NewsByte...WIRELESS INSTANT MESSAGING Is IM Beyond or behind SMS? WDN European correspondent Nicki Hayes offers up her take in this latest NewsByte

WIRELESS THOUGHTS AROUND THE WORLD David J. Hrivnak recently embarked on a global wireless fact-finding trip to Hong Kong, Singapore, the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium and Sweden to find out just how well wireless technologies are working throughout the world.

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.

NEW COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE COULD SAVE LIVES - Time Domain's Ultra Wideband Technology Demonstrates Ability To Track Firefighters In Burning Buildings.

THE U.S. WIRELESS WEB - A LOOK BACK IN TIME - this special contribution by Dave Mock takes a look at the past 12 months and a new era of mobile freedom.

FIRST WCDMA VOICE CALL - Representatives from Ericsson and Vodafone recently announced the very first WCDMA live voice call in field was successfully carried out.

Building Mobile Web Applications with .NET Mobile Web SDK & ASP.NET Training - ASP.NET-based Web development supports traditional Web clients such as IE and Netscape as well as mobile clients such as WAP phones and PDAs. In this article we’ll see how to develop mobile applications using the .NET Mobile Web SDK, ASP.NET and VB.NET.

8 STEPS TO SUCCESSFUL WIRELESS PROJECTS - This special feature provided by AVIDWireless presents a managerial and high-level technical overview of the process of developing wireless applications.

PSION NARROWS THE DIGITAL DIVIDE IN MALAYSIA Up to 8000 students and 1300 teachers to pilot Psion's netBook in local and wide area wireless configurations. (05.04.01 - 10:35 AM)

WIRELESS ACCESS TO CRITICAL APPS FROM OMNISKY - OmniSky Introduces Business Solutions Channel for Wireless Access to Business-Critical Applications; eFax, My Docs Online, salesforce.com, TelePost.com, UpShot.com, vVault and WestLaw Wireless. (04.23.00 - 5:00 PM)

BLUETOOTH GOES CELLULAR - We offer up a look at some interesting Bluetooth apps from Commil, LTD. Courtesy of our friends at Unstrung.

Selling Co-opetition: Openwave, Cisco, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, and IBM Unify Communications - Openwave, working with Cisco, Gap Gemini Ernst & Young, and IBM, unveiled their table's group project on January 31st: A Next-Generation VoiceXML-Based Unified Communications Architecture.

The Wavelink Developer Connection (April 26, 2001) - Wavelink Developer Connection is designed as a single point of access for developers writing applications using Wavelink solutions.

THE GLOBAL MARKET FOR 5Ghz WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY - 2.4Ghz Technology Steals Spotlight On Wireless LAN Stage Despite Rapid Emergence Of 5Ghz-Based Systems - A report from Frost & Sullivan. (04.25.00 - 11:55 AM)

MOBILE MARKET FACES IMPENDING SHAKE-UP - We explore Frost & Sullivan’s Profiles Of European Mobile Operators - Competitive Positioning And Strategies Leading To 3G. (04.18.00 - 4:14 PM)

MOBILE APPLICATIONS (April 16, 2001) - The mobile applications developed at present should be targeted into three different categories; WAP, Personal Java, and Based on J2ME CLDC and MIDP.

WIRELESS PENETRATION IN LATIN AMERICA (April 13, 2001) - Are you looking for an audience? If so, you might consider targeting the Latin American marketplace.

WIRELESS DATA - IS IT ALL TALK? (April 12, 2001) - Statistics from wireless organizations and carriers in the last month reveal an industry that's still talking the talk but neglecting the walk. Nicki Hayes reports in this latest "NewsByte".

Industry leaders to advance the development of personal mobile services through XHTML
Nokia, Motorola, Ericsson, Siemens and numerous other industry leaders in the mobile communications and content industries announced that they are now supporting the XHTML markup language (Extensible Hyper Text Markup Language) as the format for the future evolution of mobile services.

Nicki Hayes provides this latest "NewsByte"...
DOES JAVA SOLVE WORLDWIDE WAP WAIT?

Wireless Location-Based Searching with Lasoo - The latest entry in the wired and wireless search race in Lasoo. The site doesn't simply relate a database of urls to zip codes, it provides true spatial indexing and generates spatially accurate and relevant hits. As an added bonus, the site offers users a very simple user interface, nice design/layout, excellent maps, and best of all, wireless search capability.

When the Demo Fails
Adena Schutzberg offers up a take on a recent Bluetooth demo, aimed to wow attendees at Germany’s CeBIT show.