Thursday, August 12, 2004

Is enhanced voice the new mobile data?. In all the rush from mobile operators and the rest of the telecoms industry to mobile data services and the mobile Internet, it's possible that a new revenue opportunity has been missed - voice. [IT-Director.com - Mobile and Wireless]
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Does mobile data fall off vertical smartphones?. Sweating the small stuff is particularly important for ensuring security. Whether it's the processes, people or software involved in managing pocketable devices, each one provides a point of vulnerability for the enterprise. [IT-Director.com - Mobile and Wireless]
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Using mobility to stay alert. When something goes wrong in the IT, who needs to know? Most network management tools aim at the operational staff - but if a commercial process has been affected, the relevant management also needs to be informed - wherever they are. [IT-Director.com - Mobile and Wireless]
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Hello ... What? Yes I'm on the plane - no, it's rubbish!. Two news stories in the last few weeks highlight a mobile communications dilemma. There's a time to talk and a time to refrain from talking. One person's mobile flexibility is another's annoying conversation. [IT-Director.com - Mobile and Wireless]
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Big Blue thinks small for mobile middleware. What's in a name? Most of the words we use to describe aspects of IT products are either inadequate or hopelessly overloaded with multiple meanings. [IT-Director.com - Mobile and Wireless]
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Mobile multimedia marks Macromedia's Flash into Europe. User interfaces share a common frailty with customer services. It takes a lot of positive experiences to rebuild confidence after a bad experience. Take the experience of using some of the most advanced mobile phone portals on a WAP handset. [IT-Director.com - Mobile and Wireless]
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The value of email in the palm of every employee. There are two words that spread delight and fear into IT management in equal measure - mobile workforce. Delight for the flexibility that the mobile industry promises, but fear for the costs and complexities of what could turn out to be the IT project from hell. [IT-Director.com - Mobile and Wireless]

Also check out The Treo vs. RIM.

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Text Messages for Critical Masses. Political protestors are using a new tool that lets a person send a single text message to hundreds of mobile-phone users at the press of a button. By Daniel Terdiman. [Wired News]
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AWE Dials EDGE. AT&T Wireless rolls out Nokia smart phone that's supported by its EDGE network. [Wireless IQ - News Feeds]
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Good Memory. ABI predicts the cost factor could eventually bring on a transition in the mobile handset from NOR to NAND Flash. But in the shorter term, the two can learn to co-exist inside the phone. [Wireless IQ - News Feeds]
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The Science of Staying Young [Scientific American]
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Computerworld: User Interfaces: The Next Generation. Broadly speaking, such technologies are designed to allow computers to accept gestures, motions, speech and facial expressions as data input methods along with the mouse clicks and keystrokes. Many of these technologies are coming from small companies and are first developed for highly specialized applications. But as the technology matures and costs come down, expect to see it break into broader markets... [Tomalak's Realm]
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The State of RFID: Heading Toward a Wireless Internet of Artifacts. A UCLA professor reports on current RFID technology and envisions a world in which virtually anything -- or anyone -- can be part of an interactive Internet. [Computerworld Mobile/Wireless News]
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Wireless to Transform How We Communicate [Wireless Watch Japan]
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In-flight Wireless Slowly Taking Off [Wireless Watch Japan]
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Samsung: World's First Amorphous Silicon 2.6-inch VGA LCD [Wireless Watch Japan]
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Openwave to Support i-mode Phone [Wireless Watch Japan]
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Fuel-Cell Mobile Phones for Digital TV [Wireless Watch Japan]
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