Spiral Arm News

Saturday, February 28, 2004

Mobitopia:
Nokia & IBM join forces to "extend mobility into the enterprise". Nokia's 9500 to be bundled with "vertical business applications".

Computing comment that the deal is "too little, too late".

Friday, February 27, 2004

Business users should text more. The Register quote Vodafone: "It is interesting that a phenomenon that we are all so familiar with in our personal lives seems to meet with resistance in a business environment where clear, concise communication is so key".

Monday, February 16, 2004

An FT story at the ebusiness forum
quotes Symbian CEO and Gartner on smart phone growth at the expense of PDAs, but accepts that PDAs have a future
in enterprise computing.

Friday, February 13, 2004

The MEA define
mobile enterprise as "a versatile organization that is ready to adapt to changes
in the business environment by allocating movable personnel and resources
to best achieve business objectives". Members include: Intel, Symbian,
Vodafone.

Tuesday, February 10, 2004

"Hooking into a back-end server to retrieve data for a personal productivity device is vital if companies are to get the most value out of their devices". Groupware and "always on" connection key, according to PDAs: not just corporate jewellery.

Thursday, February 05, 2004

The Feature notes that PalmSource and palmOne are both moving away from PDAs to focus on smart phones. This tracks analysts' predictions of declining PDA sales, replaced with take up of smart phones.

Wednesday, February 04, 2004

Reuters: Plain old cell phones are fading away in the US, and "becoming an information appliance".