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Mobile & Wireless in Vertical Markets |
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Asset Tracking: RFID finds lost luggage, but at what cost? (NY Times) Asset Tracking: Venice, Iitaly tracks vehicles with RFID (Wi-Fi Planet) Asset Tracking: Avery Dennison to invest $35M in RFID labels (eWeek) Asset Tracking: Study gauges demand for freight tracking (GPS World) Education: Kenya school replaces old books with handhelds (BBC) Healthcare: Medical records' digitization offers a quick cure (eWeek) |
Wireless handhelds replace old books at this remote Kenya school |
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Healthcare: ACS offers C-Tools 2.0 Palm OS cancer fighting tool (Palm InfoCenter) Healthcare: Michigan's Bronson Healthcare rejuvenates its WLAN network (eWeek) Healthcare: Cameraphones can help doctors evaluate injuries remotely (PDA Geek) Hospitality: South Africa's Sibaya Casino installs voice over WLAN system (ITWeb.za) Public Safety: Voice-over-WLAN comes to first stretch of US highway (TechWeb) |
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Product News & Reviews |
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Notebooks & Tablet PCs Asus claims thinnest, lightest 15-inch notebook PC (IDG) Dell adds Inspiron 9300 media laptop (engadget) Dell updates Inspiron XPS (engadget) Intel updates Centrino notebooks with Sonoma platform (PC World) IBM ThinkPad R series gets new Intel Sonoma (Trusted Reviews) Short battery life foiled? (Trusted Reviews) How to get more battery life (NotebookReview) |
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Eurocom D900T targets media buffs & gamers
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Handhelds / Smartphones
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Hi-end Pocket PCs compared (MobileReview) 10
handhelds for road warriors
(InfoWorld) Dead pixels on your PDA (BargainPDA)
Motorola RAZR V3 added to Rogers Wireless (Canada) lineup (MobileMag) Motorola, Nextel unveil rugged handset (Wireless Week) palmOne
Treo 650 due in Mexico in April
(PDAMexico) Nokia adds 6021 camera-free Bluetooth phone for business users (The Register) Samsung A790 for Sprint targets traveling business users (MobileMag) Sony Ericsson launches 'Walkman' music phone with 2 Mp camera (The Register) Sony Japan to end Clie production (1src) Vodafone announces VPA Compact Pocket PC phone (Geekzone) Student puts Linux on iPod (New Scientist) |
Device
Previews & Rumors
Lenovo previews first Series 60 smartphone with pen input (PDA Live) Motorola RAZR V3 to become 3G V1150? (engadget) Newgen (Korea) previews first next-gen Windows Mobile phone (PDA Live) Nokia previews new phones (MobileMag) Road previews PDA with 640x240 screen, QWERTY keypad (PDA Live) Samsung SCH-i730 Pocket PC phone due soon (PDA Street)
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Below: Newgen claims first next-gen Windows Mobile phone
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Accessories rules for the road (Computerworld) Delkin follows SanDisk with SD/USB card (PDA Live) Headset Presenter turns any Bluetooth headset into PowerPoint remote (engadget) palmOne to bundle WiFi SD cards with T5, Zire 72 - but not free (Bargain PDA) Stowaway wireless keyboards add MS Smartphone drivers (PDA Live) Socket scanner adds Symbian support (PDAStreet) Socket updates its SD & CF Wi-Fi driver (PDA Live)
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Taxis trial mobile web service (eWeek) FreeFi Networks launches free, ad-sponsored hotspots in US (TechWeb) Skype, Broadreach launch free Wi-Fi calls at UK cafes (Techworld) Hotspot Hits: new hotspots roundup (Wi-Fi Planet) Review: Connexion by Boeing in-flight Wi-Fi service (MobileRead) Right: Interactive Taxi trial in NYC |
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Personal Software Windows: Review: Computrace theft-recovery service rates 4 out of 5 (Laptop) All devices: AOL links IM software to Outlook (IDG) BlackBerry: Finally, BlackBerries speak Mac (Forbes) Palm: Chatter is 'push email' for the Treo (TechWeb) Palm: Metro PDA guide updated (PalmAddicts) Palm: Review: Mapopolis Navcard for Palm (GPS Passion) Palm: Review: Voice Dialer Pro for Treo (ClieUK) Palm / Windows Mobile: Review: SplashID information manager (PDA Geek) Windows Mobile: Review: .mobile Contacts photo contacts manager (PDA Geek) Windows
Mobile: Review: ALK CoPilot Smartphone Ed. ($349) rates 3 out of 5
(Laptop) Windows CE: CyberMatrix adds CE support to Project Clock time tracking app (PDA Buzz) Phones: SpinVox automatically converts voicemail to text messages (engadget) Phones: FusionOne lets users of lost phones remotely erase their data (Wireless Week) Phones: Realeyes3D turns Series 60 cameraphones into document scanners (PDA Live) Phones:
Virgin offers first 3G free radio
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Enterprise Product Features
Intellisync pushes enterprise apps to mobiles (TechWeb) Micro-startup offers Wi-Fi security for hire (Techworld)
AutoCell offers WLAN switch kit for network equipment OEMs (TechWeb) Netgear adds pre-N router (Wi-Fi Planet) Wi-Fi product watch (new WLAN products) (Wi-Fi Planet)
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Industry News, Trends, & Analysis |
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Mobile Trends & Analysis Nokia keeps global mobile phone lead (TechWeb) LG leads in U.S. CDMA phones (Wireless Week) Linux mobile devices are on a roll (LinuxDevices) Editorial: Palm down, but will be back (MobileRead) Opinion: the PDA is dead; so what? (Writing On Your Palm) Wireless Trends & Analysis EU sets RFID privacy guidelines (Techworld) Survey shows lack of skilled RFID workers (RCR) Report: wireless spending to increase 9.3% this year (TechWeb) Report: wireless broadband to eventually replace 3G cellular (TechWeb)
The enterprise WLAN grows up (CIO) Intel hangs mesh hopes on 802.11s for home & small business use (engadget) |
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Two ultrawideband groups merge (Wi-Fi Planet) China walks out of WLAN security standards talks (EE Times) Wi-Fi switches: breakthrough year, future fear (Techworld) Wi-Fi to Cellular: a new approach (Techworld) Right: 802.11s mesh network scheme |
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Cellular
Cabir mobile phone virus spreads to France, Japan (IDG) Workers prefer mobile phones over landlines (Quocirca) One columnist's trials of buying a new mobile phone (Silicon.com) Can we force operators to take business seriously? (InfoWorld) IT on the streets: 3G arrives (InfoWorld) |
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Embedded Systems
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AMD 'Athlon 64 4200+' benchmarks surface (The Register) Devicescape launches new mobile Linux platform (TechWeb) Intel's future technology could get your notebook & smartphone talking (Wi-Fi Planet) Qualcomm puts EV-DV chips on hold (RCR) RF Micro ditchses WLAN chipsets (InternetNews) SiNett's chip for network equipment OEMs integrates wireless & wired (IDG) VIA unveils AMD Turion chipset (Register) |
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Developer News New
grid control optimized for .NET Compact Framework
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Cyberbank
phone
