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CellPhone
Viruses: The New Frontier
by David Sims (O'Reilly
Network)
First things first: It
wasn't really a cell phone virus, as we've come to
understand the term. Although the Timofonica virus,
reported by several news outlets earlier this week,
behaved like several recent e-mail viruses on
computer systems, it generated spam on the wireless
spectrum...
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The
Who, What and Why of WAP
by Alexsis Gutzman (Allnetdevices.com)
While some are already proclaiming
the WAP dead, and soon to be replaced by 3G or the
IMT-2000 standard being developed by the
International Telecommunications Union, the reality
is that the WAP is the worldwide standard that's in
place today...
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mCommerce:
Ready To Roll
by Bob Emmerson (Wirelessdevnet)
Mobile
commerce is a hot issue. Analysts tell us that
close to 50% of all e-commerce will be mobile and
the projections are staggering. Big numbers are
needed to sell expensive reports and quite often
they represent the future seen through rose-tinted
glasses, but cellular telephony has always been an
exception. The figures for subscribers, for
example, have consistently exceeded forecasts, so
why should mcommerce be an exception?.. |
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GPRS
- A Key Step For The Mobile Internet
by
Christoffer Andersson (Wirelessdevnet)
All right, let's put our teeth
into yet another acronym. To many of us it might
appear that all these Internet and wireless
technologies make a scene of furious and diverse
competitors, all fighting for market acceptance
and penetration. In this article, the author will
show how today's mobile systems migrate smoothly
into the 3G wireless systems of the future... |
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Putting
a Lock on WAP Phones
by Elisa
Batista (wired.com)
By
2003, more people will access the Internet on their wireless
handheld devices than on PCs. That's
what the experts say, but Internet service providers are beyond
heeding such predictions -- they're already "locking" in
users of mobile services. And as might be expected when any practice
attempts to direct profits from one purse to another, locking is
becoming the focus of court battles... |
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