Network World Count me among those who couldn't care less about shopping or investing through a Web-enabled mobile telephone. What that marketing prose means is you'll have a digital camera that plugs directly into a cell phone so you can send pictures to a hosted Web site where you and whomever can do with them what you will. And they may be right, too. That's a huge value proposition. It sure looks that way, at least on the face of it.
Time is money and all that.
But don't save me a seat on the wireless bandwagon just yet. FlashPoint couldn't tell me much of anything about prices, which makes even guessing at cost vs. benefit impossible. Also, the quality of the digital photos would have to be top-rate to be useful in most business contexts, including the one we practice here. Of course, we would like to get our photographs up on our Network World Fusion site in minutes rather than the hour to several hours it takes now. Their new jobs just won't have anything to do with selling ottomans over the Internet, though, because that was a crazy idea from the get-go.