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InfoWorld: The mobile enterprise comes of age

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* The mobile enterprise comes of age * Taking IT to the streets: 3G arrives * Ten hot handhelds for the road warrior * Wireless operators hate business * Mobilizing the enterprise * RIM, Good Technology push to get mobile e-mail rolling * NTT DoCoMo begins mass-market transition to 3G * 3G: Anything in it for businesses?

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THE MOBILE ENTERPRISE COMES OF AGE

As carriers finally roll out true 3G data services, IT has more options than ever to serve a wandering workforce

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TAKING IT TO THE STREETS: 3G ARRIVES

Call it the end of downtime -- all those offline hours wasted in useless conference sessions or at the airport -- and the start of rich applications accessible virtually anywhere. Whether your preferred device is a handheld or a notebook, in a year or so 3G networks will effectively reinvent how your mobile enterprise conducts business. http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=C12B0D:353CA35

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TEN HOT HANDHELDS FOR THE ROAD WARRIOR

Handhelds have come a long way from desktop synchronization with contacts, calendar, and task lists. An emerging class of business-oriented smartphones and PDAs -- typically running the BlackBerry, Palm, Symbian, or Windows Mobile 2003 operating system -- offer an amazing wealth of data capabilities, with browsing the Web and editing Word and Excel documents just the start. Throw in a new generation of mobile middleware, from vendors such as Good Technology, Intellisync, and Research In Motion, and they not only can link to familiar Lotus Domino/Notes and Microsoft Exchange servers, but can even take advantage of wireless extensions to back-end applications and services. http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=C12B09:353CA35

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WIRELESS OPERATORS HATE BUSINESS

Wireless operators love consumers. Consumers are bottomless wells of continuing revenue, boosting the operator's ARPU (average revenue per user) from text-messaging fees, ring-tone and game downloads, and now music and video. Businesses, on the other hand, are a pain. http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=C12B08:353CA35

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MOBILIZING THE ENTERPRISE

The applications and infrastructure necessary to build a managed mobile enterprise have rapidly matured. Two such products -- Extended Systems OneBridge Mobile Solutions Platform and Intellisync's Mobile Suite -- intrinsically push corporate e-mail and PIM (personal information manager) information to virtually any wired or wireless handheld device. And that's where many enterprises kick off their mobile strategy. http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=C12B0B:353CA35

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RIM, GOOD TECHNOLOGY PUSH TO GET MOBILE E-MAIL ROLLING

See correction at end of review http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=C12B0C:353CA35

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NTT DOCOMO BEGINS MASS-MARKET TRANSITION TO 3G

NTT DoCoMo will begin selling a new range of 3G handsets in Japan this month that will mark its first attempt to push 3G telephony into the mainstream of the cellular market. http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=C12B07:353CA35

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3G: ANYTHING IN IT FOR BUSINESSES?

HONG KONG -- Consumers have been promised a lot from the high-speed 3G (third generation) cellular networks being rolled out around the world, but is there much in it for businesses? http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=C12B0A:353CA35

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