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THINK IN TERMS OF "OCCASIONAL CONNECTIONS"
These days, it seems as if companies are just aching to go wireless. As more and more executives see the benefits of a workforce that has access to critical business information at any time and place, IT departments are increasingly being called upon to form and execute mobile and wireless initiatives. Indeed, IT spending on these initiatives is expected to grow to $83 billion by 2005, according to IDC - and that's just the beginning.
Unfortunately, mobile initiatives don't always achieve a positive return. As with any new technology, the general lack of experience in the industry is bound to lead to pitfalls. The biggest pitfall may be the fact that the request-response architecture that has worked so well on the Web no longer holds up once employees take applications into the field where connectivity is intermittent at best. That's why Intel is sponsoring the Mobilized Software Initiative, a collaboration between the computing and communications...