Tuesday, December 16, 2003

T-Mobile, iPass team to offer Wi-Fi roaming. Wireless network provider T-Mobile USA Inc. has signed an agreement allowing corporate users of virtual network operator iPass Inc. to access its public Wi-Fi network in the U.S. [InfoWorld: Top News]
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Microsoft SPOT watches to go on sale in January [IDG InfoWorld]
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Nickel-sized hard drives. Toshiba has developed a hard drive the size of a nickel capable of holding 1 gigabyte or more of data.  These are the kinds of advances that will drive more intelligence into handheld devices like mobile phones. 
[Werblog]
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Adam Bosworth on navigating the linked web of data. Here's a brief clip from Adam Bosworth's terrific keynote, in which he talks about the synchronizing data browser that he's been dropping hints about on his weblog, and in which he also pokes some friendly fun at Jean Paoli's French accent. ... [Jon's Radio]
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Sun's identity pitch. At SunNetwork 2003 back in September, Jonathan Schwartz made the case that the Java card is the most strategic piece of Sun's whole technology stack. Actually, I'd say per-employee pricing is the real strategic innovation. But I've always hoped to see movement on the identity card front, so this clip, in which Schwartz stresses something I've been harping on for years, got my attention:
Java card support will be built into the desktop that we offer. It is the fundamental way we will help people to understand that if there were a menu item in your mail app that said, 'Show only mail from people that have been strongly authenticated,' then spam would disappear. 'Show me only content that has been strongly authenticated,' viruses would disappear.
... [Jon's Radio]
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Three Motorola Smartphones next year: the MPx220, the MPx100, and the MPx300. MSMobiles reports that in addition to the MPx220 (which we wrote about the other day), there will be two more cellphones running on Microsoft's Smartphone... [Gizmodo]
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