Monthly Archives: June 2001
Winner Take All
The battle is over and the global system for mobile communication has won the wireless standards war. In a coup for Europe, where GSM...
Making a PDA More Than a Paperweight
Ive given Palm a hard time for dragging its feet about folding new hardware advances into its devices—the latest handhelds from Palm closely resemble...
RIM Adds ERP Juice to BlackBerry Device
Research in Motion Ltd., a leader in the handheld wireless e-mail arena, is looking to extend its lead through additional application developer partnerships and...
Voice and Data Go on the Air
For many years, telecommunications carriers have been talking about the promise of wireless technologies to deliver traditional services in addition to mobile telephony.The talk...
Is Bluetooth a Candidate for Adoption?
Efforts by cell phone makers to promote Bluetooth-enabled handsets are being stymied by carriers reluctant to buy in to the pricey, slow-growing wireless technology.In...
Geekspeak: June 18, 2001
Could it sweeten your day if someone you know could say, "Have an M&M"—and dispense it over the Net? Or what about a little...
Wireless Giants Go for Sharing
A group of powerful wireless companies plans to standardize the look of millions of mobile phones in an effort to spur the creation of...
Some Tech Fuel to Propel the Economy
By all evidence, we are not yet dealing with maturing technologies that, after having sparkled for a half-decade, are now in the process of...
Devils and Details of Benchmark Tests
Eweek Labs web server benchmark, like most benchmark efforts, was an arduous series of trial-and-error events in which we used all our resources to...
Some Developers Remain Wary of P2P
The much-maligned peer-to-peer technology got a boost earlier this month from several vendors, but it still received a lukewarm response from some developers. Some...