the desktop into everyday objects. [Tomalak's Realm] 4:15:20 PM comment
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Tech exec rallying cry is cautious. Although many companies spent less on technology this year than originally budgeted, spending could increase modestly next year, according to a new survey from Morgan Stanley. [CNET News.com] 4:05:45 PM comment
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CIOs say 2003 IT budgets under the gun. Average IT budget to be up just 1.3 percent compared with last year [InfoWorld: Top News] 4:03:59 PM comment
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Handheld prices continue to fall. Industry tries to stir up consumer interest in handhelds [InfoWorld: Top News] 3:45:51 PM comment
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Compal's smartphone gets FCC OK. Questions still remain about which carrier will sell the device [InfoWorld: Top News] 3:37:01 PM comment
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The Sarbanes-Oxley Act sets stiff penalties for auditors and executives who commit fraud. Problem is, says Harvard Business School professor Max H. Bazerman and his collaborators, most bad audits are the result of unconscious bias, not corruption. Here's a new look at how to audit the auditors. 3:28:14 PM comment
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IBM was in deep trouble when Louis V. Gerstner came on board as chairman and CEO almost a decade ago. But as he told MBA students at Harvard Business School, he wasn't the only one responsible for the change: He had lots of help on the inside. 3:25:16 PM comment
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Feeling rattled by the upstarts in your business territory? Then fight back strategically, writes Richard D'Aveni, a professor of strategy at Dartmouth. In this excerpt from Harvard Business Review, D'Aveni describes how one major brewery fought off its competition to regain market dominance. 3:24:36 PM comment
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From countries to companies, HBS Professor Clayton Christensen sees disruptive technologies upsetting applecarts all over the globe. In his talk at the HBS Global Alumni Conference 2001, Christensen discussed how disruptive technologies could change forever the health field, Microsoft, and even the Harvard Business School. 3:23:52 PM comment
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John Patrick's list of the 5 candidates for the "next big thing." [John Robb's Radio Weblog] 1:42:27 PM comment
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Wi-Fi Internet Access Is Hot, but Its Profit Potential Is Tepid. Many industry analysts say it could be hard to make money in Wi-Fi Internet access. By Barnaby J. Feder. [New York Times: Business] 1:40:44 PM comment
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NY Times: A New Tack in Fighting Spam. These "bonded" messaging services are creating the equivalent of certified, or first class, e-mail. If they catch on -- and that is a notion that some Internet analysts doubt -- they could signal a fundamental shift away from the proposition that it is free to send mail over the Internet. [Tomalak's Realm] 1:38:07 PM comment
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Loea Corp. introduces gigabit wireless technology. Loea Corp. has developed what it calls wireless "virtual-fiber" technology that promises the speed of fiber links without the need for cable installation. [Computerworld News] 1:35:35 PM comment
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'Frugal' IT investors top best-performer list. Companies that get the best returns on IT investments share four attributes: market position, frugal spending, high project success rates and a focus on core competencies, according to a new analysis. [Computerworld News] 1:32:28 PM comment
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India to open up rural 2.4 GHz: India, which has already allowed indoor and outdoor unlicensed use of the band in which Wi-Fi operates, is planning to open up long-haul links for rural connectivity. In a country with such scattered population outside of some megalopolises, bringing broadband without wires could help transform political activism, economy, and education. Could. [80211b News]1:27:17 PM comment
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Wi-Fi year in review: The Seattle Times runs through the major Wi-Fi stories of 2002 in a concise and interesting fashion, hitting the high points and telling the business story behind them. [80211b News]1:25:00 PM comment
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More on Cometa's business plans from Business 2.0: As I wrote yesterday, and even after reading this article, I continue to believe that Cometa is not building out its estimated 50,000 hot spot network on its own dime. I believe they will be seeking infrastructure dollars from any venue they build into. [80211b News]1:01:02 PM comment
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