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To: 2brasil who wrote (24359)	3/17/1999 11:28:00 PM
From: Ruffian	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

From Yahoo Q Thread> More Tidbits by: Rodolse 15852 of 15853 IDO roaming Japan-Korea-HongKong: nikkeibp.asiabiztech.com IDO expects one million CDMA subs in first year of service, launch April 14: nikkeibp.asiabiztech.com IDO provides WAP capabilities: nikkeibp.asiabiztech.com And, finally, a small excerpt from Thursdays WSJ. The quote at the end is a kick in the groin for Symbian - things are getting nasty out there... Jonathan Roberts, general manager of market development for Windows CE, said in addition to partners such as BT, Microsoft's strength over rivals is its end-to-end products. Companies such as Symbian and 3Com, said Mr. Roberts, were only focused on the end products, whereas Microsoft is also involved with the machines providing information such as servers and computers. He said that while Symbian is focused mainly on mobile phones, Microsoft has the ability to put CE in all types of communications devices. "What Symbian has is some nice relationships with phone companies," said Mr. Roberts. "But mobile phones won't be the primary devices."

To: 2brasil who wrote (24359)	3/18/1999 11:08:00 AM
From: John Stichnoth	Respond to of 152472

Slightly OT: Sunw has gotten quite good at announcing vaporware. That's really what they did with java (we can see in retrospect)-- which was nowhere near what they claimed when it was initially released. I don't know how mature jini is. But, Sunw is working towards a goal of making jini a standard, which it is not presently. It only becomes valuable if it is widely adopted. What's the formula?...Its value is proportional to the square root of the number of adopters? Something like that. Oh, also--I like the headline, "World's Largest Digital Cellular Network"--just a bit overstated, don't you think? (Which they correct in the text to "one of..."). Best, JS