Large Variety of WAP Phones Make Testing Paramount
The Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) was designed to make it easier to build applications for handheld phones and other devices, but that doesn't mean building them is easy, developers say.
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Customer Data Gives Bank Sales Force an Edge
Northern Trust Corp. is one year into a complex customer relationship management (CRM) project that gives its workers around the world vital data on 800,000 clients.
User group asks Microsoft to go slow on new products: Frequent software updates strain manufacturers' resources
The year-old Microsoft Manufacturing User Group (MS-MUG) wants the software giant to slow down the introduction of new software releases affecting real-time manufacturing controls.
Manufacturers Struggle to Keep Pace with Microsoft
The year-old Microsoft Manufacturing User Group (MS-MUG) has urged the software giant to slow down the introduction of new operating system releases so its members can keep pace with upgrades.
Online Investors Go Wireless
About one in three online investors use two-way pagers or wireless handheld computers to monitor their investments, a nationwide survey of 1,069 investors found. And about one in five use one or both devices to place the actual trades wirelessly.
Microsoft Asked to Slow Down New Products
The year-old Microsoft Manufacturing User Group (MS-MUG) wants the software giant to slow down the introduction of new software releases affecting real-time manufacturing controls.
Compaq Better Off, but Questions Remain
Things are better than they were last year, but Compaq Computer Corp. still faces an iffy 2000, based on its flat first-quarter earnings report and ongoing practices, analysts and users said.
Analysts Bearish on Compaq's Full-Year Outlook
Compaq Computer Corp.'s first quarter earnings, announced Tuesday, were mostly flat, leaving some Wall Street analysts skittish about how the Houston-based company might fare for the rest of the year.
Compaq's Earnings Beat Forecast
Compaq Computer Corp. in Houston beat analysts' forecasts for earnings in the first quarter of this year, but revenues were down for both its enterprise and commercial PC divisions.
Handhelds Can Help Catch Medical Errors
Pharmacists and others pushing to reduce the number of medical errors are putting more drive into the sometimes moribund trend in the medical industry toward handheld-based systems to link information on drugs, patients and specimens.
Tips for Handheld Security
Security analysts and IT managers advise you to do the following to keep information on your handhelds from getting into the wrong hands:
Handheld Computers Boost Medical Apps
Handheld computers are beginning to be used effectively in health care to reduce errors and increase efficiency, according to project managers.
Handhelds Help Reuters Track Competition
Reuters Ltd. sales executives in Spain are supposed to gather information about competitors in the field, but the way they collected the information - on handheld computers that uploaded information through PCs to a client database - was creating major administrative headaches for the company's information technology department.
Dell Unveils Net-Focused Hardware, Services
Dell Computer Corp. announced a further shift in market priorities yesterday toward Internet hardware and services.
Security Risks Arise With Wireless Apps
Building wireless applications? Analysts warn that using handhelds and smart phones to work wirelessly over the Web can raise some security risks.