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Everyone is looking for our trust at the moment. Schemes for digitally signing applications seem to be popping up like gophers across the mobile landscape, each of them confident that we'll place our trust in their authority. Microsoft, of course, has been trying to convince us to only...
Today's message networks take on tomorrow's advanced messaging and unified communications services. With over 40 billion e-mails sent each day, the world's communications backbone is increasingly traveling across message networks. Businesses execute transactions, partnerships, sales, n...
We've all heard about the potential use of fuel cell technology in mobile phones and laptop computers, but they may be arriving faster than you think in other parts of the cellular network. Behind every smoothly running wireless network is an increasingly fragile power infrastructure.
Two new products from DDH Software take us one step further from our desktops, but is remote access really that useful? DDH Software released two new programs recently, a Runtime for their venerable HandBase software and a truly new application, Mobile TS, which allows Palm users to co...
No longer do people request information from machines, now they're all talking to each other! 2M technologies and applications span the supply chain. At near individual item level, RFID tags and sensors automate data communications about pallets and cases.
Memory, bandwidth, and processing power- there is never enough of any but the first is getting something of a makeover. As the mobile industry struggles to strike a balance between what users want and what designers, service providers, and manufacturers want them to have, an all-around...
Though mobile phone industry trends may vary from region to region based on local consumer behavior and preferences, the hallmarks of wireless telecom services remain the same globally: convenience, reliability, and value. Today, new payment methods allow mobile providers to not only f...
Wireless LAN (WLAN) and Voice over IP (VoIP) are no longer considered emerging technologies. But if seeing is believing, then all we have to do is reference the WLAN phones that offer voice services to understand that wireless IP phones are now as real as wired IP phones.
Mobile devices are fast becoming the means by which we can extend the reach of our communication and entertainment channels. With this new mobility of media, producers of digital content are facing a new challenge: how to protect their content against unauthorized use.
The last two years have been filled with considerable excitement over the potential of wireless LANs (WLANs) and the enthusiasm continues into 2004. The debate as to whether WLANs will complement or cannibalize 3G networks hasn't let up. Several prominent analysts have labeled 802.11 a...
Imagine having all of your data on you, whenever and wherever you go. Most of us use some sort of wireless technology to keep us looped into the wired world. The problem is that even with all the advances in wireless systems and devices, some fatal flaws remain.
Java Technology for the Wireless Industry (JTWI) will have a huge impact on Java applications, enabling them to have much greater functionality. Here we look at some of the capabilities we can expect to see in the next generation of Java for mobile phones.