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Smarter Business Solutions Through Dynamic Infrastructure
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Vol: 1 Iss: 6 |
One fascinating aspect of the unwired world is that it is no respecter of history or geography. And I don't just mean in the sense of 'the end of the distance'; I mean in the sense that emerging economics are latching on to wireless technologies and leveraging them to get a jump on the... Aug. 22, 2001 Reads: 10,883 |
With the growth of the wireless industry, and telecommunications providers realizing the potential of provisioning personalized mobile applications for customers, Java developers are positioned to capitalize on a tremendous market opportunity. The number of wireless communications devi... Aug. 22, 2001 Reads: 7,765 |
The inexorable link between business and technology has been propelled to a new level in recent years. With the development of the Internet and the resulting boom of Web-based businesses, technology has made information more important and more accessible. In the past decade, businesses... Aug. 22, 2001 Reads: 7,703 |
With the entire telecommunications industry awaiting the launch of 3G networks, there have been conflicting reports about its state, its cost, and its launch date. Not only is it one of the most important events in recent years, it's also one of the most controversial. The market has o... Aug. 22, 2001 Reads: 7,452 |
The development of electronic commerce has led to an ongoing search for so-called killer applications. In today's environment of electronic commerce there have been some clear winners, such as electronic auctions, but the killer application for mobile networks (especially 3G) has yet t... Aug. 22, 2001 Reads: 8,146 |
Jonathan Knudsen is a Java veteran who has given us such diverse titles as Java Cryptography, Java 2D Graphics, and The Unofficial Guide to LEGO MINDSTORMS Robots. His latest offering is Wireless Java: Developing with Java 2, Micro Edition (Apress, 2001, ISBN 1-893115-50-X). Aug. 22, 2001 Reads: 10,212 |
Wireless devices are proliferating throughout the marketplace faster than Tribbles. Corporate customers that I speak with identify wireless computing as a critical technology solution for their business needs. On the one hand, wireless devices such as mobile phones and PDAs are much si... Aug. 22, 2001 Reads: 15,130 |
Even though Java has become the language of choice for most developers moving into the wireless arena, coders are finding a surprising lack of tools. While more are becoming available, and others are undergoing retrofits to enable them for wireless use, this review looks at a tool desi... Aug. 22, 2001 Reads: 10,847 |
The unofficial consensus is that the United States is behind both Europe and Japan in the maturity and robustness of wireless Web applications. Sure, we're bombarded with commercials that encourage us to embrace the wireless Web, but so far the realities have fallen far short of the pr... Aug. 22, 2001 Reads: 11,203 |
Entrepreneurial interest in wireless was strong at this year's TiEcon conference in Santa Clara, CA. After all, there's more money under management at VC firms now than at any time in history. It's just not being handed out as freely to seed and first-round investments. Aug. 22, 2001 Reads: 9,091 |
Will machine-to-machine communications be the Internet technology trend of the 2010s? Does what we see of M2M today constitute the first signs of a technological development that may turn out to be as revolutionary as the PC era and the Internet at the end of the 20th century? Will the... Aug. 22, 2001 Reads: 9,318 Replies: 1 |
There have been a lot of hot wireless topics in current events as of late, a trend indicative of the continuing acceptance of wireless in the mainstream consumer market. In this month's editorial, I'd like to weigh in on a few of the biggest issues. Aug. 22, 2001 Reads: 9,285 |
Wireless game playing is already a big business. Combined with company branding to a targeted audience, the potential for wireless ad campaigns skyrockets. PespsiCo has been one of the first international companies to get the ball rolling. Aug. 22, 2001 Reads: 7,752 |
Marketing mobile technologies to consumers as the 'the Internet in the palm of your hand' may have been an oversell. It's time for hte industry to figure out practical ways for consumers to use mobile applications. Aug. 22, 2001 Reads: 6,948 |
Paul Eisenstein, publisher of THECarConnection.com, reports from the June 15-16 EyeForAuto Conference in Detroit that the repeat purchase rate on telematics service is low. That is, once current telematics customers finish their free first year of service, they refuse to pay the annual... Aug. 22, 2001 Reads: 9,231 |
We've all seen it - the driver in rush-hour traffic reading the paper, a parent turning toward the backseat looking after a young child, a driver and passenger engaged in a heated discussion and, of course, the people who talk animatedly on their cell phones, oblivious to the world. Th... Aug. 22, 2001 Reads: 9,701 |
I'm looking at my huge field of corn, millions of ears ready for harvest, every one genetically engineered to be identical. From the root structure to the tips, every stalk's the same, and offers the maximum yield made possible by modern science. But enhancing production is only part o... Aug. 22, 2001 Reads: 11,425 |
Wireless text messaging (or SMS) is a juggernaut in almost every GSM mobile operator network on the planet. Here's a look at some of the reasons why it hasn't yet caught on in the U.S. Aug. 22, 2001 Reads: 7,627 |
TDD may be just another three-letter acronym, but it's one with plenty of meaning. Just ask the TDD Coalition, an organization of companies sworn to support it. TDD stands for time division duplexing, and refers to a method of establishing a wireless bidirectional communications link u... Jan. 1, 2000 Reads: 7,810 |
Your customer information database can be designed using a two-way alerting system so that customers can get just the information they want, just when they need it. Jan. 1, 2000 Reads: 6,608 |
This list is the culmination of one of Ron's lifetime ambitions. His obsession with the word lists began in school, where he participated in 60 words for the '60's, but, alas, dropped out. He created the group that produced 70 words for the '70's, although he was babbling incoherently ... Jan. 1, 2000 Reads: 9,535 |
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