Blue Kite, Smiling At Me
The California-based software company has developed services that promise enhanced performance on current wireless networks by upwards of 5x current browsing speeds. Suddenly the 14.4 data speeds that have been trying the patience of even the techiest wireless web user appear somewhat closer to 56K modem speed.

Parthus Delivers More Than Just The Mobile Internet-On-A-Chip
What a month for Parthus Technologies, the Irish semiconductor developer! Its founder and chief executive officer, Brian Long, was named Ernst & Young Technology Irish Entrepreneur of the Year. Its maiden results show top-line revenue growth of 76 percent and strong growth in license and royalty revenues, doubling to more than $4.5 million in the third quarter. The company also announced a breakthrough in chip design that looks set to thrust it into the forefront of the mobile communications revolution.

Short-Range Wireless Connectivity: A Complementary Comparison
Communication between various devices makes it possible to provide unique and innovative services. This article compares the most popular short-range wireless technologies: Bluetooth, IrDA, and HomeRF.

Bluetooth: Beyond The 1.0 Specification
Excerpted from the Prentice Hall book Bluetooth Revealed, this chapter looks into the activities of the SIG in developing new profiles, as well as some possibilities for products that use Bluetooth wireless technology.

Locating Your Location Based Service Provider
Location, location, location! How many times have we read, heard or verbalized this commonly used piece of mobile mantra? True, the wireless web offers huge opportunities for location specific information provision, but what positioning technologies are available to provide the type of pinpoint accuracy needed by the killer applications that analysts such as the Forrester Group predict? WirelessDevNet.com investigates, comparing two networked based technologies provided by SnapTrack and Cell-Loc with conventional GPS.

Developers Urged Onward Amid Indecision Over Wireless Internet
At the Wireless Developer Seminar at CTIA's Wireless IT 2000 conference, a large group of software developers were urged to think in terms of providing useful services - not killer apps - in order to capitalize on the exploding interest in the wireless Internet.

NTT DoCoMo Taking On The World
There has been plenty of evidence of NTT DoCoMo's global expansion in recent weeks. While the announcement of its partnership with AOL was widely covered by the global media, announcements regarding activity in Europe were less widely reported. Yet, judging from the evidence, Europe seems to be pretty high up on the organization's hit list.

An Ocean Apart
When it comes to the mobile Internet, many Americans seem more focused on what WAP and i-mode can't do than what they can, ignoring the immediate commercial benefits the non-HTML standards offer.

GoSMS Going Too Far?
A small wireless company faces the legal wrath of CNN and a collection of America's biggest media companies. A look at the legal issues surrounding content in wireless.

Product Review: Proxim Symphony Wireless LAN
Offering 1.6 Mbps of throughput, and components for desktop PCs, laptops, existing hubs, and shared modems, Proxim Symphony provides a complete Wireless LAN solution, whether you're building a new network from scratch or upgrading an existing wired-down LAN.

E.piphany Joins Wireless eCRM Race
New York-based eCRM player E.piphany joined the mCRM race last week, announcing mobile support for its suite of customer relationship management applications.

Internet Protocols Over Wireless Networks
When the Internet, as we know it today, was built, its building blocks were constructed to work well with the network characteristics that were most prominent at that time. It could be assumed that a link had pretty much the same properties all the time unless it got too congested. This assumption does not necessarily hold true in a wireless environment.

Bluetooth Will Handle Video at Home
Discussions are underway for the new Bluetooth standard, generation 2, enabling speeds up to 10 megabit per second. The higher speed allows for new applications, such as real-time video transmission.

Let's Talk About X - Xdrive Goes Wireless
Santa Monica, California based Xdrive, Inc. has made a name for itself since its July 1999 founding with a racy advertising campaigning that plays off the homophonic qualities of "sex" and "x". But it’s also a market leader backed by some serious investors, providing a highly respected service that delivers a "virtual hard-drive" guaranteeing safe data storage for any type file to anyone with access to the Internet.

CA Chooses Wireless Route To Win eCRM Market Share
The latest word on the street is mCRM, or mobile customer relationship management, which provides enterprises access to customer information over wireless devices. Computer Associates International (CA) for one has bought into it, announcing a joint marketing, development and distribution agreement with eWare, the leader in wireless and internet-based customer relationship management (CRM) solutions just last week.

Push For WAP Soon Available
The push technology framework consists of an ordinary WAP-network expanded with a push-gateway that is able to deliver the push message from the initiator to all subscribers registered as receivers.

Mobile Portals and Making a Profit
Quack.com is one of a growing number of companies racing to cash in on the emerging market to provide Internet data over mobile phones and other wireless devices. Last month, America Online decided there was so much potential in the wireless content market that it decided to buy Quack. But there's just one problem...

Location Based Services: Interfacing To A Mobile Positioning Center
How to get access to the location information describing the position of a target device, previously obtained by means of one of several physical positioning technologies.

The Name Of The Game
The internet has pretty much succeeded in revolutionizing every industry known to man over the past five years. The gaming industry is the latest beneficiary, widely predicted to be one of those that will profit the most from the forthcoming explosion in wireless internet access.

Heroes and Villains
Hype it up. Raise expectation to unrealistic heights. Then trash it down when those heights are not attained. Right now wireless technology is on a media merry-go-round, fuelled by a heady mix of ignorance, optimism and hidden agendas.

Alerts: The Wireless Trojan Horse?
Beware Greeks offering a large wireless horse as a gift. M-commerce advertising could be hidden in the most helpful of messages.

Personal Area Networks: Say It And You Are Connected!
Personal Area Networks offer the promise of seamless wireless communications between devices using the human body as a communications medium. In this article, we take a look at the technologies involved and where PANs are headed in the near future.

Taking The Load Off Wireless Testing
Mercury Interactive looks set to take first mover advantage in leveraging its success in the wired testing world to the wireless equivalent, fast becoming the industry standard for load testing of web applications, regardless of access device.

The Fantasy of the Forever Game
Someone's going to build the first big massively multiplayer wireless game, and it's not only going to make them a huge pile of digital cash, it's going to change the world.