I t's hard to find a newspaper or magazine that doesn't have at least one article that mentions mobile and Internet together. Software companies, such as AOL, Qualcomm, XYPoint, IBM, Oracle and Microsoft, are spending billions to assemble applications for mobile access to the Internet.
Estimates range from tens to hundreds of billions for potential mobile-service revenues.
Many mobile services only work, or at least work better, when the caller's location is known. This deceptively simple fact has given rise to a potential new industry. But the market for mobile location-specific technology is almost entirely speculative. The companies that can will likely succeed. The companies that can't will likely die.