The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Thursday will wrap up its investigation of Priceline.com Inc.'s accounting methods, giving the online broker of everything from airline tickets to home loans the green light to continue with business as usual.
Are IT executives using the less-than-perfect performance of wireless technology as an excuse to put off the more important strategic decision of how to deploy wireless in their business?
I'm not enough of a sociologist to tell you if it's a human trait or just an American one, but in the States we always seem to be waiting for the knight in shining armor to save us, and that's also true in the wireless world.
By bundling speech technology into its offerings, two of the leading telephony infrastructure suppliers, Williams Communications Group and SBC Communications Inc., are hoping to take voice recognition mainstream.
Santa Clara, California-based Palm will announce next month a $US149 version of its popular Palm personal digital assistant, according to sources familiar with company plans.
In light of the recent legislative proposals popping up around the country to limit use of cell phones while driving, I got to thinking that maybe Charlton Heston is right.
The banking industry continues to shed its staid image as one financial institution after another rolls out leading edge wireless services to its both its internal sales force and business customers.
The coming post-PC era is finding major brick-and-mortar consumer outlets using their giant customer base to create and own new Internet e-commerce channels.
Brand loyalty fades as consumers clamour for anywhere, anytime data access
The second half of 2000 will witness an unprecedented explosion in mobile e-commerce, or so-called m-commerce, fuelled mainly by three industry segments: financial services, travel, and retail.
OmniSky Corp. announced at PC Expo on Wednesday that it will extend its wireless data network service to Handspring Inc.'s Visor personal digital assistant through a wireless modem created for the Visor's Springboard expansion slot.
BellSouth Corp. will take its packet switch Wireless Data Network, known mainly as an interactive paging technology, and expand its capabilities to target a much larger corporate audience, providing access to Internet applications via pagers and handhelds.
In a significant move to de-liver on its promise of building trading exchanges that reduce operating and financing costs, rather than just giving companies access to commodities, Commerce One Inc. inked a deal this week with XMLSolutions Corp.
Galileo International Inc., one of four leading computer reservation system (CSR) suppliers, with revenues exceeding $1.5 billion, will announce on Tuesday Galileo Wireless, a suite of cell phone services for airline, hotel, and rental car reservations.
Although a single wireless solution to render any document from the Internet to a small handset still eludes the mobile marketplace, Sun Microsystems Inc.'s delivery of its Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME) development platform will certainly fuel the deployment of an increasing number of services on cell phones.