MOST READ THIS WEEK By Christopher Allen; Shannon Appelcline | | | | | By Virtualization News Desk | | | |
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Remember back when there was a real and fun! battle for supremacy between Microsoft and Apple? Guess what: just such a conflict is shaping up for supremacy on the wireless handset where at least two major players are girding up for a fight to own this turf. Jan. 1, 2000 Reads: 9,311 | I worked for an ISP. We were on one of the top floors. The servers were several floors below. This meant that when you got the call that there was a server problem, you often had to get up and ride the elevator down to check the machine. There was lost time waiting on a rebooted server... Jan. 1, 2000 Reads: 9,899 | The mobile gaming industry is relatively embryonic. It's at an early stage of evolution where fundamental strategies for success are coarsely defined. Its clear dissimilarity from other rising markets is that it's a marriage of two extremely successful industries. Established digital g... Jan. 1, 2000 Reads: 7,020 | An alternative to inefficient paper-based systems enables field employees to use PDAs to check on marketing displays and track product inventory at retail stores. The major ROI for vendors is more accurate service and up-to-the-minute marketing information on any location, at any time.... Jan. 1, 2000 Reads: 7,454 | Successful products and services may rely more on where and when, rather than how, they are launched. It's very fashionable to talk of globalization and the world market, but the reality is that public acceptance of new products depends more on cultural factors than the use of the late... Jan. 1, 2000 Reads: 7,815 | Outside of North America, mobile entertainment is commonplace among a vast throng of the young and mobile...but why do Europe and Japan lead the way? Is it just lagging technology or a combination of cultural and geographical marketplace disparities? Are the hardware and network limita... Jan. 1, 2000 Reads: 8,539 | Growing up in the once sparsely populated city of San Jose, California, I recall trips to the mall with family and friends. Granted, I wasn't as mall-crazed as many of today's teens, but it was fun to visit toy stores to check out the latest remote-controlled cars and such. What I didn... Jan. 1, 2000 Reads: 6,769 | When MSNBC.com needed a set of quick-to-launch, easy-to-use wireless applications that didn't require a large investment, they turned to Roamable. MSNBC Now was launched this summer and is advancing at high speed. Jan. 1, 2000 Reads: 6,880 | Mobile Internet sites are not as easy to use as their computer-targeted Web-site cousins, due to smaller screens, more difficult text input, and a wide variety of user situations. Despite these factors, industry experts agree that mobile access to Web sites needs to be more usable than... Jan. 1, 2000 Reads: 7,610 | The WAP protocol has laid the groundwork for a new generation of wireless-enabled enterprise applications. Basically anyone who accesses a host computer from a terminal can now use a handheld device to obtain anytime, anywhere information access and data entry. Things will only get bet... Jan. 1, 2000 Reads: 7,132 | Ethernet has been with us for a while now, and setting up a network has passed from an arcane art to something most users are happy to do at home. Home-networking kits and improved operating systems (to be fair, I'm mainly referring to Microsoft Windows here) has made the process more ... Jan. 1, 2000 Reads: 9,551 | The president tells us we are fighting a new kind of war. We have witnessed the first battle fought on our turf. The battle of September 11 was fought in part not just with communication, but with wireless communication the new manifestation of an age-old weapon. Here are the st... Jan. 1, 2000 Reads: 7,363 | European restaurants have used handhelds for credit-card processing for years, and some have even taken orders wirelessly. Now, with costs dropping, the systems are starting to take off in the U.S. Though not without glitches, they're being adopted by more and more restaurant owners ea... Jan. 1, 2000 Reads: 8,677 | Time for a quick wireless pop quiz: Which mobile phone company is based in a country where 10 Java-based handsets are allegedly sold every second, where a proprietary technology and service exists that has not to-date been exported to anywhere else in the world, where the world's first... Jan. 1, 2000 Reads: 9,452 | DoCoMo, which started the world's first W-CDMA service in October, has pursued a strategy of taking minority investments in overseas carriers to build a family of mobile phone companies throughout the world using the same 3G mobile phone technology. So far, it has not been a resoundi... Jan. 1, 2000 Reads: 7,112 |
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