September 10, 2007
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Editor’s note:
Simplify, simplify, simplify

What's New:
• Early iPhone buyers get $100 credit
• The death of traditional security

Executive Analysis:
• Palm Foleo is no more
• HP smartphone flood

Also Noted:
Microsoft iPhone alternative?; Labs bringing faster wireless;
And much more...

Hands-On Wireless:
• Motorola strives to be boring
• Nine wireless companies of the future

Both of these announcements speak to vendors acknowledging a market in which most customers know what they want--the simplest, most affordable platform delivering their preferred mix of functions. It's a great place for the market to be and will allow more and more companies to simplify their strategy while serving the needs of the customer. -Curtis

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What’s New

1. Early iPhone buyers get $100 credit

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It's been an up-and-down kind of Summer for iPhone owners. The ups include being early adopters of one of the coolest smartphones ever. The downs include curiously fragile screens, 200-page billing statements, and Apple announcing a serious price ($200) cut less than three months after the introduction. Apple can't do much about phone book-sized bills, but they do feel your pain on the price cut, and have announced a $100 credit available for existing iPhone owners at Apple stores. It might not have been necessary, but it is going a long way toward helping Apple fans feel that the company really is something special.

For more on the early-buyer iPhone credit:
- see this DailyTechRag article

What is Steve Jobs thinking?
- check out this editorial for some thoughts on the matter

2. The death of traditional security

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A wireless network really is different from the traditional cabled network. It's so different that analysts from Forrester are saying that traditional security is no longer up to the job of protecting your network. What will the future bring? The analysts have two terms that they say will define networks (and security) in the future. The first is "deperimeterization", a fancy way of acknowledging that mobile users and remote hotspots have made the traditional concept of a network perimeter meaningless. Next is "desktop virtualization," which means that your users won't run their desktop apps on the mobile device--they'll simply use it as a window into an enterprise desktop hosted on servers inside the corporate network. The result should be a network that doesn't require users to be security experts to keep corporate data safe.

For more on traditional security's death:
- read the analysts' views at eWeek.com

Executive Analysis

1. Palm Foleo is no more

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It was a short season for the Foleo. As Summer began, Palm trumpeted the development of the wireless companion. Last week, as the days grew shorter and the air more crisp, a Palm blog announced the end of the Foleo just days before it was to have shipped. The reasons given for the Foleo's demise were sensible (Palm's need to focus on a single, new OS and platform), and the door was left open for a future Foleo, but enterprise Palm users should plan on another companion in the meantime.

For more on the end of the Foleo:
- see this story from DailyTechRag

2. HP smartphone flood

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HP's been known for it's very capable iPaq for quite a while, but it's not a company that you usually think of when it comes time to buy a smartphone. HP wants to change that, and it's starting with a pair of new smartphones that bear the name iPaq. The iPaq 600 and iPaq 900 come with the operating system and features customers have come to expect from HP and adds new features like large screens and a navigation wheel (on the iPaq 600). These aren't necessarily hip competitors to the iPhone, but they represent HPs hope for the smartphone future.

For more on the two new iPaqs:
- see this DailyTechRag article

> Microsoft iPhone alternative? Article

> Labs bringing faster wireless. Article

> New pricing for iPhones. Article

> Hospitals make wireless easier. Article

Hands-On Wireless

1. Motorola strives to be boring

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It's not the sort of statement you'll hear a lot of corporate executives making nowadays: "I believe we can right our ship by being boringly consistent." That's the word from Motorola's CFO, though, and he seems convinced that it's the best path for the communications-equipment giant. What does it mean? Analysts say it means a company that spends less time looking for the next Razr and more time making sure that their product line is complete, with phones for every stratum of the market. It could also mean more Motorola options for enterprise wireless managers looking for a single vendor for all their wireless needs.

For more on Motorola's boring future:
- read the full report at ITWorld

2. Nine wireless companies of the future

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It's easy enough to pick wireless partners today: look for the big wireless service providers and major  equipment vendors (with names like Motorola, Nokia, LG, or Samsung) and you can have a safe deployment history in most cases. What about companies for future partnerships? This article features nine companies you should keep on your radar screen. If names like a la Mobile, emoze, Formotus, and Kore Telematics aren't familiar, you have some homework to do.

For more on up and coming companies:
- read the in-depth report at NetworkWorld

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