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...competition includes such telephone-equipment makers as Avaya, Citel Technologies, Mitel Networks, NEC, Nortel Networks and Siemens, which are all pitching products to move customers from traditional phone systems to a converged voice-and-data network. On the other side, network-equipment makers like Cisco and 3Com are suggesting that companies dump their phone providers entirely and go with IP-enabled systems and phones. IP start-ups like Pingtel, Shoreline Communications, Sylantro, Veraz Networks and Vertical Networks are pushing both sides to innovate...
...Internet appliance" is a buzz word that's been in bad odor since the demise of 3Com's ill-fated Audrey counter-top device. But the idea of a thin little computer that's good only for surfing the Web refuses to die. Now there's a new, low-cost surfing machine on the block, the Prismiq MediaPlayer ($250). More than just a Web browser that grabs news and weather reports from the Internet, this book-size gadget can also pull any songs, photos or videos that you've got stored on your PC's hard drive and play them...
...marketing-whiz partner Donna Dubinsky founded Palm Computing to bring handheld computers to the masses. Hawkins built a Palm Pilot prototype in his garage. After the electronic organizer became the shirt-pocket accessory of the 1990s, Palm was sold to U.S. Robotics, which in turn was snapped up by 3Com...
Indeed, after two years of embarrassing delays and technical glitches, Bluetooth consumer products are finally trickling out--mainly as cell phone, computer and PDA attachments made by companies such as 3Com, Palm, Compaq and Motorola. Simon Ellis, chairman of marketing for Bluetooth SIG, says 9 million Bluetooth chipsets will be shipped this year. But most Bluetooth-enabled consumer hardware will be out next year. Meanwhile, Bluetooth is earning its stripes in industrial applications. UPS, for instance, announced a $100 million plan last month to use Bluetooth in ring scanners for package sorters and Wi-Fi in its world-wide mobile...
...really want separate phone or cable lines, modems and complicated wiring," she says. That's partly, she adds, because most people don't yet know what wired homes are about or what the technology can do. Cisco is tackling that problem, joining hands with such multinational titans as 3Com, General Motors, Panasonic, Sears, Roebuck & Co. and Sun Microsystems to set up something called the Internet Home Alliance. The task: to sell the world on the benefits of the Internet lifestyle. Kristine Stewart, Cisco's director of market development, says the IHA will "spend a lot to develop this market." Consider...