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Wednesday, March 5, 2003

Toshiba launches Wi-Fi 'hot spot in a box' project. Toshiba plans to deploy 10,000 public access Wi-Fi hot spots by year's end, while Intel is giving a boost to public Wi-Fi access in Asia through an agreement with the Singapore government. [Computerworld News]
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Aventis hooks doc management into Siebel front end. Aventis Pharmaceuticals has developed a medical information system that connects its document management system with a Siebel front-end system for doctors and nurses in its call center. [Computerworld News]
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Sony seems to have learnt one basic lesson of corporate public relations: messages are better received when you are making money. Little more than a year ago, when the company reported losses of ¥43.3 billion ($354m) in one six-month period, its chief executive, Nobuyuki Idei, was unusually reserved. Grand talk of long-term plans for the future, he said, could wait until the electronics and media giant showed a better command of the present. Now Mr Idei is basking in record sales and handsome profits?in the most recent quarter, net profits nearly doubled, to ¥125.4 billion ($1.02 billion)?and he has seized the opportunity to crank up the volume and talk about Sony's big plans for your living room.
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What's the business context that brings the New Network? Competition? Sorry, we can't get there from here, and even if we could, we'd be up against Googin's Paradox (that the best network is the hardest one to make money building and running). Is regulation the best route to realizing our networked potential? Nah. Stuck in the past, Byzantine, for insiders only, not responsive to innovation in these times of great change. So, maybe, hypothetically, pure hands-off no-holds-barred unregulated monopoly, despite its ugliness, will bring the most connectivity soonest.

Another great article by David Isenberg. Read the whole thing...
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