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IP: MOBILE E-MAIL READY FOR TAKEOFF (edupage)
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 13:52:37 -0500
I keep inding such pronouncements interesting. Like someone just woke up. The big problem is all the tools so far on the market for doing email are faulty and/or the service is too expensive. Maybe the Wall Street market but not yet near my price range . Actually the nearest I have seen for limited apps is GSM SMS (small message service) Cheap and useful and not two way available in the USA that I know djf A new class of devices that combine the features of mobile phones and laptops is set to launch, enabling users to dial into corporate networks and the Internet regardless of where they are. "The Internet is the killer app for wireless data," says a product manager at 3Com's Palm Computing division. By 2002, nearly 12.6 million U.S. consumers will be spending more than $5 billion to connect to wireless networks, according market research firm Telecompetition, a four-fold increase over the number of wireless data network users last year. Industry experts predict that combination devices that do everything -- fax, e-mail, scheduling -- will not fare as well in the market as lighter-weight application-specific devices. "The only combination device the American public has bought in great numbers is the clock-radio," says the chairman of the Portable Computer and Communications Association. (Los Angeles Times 15 Mar 99)
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