Mobilog

Monday, November 10, 2003

Kodiak enters push-to-talk market [IDG InfoWorld]
11:16:02 PM

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Motorola buys high-speed wireless chipmaker. The purchase of XtremeSpectrum gives Motorola a product lead in ultrawideband chips, but could plunge the company into a heated standards battle. [CNET News.com - Front Door]
11:15:44 PM

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Seattle Times: At the heart of the spectrum: Powell is the man to watch on wireless. What Powell thinks and how he approaches issues will influence the outcome of the spectrum issue. In turn, the proposed changes themselves could be significant, leading experts say, because of their potential to transform the economy and to create an abundance, rather than scarcity, of spectrum. [Tomalak's Realm]
11:15:12 PM

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Useit.Com: From November 26, 2000; Security & Human Factors [Tomalak's Realm]
11:14:48 PM

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BlackBerry comes of age [Computerworld Mobile/Wireless News]
11:14:30 PM

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Microsoft introduces new mobility software. Software allows users to have speaker-independent, hands-free voice interaction with their phone applications, including contacts and calendars. [Computerworld Mobile/Wireless News]
11:14:07 PM

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Top Considerations for Wi-Fi Application Development. How to plan your development to take advantage of the many benefits of Wi-Fi. [Computerworld Mobile/Wireless News]
11:12:01 PM

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Wal-Mart Plan Could Cost Suppliers Millions. Wal-Mart's plan to have every carton and palette it receives carry a radio ID tag may cost suppliers millions, a report says. By Barnaby J. Feder. [New York Times: Business]
10:48:16 PM

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From networks to devices. According to a Morgan Stanley report, the mobile phone infrastructure market is going to plunge. Left unsaid is the other side of the equation. As the locus of value moves away from the core network infrastructure, it moves into the devices at the edge.
[Werblog]
10:33:21 PM

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Here come the meshes. Nortel and several startups are trialing wireless mesh-networking products, typically using 802.11a as a backbone to link meshes 802.11b nodes. (via Wi-Fi Networking News) I assume 802.16 (WiMax) backhaul will be part of the mix as more standards-compliant chipsets come on the market. Meshing and wireless backhaul will take WiFi to the next stage -- from thousands of purely short-range nodes to larger islands of connectivity.
[Werblog]
10:21:49 PM

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The missing piece for wireless is... wireless. TelephonyOnline: "Cometa intends to test WiMAX in a backhaul role in early 2004 in its initial commercial market of Seattle, Weis said." [Werblog]
10:03:53 PM

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Google Constellation?. Some of you may remember a product from Netscape around 1997 called Constellation. This was back in the days when Netscape was riding high, having rejected a huge buyout offer from Microsoft. Constellation was a frontal assault on the Windows franchise -- an attempt to make the browser the primary interface for accessing files and applications. Microsoft responded with various mechanisms to put Web content on the Windows desktop, and tightly integrated Internet Explorer into Windows. Of course, Contellation failed, Netscape lost its browser lead, and the company was never heard from again. (Well, maybe that's an exaggeration, but you get the idea.)

So what to make of Google Deskbar. In an eerily parallel development, Google reportedly rejected a $10 billion buyout offer from Microsoft, and is now launching a product that puts Google directly onto the Windows desktop. Google's executives are much wiser that Netscape's, so you don't hear any sabre-rattling about how they are going to crush Windows. Google CEO Eric Schmidt has been at two companies -- Sun and Novell -- that bore the brunt of successful Microsoft assaults, so you can bet he understands the game he's paying.

Perhaps Google has to go after Windows, or be a sitting duck when Microsoft comes after its search franchise. That's clearly what Microsoft intends. With its extraordinary financial and research assets, Microsoft can close the technical gap with Google's search engine. Whether it can overcome Google's mindshare is another question.
[Werblog]
10:02:23 PM

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