Microsoft's Plan to Dominate PDAs [in PC World]

Yet another reason to dive deeper into Radio:
"At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week, Microsoft chair Bill Gates introduced Windows CE .Net. The software is a variant of the Windows CE operating system and incorporates a version of Microsoft's .Net APIs and interfaces, called .Net Compact Framework. This framework software includes an array of Internet standards such as XML and Simple Object Access Protocol."

Must learn XML, RSS, and SOAP....

Sign me up now for Hitachi's "broadband PDA" with its 11-megabits per second 802.11b wireless LAN card. Is your library ready to provide services to this device?

And sadly, Palm is faltering yet again. Don't get me wrong -- I love Palm. But if they had come out with the Palm VIIc (wireless, color) as I predicted two years ago, or if they'd just get out of the hardware business, then they wouldn't be in this fine mess, Ollie.

T-spam: text messaging spam, coming to a cell phone near you.

Oracle acquires voice portal technology "In a move intended to give users voice-based, wireless access to a range of applications and databases, Oracle Monday announced the acquisition of voice portal company Indicast." [via IDG InfoWorld]

Hmmmm.  We use Oracle Portal at SLS for our databases and authentication, but it's been quite the learning curve.  I'm not a programmer, and I don't play one on TV.  We wanted to use it for our portal, too, but I'm exploring Frontier & Manila for this purpose instead.  Still, we'll keep Oracle for databases, etc., and the addition of VoiceXML could be very interesting!  Without thinking this through, there has to be a way to use VoiceXML with remote reference services.