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Vol: 3 Iss: 9 |
What is the 'final frontier' for wireless? And what is the elusive impediment that's been acting as a brake on its explosion? Is it a business barrier, a technological one, or a human one? These are some of the questions that have now become such a part of mainstream American life in ... Jan. 1, 2000 Reads: 10,086 |
Here's another tool you can strap to your utility belt! The AOL Mobile Communicator (AOL MC) keeps you connected to your AOL account all the time. The AOL MC is a BlackBerry-type device (hardware produced by RIM) with two basic AOL functions: Instant Messenger and e-mail (attachments a... Jan. 1, 2000 Reads: 9,365 Replies: 1 |
Wireless games are expected to generate revenues of $4.4 billion by 2006, a revised prediction after Ovum had questioned Datamonitor's initial prediction of a mobile games market worth over $16 billion. Datamonitor's earlier prediction, first revealed at ECTS 2000, was one of the catal... Jan. 1, 2000 Reads: 7,985 |
The high-tech sector has been an integral part of life in San Diego for many years now, but local schools haven't always shared in the industry's advances. The San Diego County Office of Education is working to change that with a countywide initiative to dramatically increase the use o... Jan. 1, 2000 Reads: 8,758 |
Japanese people seem to be constantly on their mobile phones. However, they are using their handsets more for text messaging and surfing these days than for talking. Jan. 1, 2000 Reads: 6,994 |
The slow death of Metricom threw their customers for a loop. Here was a company that provided a unique service, yet burned through a billion dollars, and is now seemingly missed by all. Denver-based Aerie Networks recently bought most of the key Ricochet assets for a mere $8.25 millio... Jan. 1, 2000 Reads: 8,051 |
It's not a question of whether wireless advertising is coming to the U.S. market, but whether consumers will be too unhappy with privacy issues to see the value… Jan. 1, 2000 Reads: 8,066 |
Last year, I was telling Wireless Business & Technology (volume 1, issue 1) readers that poor usability was keeping a great technology (WAP) from taking off. At the same time, things were changing, so I encouraged developers to keep treading that WAP path. One year later, it's time to ... Jan. 1, 2000 Reads: 7,418 |
While there have been signs of corporate IT backlash resulting from the shortcomings of early implementations of the wireless Internet, there are also signs that it is becoming a useful tool for communicating with 'mobile workforces,' and will be a competitive necessity for businesses ... Jan. 1, 2000 Reads: 6,390 |
E911 is Enhanced 911, the service that would ensure that 911 calls made from a cell phone are tagged, routed, and handled in such a way that help arrives at the appropriate destination. If my cell account is from Ohio and I'm in Maine, witnessing an accident, I need to know that callin... Jan. 1, 2000 Reads: 8,517 |
Wireless operators face a daunting challenge as they build networks to deploy and profit from mobile data services. As their colleagues in the wireline world proved all too well, bigger, faster pipes are not the answer. This article explores the architecture requirements for infrastruc... Jan. 1, 2000 Reads: 8,743 |
The Mobile Services initiative (M-Services) was announced by the GSM Association this past summer. As leading GSM operators begin to individually announce and launch M-Services with the rollout of GPRS, and M-Services-enabled handsets come onto the market, what does it mean to you and ... Jan. 1, 2000 Reads: 5,842 |
Throughout last year the single most talked about technology was WAP. This exciting new set of standards promised to free us from our desks by enabling us to access content on the Internet through our mobile phones wherever we were and whenever we wanted. The subsequent failure to deli... Jan. 1, 2000 Reads: 6,877 |
As a developer of mobile applications, it's easy to see that the new Mobile Services can be beneficial in helping to create much better adoption of wireless applications. However, I feel that two huge barriers will have to be removed in order to make this a success. Americans still ... Jan. 1, 2000 Reads: 6,951 |
Beep, beep, beep goes my alarm clock on an average weekday morning. I roll out of bed and pick it up, but I don't just absentmindedly search for the snooze button as I usually do - instead I pick it up and, flipping open the lid, point it at my TV. Through its infrared transmitter I tu... Jan. 1, 2000 Reads: 7,896 |
There have been no eye-catching marketing events or even any anecdotal evidence to suggest that NTT DoCoMo's FOMA - the world's first third-generation wideband CDMA service - is yet on its way to becoming a Japanese social phenomenon to rival the once sensational i-mode, DoCoMo's exist... Jan. 1, 2000 Reads: 7,746 |
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