GIS Players Target LBS & The Wireless Web - We look at a number of traditional "GIS" players and how they've re-packaged their content to focus on a "sexier" industry with hopes of grabbing the lions share of the market.

Will UK mobile electronic signature trial reinforce PKI’s identity?
Nicki Hayes reports on the UK government’s Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) announcement regarding a wireless public key infrastructure (WPKI) trial.

Parthus Nokia, Motorola, Ericsson and Siemens to further advance the development of personal mobile services through XHTML - Last week, 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.


Parthus Launches MobiStream - New 2.5G Platform
Nicki Hayes reports on the launch of a new 2.5 G platform combining broadband wireless connectivity and mobile multimedia capability with ultra-low powe r consumption.

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.

DoCoMo Shares Reveal Fickle, Rather Than Fragile, Mobile Market
Given recent mobile internet doom and gloom stories, particularly in relation to the high prices paid for 3G licenses in Europe and the predicted time lapse until they will be available, is faith in a fragile market misplaced?

Building Mobile Web Applications with .NET Mobile Web SDK & ASP.NET
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.

An Interview With Doug Keeney, CEO U.S. Wireless Online
Doug Keeney is the CEO of U.S. Wireless Online, a fixed wireless ISP providing bandwidth up to 10 Mbits/sec.

An Introduction To The Symbian Quartz User Interface
The Quartz platform is designed for devices balancing voice and data. It is the first Design Family Reference Design from Symbian and offers developers a wealth of new capabilities.

WAP: Now And Into The Future!
Christoffer Andersson discusses the current state of WAP (version 1.2.1) and presents why he thinks WAP is here to stay.

Ricochet: Has Metricom Finally Found The Solution?
....Or is wireless service just 128k rest stop before the carriers take over?

An Interview With Scott Goldman, CEO Of The WAP Forum
Scott Goldman is the CEO of the WAP Forum. WirelessDevNet.com contributor Scanlon Putegnat sat down with Scott to determine where WAP is heading and where the opportunities lie.

Voice Browsing: How Two Great Ideas Go Great Together
Voice browsing technology is a rapidly-growing field. Whether or not it proves to be the next internet, it deserves a careful examination in its present form.

Q&A with Greg Wolfond, Chairman and Founder of 724 Solutions
724 Solutions founder and Chairman Greg Wolfond discusses the thinking behind 724 Solutions' acquisition of Tantau, what he looks for in partnerships and acquisitions, the wireless market, and 724's future plans.

Open Source Comes To Wireless
Motorola has teamed with CollabNet to offer a suite of software development tools and a free hosting platform for it's iDEN system.

SMS: What, How, and Where?
An introduction to SMS - its applications, limitations, and its future with technologies such as WAP and GPRS.

Choosing a Wireless Provider for your Application
This article points out several questions that developers might consider when choosing a wireless service or recommending a wireless service for their clients.

Location-Based Mobile Directories: The Real Thing?
Does the recognition of the value of mobile commerce to Coca-Cola's customer retention strategy mean that mobile commerce has at last become 'The Real Thing'? WirelessDevNet speaks to industry analysts and executives from both Coca-Cola and go2 Systems Inc. to find out more.

Product Review: PointBase Mobile Edition
PointBase Mobile Edition is a Java object-relational database specifically designed for mobile client applications, Internet appliances and wireless devices.

Wireless 2001
Trends, predictions, and what to watch in the wireless industry in 2001.

Hats Off To Wireless Linux! - A Profile of Red Hat's Wireless And Embedded Strategy
WirelessDevNet talks to Phil Zamani, Red Hat's Vice President of Internet Appliances, to find out where Red Hat sees the wireless and embedded market heading and how it plans to contribute.

CDMA/GSM Battle Moves to US Soil
Welcome to the wireless war; the ongoing struggle for technical dominance between CDMA and GSM just took a dramatic turn today.

WAP Browsers For The PalmOS
A look at four quality WAP browsers for your PalmOS device from mobileID, EdgeMatrix, AU-System, and 4thPass.

Broadbeam Me Up!
A discussion with Boris Fridman, CEO of wireless tools and service company Broadbeam.