TECHWEB TODAY: MOBILE & WIRELESS Monday, November 29, 2004 IN THIS ISSUE 1. Monday Mobile & Wireless Feature: And The Last Could Be First 2. Mobile & Wireless News Of The Week
Today's Top News 3. Details Trickle Out On Cell Processor 4. Red Hat Readies Enterprise Linux 4 5. Online Shopping Has Its Brightest 'Black Friday' 6. Gartner: Third Of Top PC Vendors Gone In Three Years Other News This Week 7. 'Tis The Season To Be Wary 8. Microsoft WINS Said To Be Vulnerable 9. New Charges Against Kazaa: 'Pirate' And 'Pest' 10. Silicom Integrates "Tapping" Device Into Network Cards ------- Advertisement ------------------- Join SecureEnterprise for a FREE, on-demand TechWebCast on A Tactical Approach to SPAM -- Use the Correct Fork. Hear the real-life experience of a security manager who was plagued by unsolicited commercial email within his organization and the steps used to eliminate it. Register and view now: http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ektF0GpvDH0G4U0CgHU0Aa ----------------------------------------- -- Keep Getting This Newsletter -- Don't let future editions of TechWeb Today Mobile & Wireless go missing. Take a moment to add the newsletter's address to your anti-spam whitelist: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you're not sure how to do that, ask your administrator or ISP. Or check your anti-spam utility's documentation. Thanks. 1. MONDAY MOBILE & WIRELESS FEATURE: And The Last Could Be First Nextel's decision to go slow in deploying wireless broadband speaks volumes about the state of the technology and wireless industry. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ektF0GpvDH0G4U0Czma0Ai 2. MOBILE & WIRELESS NEWS OF THE WEEK 'Smartphone Era' To Start Next Year, Gartner Says Research firm also predicts that 80 percent of mobile workers will use wireless e-mail within the next three years. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ektF0GpvDH0G4U0Czmb0Aj Why Your Car Needs A Hard Drive Nearly two decades after expanding the personal computer's possibilities, the hard-disk drive may be on the verge of launching another technical upheaval. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ektF0GpvDH0G4U0Czmd0Al PalmOne Offers Temporary Fix For Treo Memory Issue Vendor offers some Treo 650 users a free SD storage card to solve a memory problem until it releases a ROM upgrade. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ektF0GpvDH0G4U0Czme0Am Telecom Lobbyists Fight Philly's Wi-Fi Plans Philadelphia's plan to offer inexpensive wireless Internet as a municipal service -- the most ambitious yet by a major U.S. city -- has collided with commercial interests including the local phone company, Verizon. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ektF0GpvDH0G4U0Czmf0An 802.11 Standard Modified For Japan The IEEE approves IEEE 802.11j spec to enable the development of Japan-enabled WLAN equipment. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ektF0GpvDH0G4U0Czmg0Ao Siemens Aims At Using Cell-Phones For Airport Check-In It's working with a Swiss firm to make cells virtual check-in counters and boarding passes. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ektF0GpvDH0G4U0Czmh0Ap Moto Phones To Sync With Exchange Server First phone with the ability to sync with Exchange server will appear next year, Motorola says. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ektF0GpvDH0G4U0Czmi0Aq ------- Advertisement ------------------- Join SecureEnterprise for a FREE, on-demand TechWebCast on A Tactical Approach to SPAM -- Use the Correct Fork. Hear the real-life experience of a security manager who was plagued by unsolicited commercial email within his organization and the steps used to eliminate it. Register and view now: http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ektF0GpvDH0G4U0CgHU0Aa ------------------------------------------- TODAY'S NEWS 3. Details Trickle Out On Cell Processor The eagerly anticipated cell processor from IBM, Toshiba, and Sony aims to revolutionize distributed-computing architectures. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ektF0GpvDH0G4U0Czmj0Ar 4. Red Hat Readies Enterprise Linux 4 Red Hat aims to more deeply penetrate the enterprise by launching its first Linux distribution based on the Linux 2.6 kernel. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ektF0GpvDH0G4U0Czmk0As 5. Online Shopping Has Its Brightest 'Black Friday' More people than ever chose to let their fingers do their holiday shopping. Consumers spent $250 million online on Friday, a 41% increase over the $174 million they spent online on the same day a year ago. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ektF0GpvDH0G4U0Czml0At 6. Gartner: Third Of Top PC Vendors Gone In Three Years Three of the top 10 PC vendors will be pushed out of the business by 2007, research firm Gartner predicted. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ektF0GpvDH0G4U0Czmm0Au OTHER NEWS THIS WEEK 7. 'Tis The Season To Be Wary The year's online holiday shopping rush will bring the cybercrooks out in full force. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ektF0GpvDH0G4U0CzfN0AI 8. Microsoft WINS Said To Be Vulnerable Microsoft said it's looking into reports of a security screw-up in Windows Internet Name Service (WINS), a component of its most popular server software. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ektF0GpvDH0G4U0Czmn0Av 9. New Charges Against Kazaa: 'Pirate' And 'Pest' A bad day for Kazaa -- in an Australian court, it was labeled a pirate and in a report from Computer Associates, it was called the leading spyware pest. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ektF0GpvDH0G4U0Czmo0Aw 10. Silicom Integrates "Tapping" Device Into Network Cards Silicom has enhanced its Ethernet network adapters by adding a "tapping" device that allows for non-intrusive network monitoring, "sniffing," analysis, and troubleshooting. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ektF0GpvDH0G4U0Czmp0Ax ----------------------------------------------------------------- NEW! 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