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permalink for this date  Thursday, July 11, 2002

Vindigo Over The Air 

Verizon dials in for downtown details. Verizon Wireless is offering some customers the ability to wirelessly download the electronic city guide program Vindigo. [CNET News.com]

Well, this is an important step forward.  Over-the-air provisioning is necessary to make always-on mobile wireless as useful as a wired broadband connection.  But American cellular carriers still think of smartphones as "handsets," not as computers.  They want to certify every piece of software on the handset, to make sure it can't harm their network.  They're going to have to get over that.

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