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When the discussion turns to early adopters of technology, names like Chase Manhattan Bank and the Credit Suisse Group arent frequently mentioned. Thats why those financial institutions, along with their blue chip competitors, are eager to embrace wireless technology, says John Mennel, director of product marketing at 724 Solutions, formerly Tantau Software. “Our customer is […]

From silk merchants to wireless communication companies, China has traditionally been a land of opportunity. Openwave Systems, the new combination of Phone.com and Software.com, is poised to take advantage of that opportunity. In late March, the Redwood City, Calif., company plans to introduce preproduction testing of its Internet services to subscribers in Chinas largest mobile […]

Indiqu co-founder Christophe Watkins freely admits hes in the addiction business. “Its fun and life is short,” he says. “We dont want to mess around with the weather and the stock quotes. Well leave that to the other guys.” Instead, Watkins 2-year-old San Diego-based company specializes in bringing gaming, extreme sports and, potentially, a mobile […]

Microsoft has been taught some unpleasant and embarrassing lessons in the wireless world. But after early failures, the software company has swallowed its pride and is steadily on its way to becoming one of the most important suppliers of mobile software infrastructure. Microsofts first impulse, industry observers and even some Microsoft executives say, was to […]

Electronics for imaging has refined eBeam, its little $500 alternative to bulky digital whiteboards that enables you to print the content of a conventional whiteboard, distribute it across a network or record a meeting (with audio) as it unfolds. The units previously unnamed software, Mediator, lets you drag any bit-mapped file into the whiteboard window […]

Douglas Hill, senior vice president of communications at Malibu Networks, predicts this is the year wireless broadband that doesnt require line of sight will really take off. “I think that basically were in a new era here,” Hill says. “I think in 2001 youre going to see Malibu and other new companies put out a […]

In South Carolina, a small telephone cooperative is leapfrogging the digital divide with fixed wireless broadband. In Uruguay, high-speed data are arriving in the capital of Montevideo without the costly infrastructure of underground fiber. In South Korea, more than 10,000 customers in densely populated cities get their Internet through wireless broadband networks. In lands that […]

If handheld and mobile devices are to truly meet the needs of users, the development and support of wireless standards becomes a key issue. One such standard, Bluetooth, promises that users will be able to collect information seamlessly on their Palms and other handheld devices. “Bluetooth is scarce today. But, at the recent Consumer Electronics […]

The Toxic Avenger might have ended up just another cult classic if new streaming video technology from Kanakaris Wireless hadnt made it possible to watch the film on the PocketPC. The company claims to be the first to stream a full-length film wirelessly. Its catalog also includes James Dean: Race with Destiny and Bruce Lee […]

During the recent mobile insights conference in Phoenix, I participated in an ad hoc WLAN, and the experience forcefully drove home the utility and advantages of a wireless LAN. Symbol Technologies set up three of its 802.11b-based WLAN access points in the main conference room and handed out Symbol wireless PC Cards to more than […]

The four horsemen of The New Economy have ridden into a ditch. A year ago, the rule of thumb was that if you were selling a Web solution it would include a Sun server, EMC storage, Cisco routers and switches, and an Oracle database with related applications. Of the four, Oracle is probably in the […]

Im pretty fed up with what passes for discourse in the IT industry these days. Most “news” seems to come from the Web Economy Bulls**t Generator (http://dack.com/web/bulls**t.html)– fill in the asterisks. Here are a couple of recent examples, with venerable cautions interspersed from “If,” by poet Rudyard Kipling. Microsofts Jim Allchin tells Bloomberg News that […]