I do think we are going to see more combinations as time goes by. What we are seeing now are the first attempts, and customers haven’t taken to those combination products as much as the...

It’s where they have to be to stay up with the cutting edge. It certainly does seem to be approaching the low-level desktop computer in terms of functions.

I don’t see a lot of fear. Certainly people hope that they’ll get it worked out.

The carriers are just shooting in the dark. They’re not really sure which services will take off, so they’ll try a little bit of everything.

This segment will account for the largest number of tags and labels from 2005 through 2010.

The areas that still lack cell coverage are spread out and sparsely populated.

If Wal-Mart wants to tag their cartons, I don’t think you’ll see many privacy advocates bothered by that.

In general, people haven’t really taken strongly to these combination products, including phone in a PDA and PDA in a phone,

When people are looking for a phone or PDA, generally they think of one product at a time, … It’s hard enough to wade through all the selections of one device. When you combine the...

By far the biggest RFID segment in coming years will be supply chain management. This segment will account for the largest number of tags/labels from 2005 through 2010.

RFID is going in the back door? Absolutely.

Base station component makers are being asked to make cheaper components that last as long or longer than previous versions, and to develop them when the unit volumes required aren’t fully known, because demand for...

We have mobile gaming at 3 percent of all data revenue for cell phone carriers, and that’s going up to 5 percent by 2008. I don’t think any carrier thinks games are going to make...

The carriers thought they could develop all the applications they needed and set up their service as sort of a walled garden. What’s happened is that hasn’t been effective enough and carriers are realizing that...

[Spectrum] is like a highway, … You may not have the cars on it at the time, but you will soon.

In the U.S., with just a few transmitters at 1.4 GHz and tiny receiver antennas, coverage has to be a concern. And with digital TV, it either works or it doesn’t.