Some firms are finding that there is money to be made online, after all 1:13:48 PM ![]() |
Trucking Company to Equip Fleet with Aether Wireless Tracking Software. U.S. Xpress Enterprises, one of the country's largest trucking companies, has agreed to equip 5,500 trucks with Aether's MobileMax wireless tracking and communications product. [allNetDevices Wireless News] 12:53:32 PM ![]() |
RSA SecurID goes Wireless. RSA Security is bringing its two-factor authentication system to 802.1X solutions for wireless networks. [allNetDevices Wireless News] 12:53:12 PM ![]() |
US IT sales to hit $500bn in 2003. Aberdeen forecast [The Register] 12:52:51 PM ![]() |
Greenspan's Speech Focuses on Deflation, Not Inflation. Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, warned on Thursday that a general decline in prices could be more damaging to economic growth than inflation. By Edmund L. Andrews. [New York Times: Business] 12:52:29 PM ![]() |
Marriott to add Wi-Fi to 400 hotels: This announcement is one of those seminal moments, not really like Cometa two weeks ago, but rather like Boingo or T-Mobile's 2,000 Starbucks stores (which should have happened around this week, too). Marriott adding Wi-Fi -- and, by the way, not using Wayport, but another firm they have a relationship with -- signals to the rest of the hotel industry that it's time to get serious about Wi-Fi. Likewise, unless Marriott is retrograde and out of step with reality, they will be partnering with some or multiple aggregation firms for access. [80211b News]12:52:02 PM ![]() |
Good Technology rolls out e-mail pager hardware. Good Technology rolled out its own e-mail pager hardware today and announced a 1,200-unit order from a Los Angeles law firm that chose Good's G100 over BlackBerries based on ergonomics and cost of ownership. [Computerworld Mobile/Wireless News] 12:51:28 PM ![]() |
In Telecom, Optimism on Overseas Companies. Take a new look at telecom, at least overseas, says Robert N. Gensler, portfolio manager of the T. Rowe Price Media and Telecommunications fund. By Kenneth N. Gilpin. [New York Times: Technology] 12:50:36 PM ![]() |
Web Messaging Dissolves Distance, Culture. BEIJING (AP) -- She was 7,000 miles away from our apartment in China, ensconced in the suburbs of New York City attending to her ill father. I was in a place where the phone system barely worked and the idea of public Internet access was laughable -- Kabul, the war-wasted capital of Afghanistan. By The Associated Press. [New York Times: Technology] 12:49:56 PM ![]() |
Game Business Seen Splitting Into Haves, Have - Nots. LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A year ago, most analysts looked at the video game industry and saw the money rolling in like the gold coins in one of the gleeful payouts that reward a successful round of Nintendo's ``Super Mario.''. By Reuters. [New York Times: Technology] 12:49:32 PM ![]() |
Microsoft Buys Wireless Handheld Design. Microsoft has purchased a reference design from Intrinsyc Software for a wireless phone/PDA combo. [allNetDevices Wireless News] 12:46:01 PM ![]() |
Sybase To Buy AvantGo. B2B software firm Sybase expands its footprint in the mobile middleware market with the all-cash acquisition of AvantGo. [allNetDevices Wireless News] 12:44:38 PM ![]() |
Orange rolls out of Swedish 3G race. Blinks first [The Register] 12:41:12 PM ![]() |
Microsoft plots Macromedia coup against Java. Flash for Masters of the Universe [The Register] 12:38:57 PM ![]() |
Mobile games will boom as MMS languishes. Talking Strategy [The Register] 12:37:02 PM ![]() |
What gives some brands an extra lift? An avid cult following, that's what. At a session of the HBS Marketing Conference, experts debated the pros and cons of managing a brand that customers truly adore. 12:09:48 PM ![]() |