Wednesday, April 21, 2004

Coca-Cola to deploy 28,000 Symbol mobile computers. Coca-Cola Enterprises plans to deploy 28,000 new, rugged handheld mobile computers from Symbol Technologies to route drivers in North America and Europe. [Computerworld Mobile/Wireless News]
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IT Drives the UPS Machine. The UPS Worldport hub in Louisville, Ky., uses $100 million of homegrown software to manage automatic sorting of almost a million packages a day, while at the same time reducing manual labor and increasing workforce retention. [Computerworld Mobile/Wireless News]
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Boxes and Arrows: Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner's Guide to User Research. Kuniavsky devotes the bulk of the book to describing a series of proven techniques for researching user needs and behaviors, including user profiles, contextual inquiry (plus task analysis and card sorting), focus groups, usability tests, and surveys, as well as more secondary-research approaches... [Tomalak's Realm]
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Motorola Licenses RIM Technology. Under a new licensing pact, Motorola devices can connect to RIM's BlackBerry Enterprise Server. [eWEEK Technology News]
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Hello Moto. Newly christened CEO Ed Zander gets his props, as Motorola reports a stellar first quarter. [Wireless IQ - News Feeds]
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As Nokia Falters, Motorola Rides Strong Sales to Higher Profit. Motorola said profits in the first quarter more than tripled. Motorola and Nokia run neck-and-neck in cellphone sales the United States. By Ken Belson. [New York Times: Technology]
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Slow to Adapt, Nokia Loses Market Share in Latest Cellphones. Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone maker, missed the trend toward clamshell handsets, denting its reputation as the arbiter of cellphone chic. By Alan Cowell. [New York Times: Technology]
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Equity firm KKR to buy PanAmSat. Private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Co. (KKR) has agreed to acquire satellite communications... [spacetoday.net]
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Qualcomm, Nokia to get pushy. The two companies are backing competing standards for push-to-talk, the service that lets cell phone customers talk to one another with just the push of a button. [CNET News.com]
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As Nokia Falters, Motorola Rides Strong Sales to Higher Profit. Motorola said profits in the first quarter more than tripled. Motorola and Nokia run neck-and-neck in cellphone sales the United States. By Ken Belson. [New York Times: Business]
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