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Find your friend with Sprint

Sun, 22 Jul 2007 20:01:37 -0400

Sprint continues to add new services to its mobile portfolio; the latest is an offering that promises to make "Where are you?" an irrelevant question. In partnership with loopt (a social-networking company), Sprint is using the GPS capability of current-generation smartphones to let you know where individuals are. You can see their location on a map, or can be notified if they get within a specified distance. Marketed as a consumer option, this location-based service could have significant business applications in the service and fleet-management industries.

For more on finding your friends with Sprint:
- see this press release
- read the complete article at CIO-Today

3GSM Congress brings new cell uses

Sun, 25 Feb 2007 19:01:37 -0500

A phone's no longer a phone, it seems, especially when the phone is attached to a 3GSM network. Dictating text messages, requesting map routes and updating social networking pages are some of the functions that handset vendors and service providers believe users should be clamoring for. On the other end of the scale are phones that recognize the feature overload experiences by many users; these phones have as few as six brightly-colored buttons for simplified device navigation. More or fewer buttons, richer or simpler features--regardless of the direction taken, it's a ways from "just a phone."

For more on the evolving handset:
- read the article at CIO Today

A guide to determine TCO of wireless networks

Sun, 17 Dec 2006 19:01:37 -0500

One of the biggest hurdles thwarting full-fledge wireless local area networks and other wireless technology foundations is the work that it takes to make the business case and show how much investment will truly be needed. That's why a total-cost-of-ownership guide at Network Computing is such a valuable tool to have in hand as you start to map out the wireless system you want to put in place. The TCO Guide is a step-by-step discovery of the costs involved from the planning point to actual installation and ongoing needed management. Guide

PLUS: Getting the true view of telecom costs. Article

A mobile systems guide on the buy vs. build decision

Sun, 27 Aug 2006 20:01:36 -0400

Deploying a mobile computing strategy for the enterprise requires a bit of work upfront as systems, applications, security and networking requirements should all be directly tied into the specific needs and business processes of your mobile workforce. Once these needs have been determined, it's time to choose a mobile device, a software platform, a wireless service provider, whether you'll host inside or out and a means for back-office integration. Finally, there's the actual implementation and system management. Here's a great map for each of those decisions and the numerous issues and questions that can arise during each of these steps. Article

A guide to ensuring good QoS on a wireless network

Sun, 07 May 2006 20:01:36 -0400

Laying down a wireless LAN is easy enough, but monitoring and making sure quality of service is strong and stable isn't as quick to do. Here's a straightforward 'how to' map to make sure QoS doesn't fall to the wayside. The first step is assessing and prioritizing traffic and which traffic is more vital and requires top bandwidth. Article