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Saturday, September 30
Keitai Watch: Mobile Terminals and MP3 Players Converge for Japanese PHS Subscribers Sanyo announced its RZ-J91 music player PHS terminal scheduled for sale on 30th November. The terminal can download MP3 encoded music onto an SMC flash memory card for later playback and comes complete with remote control, earphones and colour display. A 5 minute CD quality sample can be downloaded in 10 minutes by taking advantage of PHS's 64kbps data capability. Sanyo envisages the terminal being used to send email and browse web pages whilst simultaneously playing MP3 music samples. The ultimate distraction for those long commutes. read more...
Keitai Watch: NTT Group General Exhibition 2000 Tokyo International Forum, NTT exhibited its plans for the Autumn to Winter period including a music download service for PHS terminals now being trialled until end Oct, a PHS video terminal expected to be launched within this year, prototype iMode terminals based on the 501i series with embedded Java virtual machine and mockup W-CDMA video terminals with planned 64-384kbps data capability. read more...
Infoworld: HDML or WAP plus WML? IT disaster looms over mobile microbrowser wars Now all the current phones say they have WAP browsers, but it really ain't so. More than 90 percent of these cell phones sold in the United States use the Phone.com browser, which is only partially WAP-compatible. Phone.com actually uses HDML (Handheld Device Markup Language) for the presentation layer. A full WAP browser implementation, which is what Nokia and Ericsson plan to introduce, uses WML (Wireless Markup Language) for the presentation layer. read more...
Mobile Computing Online: Vodafone Starts GPRS Customer Trials Four months after its arch-rival BT Cellnet launched its own commercial beta test of GPRS (general packet radio service) high- speed data services in the UK, Vodafone has launched its own commercial test GPRS service. read more... Friday, September 29
AYG : Handspring Founder Bucks 'Conventional Thinking' The bottom line, in Hawkins' opinion, is that "consumers are really picky. They don't like bad products." read more...
allNetDevices : QNX Gives Away Platform It includes the full suite of QNX OS modules, including the microkernel, file systems and networking, a GNU toolchain, a code-generating application builder, the Photon microGUI windowing system and Internet and multimedia applications. read more...
allNetDevices : Speech Engine Supports Pocket PC The engine enables users to command and control devices using speech. It also supports text-to-speech capabilities so that users can hear content spoken instead of having to read it. read more...
Phone.com : New End-To-End Wireless Internet Security the Secure Enterprise Proxy creates a secure session between a mobile phone and a secure Web server without special configuration required by either the mobile phone subscriber or the wireless network operator. read more...
Techweb : Sony Device Puts Net, TV In Users' Hands TOKYO - Ever wanted to trade stocks and watch TV while sitting on the toilet? Then Sony Corp.'s latest wireless gadget could be for you. read more... Thursday, September 28
TheFeature : Planet Blue Last year, scientists at IBM sat down to figure out what sort of a world they could dream up if they took today's emerging technologies -- the Internet, cell-phones, electronic organizers, MP3 players, laptop computers, global positioning satellite receivers, Bluetooth networking devices, voice recognition technology, and so on -- and put them all together. read more...
e-inSite : Handspring’s 3G Wireless Visor To Use TI’s OMAP TI's solution plans to support the software user interface that was introduced with the Handspring VisorPhone, read more...
Nua : Mobile Internet to improve by 2005 Europe's mobile Internet is expected to draw 54 percent of Europeans by 2005, and overcome the current limitations associated with WAP. read more...
Forrester : Europe's Mobile Internet Will Flourish By 2005 "Pundits say that the WAP standard is dead. Get real: WAP's broad support and alignment with next-generation XHTML gives it a five-year life. But the standard will evolve rapidly: The WAP of 2005 will look as different as today's Web does from the gray-screen Mosaic browsers of 1995," read more...
InfoWorld : The Wireless Frontier As wireless technology moves into the forefront of consumer communication, IT leaders are still grappling with its feasibility for improving business in the enterprise. read more...
InfoWorld : Anti-virus vendors focus on wireless Anti-virus vendors are pursuing several angles to protect phones and PDAs against malicious code. Their limited processing power and memory capacity compared to desktop PCs makes the challenge a tough one, forcing the vendors to come up with some creative solutions. read more... Wednesday, September 27
CNet: Handspring offers PDA-cell phone sneak peek
Handspring is offering an early look at a new add-on cartridge that makes its handheld computer work just like a mobile phone. read more...
Jupiter: Europe and US Failing to Learn from Japan's Mobile Commerce Success
It will take the European and US markets two years to reach the $400 million of mobile commerce revenues generated in Japan today. As the market reaches critical mass in 2003, the number of wireless subscribers with Internet-enabled handsets will jump to 115 million and 254 million for US and Europe respectively, with mobile commerce revenues of $600 million in the US, $1.7 billion in Europe, and $3.5 billion in Japan. read more...
Australia Financial Review : DoCoMo's i-mode gives WAP a run for your money Many potential users are disillusioned by failure to provide a global positioning feature that would allow them to provide services focused on particular geographic locations say, for choosing a restaurant. So if you run a restaurant or other location-based service and had been hoping to benefit from WAP, you might have a long wait. read more...
RedHerring : Good guys Even with my normally razor-sharp perception dulled by several tequilas, I was wondering why these guys were so smug. Good, after all, just makes an MP3 player for the expansion slot on the Handspring Visor. Big deal. read more...
InfoWorld : J2ME Finds Its Niche Analysts said there are several advantages to using Java in wireless devices, including the facts that it overcomes low bandwidth hurdles, can provide end-to-end security, alleviates memory constraints, and is scalable. read more...
InfoWorld : Taking CRM Wireless "We're offering personalized marketing and customer self-service, all over the wireless Web. Just sending an e-mail [wirelessly] is not that exciting any more." read more... Tuesday, September 26
Newsbytes : WAP Is A Dirty Word, Says Forrester "This comes as no surprise. Today's anemic adoption falls in line with Forrester's expectations. Creaky GSM networks and weak services - not the WAP content standard - guaranteed a poor user experience this year," read more...
The Register : Blind dating on your WAP phone An Web and WAP enabled chat and dating service - basically an online lonely hearts column - will go live early next year. The site will be called findablinddate.com. read more...
The Standard: The raging popularity of NTT DoCoMo's blockbuster i-mode service means that Web phones could help revive the online advertising business model. Many Japanese businesses are beginning to see the potential of ad space on those sleek, lightweight and reliable phones. read more...
Techweb : Convergence Of Mobile Phone, Handheld Nears The convergence of mobile phones and handheld digital organizers took several steps forward Monday as major communications and computer device makers made plans to build products that merge both functions. read more...
Techweb : Motorola, Palm Team For Smart Phone the new phones would be similar to other mobile phones but with larger screens. “Users and developers of Palm will feel comfortable using this product,” read more... Monday, September 25
Revolution : Sports WAP Service Users who enter their postcode will have their location matched and will be directed to the nearest pub with Sky Sports available. read more...
Silicon.com : Pixo mobile browser to challenge WAP The company is today making the software available as an open standard and has invited developers to download it and test for themselves the difference between the two technologies. read more... Sunday, September 24
Eatoni Ergonomics Unveils Ground Breaking Text-Entry Software For Mobile Phones Until now, typing on a telephone keypad has been painful at best. Eatoni's linguistically optimal predictive text entry software makes the standard mobile telephone keypad as comfortable, fast, accurate, and versatile as a full typewriter keyboard. read more...
CNet : Java has no future on cell phones Java belongs on back-end servers, not on cell phones and today's personal digital assistants (PDAs), which lack the processing power and memory requirements to handle Java's large overhead. read more... |
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