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RIM is planning to add 802.11b capabilities to its BlackBerry handhelds sometime next year, according to this story in eWeek.C|Net also has the story, as does Alan Reiter.
Sony announced that both the ISO and IEC have granted standards approval to Near Field Communication (NFC), the extremely short range (20cm) high frequency radio technology co-developed with Philips. The new standard, known as ISO/IEC IS 18092, allows wireless devices to communicate at speeds up to 424kbs at 13.56MHz. The companies said last year [...]
The UK’s minister for e-commerce, Stephen Timms, waved off the ongoing problems operators are having getting UMTS to work. ZDNet reports that, “He told the audience [at a London trade show] that a GSM engineer had once explained to him that any new technology that didn’t suffer problems just wasn’t complicated enough.”
Ovum’s lead analyst for wireless data, Julian Hewitt, argues that growing numbers of data-ready handsets and WiFi-equipped notebooks will make 2004 the “defining year for wireless data.” He claims application and content developers will be motivated by the size of the potential market to build new products and apparently believes that the mere presence of [...]