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To: dylan murphy who wrote (1380)	7/16/1999 10:24:00 PM
From: bythepark	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1472

Embedded Ruggedness - How about AutoPC? Dylan, When I attended this year's Annual meeting, an engineer in the corner of the room was demonstrating something he called 'AutoPC' ... It looked interesting, if primitive, and at the time it did not mean much to me. Then RSYS announced <http://www.radisys.com/news/releases/invehicle_pr.html>. Then the July issue of WIRED had this extremely interesting article <http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.07/options.html> --alan > AutoPC (Clarion and microsoft) Microsoft's Windows CE-powered play to > capture the road's wireless future. Once the platform is fully in > place by this fall, one-touch road assistance can be coupled with a > voice-activated computer that recognizes commands for traffic reports, > numeric paging, and email. Other options include a navigation unit > providing spoken turn-by-turn directions and a diagnostic module > configured to check the car's main computer for malfunctions. A speculative sidebar to the above article is <http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.07/cell.html> > On the move, your connection will follow you through radio shadows and > from one cell to the next, thanks to a fault-tolerant version of > Internet Protocol called Wireless Markup Language. WML will link your > phone with a proxy server; the server hooks into the Net using regular > IP. As smart phones become ubiquitous - thanks in part to the efforts > of the Wireless Applications Protocol Forum, an industry consortium of > about 100 companies - webmasters will be forced to duplicate their > HTML-coded pages in WML, simplifying text and graphics so that they'll > display legibly on tiny phone screens. >... > Early adopters, predictably, will be business travelers, according to > a 1998 Nokia study. Users polled placed remote access to banking > highest on their wish list, followed by email, city navigation, > weather information, and news. > > Meanwhile, blue-collar uses include scanning FedEx bar codes, reading > utility meters, and logging the status of vending machines, courtesy > of customized phones that feed the data directly to a company via the > Net. > > As mobile online access trickles down sometime during 2001, everyday > consumers will get OnStar-like concierge services in a package that > doesn't require its own parking place. You'll be able to compare > motels, restaurants, and gas stations while you're on the road, using > online resources that sense your location. The fast-food franchise > nearest you will transmit its menu to your phone, along with tempting > JPEGs of steaming food. You'll key in your order, and by the time you > reach the restaurant, dinner will be ready to go. Similarly, when you > visit your local supermarket it'll offer you cookies in more ways than > one, as its server recognizes your phone's IP address, checks your > buying habits, and emails you some appropriate special-offer coupons.