Monday, July 7, 2003

EDS set to protect mobile data. Electronic Data Systems, banking on a growing disaster-recovery market, announces a service to protect data on desktops, laptops and PDAS. [CNET News.com]
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Palm details HandSpring, PalmSource deal [CNET News.com]
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Can anything stop the endless summer of profits from Qualcomm's cell phone innovation?
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Jeffrey Harrow has some interesting ideas of what to do with GPS...
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If you want to motivate your employees, tell them a story, but not just any story. A Harvard Business Review conversation with screenwriting coach Robert McKee.
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HBS professor Nitin Nohria along with William Joyce and Bruce Roberson studied 160 companies to look for common management practices that succeed. A hint: Business basics matter.
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Sandbridge Technologies said Monday that it's the first chipmaker to pack an entire world of cell phone standards into a single handset.
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Who Is Using 802.1X?. Slashdot asks, is anyone using 802.1X?: An interesting thread that provokes a number of responses from people who have deployed 802.1X or have issues with it.... [Wi-Fi Networking News]
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Wi-Fi Adds to Starbucks Coffers. Starbucks head says Wi-Fi helped sales: No quantitative analysis, but a strong statement.... [Wi-Fi Networking News]
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India's Fixed Wireless Phone/Data System. India uses corDECT to provide cheap premises equipment for voice, Internet: It what sounds like a variation on a theme that was HomeRF as well, this system could provide substantially lower costs of using fixed wireless to provide data and voice to the final mile--or final 20 miles.... [Wi-Fi Networking News]
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Ricoh's Wi-Fi, GPS, or Bluetooth Connection. Gizmodo reports on Ricoh's new camera that can take three networking types: Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, of course, but GPS is a neat twist: you can geographically mark where photos are taken. I can imagine a number of scenarios from public safety to family vacations where GPS plus some mapping software would be a neat addition. Talk about remembering where you've been!... [Wi-Fi Networking News]
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Voice over IP Book Excerpt. Ken Camp excerpts from his book on IP telephony: Ken responded in part to an article I wrote for The Seattle Times about consumer VoIP by posting a long and interesting excerpt from his book, IP Telephony Demystified.... [Wi-Fi Networking News]
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The Lure of Data: Is It Addictive?. The ubiquity of technology in the lives of businesspeople and consumers has created a brewing tension between productivity and freneticism. By Matt Richtel. [New York Times: Technology]
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'Our Own Devices': Smothered by Invention. Edward Tenner's new book of essays on examples of what he calls body technologies might have been called "Why Things Bite Back II." By David Pogue. [New York Times: Technology]
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Searching for a Dial Tone in Africa. In parts of Africa the Internet is serving as a powerful force for change, primarily by making telephone service less expensive and more reliable. By G. Pascal Zachary. [New York Times: Technology]
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Extreme Mobility: a rant that I had to write after reading Tim, Dave, and this all in one day. [Ray Ozzie's Weblog]
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Computer Associates boosts wireless LANs [IDG InfoWorld]
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NEC Unveils Laptop Water-Cooling Module. NEC says it has developed the world's first slim-sized water-cooling module for notebook personal computers that employs a piezoelectric pump driving method for quiet operation. [allNetDevices Wireless News]
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Deloitte and Telispark Deliver Mobile Software for Pipeline-Operating Companies. The consulting company and its spinoff are teaming up to help oil and gas companies mobilize the pipeline inspection process with applications running on Intel-based wireless devices. [allNetDevices Wireless News]
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Boeing Spectrum. Boeing's Connexion service given spectrum allocation: Connexion by Boeing, their 1 Mbps up, 20 Mbps phased-array antenna system to broadband to airplanes in flight, was operating previously under experimental rules. With the World Radiocommunication Congress 2003 (WRC-2003) allotting secondary licensed usage in the 14.0-14.5 gigahertz (GHz) range for aeronautical satellite service. This move allows Boeing to offer its service worldwide with more guarantees and flexibility. Connexion recently signed SAS (Scandinavian Airline System), and, in May, Lufthansa. Both airlines will equip their long-haul trans-Atlantic and other routes with Connexion with 11 and approximately 85 planes, respectively, gaining the service starting in 2004. The timetable has a 2005 completion date, and its unclear whether user adoption will drive faster deployment.... [Wi-Fi Networking News]
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Intel is in the process of developing a chip that would enable laptops to remain connected to the Internet at all times, and a cell phone that would never lose signal, no matter where the user is. The platform, known as "Radio Free Intel," will use software-defined radio technology to adjust to any transmission standard in any environment. Intel would like to place the radio on all its chips, which would ultimately allow thousands of devices to transmit signals to each other. Intel says that there should not be an additional cost associated with placing the radio on the chips.
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