The software, hardware and service package includes voice browsing, audio content aggregation and video streaming capabilities. However, the video streaming will require better bandwidth than current wireless networks offer. The platform is due in June, when a developer's kit for it will be available from Lucent's Web site. Cygent Inc., based in San Francisco, will run its eBusiness Support System in conjunction with Everypath Inc.'s Mobile Application Platform to demonstrate how companies and operators can render account and service information for mobile customers. Focus on employees But corporate IT managers planning to attend the show this year said they're more interested in serving their companies' employees than offering wireless services to customers.
Issues including security and application integration are also concerns.
Those are the issues that currently impact us the most. Our policy holders and clients currently have only a modest need to get information while mobile. On that front, Neomar Inc. will introduce its own platform for delivering corporate data to handheld devices, which will focus heavily on security, according to company officials in San Francisco. This raises very obvious security concerns. The Neomar Enterprise Server sits behind a corporation's firewall, communicating with employees' devices through a dedicated connection that eliminates the need to punch holes in the firewall, according to company officials.