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Smarter Business Solutions Through Dynamic Infrastructure
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Vol: 2 Iss: 7 |
You've heard the stats and the projections a hundred times. They used to be dated 2002, now they're more likely respun as coming true in 2004 - or even 2006, as in the case of a refreshingly honest ARC Group Report published as long ago as last December. Jan. 1, 2000 Reads: 12,114 |
Mobile operators and service providers are now beginning to offer mobile data solutions, currently enabled by GPRS and, in the future, by UMTS. For mobile data/wireless Internet solutions to be successful, they will have to have the same public acceptance as the fixed data network/Inte... Jan. 1, 2000 Reads: 8,246 |
'HAVE IT YOUR WAY' the hallmark of Burger King Corporation sounds like a simple promise. But the ongoing measures that the fast food chain takes to ensure that customers receive what they want just the way they want it are far from simple. An external handheld device is the new... Jan. 1, 2000 Reads: 7,627 |
More and more businesses are recognizing that their next significant step in business productivity and efficiency will come from adding mobility to the applications that have become central to our daily working lives. Jan. 1, 2000 Reads: 6,786 |
Planning to offer enterprise access to PDA or smart phone devices via the Web? Read this article to learn what is available in the mobile browser arena. Jan. 1, 2000 Reads: 15,619 |
Portable POS has all the trappings of a great idea. Developers say all the pieces are in place to make it an affordable, customer serviceenhancing solution for many types of retailers. Here are some of the benefits early adopters are ringing up. Jan. 1, 2000 Reads: 10,349 Replies: 1 |
Today, computers go everywhere with us. We port laptops, handhelds, and BlackBerry devices for every purpose from remote teleworking to anytime, anywhere e-mailing. As long as the device does its job, we don't gripe. Jan. 1, 2000 Reads: 8,328 |
When it's a camera. SMS or text messaging has been one of the all-time great legacies in terms of consumer adoption of a new technology. With the advent of the first MMS (multimedia messaging) services launched recently in Europe, many are saying that MMS will follow the same trend. Bu... Jan. 1, 2000 Reads: 8,962 Replies: 1 |
Though interoperability has come to the North American text messaging market, it is not a panacea. SMS is still held back by the majority of cellphones whose SMS functionality might be described as 'challenged.' Some new, innovative technologies may help the situation. Jan. 1, 2000 Reads: 8,473 |
Does anyone remember the commercial that shows a young man lying on the beach with his PalmPilot? It goes something like this: a stressed businessman does not want to leave the office for vacation. A colleague loans him his PDA. Jan. 1, 2000 Reads: 9,054 |
For the parents of the baby boomers, December 7, 1941, was a day that would live in infamy. September 11 merits the same sad distinction for the children of the baby boomers. The events of September 11 have also meant profound changes for police, fire, and emergency medical services (E... Jan. 1, 2000 Reads: 8,506 |
Here's how system provisioning can provide a way for carriers and device manufacturers to introduce new capabilities for handsets after they've been deployed in the field, ensuring the most up-to-date services without incurring high costs. Jan. 1, 2000 Reads: 7,368 Replies: 1 |
It could help improve the safety of vessels at sea. It could help with fighting terrorism. Doug Cline is a man with a mission: to introduce wireless vessel tracking to the maritime world. Here WBT talks to Cline and his associates on the Foresight Project and learns that, while it may ... Jan. 1, 2000 Reads: 8,561 |
'Empowering people through great software anytime, anyplace, and on any device' is Microsoft's vision. Literally. Long accused of using its dominant position in the desktop software market to repel innovative competitors, some are wary of Microsoft's ventures in the mobile industry ... Jan. 1, 2000 Reads: 8,809 |
As you've probably heard all too often by now, banner ads are a bust. With average click-through rates below 1% across the Web, advertisers have been turning to other ways to reach out with their messages. I don't know about you, but I never remember banner ads or anything about the ad... Jan. 1, 2000 Reads: 8,342 |
The biggest news in Tokyo this month is the ongoing 3G pummeling being delivered to Japan's 900-lb gorilla NTT DoCoMo by perennial No. 2 carrier KDDI. With the June 30 announcement that KDDI's CDMA2000 1X 3G system had amassed 1,151,300 subscribers against DoCoMo's 114,500 (for that ca... Jan. 1, 2000 Reads: 7,423 |
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