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gil, you're not the only one having problems
mines working
ask matt
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MATT MATT MATT - oCult, religious following. Howabout Investment Solitude - I guess it doesn't occure withing
all industry.
emit...
Go - I kinda like the Eclipse pics of HD aftermarket to come - especialy that last one... see that setup in the suv.
i'l find.
I feel like #1 in this investment.
emit...
Long... Strong Buy. lol
again
emit...
GoLuna - Only if Eye set equipt. lol/eom
Lydrstrum, Puck, Merit - lingering miro/recorder group - Then DataPlay - lost, but Evidence of http.//www.edig.com's current
line. We have emerged into an odassey with apple - or maybe samsung !
DGN = X samsung mgmt.
People... When they announce WMA via retail-osks n how lqid will
work within - players players n more mobile.
The've not announced their compatibility - say 'sdmi' compliant'
just upradable primarly mp3, wma, aac,,, go to microsoft n look
at all of em..... many do wma n aac. We havn't gotten a MM-CE to commite... no, just lu, eastech, maycome, ti, musical, sammy n
actel. I'd call this potiential.
where's mp-90 , lov lil thing.
emit...
rwrf
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Gilgamash - Korean does make more sense.
Duh - on me
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Is it just my PC or what... When you log onto edig.com and the Treo pop-up first comes up it appears to have japanees or chinees writting in bottom left hand corner.
maybe not - but has been there a while. after it fully loads its hidden.
emit...
Could not find it, but someone on here got an email from DGN stating they will have a 20gig HD player in Jan 03 -
emit...
mir - You forgot Universal doing WMA at CC, BB, TR to portables.
iPod don't do WMA to easily
emit...
Treo 15
Developer e.Digital
MSRP $159
MP3.com Review
e.Digital has redesigned its popular Treo 10 hard drive-based portable audio player, upped its storage capacity to 15GB, and has a new winner on its hands (and in yours) with the Treo 15.
Now snow-white instead of gunmetal gray, and with stylish ribs on its sides and a belt clip on its padded black carrying case, the 15 continues the Treo tradition of outstanding dollar-to-gigabyte ratio. The Treo 15 is just as unshakeable as its discontinued predecessor and, at 8.2 ounces, is 1.8 ounces lighter. You really can take it anywhere, even to the gym or jogging if you're careful. We shook it in all directions and couldn't get it to skip a beat.
The included Music Explorer file-management software lets you copy entire folders to the Treo, but only into ''top-level folders.'' Let's say your hard drive has a Santana folder that contains some miscellaneous Santana songs, plus a subfolder for ''Supernatural.'' You first create a top-level ''Santana'' folder on the Treo, then copy the entire ''Supernatural'' subfolder into it. But if you want to keep all your Santana songs in one logical place, you have to create a subfolder on the Treo, such as Santana Misc Songs, and copy the other songs into it. If you just have random songs in a folder on your PC, you can create a new top-level folder on the Treo, copy the entire random-song folder into it, then rename the top-level folder. Basically, every track must be in a subfolder. It takes some getting used to, but it does keep you organized. While you're playing a tune, hitting fast-forward or fast-reverse scrolls through any folder. When you find the song you want to hear next, hit the play button to start it -- a nice way to play without interruption.
Once you've got your music loaded, get ready for plenty of volume and excellent audio quality. While the included earbuds are adequate, the Treo really shines with a good set of headphones. The equalizer has five presets and five user-selectable frequency bands, so you can adjust the bass and treble to your liking. The player supports MP3 files up to 320kbps and VBR (variable bitrate), as well as WMA (Windows Media Audio) files up to 128kbps.
Music Explorer also lets you copy any kind of data files to and from the Treo's hard drive as a portable transfer device. Again, you first create a top-level data folder on the Treo, then use Windows Explorer to drag and drop any type of data files into it -- even MP3s and WMAs -- but you must use Music Explorer to copy them back to a PC. The USB 1interface is as fast as any we've seen, but you have to plug in the AC adapter/charger while transferring files.
The Lithium-ion battery now lasts about nine hours, compared to the Treo 10's six, and a full recharge still takes about three hours. You can adjust the LCD backlight to shut off after one to five seconds, or stay on all the time. And you can set the player to power off after one to 10 seconds of activity, or never. After powering back on, you're at the start of the last song played. MusicMatch software is included for file ripping.
Bottom line? With 15GB of disk capacity, the Treo 15 is an unbeatable value for PC owners. It should keep you happily listening to your CD collection wherever you go, for many years to come.
Company Hype
The Treó 15 is a lightweight, pocket-sized, digital music jukebox with the capacity to store over 4,500 songs - that's over 225 hours of music -- all reproduced with extraordinary sound quality. The Treó 15 features a stylish case, a rechargeable lithium-ion battery and a large, easy-to-read LCD display. One of the smallest digital jukeboxes available, the Treó 15 can literally put your entire music collection in your pocket.
"I think we are at a critical time," Chernin, who is also chief executive of News Corp. unit Fox Entertainment Group Inc. (NYSE:FOX - News), told Reuters. "I think we are at a moment where we are poised to see enormous advances in technology products."
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=592542
According to Harvey Applebaum, Vice President, Non-Theatrical Sales; and Julian Levin, Executive Vice President, Non-Theatrical and Digital Exhibition at Twentieth Century Fox, "We have been in discussions with APS on this cutting-edge technology. It has great potential to provide a new and complementary method of delivering In-Flight Entertainment to passengers. It also has the capability to provide entertainment options for children.
emit...
Wrong board post - deleted, sorry.
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gern - thnx .
"If every radio is both a transmitter and a receiver, as you add more, you add capacity to the network,"
- true as in interfractory deep space receivers we use
See all those big white dishes swinging on movie 'Contact'
the waves I love the best are deep n orgasmic -
emit...
emits deep wattage... signal strength,
fm, cordless, cell, wlan, blue n blackberry,
801, twirl waves - many wow dsp's soon to be
retailed n rented.
Wonder if our divx IFEs el be AMD... Noting
Odyssey is Strong Arm per Parade.
Ti, Intel, Actel, Mos guts publication should
come with our quality products, branded into
personal/civil use n our lil functional hotspots.
isnt it amazing waves work sound and the spectra
n length determine our visual reality.
Thank God for electricity - gaiya's megnetshelf
n core in a Universe full of hot spots.
emit...
Put a USB 2 Plug in that bad daddy n C/card acceptance.
Microsoft and Trans World Entertainment Announce Broad-based Business, Technology and Marketing Alliance To Deliver Enhanced Shopping Experience For FYE Customers
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2001/oct01/10-22FYEpr.asp
emit...
Handleman Selects Liquid Audio's Retail Integration and Fulfillment System To Enable Retail Customers to Promote and Sell Digital Downloads
TROY, Mich. and REDWOOD CITY, Calif., March 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Handleman Company (NYSE: HDL - news), one of the world's largest category managers and distributors of music, and Liquid Audio, Inc. (Nasdaq: LQID - news), a leading provider of software and services for Internet music delivery, announced that Handleman has selected Liquid Audio as its digital music service provider. Using Liquid Audio's Retail Integration and Fulfillment System (RIFFS), Handleman Online, the e-commerce subsidiary of Handleman Company, will re-syndicate the Liquid(TM) Catalog of more than 150,000 digital music downloads, making the content available to Handleman's network of retail customers.
(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/19990915/LQIDLOGO )
Handleman Online will leverage Liquid Audio's RIFFS to transparently integrate digital music into its mFinity(TM) (formerly Click2TheMusic) Web store product. Through mFinity, Handleman Online's retail customers will be able to offer consumers for-sale downloads from Liquid Audio's growing catalog with CD-quality sound, online lyrics, liner notes, and album art -- in multiple formats.
``We are excited to work together with Liquid Audio to provide these services to Handleman Online's customers,' said David Vasile, vice president and general manager of Handleman Online. ``We believe the addition of Liquid Audio's RIFFS to our mFinity product will allow us to offer Handleman's retail customers with a unique and compelling offering for both physical and digital products.'
``The integration of Liquid Audio's for-sale digital downloads into Handleman's suite of online retail services through RIFFS will extend our distribution network into a targeted new retail channel that reaches a large audience of music consumers,' said Paul Melnychuck, vice president of Sales and Business Development of Liquid Audio. ``Our digital music delivery solution will provide the software, services and secure music catalog to enable Handleman's retail clients to transparently integrate digital music into their retail Web sites.'
Liquid Audio's RIFFS enables merchants to integrate digital music downloads into their Web sites and sell them alongside physical goods. The Liquid Audio solution provides the music catalog, e-commerce integration, CD-quality sound and sales reporting to fuel music downloads on more than 1,000 Internet music sites. Liquid Audio also provides security features, including digital rights management (DRM), watermarking and encryption to enable merchants to sell and consumers to securely buy legitimate music online. The company's multi-format software supports the digital delivery of music in many leading formats and codecs including Liquid Audio, MP3, Sony ATRAC3, Dolby Digital, AAC, and Windows Media.
Handleman's Application Service Provider (ASP) product, mFinity, provides retailers with a complete and comprehensive solution for selling entertainment-related products online. mFinity provides retailers with a world class entertainment retailing Web site, a comprehensive suite of merchandising and support services, over 55,000 music titles, eFulfillment to the customer's home or to retail stores and leading edge one-to-one marketing capabilities called Virtual Category Management. mFinity can be integrated transparently into a retailer's existing Web site or can be offered as a stand alone online storefront.
Handleman Online
Handleman Online is a subsidiary of Handleman Company. Handleman Online provides both traditional and online retailers with a wide array of e-commerce related products and services. Handleman eFulfillment Services offers customers with outsourced inventory management and shipment of over 55,000 entertainment related products to consumer's homes or to their local stores. mFinity is an outsourced online Web store solution branded for each retailer that can either be offered as a stand-alone Web store or transparently integrated into their current online retail environment. In addition, Handleman offers its kiosk products top enhance in-store shopping with preview capabilities as well as allowing consumers to purchase from a deeper catalog of music titles.
About Liquid Audio
Liquid Audio, Inc. is a leading provider of software and services for the digital delivery of music over the Internet. The Liquid Audio solution gives musicians, record labels, Web sites and music retailers the ability to publish, syndicate and securely sell recorded music online with copy protection and copyright management. Using the Liquid(TM) Player software, available for free download at www.liquidaudio.com, music fans can preview and purchase downloadable music from more than 1,000 affiliate Web sites in the Liquid Music Network(SM). Traded on Nasdaq under the symbol LQID, Liquid Audio is located in Redwood City, Calif.
NOTE: Liquid, Liquid Audio and the Liquid Audio logo are trademarks of Liquid Audio, Inc.
For more information about Liquid Audio products and services call 888-liquid-0 or visit http://www.liquidaudio.com .
Music downloads to be available at retail outlets
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/internetlife/onlineshopping/2002-11-21-music-downloads_x.htm
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -- Universal Music Group, the world's largest music company, Wednesday announced it would make more than 43,000 song tracks available for download at retail outlets and music Web sites, opening a new front in the marketing of digital music.
The initiative is aimed at attracting fans who may want to buy songs or albums on a one-off basis online rather than through monthly Internet subscriptions, the alternative the major labels have offered to peer-to-peer song swapping services.
Universal Music, a unit of Vivendi Universal, said the downloads will be burnable to CD and transferable to secure portable devices. The digital tracks will be available for purchase by consumers in the U.S. for 99 cents for individual tracks and $9.99 for albums.
The digital downloads will be available through over 25 retailers and music sites, including Best Buy, Circuit City, MP3.com, Rolling Stone, Tower Records and others.
"This is a direct blow to the peer-to-peer services by providing consumers with a cheap and easy way to get a trusted file," said P.J. McNealy, analyst with GartnerG2.
The labels all attempted to sell limited digital downloads in the early days of their online efforts, but at about $2.99 or $3.99 a track or higher and with heavy restrictions.
McNealy said he expects the other major labels to wait and see how Universal fares before attempting a similar push.
Universal's downloading program follows on the heels of a spate of online licensing deals announced last week by members of the recording industry as the sector attempts to lure a fan base to their online products and away from popular, free, unauthorized peer-to-peer services like Morpheus and Kazaa, which it claims have eroded music sales.
Using technology from Liquid Audio, music fans can buy tracks from the UMG digital catalog, including offerings from such artists as Eminem, Diana Krall, Jay-Z, Nelly, Shaggy, Shania Twain, Sheryl Crow and U2.
The digital catalog includes current and catalog releases. Music fans can preview and purchase music tracks in both the Liquid Audio and Microsoft Windows Media formats.
Universal said it was kicking off the initiative by making the new single from Mariah Carey available online before the release of her upcoming album.
Why did we forget this fortee' note the wireless and web inclusion. What Platinum doin nowadays
The Push For Privacy -- Health-care companies rush to build new processes to comply with HIPAA
By Marianne Kolbasuk McGee
The April deadline for compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act's privacy regulations is only five months away. While the privacy regulations are less technology-oriented than HIPAA's requirements for electronic transactions and security, those rules will require doctors, hospitals, and other providers to build new processes as part of their technology infrastructures that will let them continue sharing patients' medical information with other caregivers while protecting their privacy.
In brief, HIPAA's privacy rules mandate that health-care providers give patients notice of their privacy policies and have patients confirm that they've been notified of these policies. Under HIPAA, patients also have increased rights to have immediate access to their medical records. Health-care companies must also protect individuals' medical information, which could mean limiting worker access to patient records based on a need-to-know basis and providing an audit of who accessed patients' records.
"Privacy is difficult. There's a lot of education, culture, workflow, and process issues involved," says John Halamka, CIO at CareGroup Healthcare System, which operates five Boston-area hospitals and expects to meet HIPAA's deadline.
Collaboration is at the core of health care, and with HIPAA it extends to improved patient access to information. So CareGroup has implemented a Web site called PatientSite, from which all patients can access their records electronically, amend their records, run their own security and privacy audits to see who has looked up their records, and communicate with doctors.
After deploying the site, one thing CareGroup quickly learned was that the process for registering patients was inefficient and taking up practice administrators' time, so it created a self-registration process to automate part of the task. On the plus side, the processes for how physicians handle electronic messages improved right away. For instance, physicians can have prescription renewals automatically routed to the clinical nurse who handles that, rather than having to manually renew the prescriptions themselves.
Many organizations aren't as far along as they'd like in terms of developing the processes and infrastructure to meet the April HIPAA privacy deadline, though. A survey of 655 health-care providers and 167 insurance companies conducted in October by Phoenix Health Systems, an IT consulting firm for the health industry, indicates that more than 80% of them expect to meet the deadlines. Those expectations might be just wishful thinking, says D'Arcy Guerin Gue, co-founder and executive VP at Phoenix Health Systems. That's because the survey also indicated that more than half of companies are still conducting "gap analysis"-evaluating their processes for compliance with HIPAA standards to see what needs to be fixed. That analysis must be done before changes in procedures, systems, and policies can be implemented and employees educated on the changes.
"Implementing the changes-and providing the training to accompany those changes-is time consuming," Gue says (see story, p. 60). "There will be a lot of companies panicking, going into crash-mode come January," she predicts.
Complicating the matter is that protecting patient privacy and securing patient data are intertwined issues, yet the U.S. Department of Human Health and Services, which oversees HIPAA, has delayed issuing its final regulations for security.
"Companies are reluctant to make privacy changes and then have to do them again once the security regulations come out," Gue says. Still, companies expect that much of the final security rules will include commonsense requirements that companies should do as a matter of protecting their data regardless of legislation, such as having tighter controls on data access.
Memorial Healthcare, an independent 131-bed nonprofit community hospital in Owoso, Mich., is enhancing security, privacy, and business processes in one fell swoop. Memorial has PCs running Citrix Systems Inc. software at the side of 86 beds. Authorized individuals only, such as nurses, gain access to patient records through wireless Xyloc keycards from Ensure Technologies Inc., which they wear along with their hospital security badges, and then they can update the records. For extra security, nurses must type in their passwords, too. Before this system was deployed, nurses would go from room to room with paper files and later enter everything they wrote down into PCs at the nursing station.
The new Xyloc MD system keeps patient information more secure, prevents paper files from getting lost, and "brings the nurses back to the bedside of the patient, reducing time spent with documentation and giving patients better quality of care," says Memorial VP and CIO Tom Ogg.
Texas Health Resources Inc. is also making progress on the security front. The operator of more than a dozen hospitals in Texas is deploying a "security proxy" device from Array Networks Inc. that acts as a "Web wall" to protect data on the company's clinical servers as physicians access patient records via the Web.
Before installing the security proxy device, doctors would need to travel to Texas Health Resources' hospitals to access patients' data electronically, or they would have to call the hospitals and ask nurses or others to look up the information. Now, they can securely access this information via the Web from anywhere. "Doctors now have more accurate information accessible to them as they see patients," says Andy Sutton, Texas Health Resources' manager of network services.
Some organizations say the deployments they're making to meet the April deadline are helping to improve business overall-and that will give them a competitive edge.
Kindred Healthcare Inc. is pursuing its HIPAA privacy-compliance work with the same attitude with which it tackled the Y2K problem, says Kathy Markham, VP of IS planning and architecture at the operator of 300 nursing homes, 65 long-term-care hospitals, and 35 hospital pharmacies. "The work we needed to do for Y2K was a booster to convince the company that we also needed new financial systems," she says. "While solving Y2K, we also improved our financial systems."
Similarly, HIPAA privacy rules have spurred the company to upgrade its PC and server operating environment from Windows 95 to Windows 2000. Doing so let Kindred put in place a better process to ensure that "only the right eyes see the right data," Markham says. Windows 2000 provides role-based security through Active Directory. Nurses can be assigned roles that give them access to certain patient data that other health workers with different roles won't have access to, she says. Kindred can also provide an audit of who looked at the data.
The upgrade helps the organization in other ways, too. "Had we not upgraded, we would've been left behind" competitively in application support and functionality, Markham says. Also, because Kindred needed to test each of its applications running on the Windows 2000 platform, the company saw what software modifications needed to be done for HIPAA compliance. "We feel very confident that we'll make the privacy deadline," she says.
Nevertheless, there's some resentment among health-care providers who see HIPAA as an irritant that's distracting them from their struggles with nursing shortages and financial pressures. "Many hospitals feel that they already protect their patients' privacy," Phoenix Health executive VP Gue says. "They see HIPAA as a real problem because they have to muster resources that they don't have."
Everyone recognizes that HIPAA is here to stay, though. It's just a matter of time before every health organization must comply.
http://informationweek.com/
With Universal sayin WMA/LQID IMO WS WM-9 will prevail - at least initialy kioskic, probably transworld...
lqid stayed away fro Alliace which i thought was its route to kiosks - Alliace = RedDotNet akin to DP.
All the CE stores per PR implies an existing system - Handelman
hell who knows Boss has a few nice designs.
David mh, told ya retail'd get fist wack - bet it'll be secure to.
And Emerging
emit...
Think hot spots would be great for military - a www location handheld to family n info - security ex-n-intrisic.
Carrier / barracks based
emit...
cul.. think that is null with the advent-rise of new artist and tek/advances.
But Butt, they are multi-mil CE player innititaves we in 03. n we growin fast
cul.. got my speect/tec mag n havent picked it up/ mo
good reads
emit
Butt The Basher Matt... eom
Seems to me - Vivindi Universal could be behind it all noting their kiosks coming supporting WMA / LQID. MP3.com is vivindi and eMusic is also... if Universal is using lqid D2D we be linked there also.
Could the shm have been a head-fake for the beginning of what we've sought soo long.
Probably not, but Universal's news yesterday has made me happier than todays publicity - hopefully more to come.
emit...
OT - Hollywood takes copyright message to tech confab
Reuters
Hollywood takes copyright message to tech confab
http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/021121/media_comdex_1.html
Thursday November 21, 8:36 pm ET
By Reed Stevenson
LAS VEGAS, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Among the closing credits of the technology industry's biggest trade show this week, there was the name of one unlikely participant -- Hollywood.
In the first appearance of a major media executive at Comdex, technology's premier gathering, Peter Chernin, president of News Corp. Ltd. (Australia:NCP.AX - News; NYSE:NWS - News) reached out to Silicon Valley, saying that both sides needed each other in order to survive.
"I think we are at a critical time," Chernin, who is also chief executive of News Corp. unit Fox Entertainment Group Inc. (NYSE:FOX - News), told Reuters. "I think we are at a moment where we are poised to see enormous advances in technology products."
The $70 billion film and television industry wants to tap into ways of generating income by selling content directly to consumers via the Web, and the increasing ability of software and hardware to reproduce perfect, digital copies of their content has made that possible.
At the same time, the beleaguered technology industry wants Hollywood content to drive its own new growth through a host of new products to play digital movies, TV shows and music. But so far, the media industry has been reluctant to embrace digital delivery unless content is protected from copyright pirates.
How Silicon Valley implements safeguards will determine if Hollywood opens its treasure chest of content, Chernin said.
"I think rich content on broadband has the single biggest opportunity to be a catalyst for growth," said Chernin. "But we're not going to make our content available unless it's protected."
CONFLICT MOVES TO CONGRESS
That's the message media firms delivered to the U.S. Congress this year in their fight to have safeguards put in place, but now technology companies and consumers are fighting back, with the issue looming large in Washington.
After failing to reach an agreement this year, politicians have lined up on both sides of the issue, guaranteeing a high-stakes, high-profile legislative battle next year.
While sticking to Hollywood's views on copyright protection, Chernin also offered an olive branch, saying that he wanted to forge a partnership with the technology industry.
To reinforce that point, Chernin brought George Lucas -- always a popular figure among technophiles -- on stage with him. The creator of the "Star Wars" movies saw copies of his first prequel spill out onto the Internet before the big budget movie was released.
"I'm just begging for all of you to work together," Lucas said, "I've come to appeal to your common sense."
Gary Shapiro, president of the Consumer Electronics Association, argued last month against overly stringent copyright laws, saying they hurt consumers.
That may mean media executives will have a tougher time convincing the executives at January's Consumer Electronics Show, which is sponsored by Shapiro's organization.
At Comdex, however, the technology industry's yearning for entertainment was evident in many media-friendly products.
MICROSOFT A KEY PLAYER
For example, software giant Microsoft Corp. (NasdaqNM:MSFT - News) was showing its home PC platform, Windows Media Center, which fuses a PC with a TV, digital recorder, CD and DVD player. Meant to be placed in a living room, it comes with a remote control.
Such products hold promise for Hollywood, but also ignite fears in media circles that they might be deployed without strong copyright protection. In a recent setback for media groups, Microsoft relaxed restrictions on how users of Media Center can copy and distribute TV programs.
Easy copying and sharing of media, such as the swapping of music files that turned Napster into a national phenomenon, has already cut into the music industry's revenues.
Lucas and Chernin are determined to avoid that fate, and said piracy not only hurts movie studios and entertainment executives, but everyone in the industry, from janitors and make-up artists to actors and screenwriters.
"If you cut down the rainforest of entertainment, then the ecosystem of entertainment will collapse," Lucas said.
Microsoft, arguably the biggest technology stakeholder with the ability to influence the course of copyright controls via its Windows operating system, said Hollywood should put more effort on controlling content that goes into the public domain rather than trying to get people to observe copyright laws.
"The media industry has been too focused on copyright protection instead of digital rights management," said Craig Mundie, Microsoft's chief technology officer.
Microsoft, which would benefit from selling digital rights management software, said such technology will eventually allow creators to control how others use their material. For example, a movie file could be set up to be viewed only once or only until a certain date on a specified machine.
But until such controls are available, Chernin said Hollywood will do its best to keep its content protected.
"We're trying to plug the dyke before it floods," he said.
Well,,, haiyaku we see retail kiosks n treo on mp3.com, VeryNice.
Funny it's Vivindi Universal, handheld rent/own movie's next. That
20th IFE PR makin me think... n hope we have a universal angel :)
Sony or Samsung buy DP n our Samsung project could be
our killer-app.
I see our asain partner a plus for a commanding 1st in 03 on a Odyssey.
remember tj.net cell - hotspots, - into retail HDs
T-mobile, i-mode wap may not get contented before us
LQID uses Handlesmaan I think.
Happy Holiday's
emit...
yes Yes YES! lgj - It's starting.
LQID and WMA - Hmmm this is good IMHO
emit...
Hopefully they made reference to edig.com and/or WeDigMusic in the S/V ad...
But bet not. lol oh boy
MucicMatch n LQID sure arn't recipocating n I've questioned mgmt.
emit...
Source: eWEEK
IBM Delivers Mobile Web Services Toolkit
Darryl K. Taft
Kit includes tools for building Web services apps that run on Palm OS, Windows CE and Blackberry handhelds.
IBM on Friday announced a new Web Services Toolkit for Mobile Devices, featuring tools and a Java runtime for building Web services applications that run on Palm OS-based handhelds, Windows CE-based Pocket PC and Blackberry handhelds.
"Web services are not just for B2B commerce or for integration, but also for connecting a wide range of devices," said Bob Sutor, director of e-business standards strategy for IBM, of Armonk, N.Y.
These devices include cell phones, PDAs and pagers. Web services allow these devices to access applications residing on enterprise servers--such as schedules, inventory management programs and customer relationship management systems.
Sutor said that integrating devices is key to the e-business on-demand strategy that IBM is pursuing. "You have to have these types of capabilities," Sutor said.
IBM's WSTK for Mobile Devices supports Java on all three devices it currently runs on. And the product supports the C language on Palm OS-based devices, as well as Java.
Microsoft Corp. offers Web services support for mobile devices with its mobile device extensions for the .Net Compact Framework. Borland Software Corp. also offers a cross-platform mobile development environment.
IBM officials noted that unlike the .Net Compact Framework, IBM's solution supports more than one device and different languages. Microsoft supports the Pocket PC and the Visual C# .Net and Visual Basic .Net.
"We are excited that the industry is beginning to recognize XML Web services as an enabling technology in the mobile space," said Ed Kaim, product manager for .NET mobile development at Microsoft. "We have already invested several years in delivering this vision to our Visual Studio .NET customers, providing native support for XML Web services through both the .NET Compact Framework for smart devices and ASP.NET mobile controls for the mobile Web."
The WSTK for Mobile Devices will be available as a plug-in to IBM's WebSphere Studio Device Developer (WSDD) 5.0. WSDD 5.0 is an integrated development environment for building and testing applications for wireless devices.
WLAN-dish or is id dongled. lol sorta ot.
Developing Mobile Apps -- To drive real-time benefits, Developers can custom-fit mobile applications, outsource The job, or use appliance gateways
By David M. Ewalt
On his way into the office one morning, John Q. Infrastructure, CIO of Hypothetical Business Inc., had a Eureka! moment. Maybe it was prompted by the meter maid on the sidewalk, punching parking-ticket details into a handheld computer. It could've been the guy riding the bus who read the morning newspaper on his PDA. Or maybe it was the UPS driver pulling packages out of his truck, scanning a sticker on each box with a light pen connected to a tablet PC.
Whatever the source of his inspiration, John had solved a big problem. Hypothetical Business' CEO had been pressuring the IT department to cut costs, but at the same time, he wanted to see increased returns from existing investments. At one time, John figured that was pretty much impossible. But now he'd thought of a way.
Hypothetical Business spent huge amounts every year putting computers in the hands of its sales force. Big chunks of the IT budget went to providing dial-up Internet access to reps so they could access the company's customer-relationship management and sales applications from hotel rooms around the country. What if, John pondered, Hypothetical Business could make its enterprise applications available wirelessly to a PDA or cell phone? Salespeople would no longer need to dial into a toll-free number to connect, and they'd be able to access company databases from anywhere, instead of just places with an available phone line. That would make them better equipped to sell products and manage customers, and the company would get better returns from its existing software. What's more, even a top-of-the-line, Internet-capable wireless PDA is cheaper than a notebook computer, so he could save money replacing hardware.
John figured he was definitely on to something. But as any good IT manager knows, it's a long way from killer concept to successful implementation. Wireless access to enterprise applications sure sounded like a good idea, but how was he going to pull it off?
When you're in need of a mobile application, the first option is to do it yourself. Many businesses are deciding that since they know their own needs best, they might as well develop the necessary software internally. "You're going to see a lot more businesses looking at wireless handheld devices and developing applications to run on them," In-Stat analyst Ken Hyers says. In the past, a lot of businesses haven't seen a compelling need to develop mobile apps, but now that pressures to run a real-time business are growing, CIOs are looking at the apps as increasingly viable. "It's one more tool," he says. A recent Forrester Research study found that nearly half of the world's 3,500 largest companies are testing or planning mobile applications.
There are several tools available to help an enterprise go mobile. In October, Microsoft released a second beta edition of its .Net Compact Framework, which streamlines the way programmers develop applications for .Net, Microsoft's implementation of Web services. A final release of the toolkit is due later this year. According to Microsoft, the framework lets programmers write software once and have it work on desktops, servers, and mobile devices, essentially eliminating the need to do a special round of mobile application development.
Development tools that use competing Java-based technology are widely available from vendors such as BEA Systems, IBM, Oracle, and Sun Microsystems. Market-leading software from Sybase subsidiary iAnywhere, called m-Business Studio, is built on a Java 2 Enterprise Edition application server foundation and supports Web-services capabilities such as Simple Object Access Protocol, Web Services Definition Language, and Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration. IAnywhere claims the software's support for Web services will let mobile apps access enterprise services across different types of hardware and clients.
Analysts say applications created by these toolkits indeed will make it easier for enterprises to mobilize, but that developers will still have to fine-tune the apps for different mobile devices. "Java works on any device, but it still has to be tweaked for each device," In-Stat's Hyers says.
What if a company hasn't got the time or know-how to develop mobile applications and run a complicated mobile infrastructure? Those companies can pursue Hypothetical Business' second option: Get somebody else to do the work.
In September, Verizon Information Technologies formed a partnership with mobile software vendor XcelleNet Inc. to provide mobile outsourcing services. They'll do everything from design the applications to pick out the hardware and manage the infrastructure once it's up and running.
"We provide CIOs with a plan to get a return on their investment," says Bob Darrah, director of product marketing at Verizon IT. "It takes away the burden of trying to manage that resource and allows the CIO to focus on deploying the application and bringing back the value to their users."
Outsourcing mobile-application development is cheaper than doing it in-house, Darrah says, because businesses don't have to spend lots of money and time on training programmers, developing infrastructure, and monitoring the system.
Verizon IT uses XcelleNet's Afaria technology to drive the services; the mobile-management software lets a company manage mobile-device settings and update applications and content, all through a Web-browser interface. The technology helps companies extend their enterprise application and data to highly mobile users, says Joe Owen, XcelleNet's chief technology officer. "You can do that without it, but it'll cost you more and take longer," he says.
Ohio State University Medical Center uses Afaria to automatically install updates of an application it purchased from Siebel Medical Solutions. Without Afaria, every time Siebel updated the software, the IT department would have to recall every mobile device in the enterprise and reinstall the new version of the software, says Phil Skinner, the medical center's director of enterprise services. "Afaria helps me avoid having to handle 1,600 handhelds," he says.
Pharmaceutical supply firm PharMerica Inc. also uses Afaria to manage a custom-built application used by field representatives. Afaria automatically collects data entered into the application by remote workers and updates the program with new drug information. It's dramatically increased worker efficiency, says Max Daugherty, director of strategic clinical services information systems. But while Daugherty is happy letting someone else's software manage his custom mobile application, he's not sure he'd want to let a company like Verizon IT write the mobile app from scratch. "We already have expertise in-house, so it makes sense to write the program ourselves," he says.
If Hypothetical Business is similarly nervous about handing over mobile application development to someone else, it has at least one other option. New hardware will help businesses transform their existing enterprise applications into mobile ones, sparing them the trouble of doing any development.
These network-based appliances, known as transformation gateways, sit inside the firewall between the application and the mobile devices and act like a router, taking application data, rendering it in real time into the proper format for different devices, and then handling data flow back and forth between mobile users and enterprise.
In September, Net6 Inc. unveiled the Mobile Transformation Gateway, a network-based appliance that starts at $8,000. The company says users are able to deploy enterprise applications on mobile devices more cheaply and easily than if they had to develop new software.
Says Net6's CEO Murli Thirumale, "When you create an app, you shouldn't have to worry about how it gets delivered to a device."
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