Monday, December 22, 2003

The latest wireless craze in Hong Kong: walkie-talkies?. Some obscene percentage of the population of Hong Kong have cellphones (something like 99%, according to the Office of the Telecommunications Authority there), but apparently... [Gizmodo]
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Trends for 2004: Managing and securing your mobile workforce. How to handle the inevitable proliferation of mobile/wireless devices in your company in the coming year. [Computerworld Mobile/Wireless News]
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UPS ramps up supply chain RFID to meet Wal-Mart, Defense plans. UPS has started to work with its supply chain customers in an effort to meet RFID tracking requirements from Wal-Mart and the Defense Department that go into effect in 2005. [Computerworld Mobile/Wireless News]
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PalmSource, RIM plan BlackBerry integration. They will jointly develop a software client that will enable RIM's BlackBerry handhelds to connect to Palm OS. [Computerworld Mobile/Wireless News]
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Wi-Fi antennas extend reach - Infoworld Staff. Wi-Fi got several boosts this month that promise to expand coverage areas offered by wireless providers and to widen corporate networks. [InfoWorld: Top News]
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XML for the rest of us. adam bosworth
"The relational database is designed to serve up rows and columns," said BEA's Adam Bosworth in his keynote talk. "But our model of the world is documents. It's 'Tell me everything I want to know about this person or this clinical trial.' And those things are not flat, they're complex. Now we have the way to get not only the hospital records and prescriptions but also the doctor's write-ups."

The doctors and bankers will get that, just as the highway patrolmen already do. XML documents, flowing through XML plumbing, can now deliver very real and tangible benefits. For the publishing geeks who started it all, it's a moment to savor. [Full story at InfoWorld.com]
By the way, Adam Bosworth said a great many other interesting things in his XML 2003 talk. For those of you not inclined to watch this QuickTime clip -- and in particular for the search crawlers -- I would like to enter the following quote into the public record. ... [Jon's Radio]
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Lost? Hiding? Your Cellphone Is Keeping Tabs. Families and employers are adopting surveillance technology once used mostly to track soldiers and prisoners. By Amy Harmon. [New York Times: Technology]
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