TECHWEB TODAY: MOBILE & WIRELESS Monday, October 4, 2004 IN THIS ISSUE 1. Monday Mobile & Wireless Feature: Free Wi-Fi Checks In. . .With Reservations 2. Mobile & Wireless News Of The Week
Today's Top News 3. Sun's McNealy Targets Red Hat 4. PeopleSoft Says Revenues Will Beat Wall Street Forecast 5. Report: Rapid Rise Of Adware Is Tailing Off Slightly 6. IBM Adds Fingerprint Security To ThinkPads Other News This Week 7. It's A Small Networking World 8. Conway's Firing Shocks Industry 9. White House Cybersecurity Chief Unexpectedly Quits 10. Avaya Buys Spectel For $103 Million ------- Advertisement ------------------- Join InformationWeek for a FREE, on-demand TechWebCast on Technical Best Practices for Deploying Business Dashboards, Featuring Hyperion partner 1Answer Solutions. Discussion will focus on various product approaches to building and deploying dashboards that are effective for an entire organization. View the webcast now: http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejpq0GpvDH0G4U0Ca3w0AL ----------------------------------------- 1. MONDAY MOBILE & WIRELESS FEATURE: Free Wi-Fi Checks In. . .With Reservations Free is always nice, but quality rules when it comes to wireless hotspots, and users are demanding it, without reservation. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejpq0GpvDH0G4U0CpLc0Af 2. MOBILE & WIRELESS NEWS OF THE WEEK DoCoMo Develops Fuel Cell For 3G Devices Hydrogen-methanol fuel cell will dramatically increase run-time for 3G phones, Japan's NTT DoCoMo says. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejpq0GpvDH0G4U0CpLd0Ag Group Proposes Wireless Smart Card Authentication New security standard would provide a single method of accessing all types of wireless networks, group claims. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejpq0GpvDH0G4U0CpLe0Ah UWB Coming Soon, Will Be A Hit: Researcher UWB-enabled products will become available next year and they will be successful despite an on-going standards battle, a study predicts. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejpq0GpvDH0G4U0CpLf0Ai ZigBee Called 'Next Wireless Revolution' A research analyst predicts 80 million ZigBee-enabled devices by the end of 2006. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejpq0GpvDH0G4U0CpLg0Aj Tropos Unveils Wi-Fi Mesh Node For Vehicles Tropos Networks announces a mesh node designed specifically for in-vehicle use. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejpq0GpvDH0G4U0CpLh0Ak California Man Convicted Of 'War-Spamming' Man pleads guilty to war-driving and pushing spam to users of unprotected WLANs. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejpq0GpvDH0G4U0CpLi0Al ------- Advertisement ------------------- Join InformationWeek for a FREE, on-demand TechWebCast on Technical Best Practices for Deploying Business Dashboards, Featuring Hyperion partner 1Answer Solutions. Discussion will focus on various product approaches to building and deploying dashboards that are effective for an entire organization. View the webcast now: http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejpq0GpvDH0G4U0Ca3w0AL ------------------------------------------- TODAY'S NEWS 3. Sun's McNealy Targets Red Hat Sun Microsystems' chief executive Scott McNealy appears to be looking for a new target, and open-source-software provider Red Hat might just fill the bill. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejpq0GpvDH0G4U0CpLj0Am 4. PeopleSoft Says Revenues Will Beat Wall Street Forecast Despite its battle against Oracle Corp.'s hostile takeover bid, PeopleSoft Inc. says it beat Wall Street revenue forecasts for the just-ended third quarter. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejpq0GpvDH0G4U0CpLk0An 5. Report: Rapid Rise Of Adware Is Tailing Off Slightly The phenomenon of spyware started to tail off slightly during the third quarter, according to a new SpyAudit report from ISP provider Earthlink and Webroot Software, a computer-security firm. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejpq0GpvDH0G4U0CpLl0Ao 6. IBM Adds Fingerprint Security To ThinkPads IBM unveils its first ThinkPad notebook that includes a built-in fingerprint reader, an attempt to bring biometric-based security to mainstream users. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejpq0GpvDH0G4U0CpLm0Ap OTHER NEWS THIS WEEK 7. It's A Small Networking World Networking companies have been releasing a blizzard of new products and services targeted at the fast-growing small and medium-sized business market. If you're an SMB, you're living in golden times. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejpq0GpvDH0G4U0Co3k0AN 8. Conway's Firing Shocks Industry PeopleSoft denies the action was related to Oracle, and some say it may be result of poor financial performance. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejpq0GpvDH0G4U0Co6F0An 9. White House Cybersecurity Chief Unexpectedly Quits Amit Yoran was frustrated over what he saw as a lack of attention paid to computer security issues within the agency. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejpq0GpvDH0G4U0Co6H0Ap 10. Avaya Buys Spectel For $103 Million Will expand its conferencing capabilities by combining existing conferencing products with Spectel's on-premise and service provider conferencing solutions. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejpq0GpvDH0G4U0CpLn0Aq -------------------------------------------------------------------- Register Today For TechXNY Join us October 5-7 at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York for TechXNY where you'll find the business solutions you need. 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