The IP-based system could support devices such as wireless heart monitors that constantly send a patient's data to a physician's computer screen via the Internet. Yet analysts say the Motorola-Cisco deal is vague and that it could be several years before it has an impact. As BT rolls out data services for cell phones and hand-held computers, it wanted users to see the familiar Microsoft interface, BT's Sohail Qadry says. Nextel and Netscape will collaborate on a way to let Nextel wireless phones access information on the Internet and get e-mail on the phones' tiny screens. Spyglass, which makes Web software for devices and appliances, unveiled Prism 2.2.
Most Web content is created to be displayed on a full-size computer screen.
Prism automatically converts a Web page into a format that would fit on the device accessing it. The Internet will hit the mobile world as it has hit the fixed-line world.