THE INFOWORLD SCOOP NETWORKING EDITION
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Monday, March 13, 2000
TOP NEWS STORIES
* Wireless Application Protocol
draws criticism
* GE aims at reinvention as
Net trading platform
* Business intelligence and
Web data harvesting merge
* IBM taking wireless higher
into the Websphere
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FOCUS ON NETWORKING
* Deutsche Telekom increases
service options
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/en/xml/00/03/13/000313endeutsche.xml
* European Union telecoms divided
over local-loop unbundling
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/en/xml/00/03/13/000313eneuropean.xml
* FCC rejects ISP cable-access
plan
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/en/xml/00/03/13/000313enfcc.xml
* First Access, Bluetooth form
alliance
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/en/xml/00/03/13/000313enfirst.xml
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TOP NEWS STORIES
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WIRELESS APPLICATION PROTOCOL DRAWS CRITICISM
EVEN AS SUPPORT among vendors
for the WAP (Wireless
Application Protocol) grows,
so do claims that the wireless
transmission technology is
insufficient -- and many of
those criticisms are coming
from the WAP Forum's own
membership ranks.
David Rensin, CTO at Aether
Systems, a handheld
infrastructure developer in
Owings Mills, Md., ignited a
fierce debate at this week's
Mobile Insights conference in
Palm Desert, Calif., when
he declared that "WAP is dead."
For the full story:
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/00/03/13/000313hnwap.xml
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GE AIMS AT REINVENTION AS NET
TRADING PLATFORM
THIS WEEK the death knell
began to sound for old-guard
proprietary networks when
buttoned-down GE Information
Services announced plans to
emerge as an open Internet
platform for e-procurement
and trading communities.
In a major restructuring,
GE Information Services' brand
was retired and the company
split in two: GE Systems
Services will focus on back-end
software and services to
migrate GE's current customer
base from proprietary
networks to open systems,
and GE Global Exchange Services
will implement e-commerce
systems, including Internet-based
trading exchanges.
For the full story:
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/00/03/13/000313hnge.xml
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BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE AND WEB DATA HARVESTING MERGE
IT'S AN IMPORTANT fact of doing
e-business in the 21st
century that collecting customer
data from the Web and
understanding your customers
are not one and the same.
This distinction was highlighted
by the announcement this
week that WebTrends, which
produces software for collecting
Web-traffic data, will integrate
business intelligence
vendor Hyperion's OLAP (Online
Analytical Processing)
engine into its offerings.
For the full story:
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/00/03/13/000313hnhood.xml
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IBM TAKING WIRELESS HIGHER INTO THE WEBSPHERE
STEPPING UP its strategy of
linking enterprise-level data
with a raft of non-PC devices,
IBM next week will deliver
a software suite designed
to aid developers in spanning
and tying platforms together
when writing applications.
The Websphere Everyplace Suite
will sit in front of a Web
server, pulling up applications
for desktop PCs. Using
IBM's transcoding technology,
the software translates data
on the fly into a format that
is readable by non-PC
devices.
For the full story:
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/00/03/13/000313hnibmwireless.xml