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THE INFOWORLD SCOOP NETWORKING EDITION

Monday, March 13, 2000

TOP NEWS STORIES

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WIRELESS APPLICATION PROTOCOL DRAWS CRITICISM

EVEN AS SUPPORT among vendors for the WAP (Wireless
Application Protocol) grows, so do claims that the wireless
transmission technology is insufficient -- and many of
those criticisms are coming from the WAP Forum's own
membership ranks.
David Rensin, CTO at Aether Systems, a handheld
infrastructure developer in Owings Mills, Md., ignited a
fierce debate at this week's Mobile Insights conference in
Palm Desert, Calif., when he declared that "WAP is dead."
For the full story:

http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/00/03/13/000313hnwap.xml

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GE AIMS AT REINVENTION AS NET TRADING PLATFORM
THIS WEEK the death knell began to sound for old-guard
proprietary networks when buttoned-down GE Information
Services announced plans to emerge as an open Internet
platform for e-procurement and trading communities.
In a major restructuring, GE Information Services' brand
was retired and the company split in two: GE Systems
Services will focus on back-end software and services to
migrate GE's current customer base from proprietary
networks to open systems, and GE Global Exchange Services
will implement e-commerce systems, including Internet-based
trading exchanges.

For the full story:

http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/00/03/13/000313hnge.xml

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BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE AND WEB DATA HARVESTING MERGE

IT'S AN IMPORTANT fact of doing e-business in the 21st
century that collecting customer data from the Web and
understanding your customers are not one and the same.
This distinction was highlighted by the announcement this
week that WebTrends, which produces software for collecting
Web-traffic data, will integrate business intelligence
vendor Hyperion's OLAP (Online Analytical Processing)
engine into its offerings.

For the full story:

http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/00/03/13/000313hnhood.xml

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IBM TAKING WIRELESS HIGHER INTO THE WEBSPHERE

STEPPING UP its strategy of linking enterprise-level data
with a raft of non-PC devices, IBM next week will deliver
a software suite designed to aid developers in spanning
and tying platforms together when writing applications.
The Websphere Everyplace Suite will sit in front of a Web
server, pulling up applications for desktop PCs. Using
IBM's transcoding technology, the software translates data
on the fly into a format that is readable by non-PC
devices.

For the full story:

http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/00/03/13/000313hnibmwireless.xml