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Saturday, September 23
BusinessWeek : Now anyone can be a paparazzo Some 150 New York enthusiasts now key in messages over their cell phones, creating a kind of mobile e-mail surveillance group. read more...
GoodExperience : The Wireless Customer Experience Creative Good's new free white paper on wireless customer experience is now available. The "hook" of the report is that success in wireless is not primarily about technology, or investors, or strategic partnerships. Success in wireless is based primarily on a good customer experience read more...
TechWeb : Slow Access, Poor Content Hinder WAP In China For the second time this year, China's largest mobile phone company has postponed plans to start charging customers for wireless Internet service. read more...
Java Industry Connection : New Mobile Device Enables Wireless Interactive Services "Leveraging Java technology, wireless device manufacturers, operators and content creators can develop highly differentiated products and services by providing dynamic, personalized, interactive content that can be offered to consumers at any time," read more...
EETimes : Java environment stakes claim to wireless Internet a slew of well-heeled mobile-device suppliers gave their support to the final release of the Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP). Designed to enable a more dynamic, personalized, interactive experience for wireless customers, the profile is based on the Java 2 Micro Edition read more... Friday, September 22
AnywhereYouGo.com: GPRS Proving to be Revolutionary, but Problematic General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) networks and phones are soon to hit the GSM markets. Is it the technology that will make wireless Internet usage really take off and give GSM countries a chance to catch up with Japan and its i-Mode? Or is it just an intermediate technology that will soon give way to the UMTS systems for which licenses operators are paying such huge amount of money?
read more... Thursday, September 21
TheFeature : Mobile Portals and Making Profits "Quack.com is one of a growing number of companies racing to cash in on the emerging market to provide Internet data over mobile phones and other wireless devices. But there's just one problem" read more...
Silicon.com : WAP creator moves away from its own technology Phone.com, one of the inventors of WAP, has said it expects to move away from the technology. read more...
Man Machine Interface for Mobile : Day 3 Terry Simpson reports, "Eija Kaasinen of VTT presented a detailed discussion of usability. She showed techniques such as usability logging which records issues rejected and the reasons so that if circumstances change, the log can be reviewed." read more... Wednesday, September 20
The Standard: Handspring Sidles Into Wireless Handspring, whose Visor commands about a quarter of the handheld market, has released a mobile phone add-on. The phone works with GSM networks, supports SMS, and runs at 9.6Kbps. Although it can be used to browse the web, it is targetted towards making voice calls. read more...
Fortune: Wireless Web on Phones? Forget It! Stewert Alsop really wanted to believe in this wonderful new world. He even got excited about stock quotes on his phone. But the reality did not live up to expectations. Here are three reasons that the wireless Web as it's imagined today is nothing more than a seductive chimera. read more...
Publish : Sports Stadiums To Get Wireless WAP-based Fun With Mobile-Venue, a football fan can check sports statistics, order a sandwich or team shirt, and participate in a sports quiz all from his seat at the stadium. read more...
CommWeb : Mobile Information Device Helps Personalize Interactive Wireless Applications The applications will be loaded onto the cell phones of the manufacturers involved in the initiative, and Java-enabled services that can be accessed via the cell phones will be supplied by the telecommunications service providers read more...
Unstrung : Wireless Survivor! CTIA is excited to announce the 1st ever "Wireless Survivor!" This contest, for the most innovative new products and services, will debut at CTIA WIRELESS I.T. 2000, October 16 - 18, 2000. read more...
Man Machine Interface for Mobile : Day 2 Christian Lindholm of Nokia Mobile Phones gave the final presentation of the second day and likened mobile technology to human transportation. We had bare feet (I presume he meant 'no mobiles') and invented shoes ('mobile phones'?). read more... Tuesday, September 19
Mobile Computing : WAP Gaining in Asia Japan's J-Phone Group is using its own Mobile Mark Up Language (MML)-based browser and had captured 5 percent of Asia-Pacific subscribers read more...
Java Industry Connection : Jacknife Development Suite is a comprehensive set of software- and hardware-based tools that enable programmers to develop, integrate, and test advanced wireless Java device applications and services, and bring them to market faster and less expensively. read more...
JapanTimes : Obscene Images found on i-mode i-mode is an Internet access service started by mobile phone operator NTT DoCoMo Inc. in February. As of Sept. 10, it had some 11.65 million subscribers. read more...
Content is King, But Billing is King Kong On one side we have operators that make huge investments in current networks, GPRS upgrades and UMTS licenses/networks as well as application developers that invest largely in building services and portals. On the other side, enter the users-to-be, accustomed to an Internet where access and services are virtually free of charge. This dichotomy obviously causes great concern: Is anybody willing to pay for 'Mobile Internet' services? If the answer is yes, the next obvious question is how will they be charged? read more...
Terry Simpson in Rome : Day 1 I faced a mobile technology failure where my laptop wouldn't connect to my mobile and I had the wrong connector for Italian landlines. So I am typing this on my Psion Revo and hope to transmit it via mobile. read more... |
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