Go Mobile® - #148 - January 31, 2005

  • Features: Wireless Security... Enterprise IT... Tech Trends
  • Verticals: Field Service... Government... Healthcare... Police... Real Estate
  • Products: Notebooks, PDAs, & Smartphones... Software... Network Gear
  • Industry: Trends & Analysis... Network News... Company News... Winter Events
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Featured Stories

 

Wireless Security

Taxi driver poll shows mobiles get left-behind too often

"Evil twin" access points could steal your data (TechWeb)

Wi-Fi hotspot security paranoia: stay calm (Newswireless)

Mobile virus epidemics: don't panic (SecurityWatch)

Is Lexus a nexus between cars & phone viruses? (Cnet)

Enterprise IT Features

IT priorities for 2005 (Computerworld)

In 2005, avoid WLAN 'pileups' (Network World)

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Tech Trends

Magnetic bead could solve mobile phone radiation fears (Geek)

Researchers invent solar-powered material for cell phones (RCR)

Koreans get first motion activated mobile (MobileMag)

Businesses fight rude cell phone users (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

A cell phone for your pet (PDA Live)

PetCell: calling all pets

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Mobile & Wireless in Vertical Markets

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Education: Teachers manage better with Pocket PCs (Pocket PC Magazine)

Education: palmOne launches web resource for educators & students (PalmZone)

Field Sales: it's prime time for wireless CRM (Mobile Enterprise)

Field Service: Atmos Energy upgrade to always-on modems saves 30+ minutes per technician per day (Mobile Enterprise)

Fleet Tracking: Remote Dynamics updates its wireless vehicle tracking software

Government: New Mexico city claims largest municipal Wi-Fi network (TechWeb)

Healthcare: Lexi-Comp PDA medical app gets automatic updates (Mobile Health Data)

Healthcare: McGraw-Hill's online / mobile library adds pharmacological reference

Healthcare: MultiCare captures charges on PDAs (Mobile Health Data)

Healthcare: a prescription for digitized health records (NY Times via Cnet)

Law Enforcement: Orange County & San Francisco BART police get new mobile software

Real Estate: service sends property info to buyers' mobile phones

Warehousing: self-healing industrial WLANs can bring up to 500% ROI (Mobile Enterprise)

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Product News & Reviews

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Notebooks & Tablet PCs

Adesso unveils wireless tablets (MobileMag)

Apple iBook G5 notebooks due in Q2 (MobileMag)

IBM speeds up its ThinkPad & adds 802.11a/b/g (Techweb)

Intel says new Centrino chip equal to top-end Pentium 4 (Techworld)

Toshiba's new notebook is first to the gate with the newest Centrino

Right: Sager NP9860 is pricy but high performance

Notebook / Tablet Reviews (Prices in US dollars)

 

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Above: Realm System's MPS (in beta) "mobile PC" plugs into any USB port

Handhelds

Handheld News

10 things to do with your PDA (InformIT)

Securing your PDA (BargainPDA)

Dell updates Axim X50 / X50v ROM (BargainPDA)

Intermec's new CN2 rugged Windows CE handheld fits in pockets

Realm Systems' cheap mobile PC plugs into any USB port

Mitac Mio 269 boasts first harddrive-based GPS system (MobileMag)

PalmOne Treo for GSM networks coming (BargainPDA)

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Above: Mitac Mio 269

Handheld & Phone Accessories News

Phone batteries get a boost (PDA Live)

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Below: iTech virtual keyboard

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Smartphones

Phone News

BT's Bluephone to get Wi-Fi (Techworld)

Motorola to launch several Linux smartphones in 2005 (Linux Devices)

Panasonic launches X700 smartphone (Pocket-Lint)

Left: Samsung SGH-P735 has a 1 Mp camera, video & MP3 player; Right: Sony-Ericsson P910

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Wireless Service News / Features

California state parks to get SBC Wi-Fi service (San Mateo Cty. Times)

T-Mobile tops U.S. service survey (RCR)

Right: San Elijo State Beach, near San Diego, will be the first Calif. park to get Wi-Fi access

 

 

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Personal Productivity Software

Above: Lingvosoft language flashcards screenshot (Palm OS version)

Toshiba previews software that controls a PC with a mobile phone (IDG)

App lets you run PCs from your PDA (MobileRead)

BlackBerry: MSN Messenger app for BlackBerry (Geek)

Palm: OnVerge's new software streams apps, media from PCs to Palms, in real-time

Palm / Windows Mobile: Lingvosoft language flashcards review (PDA Buzz)

Windows Mobile 2005 preview screenshots (BargainPDA)

Windows Mobile: Fitaly 3.5 for WM2003 SE out (MobileRead)

Windows Mobile: SynCE adds PPCs to Unix syncing (MobileRead)

Windows Mobile: Statistical Tables on your Smartphone (PPC Thoughts)

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Enterprise Product Features

Enterprise Mobile Software

Good adds enterprise application access platform

IsoSpace mobilizes its collaboration suite

RIM BlackBerry Server supports upcoming Lotus Domino 7.0 (release)

Spb releases Pocket PC application cloning tool (PDA Live)

WLAN Gear

Aruba, Trapeze upgrade WLAN software, hardware (TechWeb)

Funk updates its RADIUS server to v 5.0

National Scientific Wi-Fi tags aim to connect the location dots (Wi-Fi Planet)

Network Instruments updates Observer WLAN mgmt. software

Network managers will keep paying more for WLAN equipment (Techworld)

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Industry News, Trends, & Analysis

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Mobile Trends & Analysis

Mobile phone shipments up 38% in Q4 (Register)

IDC report: mobile gaming to be top mobile data market by 2008 (RCR)

Lawsuit reveals lack of BlackBerry privacy (Computerworld)

Non-profit Consumer Electronics Linux forum opens its doors

Opinion: why Sony should (Memory) stick with the Palm OS (Palm InfoCenter)

Wireless Trends & Analysis

The Bluetooth SIG speaks out (Laptop)

WLANs / WiMax / Wi-Fi

Voice, video and storage - can the WLAN cope? (Techworld)

Cisco's Airespace buy "validates" WLAN switches (Wi-Fi Planet)

Juniper seeks WLAN switch firm (eWeek)

Full speed ahead for Philadelphia's Wi-Fi plan (Network World)

Municipal wireless fight continues (eWeek)

High speed MIMO: who cares (Wi-Fi Planet)

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WiMax certification delay won't impact deployment (TechWeb)

Kinteo hopes to help bridge Wi-Fi & cellular (Wi-Fi Planet)

Cellular

Wireless subscribers to hit 2 billion in 2005 (Wireless Week)

Analysis: mobile DRM levy hits operators where it hurts (The Register)

Nortel, Nokia, Ericsson land 3G deals (Wireless Week)

Webraska updates its GPS navigation application for carriers

Developer News

Deploying applications to Windows Mobile (blog)

Building a wireless sniffer with Perl (IBM)

Embedded Systems News

Broadcom chipset may cut WLAN switch costs by up to 10 times (Network World)

Esmertec, MontaVista to combine Java with Linux (TechWeb)

QuickLogic and Renasas reference design targets Linux VoWLAN phones (Linux Devices)

Samsung announces very fast mobile RAM chip (Brighthand)

Sun announces Java RFID product (IDG)

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Sony Ericsson profits leap 28% (Register)

Symbol gets 7-Eleven contract (RCR)

T-Mobile axes 2200 Europe jobs (Register)

Verizon hits new quarterly high, buys more spectrum (Wireless Week)

Vodafone hits 150m customers (Register)

2005 Mobile Events

See the 2005 event calendar here. To list your event, see the link on the events page.


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