Tuesday, April 6, 2004

BusinessWeek: The Camphone Revolution. Last year sales of camera phones from all makers topped 84 million units worldwide -- nearly twice the purchases of conventional digital cameras. Consumers turn out to love the convenience of having a point-and-shoot camera wherever they tote their phones. [Tomalak's Realm]
3:29:32 PM    comment   

Economist: Off with the pith helmets. But now the computer industry needs the advice of anthropologists more than ever before, argues Marietta Baba, a social scientist at Michigan State University and the creator of the first business-anthropology course in America, at her former employer, Wayne State University. [Tomalak's Realm]
3:28:48 PM    comment   

epcSolutions Releases RFID Solution. GREAT FALLS, Va.-- epcSolutions, Inc., an industry leading EPC/RFID middleware provider, announces the release of ThingsNet, an integrated solution for Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). epcSolutions has delivered the first solution that enables enterprises to reduce the time, cost and effort... [Wireless IQ - News Feeds]
3:27:51 PM    comment   

Chips Up. Year over year, semiconductor sales jumped, driven mainly by the corporate spending rebound, reports the SIA. February, from January, sees a modest blip. [Wireless IQ - News Feeds]
3:25:25 PM    comment   

Sleek New Devices Help Low-Vision Patients See. The Quicklook, an amalgamation of a tiny digital video camera and a four-inch liquid-crystal display screen, acts as an electronic magnifying glass. By Kenneth Chang. [New York Times: Science]
3:24:36 PM    comment   

Start-up Skype takes Net telephony to PDAs. The company releases a test version of PocketSkype, aiming to extend peer-to-peer VoIP calls to new devices. [CNET News.com]
3:24:27 PM    comment   

Trapeze, Nomadix, PicoPoint in WorkZone Alliance. PLEASANTON, Calif.--Trapeze Networks, the award-winning provider of the wireless local area networking (WLAN) Mobility System announced today that it is partnering with Nomadix, the leading supplier of solutions that create intelligent Public-access Wi-Fi networks, and PicoPoint, the provider of... [Wireless IQ - News Feeds]
3:23:44 PM    comment   

Makers of Phone Program Skype Go Mobile. The peer-to-peer phone program Skype, which lets computer users make free calls to each other anywhere in the world, is going mobile, with a version being released for Wi-Fi-equipped digital assistants. [eWEEK Technology News]
3:22:56 PM    comment   

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