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ANDREW SEYBOLD'S OUTLOOK LAUDS MICROSOFT-
QUALCOMM'S WIRELESSKNO
Business Wire
December 22, 1998, 11:30 a.m. PT
wledge, Names Outlook Award Winners
Business Editors & Technology Writers
BOULDER CREEK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 22, 1998--While
there is demand for wireless connectivity to corporate information,
the entire process has been too complex and time-consuming for most IT
managers to deal with, write editors Andrew M. Seybold and Barney L.
Dewey in the year-end issue of Andrew Seybold's Outlook, the
authoritative newsletter serving the mobile-computing and wireless-
data-communications industries.
But with the announcement of WirelessKnowledge LLC, a joint
venture of QUALCOMM Inc. and Microsoft Corp., the obstacles may
disappear, leading to large-scale use of wireless data devices by
mobile professionals, the editors believe.
"While wireless data has been a success in the vertical
marketplace, wireless data for the business professional has failed
... (for) a lack of complete solutions," the article states. Some
vendors have achieved partial solutions, the article notes, but
"WirelessKnowledge is the first service to offer a complete solution
that allows access to the information that is of the greatest
importance to the mobile professional."
The Outlook concludes the the new company can indeed bring all of
the necessary elements together securely -- networks, devices and
data, even behind corporate firewalls -- through a single connection.
Through relationships with companies such as BellSouth, Bell
Atlantic Mobile, AT&T, US West and Go America, WirelessKnowledge will
support a variety of wireless devices. Microsoft OS-based computers,
digital phones with HDML, one-way pagers, two-way pagers, Web-access
terminals and smart phones, adding others as they emerge.
"The connections between the carriers and WirelessKnowledge's
operations center are dedicated and secure circuits," write Seybold
and Dewey. "A connection between the center and the corporate LAN or
WAN provides access to any and all of the networks supported by the
service, including carriers that provide voice and data services,
data-only services, and paging and short-messaging services."
An article by contributing editor Dewey examines 3Com's new Palm
VII and evaluates its chances as a consumer product, its current
positioning, and as a business product, which Dewey feels is a better
slot.
"I believe that the Palm VII will be a failure (as a consumer
product)," he predicts. "I doubt that many (consumers) will buy it
for the likely price of $700 to $800 -- about twice the price of a
Palm III. However, as a new wireless information platform to develop
useful query-response solutions, I believe that it will be a big
success."
Contributor James T. Norman reports on microphone technology that
he discovered at Comdex, Andrea Electronics' Digital Super Directional
Array (DSDA) devices. Scheduled for early-1999 shipment in desktop and
automobile versions, the units incorporate four microphones within a
case, all connected to a digital signal processor that analyzes
signals from each and reduces them to a single signal that is without
ambient noise.
Contributing editor Victor Wortman's mobile-implementation
article focuses on the experience of a high-powered management
consulting boutique in Hunt Valley, Md., with Proxim's Symphony small-
office/home-office (SOHO) wireless LAN solution.
According to PDS Research Managing Director Joseph Krysztoforski,
the peer-to-peer network didn't cost much, was a breeze to install
since it required no cabling for access points, and quickly became
indispensable. At home, using separate computers, Krysztoforski, his
financial-consultant wife and his student son all share printer and
Internet resources through Symphony.
Seybold typically names the year's Outlook Award winners in the
year-end issue. This year's standouts: Bluetooth, the short-range
radio connectivity initiative; the aforementioned WirelessKnowledge;
HPC Professional computers (the Windows CE "Jupiter" project); the Rex
Professional "wireless appliance" from Starfish; the RIM Inter@ctive
Pager 950; and the 3Com Palm VII, for its excellent hardware
integration.
Andrew Seybold's Outlook is a Monthly Perspective of Issues
Affecting the Mobile Computing and Communications Industries. For a
free copy or for information about The Outlook, Wireless Data
University and allied activities, contact Ruth Johnson at Andrew
Seybold's Outlook, P.O. Box 2460, Boulder Creek, Calif. 95006-2460;
telephone 831/338-7701; fax 831/338-7807; e-mail rjohnson@outlook.com;
or visit www.outlook.com.
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CONTACT: Andrew Seybold's Outlook, Boulder Creek
Ruth Johnson, 831/338-7701
or
Victor Wortman Co., Santa Monica, Calif.
Victor Wortman, 310/393-6281
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