NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: KEITH SHAW ON WIRELESS COMPUTING DEVICES 12/21/04 Today's focus: End of year wireless devices news nuggets
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Topics on how ILM impacts your storage strategy, how to migrate to a new tape drive, how to link SAN islands and more are all found in the Research Center. Click here: http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=91570 _______________________________________________________________ Today's focus: End of year wireless devices news nuggets By Keith Shaw With the holidays right around the corner, we're cleaning up the inbox so we can be fresh for 2005. Here are some quick snippets of what's going on in the world of wireless devices: * Pssst: Wanna get your Treo 650 to work on the Verizon net? If all of your pals who own a Treo 650 on the Sprint network are making you jealous and you're stuck with a Verizon contract, check out this discussion thread ( <http://www.nwfusion.com/nlmobile919> ), which offers a way to get the Treo 650 to work on the Verizon network. Try at your own risk. * @Road, RIM team to develop workflow process system A company called @Road said it is working with Research In Motion to create a workflow process system to automate communications between a field service representative and a mobile workforce supervisor. The system uses GPS data to help minimize task reporting and data entry by the field worker and automatically update work status and their location. More details are at <http://www.road.com/> . * Statistics time Research firm In-Stat says the camera phone market is skyrocketing, with 2004 seeing a 200% boom in shipments, as image quality for camera modules improve. The company says that 14% of U.S. cell phone users own a camera phone, and In-Stat expects that number will grow. More details of the stats can be found at <http://www.instat.com/> . * Worldwide mobile workforce boom A second research firm is predicting that the worldwide mobile workforce will increase from 17% this year to a staggering 89% in 2008 (only four years away). The Radicati Group says the wireless e-mail market will grow as system providers move from enterprises to the wireless carriers. The firm says more than 3.2 million business professionals will be using enterprise wireless e-mail by the end of 2004. Revenue for wireless e-mail vendors is expected to be $1.16 billion by 2008, Radicati Group added. * Your Russian friend If you're heading over to Russia over the holidays, make sure you pick up this software before you go. Beiks launched the English-Russian Dictionary for RIM BlackBerry devices. The software features 20,000 unique English terms and is designed for English-speaking professionals who need to communicate in colloquial Russian when a standard translator or reference guide is not available. The content is business-focused with commonly used business terms, Beiks said. The software costs $19.95 and can be downloaded from the Beiks Web site. In addition to the BlackBerry versions, dictionaries are available for Palm OS, Pocket PC and Linux devices (with Symbian OS support next year), the company added. We'll be back the week of Jan. 3 with our annual predictions for 2005 and a look back at how we did this year. _______________________________________________________________ To contact: Keith Shaw Keith Shaw is Senior Editor, Product Testing, at Network World. In addition, he writes the " Cool Tools <http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/cooltools.html> " column, which looks at gizmos, gadgets and other mobile computing devices. 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