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According to a new study by Allied Business Intelligence Inc., the RFID market will jump from $1.4 billion annually this year to as much as $3.8 billion in 2008. ABI also said that companies with experience in delivering millions of tags, like Intermec Technologies Corp. and Texas Instruments Inc., have a far better chance of […]

NTT DoCoMo and NEC have developed a mobile handset that is compatible with Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (W-CDMA) and 802.11b. In WLAN mode, the phone transmits voice to a corporate IP telephony server. The phone is expected to be launched as a commercial product in April 2004. Read the full story at Network World […]

Software developed by Pronto Networks Inc. will help power an eight-square-mile Wi-Fi zone in the Southern California town of Cerritos. The company said pricing will be comparable to wireline broadband access. Prontos Operations Support System, or OSS, provides back-office functionality for Wi-Fi networks, including secure authentication, pre-paid and post-paid billing, customer support, roaming settlement and […]

ARM Ltd. on Wednesday said it reduced the size and number of transistors on its processor core design. The new design reduces power consumption when connecting to wireless networks. The ARM968E-S core is designed to be incorporated into chips for PDAs and cell phones that use 802.11 WLANs or Bluetooth. Read the full story at […]

According to a new study by Allied Business Intelligence Inc., 16 percent of the WiMAX-based services market in 2008 will be covered by small- and medium-sized enterprises. The market is attractive because its users typically churn less than residential users. ABI also said 42 percent of fixed broadband wireless customers will be residential users. Read […]

If youre one of those recalcitrant Windows users clinging to Windows 98 or Windows ME who still needs all those security updates, take heart. Beta testers of the anticipated Windows Update Security CD have heard that the release candidate of the collection of all the latest and greatest security fixes is due out next week, […]

IBM officials on Wednesday said the company is using a new data-replication technology called Piper that can smooth customer transitions from other storage platforms. So far, the technology is for IBMs service and integration use, and has been targeted mainly at customers of Hopkinton, Mass.-based rival EMC Corp., officials of Armonk, N.Y. said. How the […]

Outsourcing IT is now commonplace—even strategic IT functions and applications are fair game for many of our 663 respondents. On the surface, successful experiences with outsourcing have much to do with its popularity, since no more than 25 percent of IT executives expressed dissatisfaction with their vendors. But our survey did uncover signs of trouble: […]

Discussions about code as poetry and how code and art differ from each other are not new, but the growing popularity of free software among both developers and users may make software developers more like artists than they have been in the past in one very important respect: A majority of programmers may end up […]

Microsoft Corp. may not have an official corporate policy on Web logging, or blogging. But that isnt stopping the Redmond, Wash., software vendor from setting up hosted blog communities, left and right. The latest Microsoft-sponsored blogging site is called “The Spoke.” It is a project of Microsofts academic developer group and seems to be targeted […]

Intellectual Property Software pirates in Malaysia are selling the next version of Microsoft Corp.s Windows operating system years before it is supposed to be on sale. CDs containing software Microsoft has code named “Longhorn” are on sale for six ringgit ($1.58) in southern Malaysia. The software is an early version of Longhorn demonstrated and distributed […]

As new federal rules took effect to enable users to change cell phone providers without switching their cell phone numbers, carriers reported brisk business last week. Verizon Wireless reported more than twice the usual traffic in its stores, and Cingular Wireless said portions of its Web site were down for about 2 hours as the […]