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        ACM SIGMOBILE E-Mail Newsletter
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SIG Announcements:

SIGMOBILE announces candidate slate for upcoming elections:

  Chair
    David B. Johnson, Rice University 
    Thomas F. La Porta, The Pennsylvania State University 
  Vice Chair
    Nigel Davies, Lancaster University
    Jason Redi, BBN Technologies
  Treasurer
    Tracy Camp, Colorado School of Mines
    Suresh Singh, Portland State University
    Yongguang Zhang, HRL Laboratories, LLC
  Secretary
    Chiara Petrioli, Rome University 'La Sapienza'
    Raghupathy Sivakumar, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Latest News and Articles:

Wireless Auction Brings $974 Mln in Bids (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=7442770
§ion=news

Homeland Security To Test RFID Tags At U.S. Borders (InformationWeek)
http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=57703738

Thousands of Ford workers to go wireless (CNet)
http://news.com.com/Thousands+of+Ford+workers+to+go+wireless/2100-1037
_3-5549907.html?tag=cd.top

Wi-Fi helps blogs tune in to Bush inauguration (CNet)
http://news.com.com/Wi-Fi+helps+blogs+tune+in+to+Bush+inauguration/2100
-7351_3-5542406.html?tag=cd.top

Intel: Home sensors could monitor seniors, aid diagnosis
(ComputerWorld)
http://www.computerworld.com/networkingtopics/networking/story/0,10801,
98801,00.html

Cell phone market could reach 2 billion users in 2005 (CNN)
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/TECH/biztech/01/18/global.mobiles.reut/index.html

RFID's the Thing at Retail Show  (InternetNews)
http://www.internetnews.com/wireless/article.php/3461281

World's Third Largest Retailer Completes Warehouse RFID Implementation
(InformationWeek)
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=57702741

Cable Broadband to Lose Out Against Telcos -Survey (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=7397121


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Upcoming Conferences and Events endorsed by SIGMOBILE:

** SIGMOBILE members get the same low registration fee as
** members of the organization which is sponsoring the event.

WTS 2005
Wireless Telecommunications Symposium
April 28-30, 2005
Pomona, California
http://hwang.cisdept.csupomona.edu/wtsi2005/

MDM 2005
The Sixth Annual International Conference on Mobile Data Management
May 9-13, 2005
Ayia Napa, Cyprus, May 9-13, 2005
http://www2.cs.ucy.ac.cy/mdm05/

MobiHoc 2005
The Sixth ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and
Computing
May 25-28, 2005
Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA
http://www.sigmobile.org/mobihoc/2005

MobiSys 2005
The Third International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and
Services
June 6-8, 2005
Seattle, USA
http://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2005

NOSSDAV 2005
The Fifteenth Annual International Workshop on Network and Operating
Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video
June 12-14, 2005
Skamania, Washington, USA
http://www.nossdav.org/2005/

MobiCom 2005
The Eleventh Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and
Networking
Cologne, Germany
28 August-2 September 2005
http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2005/

SenSys 2005
The Third ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems
San Diego, California, USA
2-4 November 2005
http://sensys.csail.mit.edu/


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Latest Developer Headlines:

New Software Eases Development Of VoIP Hardware  (InformationWeek)
http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=57700953

Nokia Announces IP VPN Suite For Mobile Security (InformationWeek)
http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=57700517

Good Technology Mobilizes Enterprise Apps (InformationWeek)
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=57702639

Z-Wave Wants to Be Your Standard (InternetNews)
http://www.internetnews.com/wireless/article.php/3459471

Verizon taps Microsoft for mobile TV (ZDNet)
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-5552169.html?tag=zdfd.newsfeed

Smarter Mobile Java Framework Eyed for 2005 (iDevNews)
http://www.idevnews.com/TipsTricks.asp?ID=132