Kurt, indeed Corel cooperating with Sattelite company is a big step in the right direction, since it includes badly-wired environments in the benefits of the NC.
See also this interesting news from Texas Instruments about DSP and JAVA, to be combined in cellular phones and pagers.
Read the article and look at the possibilities they suggest!
Important developments.
ncns.com
"With personal communications products based on Java-enabled digital signal processing solutions, consumers can download applications such as map-based navigation or video capabilities from the Internet, or (from) a wireless network, " said Gilles Delfassy, worldwide general manager of TI's Wireless Communications Business Unit and Semiconductor Group vice president. "The combination of Java software with TI's digital signal processing solutions will enable hand-held devices, such as digital cellular phones or pagers, to access information and applications on the Internet."...
.. "-- Airline and movie schedules could be accessed and advertised locally in a cost-effective manner via digital cellular phones or pagers."..
.. "Rural areas or third-world countries with limited or no telecommunications infrastructure also will be able to use this technology in place of traditional wired phone services,"..
.. "International Data Corp., an industry research group, predicts there will be a worldwide installed base of 89 million non-PC-based Internet access devices by the year 2001.".. |
