Stories by Ephraim Schwartz

Don't blame the vendor

We've heard a lot of complaints from online shoppers about the various indignities they suffer at the hands of e-tailers. But it appears that these web retailers have a few beefs of their own about online shoppers.

Telcos prepare for pervasive marketing

When IBM coined the expression "pervasive computing" to describe the ability to access your information no matter where you are, they should have called it pervasive marketing, the ability of companies to access you wherever you are.

FBI phone tapping: Is it privacy or paranoia?

For all you kids out there who don't like scary stories, turn the set off now. I'm about to tell you of a monster that's coming this year. And the scariest thing is you can't hide.

Dell to launch next-generation e-business model

Dell Computer, the company credited with creating and validating the e-commerce model, will deliver another breakthrough business model next week when it announces its e-business marketplace at its Dell DirectConnect event in Austin, Texas.

Future cellphones will make PDAs obsolete

The way I see it , the current direction that wireless technology is taking will eliminate the need for PDAs (personal digital assistants), which include, but are not limited to, Palm handhelds, Handspring Visors, and Win CE Pocket PCs as we know them today. The mobile Web will pull a disappearing act as well.

WAP standard threatened by GeoWorks' patent claim

ust when everyone in the mobile industry thought it was safe to unite on a wireless standard - the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) - GeoWorks is claiming infringement on its intellectual property rights.

Microsoft banking on upgraded Windows CE

With a name change and new features, the spotlight is on Microsoft's last-ditch effort to find a winning combination for Windows CE in the sub-PC marketplace.

550MHz Pentium III Systems on the Way

System vendors will use the Intel announcement next week of a 550-MHz version of the Pentium III to add new desktops and workstations to their product lines.

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