Survey: Porn to Boost Wireless Web Services
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Mobile phone users around the world  will spend $1 billion a year on pornography sent to their  handsets by 2008, which may boost the wireless services sector  much as it fueled growth in the fixed-line Internet, a market  research firm said.
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Early Internet entrepreneurs envisioned a day when consumers would devour short bites of entertainment on their computer screens delivered over the Internet by fat broadband pipes. When the companies failed, executives blamed it on ...
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By Steve Lawson's  HERE'S an interesting one... Webaroo.  It's a free download service that allows you to take large portions of the internet with you on your travels.
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As goes pornography, so goes  technology. The concept may seem odd, but history has proven  the adult entertainment industry to be one of the key drivers  of any new technology in home entertainment. Pornography  customers have been some of the first to buy home video  machines, DVD players and subscribe to high-speed Internet.
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A new device capable of detecting and throttling encrypted BitTorrent traffic hits the shelves. The game of cat and mouse between ISPs and BitTorrent users continues. In Monkey Bites.
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Have your say Reader Poll Modern wireless network technologies for remote access are increasingly offering greater bandwidth. But is it just speed that's important when considering the requirements of different types of application from a mobile connectivity point of view?â¦
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After a call for a boycott from a Roman Catholic archbishop, hundreds of complaints and one lawsuit from customers, the Canadian phone company Telus abandoned a service that allowed cellphone customers to buy soft-core pornography. Telus, based in Vancouver, began offering pornography to its five million wireless customers along with more conventional downloads like music and ring tones last month. Jim Johannson, a spokesman for the company, said the decision to end the service was based in part on âcustomer feedback.â Mr. Johannson, however, did not rule out a change in policy. âWe operate in a really, really competitive business,â he said. âIn this environment, itâs very difficult to predict the future.â.
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Sep. 02, 2004. Forget finding an Internet cafe. For less than what it costs to build a small library, city officials believe they can turn all 135 square miles of Philadelphia into the world&#39;s largest wireless Internet hot spot.
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Web 2.0 is moving into your neighborhood, as more companies vie to deliver local content to your cellphone
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Long-range wireless networking technology draws market interest as low-cost service.
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Forget Internet2. The National LambdaRail is the most ambitious network research project going. But can it save the optical networking industry?
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Mama weer all leeches now One in three mobile workers worldwide routinely hijack wireless connections, according to a survey commissioned by the US National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) and Cisco.â¦
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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is considering a new effort called the "W3C Mobile Web Initiative," that will seek to make Web access from mobile devices such as mobile phones and PDAs (personal digital assistants), as simple, easy and convenient as desktop Web access.
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Think of it as Wi-Fi on steroids.  On its way to U.S. living rooms and maybe even automobiles is a  new type of high-speed wireless connection that promises  downloaded data rates of up to 1 gigabit per second -- roughly  18.5 times the speed of Wi-Fi -- to personal computers and  other devices.
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(Source: Palm) This whitepaper recaps the findings of a Harris Interactive market research project on wireless email solutions.  Online quantitative research was conducted in the U.S. among 959 firms and targeting individuals who play a key role in wireless email solution purchase and deployment decisions. Respondents were representative of a wide variety of company sizes including mid-size businesses, enterprises, and large enterprises.  The paper, commissioned on behalf of Palm, discusses the trends, benefits, and barriers of wireless emails solutions and deployment decisions.
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Researchers in China & rsquo;s forest begin to reap the benefits of WiFi. Also: NASA builds what it believes is the worlds fastest computer & hellip;. Sony releases new portable Playstation & hellip;. and more.
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Mobile Internet Devices will surf, play music and video, take calls and pictures--and more.