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CTIA Wireless 2000. Santa Clara CA 16-18 October 2000. Overview. Wireless is very hot in US US-centric (handful of non-US companies). Directions of interest to CiTR. Wireless Application Platform Mobile Access to Corporate Data Content Aggregation Platform
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CTIA Wireless 2000 Santa Clara CA 16-18 October 2000
Overview • Wireless is very hot in US • US-centric (handful of non-US companies)
Directions of interest to CiTR • Wireless Application Platform • Mobile Access to Corporate Data • Content Aggregation Platform • Instant Messaging Tools, Platforms and Services • Location-aware Platforms • Voice Recognition Engines and Portals
Wireless Application Platform Two major methods being used: • Translation of existing HTML content into a wireless-based form. • Development support for building new wireless applications • Translation model is the most common • Translation won’t work in long term
Mobile Access to Corporate Data Paradigms: • Wireless access to “Outlook” • Synchronisation of PDAs • Wireless interface to group-ware products • Wireless Outlook and Synchronisation the most common.
Content Aggregation Platform • One-stop shop for content
Instant Messaging Tools, Platforms and Services • Very hot • Usually SMS-based
Location-aware Platforms • Broker for multiple carriers • Single API • Granularity still at cell tower level
Voice Recognition Engines and Portals • Most using 3rd party engines • Voice XML is becoming the interface standard • Increasing in importance as limitations of PDAs are realised
Network Technologies Lots of good stuff: • Un-licensed short-range fixed-wireless • Licensed medium-range fixed wireless • IP Mobility from fixed LAN to wireless WAN • Bluetooth very short range mobile wireless • Two-way paging systems
Specific Companies of interest • Voice recognition systems, • Alert and location products, • Personalization products, • GroupWare products
Voice recognition systems • PipeBeach’ SpeechWeb • VoiceGenie VoiceWeb • Conversa Conversation Server • Lucent’s Voice Browser
Alert and Location Products • Gravitate (Find Friends) • Sitraka (Actionable Alerts)
Personalization Products • ActiveInfo (ordering of choices)
GroupWare Products • Large number of MS Exchange-based • Few doing group collaboration • GroupSurf • BizOA