SONY TURNS UP THE VOLUME ON HANDHELDS Look for an Integrated MP3 Player, 320x320 resolution, a 33MHz processor, and loads of bundled software with the new CLIE(TM)Handheld.

TRIMBLE ADDS LBS CAPABILITIES - Trimble has formed Trimble Information Services to offer Internet location-based services to the mobile workplace.

SENDING A WIRELESS TEXT-MESSAGE WITH JAVA - Joe Lauer, President and Founder of Simplewire walks us through the challenges of sending an SMS message with Java.

HALF OVER OR HALF FULL! - The year is half over. So let us make some quick predictions for the rest of 2001: “The Year of Wireless". More on this from Josh Newman. (07.03.01)

WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM JAPAN? - Christoffer Andersson, author of the popular title "GPRS and 3G Wireless Applications" having been in Japan and talking to people behind the success stories there has found many reasons why things have gone so well and many things that 's betting will work here as well. (06.27.01)

NewsByte...WIRELESS SPAM... THE BIG CLEAN-UP Junk mail has been doing its rounds ever since the existence of postal systems. Its electronic equivalent - spam - has been a major problem in the world of the internet, introducing fatal viruses and wasted time and costs. WDN European correspondent Nicki Hayes offers up her take in this latest NewsByte. (06.22.01)

DOESN'T AD UP! - Former Yahoo! VP of Direct Marketing, Seth Godin, thinks wireless ads will never work. Perhaps that’s why Yahoo! has shown no wireless initiative. Josh Newman provides more on this. (06.22.01)

TOP 10 PITFALLS... CONTINUED! - Get a Grip on Wireless - Part Two - Beauty’s only skin deep. So it’s buyer beware if you’re basing your wireless device choice on physical characteristics alone as we continue to discuss the "Top Ten Pitfalls of Wireless Application Development." from our friends at Outr.Net (06.15.01)

UNDERSTANDING THE STANDARDS - 3GPP, 3GPP2, Parlay, WAP Forum and so on, there are many standardization bodies and it is not always easy to find the information you need in their libraries. Christoffer Andersson explains. (06.12.01)

The Wireless Trojan Horse - Columbitech Demonstrates Transfer from GSM to Bluetooth... Finally some good news about Bluetooth. Josh Newman details how this affects M-Commerce and Microsoft. (06.18.01)

HANDHELD VIRUSES PACK A BIG PUNCH - Viruses got a huge boost when desktop computers began networking. Your handheld is next. (06.06.01)

CARRIERS GET DOWN TO BUSINESS - After disappointing consumer uptake of WAP based services, the talk Josh Newman of Unstrung is hearing these days from inside companies like Sprint and AT&T is less about which great new game or m-commerce app they can roll out, and more about business. (06.06.01)

NewsByte...IS MOBILE CRM COMING OF AGE? eWare announces a series of new partnerships with leading mobile device manufacturers and CommSoft launch its WAP enabled CRM package, WDN asks “Is mCRM finally coming of age?”(06.04.01 - 11:50 AM)

Japanese Lead Doesn't Translate Into Competitive Advantage Japan may be 12-24 months ahead of Western Europe, but their global success is not secured.

CITY INSPECTION STAFF GOES WIRELESS At 13:15 on the 8th of November, 2000 a 6.5 magnitude earthquake hit Glendale, CA. Using the KIVA remote inspector product on hand-held Sony Vaio picture book and HP Jornadas connected via CPDP, city inspectors were able to log the damage in real time.

Utilizing Intelligence at the Network’s Edge Mobile Peer-to-Peer applications introduce a new kind of network. This piece from TheFeature explains how they work, and what applications to look out for.

NewsByte...3G or WLANs? In a week that saw Ericsson and Nokia rallying to discredit recent reports that 3G is under threat from cheaper wireless LAN (WLAN) technologies, Nicki Hayes, WDN’s European correspondent, questions the 3G/WLAN debate.