33 Million Websites Are Dead
According to Internet industry traffic figures by June 10, 2002, over 80% of all websites don'™t receive any measurable visitor traffic. (Internet News Bureau)
Yahoo to give home page a makeover
Yahoo is planning to launch a newly redesigned home page in mid-June that features a cleaner layout and a better showcase for advertisers, according to sources familiar with the changes. (News.com)
IBM Unveils New WebSphere Software
IBM rolled out on June 10, 2002 industry-specific software for linking business processes through WebSphere Business Integration for the auto, electronics, insurance, retail, and telecom industries. In May, IBM got a shot in the arm when research by Gartner Group and IDC found WebSphere in a virtual dead heat with the application server market'™s longtime leader, BEA'™s WebLogic. (Internet Product Watch)
Brew 2 from QUALCOMM to You
QUALCOMM Incorporated, developer of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) digital wireless technology, announced on June 6, 2002 the second major release of its Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (BREW) client software and BREW SDK (software development kit). (allNetDevices)
Carriers Make Full-Court Press for the Teen Market
Do the math like the carriers. Eleven thousand people become '˜teens'™ evey day. They have roughly $4,000 per year of '˜disposable'™ income, largely financed by the bank of mom and dad. It'™s a no-brainer for m-commerce and the carriers are making the big play for the big pay. (E-Commerce Times)
Study Highlights Priority of Marketing to Youth Demographic
This 30-nation study posits that the growth of the mobile Net depends upon marketers who can target the international youth market. (E-Commerce Times)
Report: Kazaa Insecure, Users Oblivious
File-swapping service Kazaa is rife with security holes and may pose a risk to its users, according to research conducted by HP Labs and published on June 10, 2002. The study reported that some users of the service incorrectly believed they were not sharing any files when they actually were sharing all of the files on their hard drive... (E-Commerce Times)
Toshiba Releases Wireless Mobility Server
Toshiba'™s Computer Systems Group (CSG) on May 6 announced the Magnia SG20 wireless mobility server. (allNetDevices)
Communicator Wave
On May 31, 2002 Handspring and Nokia have each introduced new mobile devices. Handspring has unleashed a full-color Treo 270 communicator and the Treo 90, a PDA with a built-in keyboard and a full-color display, while Nokia has launched a combination phone and digital assistant referred to simply as the Communicator. (WirelessAdWatch)
Verizon Wireless and Microsoft get serious on content
The 2 companies have unveiled on May 23, 2002 a far-reaching alliance that will pipe new services and content, including instant messaging and new forms of targeted content, from MSN to Verizon'™s 30 million customers. (WirelessAdWatch)
Handspring Treo communicators get wireless e-mail
The release of Treo Mail on May 16, 2002 will give users more reasons to sing about a handheld device that allows them to combine the functions of a cell phone, personal organizer, and wireless e-mail in one lightweight gadget. (WirelessAdWatch)
Gartner Predicts GPRS Doldrums Till Late in Decade
Gartner, Inc. announced on May 30 that it expects that the cellular technology called General Packet Radio Services, or GPRS, will fail to meet the revenue expectations of mobile operators, and that it will prove to be a great technological disappointment until capacity, device, and application challenges are overcome. (M-CommerceTimes)
MMS Service for Palm, Pocket PC Available
Electric Pocket Limited'™s latest application, Pixer, announced on May 29, is designed to bring multimedia-messaging service (MMS) picture-messaging to Palm OS and Pocket PC handheld users. (allNetDevices)
Vicinity Location Server Added to mMode (USA)
From May 16, 2002 Vicinity Corporation, a provider of Web, wireless and speech-based enterprise location services, will provide its Vicinity Location Server (VLS) to the mMode service recently launched by AT&T Wireless. As a result, customers in all AT&T Wireless GSM/GPRS markets can now use their wireless phone to find the nearest ATM, specified restaurant or other retailer. (WirelessAdWatch)
Intel Designs New Cell Phone Chip
Code-named 'Manitoba,' the chip integrates flash memory, a digital signal processor, and an XScale processor core, and is designed for high-speed wireless network products. (CNET News.com)
Palm Ships New OS to Its Developers
Palm Inc. shipped on June 10, 2002, Palm OS 5 to licensees and developers, which improves Palm models'™ ability to play music, videos and link to wireless networks and includes features such as a longer battery life and stricter security features. The new OS will serve as the base for new Palm products, including a wireless, due out this fall, capable of making cell phone calls and receiving wireless data. (New York Times, Wall Street Journal)
Invertix Introduces mNet Mobile Internet Services
On June 10, 2002, Invertix launched mNet, what the company says is the world'™s first integrated mobile Internet, and Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) suite of applications, client interfaces and developer tools. mNet includes: a fully integrated mobile Internet service provisioning and delivery environment for SMS, MMS, WAP, i-mode, and Web that includes network presence, location, message routing, authentication, security and privacy; a suite of SMS, MMS, WAP, i-mode and Web-based applications and services including chat, instant messaging, dating and gaming applications; and Invertix'™s Mobile Internet Service Development Kit, API and testing tools and libraries. (Wireless NewsFactor)
