New Syncing Technologies Better Connect PDAs, PCs
Palm’s Grillo says that in the next few years, handheld devices will be able to hold a gigabyte or more of data and that high-speed wireless connectivity will become the norm. Small devices will be able to hold reams of enterprise data, and synchronization will become a background task?from the moment the device is turned on, it will continually synchronize with corporate systems, he says.
Mobile Insight’s Scannell agrees. "All the interim solutions you see today will go away. As we move to always-on wireless synchronization, all devices will continually update each other, with content and applications constantly being shuttled back and forth," he says. "You’ll be able to roam as well, so that if you’re in an 802.11 wireless network in an airport and you leave that bubble of connectivity, you’ll automatically hook back up via cellular. That’s the goal, anyway."
How long it will take to happen, though, is anyone’s guess. Until then, CIOs will have to wrestle with the day-to-day realities of building their own bridges among these islands of information. n
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