Friday, July 18, 2003|
Nokia primes pump for N-Gage. Gaming fans get the chance this weekend to put in advance orders for Nokia's high-end portable gaming machine, set for release this fall. [CNET News.com] 4:45:35 PM  comment
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Sony adds wireless to new handhelds. The consumer electronics maker announced its latest handhelds, which include built-in wireless capabilities and a slew of new components made in-house. [CNET News.com] 4:44:06 PM comment
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Most Notebooks Go Wireless by 2008. By 2008, mobile workers will be largely unhooked when they're on the road, according to a new study. A whopping 90 percent of notebook computers are expected to have embedded wireless connectivity in the next five years. [allNetDevices Wireless News] 3:19:47 PM comment
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A Future Option for Wireless MANs. The deployment of wireless metropolitan area networks (MANs) is growing as companies consider alternatives to DSL, cable modem and even T-1 connections. Learn whether 802.16 is an option to consider as part of your wireless network deployment. Even if it is, you'll have to wait for products to appear. [allNetDevices Wireless News] 3:18:47 PM comment
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Sony to Unveil New Clie. The consumer electronics giant's latest handheld device packs wireless LAN and Bluetooth networking into a new clamshell design. [allNetDevices Wireless News] 3:18:33 PM comment
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Making Friendsters in High Places. The online networking service Friendster is growing so rapidly, it's already inspired a new word. Friendsters are acquaintances made through the service who may or may not be truthful about themselves -- hence they are not yet friends. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News] 3:18:07 PM comment
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Technology Review: When Rebooting is Not an Option. Q&A: MIT computer scientist Larry Rudolph. This solution has worked so far. But very soon it's not going to work for, say, devices in our houses. It won't be clear what to reboot. The vision of Oxygen is that there's no PC that is the center, there's no central server to which everything is connected. [Tomalak's Realm] 3:17:34 PM comment
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Finding value in CRM frustration. Frustrated by less-than-stellar ROI on your CRM system? OneSource's Mark Israel says before you throw out that CRM system, you should consider the value your own employees can get out of it. [Computerworld News] 3:16:17 PM comment
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VOIP--a Tower of Babel?. VOIP services can differ in price or quality, but one thing is constant: Subscribers of different services often can't talk to each other. Free World Dial-Up is pushing to change that. [CNET News.com] 3:15:10 PM comment
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Intel to give Centrino a consumer push. The company will market Centrino to back-to-school shoppers, but analysts say the chipmaker's own Pentium 4 will prove a tough competitor. [CNET News.com] 3:14:24 PM comment
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The Economist: Searching for relevance. The ground being fought over is located on the results pages of internet searches. These, contrary to expectations during the dotcom boom, are now the most exciting place on the internet for many advertisers. [Tomalak's Realm] 3:09:05 PM comment
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WIRED: Your Permanent Record. David Vaskevitch, chief technology officer for Microsoft. In fact, memory - the ability to record, store, organize, play back, expand, edit, and elicit experiences - is the future of computing. What we need is more memory, plus better software tools to manage this abundance. [Tomalak's Realm] 3:08:30 PM comment
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The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is sometimes pitched as a better and less expensive way to trade e-commerce information than the stalwart electronic data interchange (EDI). But contrary to popular perceptions, XML can actually cost more than the systems many companies already have in place, and it isn't clear that most of them need the extra capabilities that XML offers.
The take-away
Until XML reaches scale, it won't be a good choice to replace proven EDI systems. Managers should make the most of their existing EDI systems while keeping an eye on XML's progress. |
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Movies on the Run. A quarter-century after the Walkman, movies are going portable, with personal video players that show films on a palm-size screen. By Michel Marriott. [New York Times: Technology] 2:45:50 PM comment
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Making Calls From All Over. Satellite phones can be purchased or rented through network providers, at retail stores, over the telephone or on the Web. All network providers will provide a list of dealers that sell or rent their phones. Inmarsat and some other network and service providers also offer options for Internet-access service only. [New York Times: Technology] 2:44:38 PM comment
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Cellphone-Organizers Reviewed. Samsung has introduced two new devices that function as both cellphones and organizers. One model is big, the other tiny. By David Pogue. [New York Times: Technology] 2:02:42 PM comment
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Research No Longer in Motion?. If a certain attorney gets his way, Research In Motion may no longer be allowed to sell its popular BlackBerry e-mail device. Also: The Pakistani government tracks down cell-phone-toting tax cheats.... NTT DoCoMo releases its smallest videophone.... all in Unwired News. By Elisa Batista. [Wired News] 2:01:25 PM comment
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Transmeta wins deals, loses money in Q2. Stick with us [The Register] 1:07:25 PM comment
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Who cares what operating system a phone uses?. Men can show feminine side too [The Register] 1:05:28 PM comment
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The Hacker's Wireless Toolbox Part 1. This is Part 1 of a two-part series outlining the ways that hackers can break into wireless LANs and the tools they use to accomplish this. In Part 1, Brian Moran of AirDefense talks about the vulnerabilities of WLANs and limitations of wireless security. [Computerworld Mobile/Wireless News] 1:03:08 PM comment
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Iraq invites bidders for mobile phone licenses. The U.S.-led Iraq administration is looking for bidders on three mobile telephone licenses in that country. [Computerworld Mobile/Wireless News] 12:38:37 PM comment
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More not-particularly-helpful analysis concerning the whole hotspot thing. Yet another analyst group is coming out saying that WiFi hotspots won't be as big a deal as some people predict, which is increasingly becoming the party line. Their argument is that less than 3% of Americans have used a public hotspot, and a "negligible number" have become subscribers (5% of that 3%). I don't see how that's really relevant. For example, I'm a huge supporter of WiFi, and I am not a subscriber to any of these services because I don't use them often enough to pay the ridiculously high fees they charge. I test some of them out, and I use them on occasion, but it's not worth it for me to be a "subscriber". That doesn't mean that hotspots will fail. For example, this report seems to ignore free hotspots, which I use all the time. The report is also trying to extrapolate from very early data. If we looked at any product that goes through an adoption cycle, you see that the early adopters pick things up slowly before a mass audience gets into it. So, while I agree that commercial hotspots will have a problem, it's because of their business model - not the idea itself. A report like this just says "it's going to fail, because not enough people are adopting it". That's useless. A report of this nature needs to say why people won't adopt it. 11:54:25 AM comment
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It seems like just yesterday that the worldwide cellular industry was under attack from all sides. As the bubble burst, the outrageous sums that were coughed up for 3G licenses, coupled with the equally large cost of 3G implementation, stood out like two elephants crammed into a fish bowl. 11:41:14 AM comment
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In their recent moves, the CEOs of Oracle and Apple have demonstrated divergent views of the industry.
What kind of an industry is technology? A slowing, conservative, consolidating one, hungry to sweep up profit whenever possible? Or an industry of visionaries confident that profit will come if they invent new tools to make life better? |
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Profit Falls 28% at Nokia; Slower Sales Are Forecast. Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone manufacturer, reported a drop in second-quarter profits and said that revenue could fall further in the third quarter. By Heather Timmons. [New York Times: Technology] 11:38:32 AM comment
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This has nothing to do with what I usually discuss on this blog but one must make exceptions for the exceptional. 11:19:54 AM comment
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As Wi-Fi grows to envelop cities, 'Voice over Hot Spots' could replace cell services --and their profits.
It's already happening -- check out Vocera. |
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