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To: jmiller099 who wrote (602)	6/17/2003 12:49:31 AM
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Top 10 business applications for Short Message Service By Tony Kontzer In the United States, using cell phones to exchange text messages via Short Message Service technology has been largely the domain of teenagers. But that's changing, according to research from unified communications vendor Topcall Corp. A survey of more than 20 business customers and a number of industry analysts showed that companies increasingly are using text messaging to communicate vital business information to mobile executives, sales reps, field technicians, and customers. Based on Topcall's research, here are the top 10 business applications of the technology so far: 1) Alerting mobile technicians to system errors 2) Alerting mobile execs to urgent voice messages 3) Confirming with mobile sales personnel that a faxed order was received 4) Informing travelers of delays and changes 5) Enabling contract workers to receive and accept project offers 6) Keeping stock traders up to date on urgent stock activity 7) Reminding data services subscribers about daily updates 8) Alerting doctors to urgent patient situations 9) Letting mobile sales teams input daily sales figures into corporate database 10) Sending mobile sales reps reminders of appointments and other schedule details informationweek.com:0/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=10300804&_loopback=1

To: jmiller099 who wrote (602)	6/17/2003 12:57:02 AM
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small company creates successful operating system fortune.com As far as anyone can tell, software created by a Canadian company called QNX Software Systems simply doesn't crash. QNX's software has run nonstop without mishaps at some customer sites since it was installed more than a decade ago. As a delighted user has put it, "The only way to make this software malfunction is to fire a bullet into the computer running it." Like Windows or Linux, QNX's program is an operating system, the traffic cop that organizes and runs a computer's many functions. But this operating system is used mostly in highly specialized, real-time industrial applications. QNX software directs "extreme" manufacturing, such as guiding the flawless grinding of optical lenses--a process in which the slightest software glitch can ruin a product worth $100,000. It's also used to control facilities such as nuclear power plants and other critical installations where any software funny business could be catastrophic. QNX's software is the brainchild of Dan Dodge, 48, the company's CEO, and Gordon Bell, 47, its president (they swap titles every year). They're subdued, low-key fellows--until you ask about their technology. Then they grow animated and even passionate. They're friends who drive basic cars no different from those of their employees and live in modest houses. Tucked away in a nondescript industrial park in Kanata, Ontario, an Ottawa suburb 2,400 miles from the hubbub of Silicon Valley, QNX has been called a "stealth company," its founders say.