Mobilog

Wednesday, October 15, 2003

Software leader tells how products will connect PCs and the wireless world.
4:21:16 PM

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Here's a start: Microsoft's linkup with Vodafone, which is aimed at developing industry standards that could benefit all players
4:14:10 PM

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The industry sees growth in mobile data and Wi-Fi -- and challenges from regulators and its own lack of market insight
4:12:11 PM

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Sun CTO sees systems, networks on chips. SAN JOSE, Calif. -- As advances in microprocessor technology give engineers more transistors to design with, the next generations of computer chips will begin to take on the characteristics of computer systems and maybe even networks themselves, Sun Microsystems Inc.'s executive vice president and chief technology officer, Greg Papadopoulos, told the MPF Tuesday. [InfoWorld: Top News]
4:10:12 PM

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PalmSource CEO excited about 3G. GENEVA - David Nagel is returning to his roots, after a fashion. The former vice president of product research and development at Apple Computer Inc., which was among the first companies in the world to launch a handheld computer device with its Newton, is now in the driver's seat of Palm Inc.'s operating system spin-off, PalmSource Inc. [InfoWorld: Top News]
4:09:21 PM

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Fast Company: Tech Support. Scott Kirsner. As a corporate strategy, that might make sense. But as Nokia, Motorola, and other cell-phone makers pursue that path, their products drift further and further from what consumers really want. [Tomalak's Realm]
4:07:40 PM

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WiMax promises breakthrough in broadband access. WiMax, also known as 802.16a, is a wireless networking standard that can transfer about 70Mbit/sec. over a distance of 30 miles. [Computerworld News]
4:06:47 PM

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Sun, Pronto Target Large Operators. Sun and Pronto are coming out with a platform aimed at carriers and other operators of large hot spot networks: The offering aims to make it easy to provision, deploy and manage large public networks. The platform enables support for a number of payment-related functions, such as support for prepaid and post-paid pricing, SIM and SMS authentication, roaming settlement and revenue distribution among partners. The announcement mentions that the platform includes a policy agent that authenticates users against the Java System Identity Server and enforces network policy, but it does not mention support for 802.1X. The product may be a tough sell without 1X.... [Wi-Fi Networking News]
4:04:17 PM

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Microsoft, Vodafone aim to bridge PC, mobile services. Technologies should allow developers to write PC applications that incorporate services from wireless operators, such as determining the location of a user, authenticating their identity, accepting payments for services or sending text messages. [Computerworld Mobile/Wireless News]
3:59:37 PM

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Sun greases Java deployment for telcos. One umbrella [The Register]
3:57:58 PM

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Sony Ericsson records first profit. Christmas comes early [The Register]
3:50:22 PM

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Transmeta Sees a Way to Cut Chips' Leakage. Transmeta, a troubled Silicon Valley chip maker, described an unusual software technique that it said would help solve a problem bedeviling the semiconductor industry. By John Markoff. [New York Times: Technology]
3:42:13 PM

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Is mobile's next big thing worth $20bn?
3:20:10 PM

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Voice over Wi-Fi sounds like a good idea, but ancestral voices prophesy warning
3:17:17 PM

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Modern wireless networks use fearsomely complicated radio and computing ideas to get their speed up, but something as simple as an extra antenna promises even more bandwidth
3:16:11 PM

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