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Smarter Business Solutions Through Dynamic Infrastructure
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Vol: 2 Iss: 2 |
On a recent business trip to Istanbul, I arrived to wall-to-wall coverage of the Telsim controversy. Motorola and Nokia have filed a $3-billion lawsuit against Telsim, the second leading wireless provider in Turkey, alleging that Turkey's Uzan family borrowed all of that money with no ... Jan. 1, 2000 Reads: 8,945 |
It slowed to a crawl in 2001, but DoCoMo reckons that the number 500 million will soon work its inevitable magic on consumer demand for next-gen services. As revolutions go, the conversion in 2001 from 2G to 3G took place at a snail's pace. The talk was at hyperspeed, and operator spen... Jan. 1, 2000 Reads: 6,910 |
Navigating the overwhelming choices in wireless/mobile hardware and software technology requires mastery of the various issues; only then can you get on with development of a wireless software application for a PDA. With the relentless coverage of military action in Afghanistan and the... Jan. 1, 2000 Reads: 6,999 |
Businesspeople and technologists generally consider their handheld devices to be primarily communications devices. They are used as schedule keepers or electronic diaries, and many users have multiple devices in hand such as a mobile phone and a PDA. The advent of Internet-enabled wire... Jan. 1, 2000 Reads: 15,074 |
At the end of December 2001, 30-billion SMS messages a month were being sent on GSM networks around the world. Not bad for a technology that was meant for a corporate market. The explosive growth of SMS, especially in Europe, can be attributed to many factors. But let me state the obvi... Jan. 1, 2000 Reads: 9,274 |
I'm a WAP user for one simple reason: it allows me to communicate with my girlfriend by e-mail whenever I want. Currently she is studying in Delft, in the Netherlands, while I live and work in Trondheim, Norway. And I miss her. Jan. 1, 2000 Reads: 5,167 |
Mobile operators are in a precarious position. Airtime revenue is decreasing faster than fixed costs, and competitors are multiplying. Not only is there high overhead for customer acquisition, but retention costs are also increasing. Mobile operators need to act now to ensure that they... Jan. 1, 2000 Reads: 6,002 |
In the stuff of futuristic dreams, the videophone once ranked alongside the flying jet car as exciting inventions that would change our lives someday. Yet to the quiet disappointment of those whose youthful imaginations were stoked by such ideas decades back (myself included), neither ... Jan. 1, 2000 Reads: 6,959 |
The restrictions placed on the use of wireless devices within hospitals didn't stop this company from deploying a handheld system that would address the leading contributors to escalating health care costs and accidental patient deaths: lack of secure access to clinical data and inabil... Jan. 1, 2000 Reads: 6,290 |
The guest in room 542 is upset and loudly demanding the manager. For most hotel managers, that means scrambling to get whatever details are available from the operator who took the call and hightailing it to the fifth floor. But at the Radisson Hotel in Minneapolis, general manager Jim... Jan. 1, 2000 Reads: 6,899 |
Short Message Service (SMS) has been the unpredicted golden goose of mobile telephone networks, with more than a billion messages flying through the airwaves every month over the GSM network alone. Even at a few cents a message it's not difficult to see how SMS might be the solution to... Jan. 1, 2000 Reads: 13,834 |
The explosion of devices, markup languages, and platforms in the mobile application arena has developers pulling their hair out. Trying to have a separate application for every language is hard enough - but even then, the application still needs to be optimized for different devices. D... Jan. 1, 2000 Reads: 7,074 |
Worldwide wireless broadband connectivity is spreading around the globe. What technologies are taking us there? How close are we? What are the obstacles? Robert Hoskins, director of the Broadband Wireless Alliance (BWA), describes three network environments that help define the three... Jan. 1, 2000 Reads: 8,755 |
DoCoMo's share price has fallen 33% since a new share issue a year ago...but will cheaper shares attract new capital to the Japanese mobile giant? And just how safe is Vodafone's investment in JAPAN TELECOM? January 2002 ended with NTT DoCoMo's confirmation of their plans to list in Ne... Jan. 1, 2000 Reads: 6,332 |
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