.KEYWORD mobileshow
.FLYINGHEAD TRADESHOW GUIDE
.TITLE Ashley’s mobile tradeshow guide
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.AUTHOR Ashley Parsons
.SUMMARY In the next few weeks, there are quite a few tradeshows coming up that feature mobile computing. If you’re interested in goin’ mobile and want to take a field trip, you should check out Ashley’s guide. Since we’re talking San Diego and New Orleans, among other great places, you might want to check this out.
Ashley Parsons coordinates a tradeshow list for Synchrologic, a company who makes mobile computing software. In the next few weeks, there are quite a few tradeshows coming up that feature mobile computing. If you’re interested in goin’ mobile and want to take a field trip, you should check out Ashley’s guide.
Since there are tradeshows in San Diego and New Orleans, among other cities, we strongly recommend you start working on your company right away. If you need an official excuse (and we’re not talking about partying down in New Orleans, we’re really not), just tell them that these are all strongly recommended by Windows CE Power Magazine. Now, if you manage to go because of that flimsy excuse, you owe us all a box of cookies. And, please, none of those cheap, store-bought, cellophane-wrapped hard and dry cookies. We expect home baking for these excursions.
.H1 Microsoft Windows CE Tours
Microsoft is hosting the last three shows in a series of what was originally six Microsoft Windows CE Tours (and is now seven, with the late addition of a Toronto show location). These shows started back in the fall of ’99 and are one-day seminars, free of charge, focusing on the Windows CE operating system. There will be speakers and approximately 25 exhibitors per seminar presenting their own products and services that address applications ranging from data collection to telephony and everything in-between.
Here are the dates and locations:
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.BULLET March 14, 2000 (Boston, MA)
.BULLET March 28, 2000 (Chicago, IL)
.BULLET June 7, 2000 (Toronto, Ontario)
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For more information, visit http://www.rtcgroup.com/windowsce.
.H1 Gartner’s Mobile/Remote Access Network and Platform Challenges
Here’s your excuse to go to New Orleans for a real, live business reason. Can you say junket?
GartnerGroup recently renamed their Remote Access Show to Gartner’s Mobile/Remote Access Show. With the explosive growth of mobile workforces and the challenges this places on IT Managers, Gartner’s analysts will be speaking on how to support a mobile infrastructure. This is typically a smaller, more focused show than Gartner’s typical IT shows. There are usually about twelve corporate sponsors and ten companies demonstrating their products and services.
Ok, that’s all fine and dandy. But once again, we’re forced to remind you: New Orleans. Think of it…New Orleans on an expense account. So you have to listen to analysts for a little while and just because it costs a whopping $1,395 for Gartner clients and $1,695 for non-Gartner clients, that’s no reason not to hit your travel office up right now for tickets. After all, it is New Orleans.
If you’re interested in going, act fast. This conference takes place at the New Orleans Marriott from March 20-22, 2000. If you want more information or want to sign up, visit http://www.gartner.com/remote/usa.
.H1 Mobile Internet 2000
This seminar is hosted by IBC USA Conferences. It aims its attention on the wireless networks and applications being developed for data-oriented devices such as laptops and PDAs. This seminar will be of interest to wireless carriers, as well as to companies developing applications for laptops and PDAs.
If you want to go (and remember, San Diego in March is quite nice to those of you in the northern climates), get hopping. The seminar runs from March 27-30, 2000 and is hosted at the Westin Horton Plaza in San Diego, CA. You might want to start saving your pennies pretty soon. The seminar costs from $999 to $1,999.
For more information, visit http://www.ibcusa.com/mobileinternet. Be aware, however, that the Web page for this event loads quite slowly.
.H1 Gartner ITxpo Spring 2000
If you couldn’t snare a ticket to San Diego for Mobile Internet 2000, here’s another chance. The Gartner ITxpo attracts a hodge-podge of vendors demonstrating their cutting-edge technology. Like the Gartner Fall ITxpo, visitors include high-level IT decision makers looking for the latest and greatest solutions. The Spring show isn’t quite as big as the Fall show, but it certainly covers everything.
If you want to attend the entire show, it’ll set you or your company back $2,395 if you’re a Gartner client or $2,895 if you’re not. Now don’t go dropping dead out of sticker shock just yet. If you want to see the ITxpo only, it’s a mere $100. The show’s April 10-13, 2000 at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego. For more information, check out http://www.gartner.com/symposium.
[It has been a while, but the last time I was in San Diego, I had the best prime rib I’ve ever had at the San Diego Hilton, of all places. Also, although it’s a trip, definitely try to check out the San Diego Wild Animal Park. You’ll see some amazing animals and I, personally, found it far more impressive than the San Diego Zoo. — DG]
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.H1 Product availability and resources
If you want to attend the free Windows CE Tour in either Boston, Chicago, or Toronto, visit http://www.rtcgroup.com/windowsce.
To attend Gartner’s Mobile/Remote Access Show in New Orleans, visit http://www.gartner.com/remote/usa.
To attend Gartner’s ITxpo in San Diego, visit http://www.gartner.com/symposium.
To go to Mobile Internet 2000, also in San Diego, visit http://www.ibcusa.com/mobileinternet.
.H1 Bulk reprints
Bulk reprints of this article (in quantities of 100 or more) are available for a fee from Reprint Services, a ZATZ business partner. Contact them at reprints@zatz.com or by calling 1-800-217-7874.
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.BIO Ashley Parsons coordinates a tradeshow list for Synchrologic, a developer of Internet-based mobile computing software for the enterprise.
