| FRIDAY - JULY 27, 2007 - ISSUE NO. 271 |
Dear Friends of Wireless Messaging, There was considerable interest in last week's report on the PAD (Personal Annunciation Device) developed by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). A short description of the PAD from their web site follows. There are also some links to more information about licensing this technology for commercial use. Also anyone wanting me to help with this process is welcome to send me an e-mail so we can discuss this possibility. Please send me more comments about this product. I am very interested in your views of the commercial viability of the PAD. I think it has the potential to catch-on, like the "Post-it® Note." This week, another reader asked for details about how many people read this newsletter. As most of you know, the Public-US Subscriber Paging Industry has dropped from a high of approximately 45 million subscribers in 1999 to approximately 6 million now. Naturally readers of this newsletter have decreased by a corresponding amount. Unfortunately the advertising has decreased as well. Some of this decrease has been political and malicious — the rest of it was the natural result of our industry's decline. My usual response is to say something like this:
If that sounds like I am trying to vague — it is not meant to. Since I would really like to get more advertising to replace recent losses, I am publishing a very detailed report — immediately following — on my website traffic during the 07/17/2007 to 07/23/2007 time period (last week). You may have heard people talking about how many "hits" certain web sites get, but this is misleading since hits include every graphic on a web page as well as the text itself. This page, for example, would register 80-some hits when you read it. A much better indicator is "sessions" which are "a series of hits to a web site over a specific period of time by one visitor." The following report from Urchin Software (a Google company) shows 5,631 sessions in the one week of the analysis. So I think this is a good number, considering the current state of the wireless messaging industry. I am certain that most of our industry's decision makers read it regularly, Several companies have told me that they want to expand their advertising or begin advertising here. Now would be a good time to do just that. All you have to do is send me the text that you want to include and a graphic or two, and I will be happy to work up a draft advertisement for your approval. Now on to more news and views. |
A new issue of The Wireless Messaging Newsletter gets posted on the web each week. A notification goes out by e-mail to subscribers on most Fridays around noon central US time. The notification message has a link to the actual newsletter on the Internet. That way it doesn't fill up your incoming e-mail account. There is no charge for subscription and there are no membership restrictions. Readers are a very select group of wireless industry professionals, and include the senior managers of many of the world's major Paging and Wireless Data companies. There is an even mix of operations managers, marketing people, and engineers—so I try to include items of interest to all three groups. It's all about staying up-to-date with business trends and technology. I regularly get readers' comments, so this newsletter has become a community forum for the Paging, and Wireless Data communities. You are welcome to contribute your ideas and opinions. Unless otherwise requested, all correspondence addressed to me is subject to publication in the newsletter and on my web site. I am very careful to protect the anonymity of those who request it. NOTE: This newsletter is best viewed at screen resolutions of 800x600 (good) or 1024x768 (better). Any current revision of web browser should work fine. Please notify me of any problems with viewing. This site is compliant with XHTML 1.0 transitional coding for easy access from wireless devices. (XML 1.0/ISO 8859-1.) Anyone wanting to help support The Wireless Messaging Newsletter can do so by clicking on the PayPal DONATE button above. Everyone is welcome to use the Pagerman logo “for the good of the paging industry.” A slightly higher resolution copy is available for download here. | |||||||||||
WWW.BradDye.com Traffic Study
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| Report: Summary - braddye.com | |
| Date Range: 07/17/2007 - 07/23/2007 | |
| Total Sessions: | 5,631.00 |
| Total Pageviews: | 7,638.00 |
| Total Hits: | 114,274.00 |
| Total Bytes Transferred: | 1.22 GB |
| Average Sessions Per Day: | 804.43 |
| Average Pageviews Per Day: | 1,091.14 |
| Average Hits Per Day: | 16,324.86 |
| Average Bytes Transferred Per Day: | 178.61 MB |
| Average Pageviews Per Session: | 1.36 |
| Average Hits Per Session: | 20.29 |
| Average Bytes Per Session: | 227.36 KB |
| Average Length of Session: | 00:03:28 |
| Summary: | The Summary shows totals and averages for Sessions, Pageviews, Hits, and Bytes for the currently selected Date Range. Visitors information is not shown here because it is only available when UTM visitor tracking is employed. |
| Calculation Methodology | |
| Session: | A series of Hits to your site over a specific period of time by one visitor. |
| Pageview: | A request to the web server by a visitor's browser for any web page; this excludes images, javascript, and other generally embedded file types. |
| Hit: | Any successful request to a webserver from a visitor's browser. |
| Bytes: | The quantity of network bandwidth used by the files requested during the selected Date Range. |
| Note: | Because Bytes numbers can be very large, abbreviations are used as appropriate, such as MB for megabytes (~millions of bytes). The average length of Session is displayed as hours:minutes:seconds. |
| Urchin 5 © 2004 Urchin Software Corporation | |
| AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PAGING CARRIERS |
AAPC to send representatives to the Association of Public Safety Communications Officials International (APCO) Convention in August. APCO is the world’s largest organization dedicated to public safety communications, their members consist of emergency call centers, law enforcement agencies, emergency medical services, fire departments, forestry services, and others who work with communications systems that safeguard the world’s citizens. AAPC will be sharing a booth with one of our vendor members, Critical Response Systems to help promote the benefits of utilizing paging technology to this targeted audience. AAPC working with you to advance your business and the paging industry!
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What might have been The Nortel team that designed it more than a decade ago says their machine could have become a combination BlackBerry/iPhone, if a lot of things had gone right. They did not. Associate Business editor James Bagnall examines the strange tale of the Orbitor that never achieved liftoff. The Ottawa Citizen Thirteen years ago — an eon in high-tech terms — a small group of psychologists, industrial designers and engineers invented the future at Nortel. The result can be seen today in a stunning 18-inch by 24-inch photo that hangs on the home office wall of John Tyson, the man who ran Nortel's Corporate Design Group for many years. The image is a highly stylized, eerie evocation of Apple's more recent ads. Inside the frame, a female model holds a working prototype of a phone that slides out to produce a full keyboard and a large screen. Touching different parts of the device with a stylus or finger transforms the device into a pager, voice mailbox, wireless phone or fax machine.
The device was called Orbitor and had Nortel played things differently, it could have engineered a brilliant exit from the great telecom crash of 2001. Instead, a pair of high-tech icons — California-based Apple and Research in Motion of Waterloo, Ont. — exploited the opportunities that Nortel and so many others missed. They are now establishing just how valuable the franchises are. Paced by sales of the iPod (music downloads) and the iPhone (wireless Internet phone), Apple has seen its market value surge nearly 160 per cent from a year ago to $121 billion (all figures U.S.) At the same time, RIM is riding a surge in popularity for its BlackBerry devices -- which make possible e-mail on the go. The company's share price has soared 264 per cent from a year ago, giving it a market capitalization of almost $44 billion. In sharp contrast, Nortel's one-year return has been a relatively pedestrian 18 per cent, for a market value of $11 billion. The question of how Nortel missed the mark fascinates because there is no doubt among the Orbitor's designers that they had the smarts to beat Apple in particular to the iPhone. "Yes, absolutely!" Mr. Tyson said in response to a query about whether Nortel could have managed the trick. Certainly the technical and design talent was there. Consider, for instance, the experience of Don Lindsay who developed the Orbitor's user interface — the combination of software and design that makes the device easy to use. Mr. Lindsay, a protege of Mr. Tyson, left Nortel in 1994 to join Apple. There, he hired the team that created the Macintosh computer's OS X operating system. Although Mr. Lindsay now works at Microsoft, where he run a design group at Microsoft Live Labs, his influence at Apple would remain profound. His OS X team created the user interface for the iPhone. Of course, the same group might not have produced a similar product within Nortel, where the R&D culture revolves around the heavy-duty technology that lies at the core of large communications networks. However, Ken Blakeslee, the former vice-president of business development who led the Orbitor project, recently shed light on just how close Nortel came to selling the Orbitor concept to one of Europe's biggest cellular phone operators. "We had 80 finished units going into market and service delivery trials with CellNet (now O2 Telefonica) in 1998," noted Mr. Blakesee, who advises wireless carriers through his British-based consulting firm WebMobility Ventures. "We were so close to bringing (Orbitor) to life," he said. What happened? The short answer is that Nortel's top brass briefly considered the enormous risks involved and took a pass. A host of factors went into this decision, not least of which was the company's relative inexperience with wireless technology and consumer electronics. Nortel acquired much of the wireless know-how for Orbitor through its 1992 purchase of a stake in France-based Matra. But this investment was aimed more at acquiring the wireless technology that drives GSM-standard networks -- and not the consumer-style electronics typical of mobile handsets that link to the networks. "We simply could not design and manufacture cost competitive (handsets)," former CEO John Roth noted this week in response an e-mail. "Nortel's circuit design skills were in large systems and not in consumer products." The wireless services industry was also in a state of flux in the late 1990s. There were three prevailing technical standards for wireless networks (TDMA, GSM and CDMA) and the industry was moving rapidly to third-generation systems that offered higher speeds. Finland-based Nokia and Chicago-based Motorola were generally considered the favorites to win in the transition. Nokia has a superlative logistics system, along with the ability to design attractive, low-cost handsets. Motorola at the time had the advantage of manufacturing its own semiconductors, which also contributed to lower cost phones. Mr. Tyson noted that Nortel faced an additional problem. Its engineers at the time were used to designing products that had a life expectancy of five years or more. With Orbitor, they would have to create fresh models every 18 months — even faster later on. This would demand another level of productivity from the designers. Even so, the decision to build the initial Orbitor prototype was fairly easy. "You can do wonders with temporary tools to create prototypes for customer trials," said Mr. Tyson. "The key, though, is to commit tens of millions of dollars to go to high-volume manufacturing." The Orbitor group was forced to fight other units within Nortel for these kinds of resources. And it lost. It had taken nearly four years to move from concept to customer trials early in 1998. Then followed a period of hiatus as Nortel considered whether to move to the next stage and begin high-volume manufacturing. Finally, in 2001, as the telecom crash got underway, Nortel killed the entire 120-strong Corporate Design Group — the unit that concerned itself with ergonomics and designs that appealed to the eye and hand (as distinct from Nortel's thousands of electronic engineers and network design specialists). For senior Nortel managers, killing the group was an easy call. The company was losing buckets of money and the group was not contributing to the revenues. It was a matter of survival. Mr. Tyson, who had retired in 2000, believes it was a false economy. "They really underestimated the value of the unit," he said. The reason: The Group came as close to anything else within Nortel to replicating the freewheeling design culture at Apple — perhaps because Mr. Tyson's charges spent their days tweaking devices used by consumers, not telephone engineers. No doubt, Nortel's executives saw in Nokia's dominance in the field of wireless handsets confirmation of their decision not to back Orbitor. Yet, that's only part of the story. Nokia, after all, simply stuck to its strengths. There was plenty of room, it turned out, in a couple of very lucrative new niches. Had Nortel committed to Orbitor, there's no telling what direction the design effort might have gone. Nortel, an early pioneer in the use of e-mail in its internal communications, could have challenged Research in Motion. And Mr. Roth's company certainly had enough time to produce an iPhone to rival that of Apple. In fact, it's worth examining the state of RIM and Apple in 2001, the year Nortel killed its Corporate Design Group, along with Orbitor. RIM, for instance, had very little heft in 2001 when it posted sales of just $221 million — while Nortel the same year recorded a lofty $17.5 billion in revenues. RIM was completely focused on wireless data technology, and growing swiftly. Nevertheless, it remained vulnerable. Company prospects stalled in fiscal 2003 and RIM co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie would spend the next few years persuading the planet's biggest carriers to equip themselves with BlackBerry servers. This is what laid the groundwork for RIM's recent explosion in new sales. At Apple, the prospects actually looked bleak in 2001. Company revenues had sunk to $5.4 billion — the lowest since the late 1980s and only half the level of 1995. But 2001 also marked the debut of the iPod. This is the music carrying device that last year for the first time accounted for more revenues at Apple than the sale of computers. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs followed this coup last month with the introduction of the iPhone, further pushing the company into the realm of consumer electronics. It is far from clear that the iPhone will be a commercial success. The design is undeniably beautiful but it works so far only on AT&T's network. But that's the thing about Apple — you can be sure its technocrats are resolving the issue of coverage even as the firm's overactive design group is coming up with fresh models. Apple saw an opportunity and went for it, fully confident in the ability of its designers to measure up. When Nortel closed Mr. Tyson's design group in 2001, it stuck to what it knew best — the complex networks that allow the BlackBerry and iPhone to function. Nortel has been a player in the industry long enough to appreciate this may yet prove to be the right call. It's just difficult to believe amid the noise generated by a pair of firms that were mere pipsqueaks when Nortel got out of their way. © The Ottawa Citizen 2007 |
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Personal Annunciation Device The invention is described as both the means to provide alternate notification and the ability to receive the notification in security areas. The means to provide notification is made by interfacing the detection signals that are represented in an alarm panel or Emergency Notification System SCADA by a Remote Terminal Unit to a paging terminal. The means to receive the signal is accomplished through the PAD receivers. Features The ability to provide remote receive-only emergency notification independent of detection circuitry for accident condition located through out a specified area Ability to provide and recognize highly reliable coded signal to a receiver (one test, one alarm) from a multiplicity of fixed detection locations. Ability to provide automatic power on/off to PAD receivers by Active RFID as an individual enters and leaves the required areas through a portal system. Ability to provide a robust receiver with no external controls, buttons or pre-select capability that could defeat system. Ability to provide uniform non-defeating alarm for same alert condition. Ability to provide automatic and redundant self-checking, low battery, low signal alternating tone. Ability to provide notification of event in specific areas. Ability to provide a wireless transmission either directly or indirectly with detection instrumentation to transmission protocols. Ability to provide an alternate notification scheme. Ability to be integrated into a personal identification badge. Benefits The ability to provide immediate alert notification in specific areas where receivers are energized. Inventors
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Source: Y-12 National Security Complex Available Technologies — Partnerships
More info on the PAD and licensing:
www.y12.doe.gov/business/techtransfer/abstract.php?disclno=1300002048
www.y12.doe.gov/business/techtransfer/
www.y12.doe.gov/business/techtransfer/licensing.php
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Microsoft Authorizes Cutting-Edge Wi-Fi Technology Licensing Agreement for Companies and Entrepreneurs that Want to Tap the Billion Dollar Wi-Fi Marketplace 7/26/07 — To spur commercial development of two mature Wi-Fi technologies invented by its Networking Research Group, Microsoft is now offering intellectual property (IP) licenses to entrepreneurial-spirited companies capable of deploying them as viable products or services for the billion-dollar-plus Wi-Fi marketplace. "Intellectual property generated by Microsoft can turn into opportunities for others," says Louis Carbonneau, General Manager for the IP Licensing Group at Microsoft. "Our research labs generate more IP than our product groups can absorb." "Right now, our goal is to see our new Wi-Fi technologies around RTLS and hot spots deployed as great new products or services for businesses or consumers. Companies that license our IP have fabulous new opportunities to gain access to best of breed IP and the cachet of deploying technologies coming out of our renowned Microsoft Research Labs. We can help companies enter new markets or expand current lines of business," adds Carbonneau. The following two Wi-Fi technologies have enormous commercial potential as they both sit squarely in two very fast-growth markets. Microsoft's RADAR First, RADAR—an indoor real-time location system (RTLS) that's optimized for Wi-Fi but can be used in any wireless network—can be deployed to guide people through large buildings, to keep track of unauthorized individuals within a high-security environment, and to locate equipment within large premises. Cost effectiveness is one of this technology's chief selling points. The WLAN infrastructure that already exists inside many businesses can be used to support RADAR. In general, since RADAR is completely software-based and uses existing wireless access points (APs), there are no new hardware installation requirements. While a user with a Wi-Fi enabled device wanders through a building that supports a wireless RF LAN, the signal strengths that the device measures from the building's wireless APs vary depending on its location. RADAR measures signal strength at the receiver and transmitter. RADAR's precision in RF profiling serves to map out environmental objects and different signal strengths throughout the indoor area. This capability rests on two breakthroughs by Microsoft researchers: the first involves the use of advanced algorithms that can locate a wireless device to within one-and-a-half meter; and the second involves the newly created system called LOCADIO, which uses probabilistic modeling to overcome noise distortion when measuring Wi-Fi signals so that the final location answer is more accurate. LOCADIO also takes account of a motion model to make RADAR cognizant of walking speeds, and it creates a model of feasible paths within a floor plan, since people don't walk through walls. These two models work together to calculate the data so that it makes sense. For example, it may look like the user followed a feasible path, but the speed that the user is traveling at may look unreasonable. Under this scenario, RADAR will make appropriate adjustments to improve the final calculations to determine the precise location. Of course, RADAR does an excellent job of locating fixed assets as well. Microsoft's licensing package for RADAR includes software code, documentation, know how and close to 40 U.S. and International patents, both issued and pending. Microsoft's CHOICE Second, CHOICE—a Wi-Fi network system that is also available for Microsoft IP licensing—can be leveraged by the licensee to deploy a new wireless "hot spot" service or to augment an existing Wi-Fi deployment. Because this network access system allows different service providers to offer separate and concurrent services to the same user, CHOICE's flexibility differentiates it from its competitors. The CHOICE system consists of five key technologies:
Microsoft's licensing package for CHOICE includes software code, documentation, know how and around 10 U.S. patents, most of which issued and some of which are considered to be fundamental in that space. |
Source: Broadband Wireless Exchange Magazine
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