Mobilog

Friday, May 23, 2003

Microsoft Smartphone Dissected - a new report from EDGE Consult. Wireless Developer Network has a synopsis of EDGE Consult's report on Microsoft's Smartphone. The report, "Microsoft Smartphone Dissected," gives a good overview of what is happening with Microsoft's venture into the market and where it might be going. [Computerworld Mobile/Wireless News]
7:52:02 PM

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Siemens: India to head 3G applications development. Company says it wants to take advantage of well-trained, gifted Indian software engineers. [Computerworld Mobile/Wireless News]
7:51:17 PM

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InFocus LiteShow brings Wi-Fi to projectors. LiteShow, a new system that enables digital projectors to operate through wireless networking works with the Apple's Airport system. [Computerworld Mobile/Wireless News]
7:50:58 PM

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NYC Study Calls for Free Wi-Fi. New study by city council says New York is swimming in fiber optics, yet suffering from a lack of networking, competitive pricing and improved Wi-Fi. [allNetDevices Wireless News]
7:50:32 PM

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TiVo Exceeds Estimates as Loss Narrows. TiVo said that its quarterly loss narrowed as sales more than doubled. By Bloomberg News. [New York Times: Technology]
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Army and M.I.T. Unveil Futuristic Soldier Center. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology won a $50 million Army contract to form a center that develops combat gear using materials the size of atoms. By Reuters. [New York Times: Technology]
7:49:33 PM

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New Qualcomm chip sets add power, competition to mobile market. Qualcomm answers Nokia with a new set of CDMA chips that could usher in the age of the power phone. [Computerworld News]
7:48:48 PM

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IDC: Web services to enable $4.3B hardware market by 2007. A survey by the research firm found that 77% of respondents expected to be deploying Web services this year and that 90% expect to roll them out by 2004. [Computerworld News]
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Telcos counter Net phoning with TV plans. Major U.S. phone companies have plans to pump video and TV services into homes via their lines--countering recent moves by cable providers to sell Net-based phone services. [CNET News.com]
7:45:12 PM

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UK Might See Wi-Fi on Trains. UK train passengers show interest, revenue probably there: But governmental contracts for train operators that require renewal and many competing interests might prevent the companies from building their own or outside firms from going through all the hoops. Sounds like the airport market as well. Also, some technical issues with having continuous signals while on trains. 3G might be good enough for in-transit use at some point; Wi-Fi in stations.... [Wi-Fi Networking News]
7:39:22 PM

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Messaging Seeks New Frontiers. IBM, Sendmail, HP reach out to 'deskless' workers [InfoWorld: Top News]
7:36:06 PM

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Pay-as-you-go rural wireless broadband. Bring me Sunshine [The Register]
7:35:53 PM

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NY Times: Phone Companies See Their Future in Flat-Rate Plans. That future may be at hand, only a few years behind schedule, as a result of the telephone industry's declining economic fortunes, increasing competition and recent technological advances. [Tomalak's Realm]
7:35:32 PM

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Wi-Fi may be the hottest tech market to come along since the Web itself. And while that's cheery news, it's also raising red flags in some quarters -- a concern that just as the Web spawned excess investment based on careless projections of future demand, the same thing could be starting to happen in Wi-Fi. True, this market remains far from saturated. And most major advances in technology initially attract more players than the market can ultimately sustain, leading to a shakeout at some point.

Gee, some insight.
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The problem is that Palm has taken aim at its own foot, shot with deadly accuracy, and is in the process of handing the entire sector to Microsoft. In one seemingly simple step, it has given control of the core functionality to Microsoft. A Palm Pilot is not much more than an address book and phone number list.
7:14:05 PM

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