Symbol wireless switch to centralise control of WLANs
Symbol Technologies has unveiled an intelligent wireless LAN switch that may herald a change in how IEEE 802.11x networks are configured and managed.
Symbol Technologies has unveiled an intelligent wireless LAN switch that may herald a change in how IEEE 802.11x networks are configured and managed.
In a major deal that will lend credibility to Palm's promise to make its devices relevant to enterprise-level companies, the handheld manufacturer will partner with IBM to interoperate with WebSphere application servers and to deploy a WebSphere Everyplace Access software stack on Palm 5 and Palm wireless devices.
As wireless technology earns its place inside the corporate infrastructure, software vendors in the system management software space are extending their enterprise solutions to engage mobile devices.
With a promise that the Los Angeles Police Department is open to innovative technology solutions, Captain Randal Quan, project manager for the Portable Officer Data Device System (POEDS) program, said the LAPD is about to publish its RFP (request for proposal) to use wireless PDAs and software to monitor racial profiling.
Palm's next-generation operating system, OS 5, which uses the ARM (Advanced RISC Machines)-compliant OMAP (Open Multimedia Applications Platform) family of processors from Texas Instruments, will be unveiled at PalmSource the week of February 4 in the US.
In-vehicle wireless services will make a sharp turn to the business side when General Motors (GM) previews telematics -- in-vehicle computer and Internet service -- solutions for its commercial vehicles at the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) show in Las Vegas this week.
Handspring will announce on Monday a handheld device, dubbed Treo, that includes a cellular phone, Web browsing, and organizer functions, apparently outpacing fellow manufacturers of PDAs, according to a source.
Scan-based trading (SBT) is rapidly catching on among retailers and suppliers because it reinforces the age-old truism that the consumer drives the supply chain. SBT represents a potentially radical supply-chain shift for the retail industry, said industry observers. It allows products to remain under the control of the supplier until they are scanned in at the checkout counter.
The phrase hot spot is not new but its meaning is changing before our eyes. A hot spot is any public or private place where you can download or upload data, with or without wires.
Wireless operators do not want to become - as it is so inelegantly called - "a dumb pipe". As long as they still control the gateways needed to gain access to service suppliers such as your local bank, they are still very much a force to be reckoned with.
If a sales representative from Cisco Systems rings your bell, don't shout, "No solicitors. Can't you read the sign?" That salesperson may be selling something your company will want to buy.
Motorola this week began shipping one of the first mobile phone handsets, Timeport 270c, with Bluetooth capability.
Oracle and Wingcast, a telematics company formed by a partnership between Ford Motor and Qualcomm, announced Thursday that they will build and staff a telematics development laboratory in San Diego, California.
I hope I'm not being too hardheaded - a real testa dura, you might say - but when you get two examples of the same thing in the same week you begin to see the handwriting on the wall.
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, at the Comdex conference in Las Vegas next week, will launch a promotion for a tablet PC, the marketing seeds of which were planted at least a year ago.