Monday, February 3, 2003|
Towards open services. SOA (service-oriented architecture), we agree, is the way of the future. We'll build loosely coupled Web services now and wire them up into composite systems later. The benefits are clear: scalability, OS and language neutrality, easy integration. But as "later" starts to resolve into a date like 2003, or 2004, it's also becoming clear that SOA raises challenging issues. How, for example, do you monitor, test, and debug a distributed system when only some of its components are under your direct control? [Full story at InfoWorld.com.] ... [Jon's Radio] 4:45:01 PM  comment
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Merging lanes on the wireless freeway. Hewlett-Packard and Juniper Networks are joining the growing number of telecom equipment makers trying to combine wireless networking and cell phone services. By Ben Charny, Staff Writer, CNET News.com. [CNET News.com] 4:38:38 PM comment
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RIM and Nextel call up distribution deal. Research In Motion and Nextel Partners have reached an agreement to sell BlackBerry devices to midsized markets. By Richard Shim, Staff Writer, CNET News.com. [CNET News.com] 4:34:41 PM comment
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IBM retools software for utility push. Big Blue plans to revamp its WebSphere software to work with the company's "on-demand" computing initiative, in which it will sell computing resources as if they were utilities. By Martin LaMonica, Staff Writer,. [CNET News.com] 4:31:40 PM comment
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Wireless leads network convergence revolution [InfoWorld: Top News] 4:25:26 PM comment
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CIO's expect budget increases, new PCs [InfoWorld: Top News] 2:57:00 PM comment
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TI unveils new wireless chips. The company shows off new chipsets that it says will help handheld devices run graphics, multimedia content and Java applications as much as eight times faster than they can now. By Margaret Kane, Staff Writer, CNET News.com. [CNET News.com] 2:56:10 PM comment
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IEEE Advances Wireless MAN Standard. A key amendment to a standard for wireless metropolitan area networks may help extend to customers the speed and capacity of fiber optic networks without the cost of laying fiber. [allNetDevices Wireless News] 2:54:30 PM comment
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Testing for Wi-Fi Incompatibility. Some say that in the rush to be first to reach customers, early 802.11g gear may leave interoperability with current 802.11b devices in the dust. Equipment manufacturers say no, but have secretly gathered to test for incompatibility under the auspices of the Wi-Fi Alliance. [allNetDevices Wireless News] 2:22:56 PM comment
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Wireless opportunity knocks again. Opportunity doesn't always knock twice, but small to midsize companies that didn't jump on the wireless bandwagon before are now getting a second chance. [Computerworld Mobile/Wireless News] 2:22:02 PM comment
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NY Times: Sony Again Turns to Design to Lift Electronics. Sony says its reputation, which has added luster to its brand, should be preserved lest it devolve into just another electronics maker. To do that, Sony executives are convinced that the company must continue to emphasize styling. [Tomalak's Realm] 2:19:57 PM comment
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802.11g interoperability secret test: Not quite so secret, the Wi-Fi Alliance held a plugfest of sorts, checking how chipmakers' reference designs and shipping or to-ship 802.11g draft equipment all works together. Concerns have been raised (watch for summary next week) that the early gear basically forces networks with any 802.11b traffic down to 802.11b speeds, and that g equipment from the two shipping vendors (Intersil and Broadcom) doesn't interoperate as well as it should. We'll see if there's more confirmation after additional testing. (In related news, a reader of my co-written Apple wireless blog, discovered a simple way to get Linksys's WPC54G PC Card to work under OS X using the AirPort Extreme drivers.) [80211b News]1:20:23 PM comment
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Military and industry compromise on use of 5 GHz band: Non-technical news accounts indicate that in-use frequency avoidance seems to be a key part of the compromise: that is, the unlicensed equipment will have to skip frequencies that have radar patterns on them. The article cited here says that it opens 255 MHz more bandwidth, which would be in accord with a couple of Senate bills. The tense of the article is odd at times, as it seems to say that 802.11a isn't yet in use, although equipment has been shipping for over a year. I don't have the numbers handy, but the current U-NII band has about 300 MHz. This could be a boon for 802.11a and related manufacturers, as well as providing more fertile test ground for ultrawideband (UWB). [80211b News]1:16:15 PM comment
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TiVo: The Rise of 'God's Machine'. Personal video recorders like TiVo and Sonicblue's ReplayTV are here to stay. Media companies would do well to work with them -- and with consumers -- rather than against them. A commentary by Lauren Weinstein. [Wired News] 1:15:27 PM comment
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