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Some of the benefits of providing Wi-Fi service are intangible. For example, Starbucks, perhaps the biggest initial backer of consumer Wi-Fi, has not tracked whether the service attracts new clients or whether it caters to the image of a cutting-edge consumer, company vice president Anne Saunders told the E-Commerce Times. 4:38:39 PM  comment
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As an investment partner with venture firm Sculley Brothers, Sculley does not count himself among those subscribing to the school of thought that IT is headed for a dead end. Rather, he sees a technology business on the brink of change. Known as an idea guy during his tenure as CEO of Apple, Sculley has a short list of promising new technologies that he believes are already transforming the IT industry in subtle--and not so subtle--ways.
Sculley spoke with CNET News.com before his planned trip to California to participate in the Silicon Valley 4.0 conference. |
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The Treo 600 arrives. Reports are trickling in that, with little fanfare, Sprint has started shipping the first Treo 600's to customers. Apparently they started taking orders over the phone yesterday, selling them for $599 with free shipping and an additional discount if you renew your contract. Probably going to sell out really, really soon, so get on it if you want one of these. Read... [Gizmodo] 4:33:26 PM comment
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Mobile phone contracts in Iraq to be based on GSM standard. Despite efforts by a U.S. congressman pushing a standard used in the U.S., contracts to build mobile phone networks in Iraq will be based on the European GSM standard. [Computerworld Mobile/Wireless News] 4:31:16 PM comment
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How Computer Chips Keep Cool. A Silicon Valley startup has developed a water-cooling 'radiator' for computers that could show up in laptops using next-generation monster chips. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News] 3:59:09 PM comment
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End of Openness?. Clay Shirky warns that, with the spam-death of email as we know it, we may have seen the high-water mark of openness online. Don't ignore Clayssandra -- he's onto something. Like Clay, I love email. Use it incessantly. Can't imagine how I ever lived without it. Can't see myself ever using older (telephone) or newer (IM, collaboration software, RSS feeds) mechanisms with the same enthusiasm. On the other hand, like Ray Ozzie, I've seen for some time that email won't scale the way it increasingly needs to. I wrote an issue of Release 1.0 two years ago describing collaborative bottom-up knowledge management solutions (including Groove) optimized for some of the business functions that email handles badly. I wrote an article for Slate a year ago saying that spam and worms would kill off the open email we know and love. And I realized in August that the SoBig worm might be the beginning of the end. And yet, and yet. I can't bring myself to be a pessimist. When my friends like Clay and Larry Lessig point out how the glorious openness of the Net is being snuffed out, I can't find any holes in their arguments. I reject the congenital optimism of people like George Gilder who think technology will solve all our problems (as long as government gets out of the way). I just keep coming back to the pragmatic conviction that we will muddle through. The question is how much time and money and effort will be wasted along the way. What gives me cause for hope, if you can call it that, is the power of pervasive internetworking. GM and Goodyear can't buy up and tear out the Net like they did the LA trolley system, because the Net is everywhere. The content industries can delay the arrival of digital distribution and make a mess of things with poorly-considered digital rights management schemes... but not forever. Verisign can break the domain name system for its financial gain... but it won't end universal IP connectivity, and that will ultimately make it irrelevant if it abuses its position of trust. Email will lose its glorious universality. We won't expect that anyone can send anything to anyone else. But email won't necessarily go the way of Usenet. Usenet was a subculture; email isn't. For all the spammers and free-riders, there are more people and organizations that, often for their own selfish reasons, want email to survive. Have we passed the high-water mark of openness? Probably. But the graph needn't look like a Bell Curve. We can still have an Internet that is the most open, dynamic communications medium in the world. And if we fight for them, there are other opportunities for true openness on the horizon, like unlicensed wireless. What's other choice do we have? [Werblog] 3:57:25 PM comment
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An open spectrum vision. The always-brilliant Peter Cochrane on the future of mobile networks. He sees unlicensed, extremely high frequency picocells succeeding where 3G networks are failing. [Werblog] 3:57:08 PM comment
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Jeremy Allaire on WiFi smartphones. Jeremy is thinking through the value proposition for intergrating WiFi with mobile phone handsets. [Werblog] 3:55:40 PM comment
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Sierra Wireless jumps into Microsoft Smartphone market. Unique Voq phone features a flip-cover that opens to the left to reveal a traditional keyboard layout. [Computerworld News] 3:54:26 PM comment
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As It Tries to Cut Costs, Wall Street Looks to India. Wall Street firms, including J. P. Morgan, Lehman Brothers and Morgan Stanley, are joining the chase for more highly skilled Indian labor. By Saritha Rai. [New York Times: Technology] 3:54:06 PM comment
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Motorola Will Spin Off Its Money-Losing Semiconductor Business. Motorola plans to divest its struggling semiconductor operations from its cellphone and communications equipment businesses. By Barnaby J. Feder. [New York Times: Technology] 3:53:48 PM comment
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Rapid Growth of China's Huawei Has Its High-Tech Rivals on Guard. Huawei Technologies symbolizes China's new technological expertise and its desire to be more than the factory floor for the world. By Chris Buckley. [New York Times: Technology] 3:53:26 PM comment
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Microsoft dominance of OS market grows, IDC study says. Despite increasing pressure from Linux, Microsoft Corp. dominated the worldwide market in 2002 for OSes (operating systems) used on servers and, less surprisingly, the OS market on the client side. It will continue to defend its market position for at least the next four years, according to a research report released Wednesday by IDC. [InfoWorld: Top News] 3:53:04 PM comment
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