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22 November 2002 |
ECONOMIST -- Excellent piece comparing mobile phones and computers. The convergence of additional computing power is bringing the giants of the two industries into direct conflict. Of the 400m mobile phones that to be sold in 2002, nearly 16m will have built-in cameras. My Nokia 9210i Communicator is more a computer than a phone and I depend on it handling Word documents and Powerpoint files for my corridor computing requirements. By putting new technologies into consumers' hands in an easy-to-use form, the new handsets will succeed where their more expensive and bulkier PCs have failed.
Economist: "Nokia vs Microsoft: The fight for digital dominance"
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CNET -- Margaret Kane reports on Amazon's use of Google's API.
The experiments, which might seem technical and obscure, carry broad ramifications. Their concept turns the idea of the graphics-based Web on its head, bypassing its heavily designed home pages and sending developers straight to back-end corporate operations. In opening this new public path to their operations, companies hope to find new ways to generate business and validate the strategy behind Web services.
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GLASSHAUS -- Here's an excellent book by Gareth Downes-Powell, Tim Green and Bruno Mairlot: Dreamweaver MX: PHP Web Development. This is the very best book dealing with databases and web programming. It covers PHP, SQL and how to build a complex application in Dreamweaver MX. You need it if you are installing PHP and MySQL.
The Advanced SQL Usage chapter is the best in the book. It includes examples and gives reasons.
You can get code for the book on the glasshaus site.
[Amazon and Matt Brown]
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Mark Pilgrim -- You can correlate your news aggregator into the blogging ecosystem and get recommendations for sites you ought to be reading as well.
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ENN ie -- When Emily Dubberley visited Ireland last month, she lamented the paucity of public WiFi nodes in Dublin. Now O2 Ireland plans to offer public WLAN services for business customers in locations around the country from January 2003. According to Andrew McLindon, the Neighbourhood Access Points "will be placed in hotels, conference centres and train stations after O2 signed deals with Jurys Doyle Hotel Group, Bewleys Hotel Group, Lynch Hotel Group and CIE."
A range of payment options will be available. The main one of these will be a voucher system where users "scratch-off" the card to reveal access codes and details. The vouchers will be available at each of the hotspots.
At Kilkenny's SEISS Conference on Monday, we talked about how easy it would be to introduce WLAN roaming between major Irish operators. In fact, my Nokia D211 card is set up with that functionality as part of its admin control panel.
O2 Ireland has partnered with Ye@h Internet which sees Ye@h getting first refusal on sites along with a national roaming agreement with O2 for the sites it establishes.
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KARLSRUHE, Germany -- Cairos Technologies have plans to wire the pitch for the next World Cup. They would fit credit-card sized microwave transmitters in players' shin-pads. A peanut-sized transmitter goes inside the ball. Each produces a signature pattern several hundred times a second. Up to 10 antennas around the pitch relay the information to a central computer, which pools the data to reconstruct the game. Within milliseconds referees receive information via a wrist receiver. No more arguing with the referee. The computer sounding the alarm also collects statistics for coaches, pundits and fans. It can even recreate the game online, or control television cameras.
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©2003 Bernie Goldbach, Tech Journo, Irish Examiner.
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