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Managing Mobile Code

August 23, 1999
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In the early days of mobile computers and wireless networks you had to worry about every aspect of system development. Today an increasing number of services are available to make mobile devices almost instantly useful. The following table summarizes some of the current services. Note that some of these are resold by wireless carriers and are not directly available.

NAME OF SERVICE

DESCRIPTION

LOCATION

AirFlash

Wireless Internet portal. Services are sold to carriers, which resell the service.

http://www.airflash.com

Amika Now

Intelligent software agents for forwarding information.

http://www.amikanow.com

AvantGo

Delivers a variety of information to Palm and Windows CE devices.

http://avantgo.com

BlackBerry

Wireless access to Microsoft Exchange using a smart messaging device from Research In Motion.

http://www.blackberry.net

GoAmerica

Delivers Internet content and also resells wireless service.

http://www.goamerica.com

Las Vegas Digital Communications

Outsourced Exchange server with support for Windows CE and PalmPilot clients.

http://www.SyncThis.com

MicroStrategy

Financial information for mobile devices.

http://www.microstrategy.com

MSN Mobile

Wireless Internet portal from Microsoft.

http://mobile.msn.com

Palm.Net Service

Resource center for the Palm VII

http://www.palm.net

Roku

Personal and Internet content delivered to mobile devices.

http://www.roku.com/

Saraide.com

Wireless Internet portal. Services are sold to carriers, which resell the service.

http://saraide.com

Wireless Knowledge

Joint venture between Microsoft and Qualcomm to provide wireless access to private Exchange servers (and other services in the future). Services are sold to carriers, which resell the service.

http://www.wirelessknowledge.com

WolfeTech

Wireless Internet portal with support for multiple devices

http://www.wolfetech.com/

Yahoo

Source of mobile content as well as a place to buy mobile products and services.

http://mobile.yahoo.com/



Note that other large Internet portals, including America OnLine, are expected to soon start providing specialized content for mobile and wireless devices.

Peter Rysavy is president of Rysavy Research, a consulting firm that helps companies research, develop, and deploy communications technologies. He can be reached at rysavy@rysavy.com or http://www.rysavy.com/rysavy.



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