Mobilog

Monday, September 15, 2003

AT&T plumps for Windows-based handset. The wireless carrier plans to start selling a Motorola smart phone powered by Windows Mobile software, a lift to Microsoft as it tries to gain a foothold in the phone market. [CNET News.com - Front Door]
2:52:05 PM

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Useit.Com: Time to Make Tech Work. Recently, investments in new technology have slowed and productivity has surged because companies are focused on making existing technology work rather than chasing the latest fads. [Tomalak's Realm]
12:50:33 PM

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Mixed signals for IT spending. While information technology budgets in 2003 remain flat, there are early signs a modest recovery is coming in 2004, according to a new report from Goldman Sachs. [CNET News.com - Front Door]
12:48:57 PM

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Chicago show heralds new 'Internet of things'. In 1893, the World's Columbian Exposition brought millions of visitors to Chicago to celebrate the achievements and promise of the industrial age. One hundred ten years later, a symposium in the same city will highlight technology that may fuel the next 50 years of economic growth: a global network of intelligent objects. [InfoWorld: Top News]
12:42:13 PM

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Explicit, Implicit and 'Emplicit' Public WLANs -- A Business-Model Challenge for Wi-Fi. Wireless networking is here to stay, but companies trying to make -- or save -- money with it face a lot of problems. [Computerworld Mobile/Wireless News]
12:24:36 PM

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Microsoft and Motorola Said to Be in Cellphone Venture. Microsoft plans to announce that Motorola, the mobile phone maker, has agreed to produce a high-end phone based on the Windows Mobile software platform. By Jennifer L. Schenker. [New York Times: Technology]
12:23:40 PM

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New-Generation Phones Got Game. Cell-phone makers and game developers are building new devices that will let people talk with their friends and communicate with online gaming worlds. It's a whole new mobile lifestyle. Brad King reports from the Austin Game Conference. [Wired News]
12:17:44 PM

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Email's special power.

Software that requires people to explicitly declare the formation of these groups, and to acknowledge their dissolution, is too blunt an instrument for such ephemeral social interaction. Like an operating-system thread, an e-mail thread is a lightweight construct, cheap to set up and tear down. Could a protocol other than SMTP, and an application other than e-mail, support such interaction? Sure, but any other communication medium that has e-mail's special power to convene groups will suffer the same diseases that afflict e-mail: spam, abuse, infoglut. [Full story at InfoWorld.com]

When I recently threw some cold water on the notion that RSS is ready to displace email, I failed to articulate what, exactly, is so special about email. This column makes the case. ... [Jon's Radio]
12:17:02 PM

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