Vestuario tecnológico.
La computadora, con la que prácticamente hoy todo el mundo trabaja, es, posiblemente, uno de los cuatro inventos más trascendentales en toda la historia, junto con el fuego, la máquina de vapor y el automóvil. La automatización en los procesos productivos es trascendental. Internet ha sido un...

Coordinating the early commercialization of general purpose technologies: the case of mobile data communications.
SUMMARY This paper argues that mobile data communications is a fairly typical case of a general purpose technology (GPT), since it (1) is used in a wide range of applications, (2) exhibits rapid and persistent performance improvements and (3) strong innovational complementarities with interrelated coordination problems. However,...

WAP FORUM TACKLES MICROSOFT ON OPEN WIRELESS STANDARDS.
By Rachel Chalmers Having persuaded eleven new members to sign up, the chairman of the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) Forum board of directors, Chuck Parrish, has called to explain the work of the Forum, its history and its hopes for the future. The Forum was founded by Nokia Oy,...

Manila Bulletin first to offer mobile edition.
After being established as the first (Wireless Application Protocol) WAP-enabled newspaper website in the local media industry, Manila Bulletin scores another first as the only local online newspaper to enable mobile internet service. The MB Online has tied up with Avantgo.com, one of the world's leading mobile...

India - Tata Cellular, Air Tel To Widen Reach.
NEW DELHI, INDIA, 2000 DEC 26 (NB) -- By CT Mahabharat, Newsbytes. Cellular giants Tata Cellular Ltd. and Bharti Mobile Ltd., with its Air Tel brand, will broaden their reach in the semi-urban markets, and some coastal and rural areas of Andhra Pradesh in India. As a...

PC penetration here dismally low.
The personal computer (PC) penetration in the Philippines remains dismally low and less than two percent of the population have Internet access today. Hence, "There is a great opportunity to push mobile communications as the access path of choice," according to Globe Telecom president and CEO Gerardo...

IBM OUTLINES PERVASIVE PLANS.
IBM's Pervasive Computing unit is developing software to connect sub-PC devices, such as mobile phones and PDAs via the internet. The first products are expected in the first quarter of next year in the form of a network management module. Much of the work on network management - considered...

Miley Cyrus and The Naked Brothers Band to Perform at Nickelodeon's 2008 Kids' Choice Awards.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-11 March 2008-Miley Cyrus and The Naked Brothers Band to Perform at Nickelodeon's 2008 Kids' Choice Awards(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Nickelodeon's 2008 Kids' Choice Awards will feature pop sensation and 2007 KCA winner Miley Cyrus and Nickelodeon's own The Naked Brothers Band in performance live...

mInfo and Nokia Team for Chinese Mobile Search and Advertising.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-3 July 2008-mInfo and Nokia Team for Chinese Mobile Search and Advertising(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com mInfo, a provider of mobile search and pull-advertising in China, announced it has entered into an agreement with Nokia to deliver its flagship search solution onto Nokia's mobile applications platform....

MARDI GRAS!
It may be off season to be holding a mardi gras but no matter what time of year, a mardi gras is always maxi fun. Beads and boas, free miles and free mobile phones are definitely fun stuff aside from a live jazz band. And so it...