WBT's Ron Dennis interviews Zaga Novakovic on what it's like trying to find a
hotspot when you're really off the beaten track.
Zaga Novakovic is a traveler both in the physical world and in time. She is
comfortable in Thailand, in Paris, and in the future. One of her jobs is
looking into the future of wireless networking, or, more accurately, looking
into our future to see how Wi-Fi fits into it. Zaga's report is available for
several thousand dollars at the Mind Commerce Web site at
www.mindcommerce.com and it is well worth the fee. I managed to get an
excerpt of this article and to talk with Zaga between her trips around the
world.
I first met Zaga when she sent me an e-mail saying, "I just devoured your
articles in Wireless Business & Technology and had to write you immediately."
That certainly got my attention since I love fan mail (hint: write to me).
Then sh... (more)
This list is the culmination of one of Ron's lifetime ambitions. His
obsession with the word lists began in school, where he participated in 60
words for the '60's, but, alas, dropped out. He created the group that
produced 70 words for the '70's, although he was babbling incoherently when
it was finally released (in 1983). In the '80's he was too busy making money
on junk bonds to worry about lists. And, of course, too busy spending it all
on tech stocks in the '90's. Perhaps this millennial list will cure his
fixation. We hope not.
Every geek knows that the 21st century starte... (more)
If you're interested in Palm's Tungsten W handheld, you've already seen the
blizzard of reviews about this unique new device. And, if you've read any of
my articles you'll know that I love this handheld. At the first Palm
Developer Conference in 1998 I got to play with a pre-release Palm VII. I
told the Palm rep, "Put an earphone on this so I can make phone calls and I'm
in heaven."
Of course it takes a bit more to put me in the heavenly plane these days, but
I like it a whole lot. Here's a summary of what I've read and experienced:
It's a really sweet combination of a cellphone a... (more)
Vivato's recent funding announcement has resparked the ongoing debate of,
"Are we blowing up another tech bubble with Wi-Fi?" I believe a better
question is, "Why is Wi-Fi so 'fundable'?" as investors are wont to say. The
pat answer is, wireless networking has the potential to be the "next big
thing." Of course no one is saying what that next big thing is because no one
really knows. In the interest of not only being a visionary, but a "practical
visionary," I'm going to go beyond empty statements like, "It's going to be
huge!" and imagine a killer application for Wi-Fi, right he... (more)
Two new products from DDH Software take us one step further from our
desktops, but is remote access really that useful?
DDH Software released two new programs recently, a Runtime for their
venerable HandBase software and a truly new application, Mobile TS, which
allows Palm users to connect to Windows PCs and control them from anywhere.
I'll save the Mobile TS fireworks for last and start with the new version of
HandBase, since my programming career started (and ended) with dBASE, one of
the original database programs for microcomputers.
HandBase is the popular award-winning rela... (more)
Ron Dennis, Wi-Fi editor of Wireless Business & Technology, is a technology pioneer and a Palm fanatic. He's now reporting for WBT from the islands of Hawaii. He cofounded Livemind, Inc., led the third-party developers group at AOL, and created AOL's Web Hosting Service and Software Greenhouse. He has also guided several Internet startups.
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