CNET también está disponible en español. Don't show this again. The European cell phone operator plans to use Cisco's wireless gear to boost the number of its Wi-Fi hot spots in France. European mobile phone provider Orange is using gear from Cisco Systems to add another 1,500 Wi-Fi hot spots to its network in France by the end of 2004, Cisco said Wednesday. Orange currently has 3,000 hot spots in France, and it expects to bump that number to 4,500 by year's end. Cisco's mobile wireless technology will allow users to log on to Orange Wi-Fi networks directly without any changes to the setup of their computers. Using this technology, customers can access the network using any 2.5G, 3G or Wi-Fi device. At the same time, Orange will still be able to track the connection and bill for it appropriately. Orange will use Cisco's Service Selection Gateway, Subscriber Edge Services Manager, Content Services Gateway platforms and Catalyst 6500 switches. It will also use Cisco's 1700 modular access routers to connect Cisco Aironet wireless access points to the digital subscriber line network.

CNET también está disponible en español, Don't show this again, "We want to get this new kind of business model working," said Pertti Korhonen, chief technology officer of Nokia, Sun is tying Nokia's Snap Mobile products formation: bliss iphone case for game distributors more directly into its wireless toolkit, as the two companies hunt for more developers, To that end, Snap will be integrated with Sun's Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition, Wireless Toolkit and Sun Java System Content Delivery Server and Java Enterprise System..

The piecemeal approach to selling cell software is brand-new. Currently, once games, ring tones or other cellular applications are downloaded, they can't be added to or upgraded. However, analysts say it could be a while longer before the new approach becomes ready for the mass market. Nokia, Sun and others are still hammering out an official standard, called Java Specification Request 232, that will help manage all the different elements of the technology. In the meantime, software developers must either guess at the JSR, or delay parts of their work until 2005.

Cell phone game from Sega Mobile based on Sun's Java and Nokia's Snap could be beginning of new mobile software strategy, The game, developed by Sega Mobile and based on Nokia's Snap technology, is one of the first-ever cell phone programs to use both XML-based Web services, which allows formation: bliss iphone case software from different providers to work together, and "middleware," applications that sit between layers of other software and act as a translator, The game will make its debut this week at the JavaOne trade show here..

The one-two punch lets cell phones run several programs at once and download small amounts of software on the fly. Cell phone game players could pay a few dimes and download new scenarios for a favorite game, for example. Furthermore, it would allow IT managers to remotely diagnose and send a software cure to a problematic phone, Nokia executives demonstrated Wednesday during the show. Be respectful, keep it civil and stay on topic. We delete comments that violate our policy, which we encourage you to read. Discussion threads can be closed at any time at our discretion.