Wednesday, February 26, 2003|
Fox UK using handhelds to manage DVD sales, inventory. Fox Home Entertainment UK is using wireless iPaq handhelds equipped with digital cameras and bar code scanners to manage inventory and monitor retail store promotional displays. [Computerworld News] 7:01:19 PM  comment
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Premier 100: How to wow CXOs with IT value. Since CIOs often have trouble explaining to senior managers the value IT investments deliver, tangible benefits are often the best way of making the point. [Computerworld News] 7:00:39 PM comment
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Sun tries to change software game with Orion. The company now plans to package all of its key software products with the Solaris operating system in regular quarterly releases. [Computerworld News] 6:58:01 PM comment
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Symbol Puts Wi-Fi on Assembly Lines. The wireless networking company pitches a new product to help managers track inventory by using real-time location tags. [allNetDevices Wireless News] 6:54:51 PM comment
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Tungsten W Set to Make US Debut. New wireless Tungsten users will have a GSM/GPRS network to play with starting February 28. [allNetDevices Wireless News] 6:49:57 PM comment
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Etenna tunes antenna to reduce static: I can barely understand what their special technology does, but it sounds awfully 21st-century. If I'm interpreting it right, they've developed a way to prevent certain kinds of interference caused by lack of isolation between parts of a continuous antenna or multiple antennas resulting in a clean separation for different protocols. [80211b News]6:46:40 PM comment
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Is that a phased-array antenna, or are you just happy to see me?: Nigel Ballard offered up a link to the Hot or Not collaborative physical-attribute ranking service which shows a guy pursing his lips next to a sexy, naked Vivato antenna. Yup, naked. The Vivato when sold will have either a textile cover (indoors) or a ruggedized enclosure (outdoors). [80211b News]6:46:14 PM comment
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The Wi-Fi Alliance releases its draft on wireless ISP roaming (wISPr, pronounced "whisper"): It's a cogent and not overly long document full of sensible recommendations. The goal of this document is provide a framework in which roaming could be facilitated by having systems that act the same way, regardless of wISP. Without a common framework, wISPs have two choices: adopt the Boingo approach of building client software that handles the many, many authentication systems out there invisible to the user; or build back-end systems that can handle logins from any partner and pass messages over the Internet back to that peer's authentication system. Both are problematic. [80211b News]6:41:30 PM comment
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Are developers programmers or engineers? "'The act of constructing software is, in fact, not an engineering process,' Cooper said. 'Engineering to me is problem-solving, which is very different from solution implementations, which is what programmers [do].' Title inflation is endemic to the industry, he said. 'Web designers are called programmers, programmers are called engineers, and engineers are called architects, and architects don't seem to ever get called,' Cooper exclaimed." [From the Desktop of Dane Carlson] 6:41:07 PM comment
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One Nation Under Wal-Mart: "How retailing's superpower--and Fobe's biggest 'Most Admired' company is changing the rules for corporate America." [From the Desktop of Dane Carlson] 6:40:51 PM comment
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Telispark 2.0 takes a different tack on mobile suite. The new wireless package to be announced Monday takes a "unique approach" to solving the problem of keeping workers in the field tied to the home office, one analyst said. [Computerworld Mobile/Wireless News] 6:39:29 PM comment
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Cell Carriers to Add Push-to-Talk Services. The four biggest cellular network operators in the U.S. are due to support technology that lets cell phone users communicate as if they were using walkie-talkies. [Computerworld Mobile/Wireless News] 6:39:05 PM comment
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Palm Rollout Gets Students Organized [Computerworld Mobile/Wireless News] 6:38:33 PM comment
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Wi-Fi Alliance plans to certify 802.11g WLANs this summer. The Wi-Fi Alliance plans to start certifications of 54M bit/sec. WLAN equipment this summer, but analysts and a major supplier to vertical markets wonder whether the new standard is ready for prime time. [Computerworld Mobile/Wireless News] 6:38:10 PM comment
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More brewing for Qualcomm?. Gaining some ground on Sun's dominant Java technology, Qualcomm's "BREW" software for downloading applications to cell phones racks up a win in a crucial Asian market. [CNET News.com] 6:36:23 PM comment
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An Inventor of the Transistor Has His Moment. A new book reassesses Herbert F. Mataré's contribution to the early development of computing and information technology. By John Markoff. [New York Times: Technology] 6:33:21 PM comment
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To Cash This Paycheck, Find the Nearest A.T.M.. The Coca-Cola Company is expected to announce that it will market payroll cards to restaurants, hotels and entertainment sites nationwide. By Jennifer Bayot. [New York Times: Technology] 6:31:16 PM comment
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Where's the Remote? A Tiny New Answer. The Griffin Mobile Total Remote started off as an attempt to create a remote control for the Apple iPod music player. By Ian Austen. [New York Times: Technology] 6:30:44 PM comment
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Nokia-Led Group Forms Cell-Phone Alliance With Samsung. Symbian Ltd. got a financially small but symbolically important endorsement from the Samsung Electronics Company. By Victoria Shannoninternational Herald Tribune. [New York Times: Technology] 6:22:05 PM comment
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BlackBerry Battle Could Reverberate. As the battle over technology used in BlackBerry pagers heads to court, a broader patent challenge could be on the horizon. By Teresa Riordan. [New York Times: Technology] 6:10:33 PM comment
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Microsoft in Second Deal to Sell Phone Software. T-Mobile, Germany's leading cellphone carrier, will start selling "smart phones" using Microsoft software. By Victoria Shannon. [New York Times: Technology] 6:08:44 PM comment
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Panasonic to debut Centrino-based Tablet [InfoWorld: Top News] 6:07:30 PM comment
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AT&T, Sprint see push-to-talk soon [InfoWorld: Top News] 6:03:00 PM comment
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M-Commerce for All. Euro networks form mobile payments club [The Register] 6:00:24 PM comment
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Nokia 3650 goes worldwide. Yes, but how much? [The Register] 5:55:19 PM comment
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Report: Reborn PDAs to thrive. Analysts say shipments of PDAs will grow by 18.3 percent over the next few years--but only if manufacturers reinvent the devices with multimedia and wireless doodads. [CNET News.com] 5:53:49 PM comment
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Tenzing Delivering In-flight Internet to Airlines. Tenzing is working with Airbus and Rockwell Collins in the endeavor to rival Boeing's Connexion service. [allNetDevices Wireless News] 5:49:46 PM comment
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Meetinghouse Meets Pocket PC. The 802.1X security provider has announced a version of its AEGIS client software for PocketPC 2002 handhelds. [allNetDevices Wireless News] 5:46:28 PM comment
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Panasonic Unveils Toughbook Tablet PC. Panasonic adds a Tablet PC based on Intel's new Centrino package to its line of rugged notebook computers. [allNetDevices Wireless News] 5:42:43 PM comment
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Wi-Fi has captured the attention of mobile operators in most major markets, and this is not all good news for 3G. Consider China Mobile*, which delayed its 3G rollout only to give the go-ahead to the installation of a Wi-Fi network. And Orange* just announced its intention to build out its own hot spot network. Granted, Wi-Fi installations don't amount to much when compared to 3G build outs -- but maybe that's the point. If a Wi-Fi network is so much less expensive than a 3G network, operators cannot afford to overlook them in these CAPEX-unfriendly times. Consider the following two articles: New York Times: Mobile Industry Struggles in Wireless Web
Far East Economic Review: Watch Out 3G, Wi-Fi Is Here |
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When it comes to mobile devices, one type doesn't always meet the needs of an enterprise, let alone the personal preferences of hundreds or thousands of users. That's why Jeff Lett, senior director of technical operations at Tenet Health Care Corp. in Santa Barbara, Calif., decided he needed a system that supports a wide range of mobile devices running multiple operating systems and using a variety of wireless networks. And he needed one that didn't require a torturous setup and configuration of back-end systems for each device.
Lett said he found his answer with SureWave Enterprise Server software from JP Mobile Inc. in Dallas. He said the software acts as the "glue" to tie a variety of mobile devices into his back-end systems. |
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