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Wireless Business & Technology welcomes veteran writer and technologist Charles Arehart as our newly appointed 'Wireless Journeyman' columnist. Serving as 'the developer's developer' he'll be examining wireless technologies and techniques, sometimes praising and sometimes challengi...
Every weekday morning, weather permitting, Kiyoyuki Tsujimura pedals his bicycle to the station where he boards one of Tokyo's notoriously congested commuter trains to make the journey into the heart of the city.
Bluetooth is a new protocol designed to replace the tangle of wires that seems to accompany all technical advances. Operating over radio, it's not limited to line-of-sight and is destined for everything from keyboard connections to wireless Internet surfing. Clearly a standard was nece...
Driven by a common vision to mobilize the wireless world, CEO Lonny Avital and CTO Ran Margalit, cofounders of Hoboken, NJ- based NTTX, set out to resolve the question facing people on-the-go everywhere...how best can we remain fully functional while on the move?
Java development is about to become a lot fancier on the inside, and mobile technology will be the catalyst... Mobile access to information is creating a whole new set of business opportunities and user expectations that will require multichannel delivery of personalized, real-time i...
WBT interviews John Sculley and David Steinberg about InPhonic... and in doing so takes us behind the scenes of a big player in the fast-emerging 'wireless management' space. InPhonic, Inc., of Washington, DC, is the largest developer of virtual private wireless networks in the United ...
Cyberspace is a new domain, overlaying the physical world with a bypass network that allows us to reconstruct many aspects of human activity without respect to geography. It is much more than just Web sites and discussion rooms. It has a multitude of dimensions and trillions of potenti...
As the market for PDAs and mobile phones grows, companies roll out their new models and marketing strategies, understanding that success or failure lies with the whims of consumers. Most times, if offered the choice between two devices with different levels of technology, the market wi...
Short Message Service (SMS) has proven to be an unexpected success for mobile telecom operators. Practically ubiquitous on European handsets, at its simplest, it allows the sending of short (up to 160 character) text messages, which are typically received within 5 to 30 seconds of bein...
Handset and PDA manufacturers love me. That's because in any given year, I'm likely to lose, and therefore buy, at least three cell phones and two PDAs. I really don't know where they go. I suspect they get left behind in rental cars, airport lounges, and hotel rooms. Once I even found...
How did northern Californians cope without wired voice and data communications, e-mail, and e-commerce - all dependent on uninterrupted electricity? The lucky folks did well. These smart Californians got their hands on the prototypes of wireless handheld computers from Handspring and A...
All the buzz and bustle from the show floor of CTIA's Wireless 2001 event, held recently in Las Vegas, Nevada It took place in March, everyone was there, and it was...big.
Fred is strolling down Fifth Avenue when he suddenly hears several loud beeps from his cell phone. He quickly reaches for it, only to discover that it's Starbucks, offering 10% off lattes purchased within the next 30 minutes. Well, it just so happens he's right in front of Starbucks, a...
I already know what you're thinking: 'Not another article about i-mode!' You've probably convinced yourself already that i-mode is some kind of a fluke success story, totally irrelevant to your life. You're sick of seeing articles about it everywhere. Well, maybe that's what others ha...
After a decade of unmet expectations, the market for wireless LAN equipment is finally poised to explode. Consumers and businesses purchased about $1 billion of wireless LAN equipment in 2000, after buying just $400 million in 1999. Several recent announcements should further accelera...
New toWBT's International Advisory Board, Ben has also joined WBT as ColdFusion editor. After all, for years he's been enlightening readers of SYS-CON Media's ColdFusion Developer's Journal. Here he gives WAP developers ideas to consider when powering WAP by ColdFusion.
WBT Interviews etrieve's Mike Maerz Chairman and CEO Recently WBT's editorial director Jeremy Geelan had the opportunity to sit down with Mike Maerz, chairman and CEO of etrieve, the Oregon-based wireless e-mail management service for mobile professionals.
Rumors of the 'death' of WAP have, in the time-honored phrase, been exaggerated. WAP isn't dead by any stretch of the imagination. In fact, it's getting more and more alive every day.
I'm writing this month's editorial from the show floor at the CTIA Wireless 2001 Global Conference in Las Vegas where everyone who's anyone in the unwired world has come together for three short days to talk, showcase, and learn about everything wireless. Also worth mentioning is the u...
More and more frequently, as editorial director of SYS-CON Media, in general, and of Wireless Business & Technology, in particular, I find myself being asked to give a '35,000-foot view' of the fast-evolving Java, XML , enterprise Linux, and wireless spaces...the i-technology space...