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Volume 4 Issue 5May 2000

Growth of Wireless Access To Internet Coming At Hurricane Force Speed

ComputerWorld

Over the past 12 months, The MASIE Center has been monitoring the growth of (and venture development for) wireless access to the Internet.

Imagine your cell phone or palm computer device able to make queries of the Internet for instant display. While we might start with queries for stock prices, access to e-mail and checking the time for the local movie theater, the commercial and e-learning opportunities are huge. Placing the power of the internet in a wearable and mobile device changes dramatically people's perceptions of how it can be used.

Already in Finland and Japan there are major uses of mobile Internet access underway. Commercial applications will include queries to ERP and other corporate databases as well as the use of a form of “instant messaging.”

Watch for coaching and other e-learning processes to rapidly expand to wireless internet access. A study recently released by International Data Corporation predicted that wireless “surfers” will outnumber wired ones by 2003.

Reprinted with permission from TechLearn Trends