Good news: There are almost more companies offering wireless infrastructure services and solutions than there are companies ready to deploy them. That means it's a buyers' market. And you can leverage that fact to hold these solution providers accountable for their performance.
In the very shadow of Disneyland, Ironside Technologies' CEO Bill Lipsin is expected to call on the e-business community to get real.
The long anticipated convergence of PDAs (personal digital assistants) and cellular phones will get a major boost next week when Mountain View, Calif.-based Handspring Inc. announces its VisorPhone.
Long anticipated, the convergence of PDAs (personal digital assistants) and cellular phones will get a boost next week when California-based Handspring Inc announces its VisorPhone.
In what will take a two-year roll out to complete, package shipping giant DHL International Ltd. will convert its IT systems from a decentralized infrastructure around the world to a system that connects its distributed federation of DHL entities.
Dell Computer, the company credited with creating and validating the e-commerce model, will deliver another breakthrough business model next week when it announces its e-business marketplace at its Dell DirectConnect event in Austin, Texas.
Covisint, the global auto exchange which is now expected to be operational as soon as November, may answer the question of where global exchanges will lead multinational companies. For this reason the whole business world is watching with great anticipation.
Wireless access to corporate data was the theme at this year's DEMOmobile show in Pasadena, Calif., with hardware announcements mostly taking a backseat.
Bank of America, the nation's largest bank with $680 billion of assets and 30 million customers this week announced a wireless component for its 2.4 million online banking customers.
In September IBM will announce the next layer in its pervasive computing strategy, which involves the company's WebSphere Everyplace suite, its Web application development environment.
John Prial, director of marketing and strategy at IBM's pervasive computing division, said that next month the company would announce general availability dates for the suite as well as major partners in the device space. IBM is already on the record as having partnerships with Nokia, Ericsson, and Palm to deploy IBM's WebSphere e-commerce solution.
At the risk of promoting two obvious choices -- PocketPC or Palm OS handhelds -- and neglecting other worthy wireless hardware platforms such as Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) devices, this week I'm going to focus on some of the less obvious factors that need to be considered when deploying a wireless component to a business application.
There is a small but growing number of entrepreneurs creating new business-to-consumer and business-to-business models for monitoring and delivering wireless services to any industry that dispenses a product -- from soda machines to copiers.
Intel CEO Craig Barrett firmly planted the Intel flag Monday behind the concept of peer-to-peer networking as pioneered on the consumer side by Napster.
Leveraging each others' core strengths, Amazon.com Inc. and Toysrus.com Inc. last week announced a 10-year partnership to develop a co-branded toy and video game store Web site this fall and a baby products Web site next year.
The new digital economy is bringing about a massive wave of decapitalization (when companies choose to divest rather then invest in plants and equipment) that is about to change business forever.