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To: JMD who wrote (9006)	3/3/1998 10:30:00 AM
From: J.B.C.	Respond to of 152472

>>What is the Contact/Up to Date product?<< Contact/Up To Date, is a personal calendar/scheduler. Jim

To: JMD who wrote (9006)	3/3/1998 10:41:00 AM
From: bananawind	Respond to of 152472

PCS infrastructure spending to rise by 50% in 1998..... PCS infrastructure spending, which was down in 1997 compared to the previous year, should rebound in 1998, according to the 1998 MultiMedia Telecommunications Market Review and Forecast, a report recently released by the Arlington, Virginia-based Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA). Quoting research conducted by the MultiMedia Telecommunications Association, TIA noted that infrastructure spending in 1997 fell 12.5 percent to $1.4 billion compared to 1996's spending figures. However, TIA expects that as more C-Block licensees begin rolling out service, spending will bounce back by an anticipated 50 percent, to $2.1 billion. The association also predicted that spending will remain above the $2 billion mark through 2001, although that year may see a 5.5 percent decrease in spending from 2000's expected expenditures of nearly $2.28 billion.

To: JMD who wrote (9006)	3/3/1998 12:03:00 PM
From: rhet0ric	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

What is the Contact/Up to Date product? Sounds like some sort of PIM with a syncrhonizer--is that the little guy they're going to tuck into the Palm Pilot? Qualcomm recently bought a company called Now, which made two products, I think for the Mac only, called Contact and Up to Date (which always seemed to be bundled together). Reviews of the product were always positive, from what I can remember. I haven't heard anything distinct from Qualcomm about a PDA/PIM, but they seem to be collecting a bunch of technologies that fit together in a fairly obvious way. I would pay a lot for a device that merged the Pilot with the Q phone, and ran best-of-breed software like Eudora, Contact and Up to Date. rhet0ric