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Mobile & Wireless for Vertical Markets |
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Left: an art professor tries out the museum's new PDA service Arts: Indianapolis Museum of Art will provide art info on visitors' PDAs (IndyStar) Asset Tracking: Regional shipping company New Penn adds wireless tracking service Asset Tracking: UPS fleet managers use wireless to control equipment remotely (IDG) Engineering / Mapping: ZipCad Pro 3 adds Bluetooth support (Geek) Engineering / Mapping: Trimble adds subfoot GPS receiver for mapping |
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Service: ServiceMaster taps AT&T's MPLS backbone technology in $21M
deal
(Computerworld)
Healthcare: Epocrates puts continuing medical education courses on handhelds Healthcare: Nova enables Pocket PC data collection for clinical & behavioral research studies Healthcare: IQMax mobile healthcare software adds WAN synchronization Healthcare: SonoSite Micromaxx allows ultrasounds on the go (engadget) Law Enforcement: Bio-key adds mobile data server; Relm Wireless base stations add VoIP ability Law Enforcement: London police to trial handhelds (vnunet) Military: U.S. military seeks handheld speech translators (Geek) |
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Product News & Reviews |
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Notebooks & Tablet PCs
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Left: Vaio T2 Electrovaya updates its SC 2200 Tablet PC (InfoSyncWorld) Fujitsu adds new Loox laptops (engadget) IBM X41 tablet pics show up on FCC site (engadget) Panasonic updates its 'Let's note' (aka Toughbook) notebooks (engadget) MV releases Ixius & Sirius notebooks (Trusted Reviews) Sony unveils the Vaio T2 (Trusted Reviews) |
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Toshiba unveils 2.2-lb. Libretto mini-notebook (InfoSyncWorld) Toshiba unveils Portege R200 ultraportable (InfoSyncWorld) Toshiba adds Tecra M4 tablet (engadget)
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Above: Toshiba Libretto U100 mini; Below: Gateway M675X
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PalmOne's new LifeDrive as it appears on Amazon |
Handhelds / Smartphones
palmOne 'LifeDrive' set for May 18 launch (The Register) palmOne LifeDrive appears on Amazon (engadget) Cameraphone pic saves man's life (AFP) Motorola kills MPx release (PDA Street) Panasonic quits US phone market (engadget) |
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Left: Audiovox SMT 5600 Cingular brings back the Audiovox SMT 5600 Windows Mobile phone Earthlink Wireless adds Treo 650 (PDA Street) Nextel adds Motorola i605 rugged Bluetooth phone (engadget) Telus (Canada) adds Audiovox 6600 Pocket PC (MobileMag) Verizon to add Treo 650 May 11 (PDA Street) Vodafone's HTC Blue Angel Pocket PC gets new Intel processor (PDA Live) PalmOne Treo 650 finally hits the UK (The Register) XPro Palm phone hits China (Palm InfoCenter) Latest multimedia mobile released in Korea (engadget) |
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Gigabyte unveils Pocket PC phones (engadget) HP iPaq hw6500 soon on Cingular & T-Mobile (PDA Live) Intermec previews modular rugged Windows Mobile PDA (Windows for Devices) LG Korea busts out ‘Can U’ HS8000 phone with 2.6-inch LCD (engadget) Nokia unveils N series phones (TechDigest) Nokia regains edge with new N series media phones (PDA Street) Nokia's 9300 smartphone - where is it? (BargainPDA) Samsung V740 targets RAZR (engadget) Samsung i730 EV-DO Pocket PC phone set to launch in 6-7 weeks (engadget)
Dell's Axim plans for 2005-06 (Brighthand) Nokia's new 2-Mp musicphone? (engadget) PalmOne's next handheld to be called the LifeDrive (Brighthand) |
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Left:
Nokia 7710
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Fujitsu offers GSM/GPRS CF card (PDA Live) Kanguru adds USB 2.0 flash drive with biometric fingerprint scanner Kensington adds notebook dock with adjustable base (engadget) Lexar's new USB flash drive comes with free engraving (engadget) Option's EDGE data card quadruples data speeds (MobileMag) PN Technologies adds serial cable for Tungsten E2/T5 & Treo 650 (PDA Live) |
Kensington dock |
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Accessories
Reviews
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Above: Pharos EZ Road |
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Cingular introduces new business programs (Wireless Week) Nextel launches group push-to-talk service (TechWeb) Sprint adds roadside help & driving directions services T-Mobile tops JD Powers business customer satisfaction poll T-Mobile adds street-level cellphone coverage maps (engadget) Verizon's IN program adds unlimited text & photo messaging Verizon debuts Web & voice portals for enterprises (Computerworld) Vodafone launches push email service in Europe New Mexico town claims first metro Voice-over-Wi-Fi service (eWeek) Paris-Brussels line claims first wireless broadband on a high-speed train Seattle's Space Needle gets WiMax'd for business services (Computerworld) Philadelphia's wireless net gets more complicated (Network World) |
Seattle's Space Needle gets WiMax |
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Personal Software What's better for browsing: Palm or Windows Mobile? (BargainPDA) Tools for combating gadget theft (NY Times via Cnet) All devices: Avvenu launches remote PC access free beta (PDA Geek) BlackBerry: Impatica previews BB PowerPoint viewer (MobileRead) Palm: Handy Solution updates its Palm OS tracking software Palm: AccessPlus database manager updated (PalmAddicts) Palm: MobiSystems ZIP updated (PalmAddicts) Palm: Splash Money 4 Personal Finance Manager review (BargainPDA) Palm: review of Kinoma, MMPlayer & TealMovie video players (MobileTechReview) Palm / Windows Mobile: Skype launches SkypeIn & Skype Voicemail Beta Mac: overview of Apple's new Tiger OS (NY Times) Mac: JiWire hotspot finder adds Mac users (Wireless Week) Windows Mobile: StyleTap lets Pocket PC users run Palm OS 5 apps (Palm InfoCenter) Windows Mobile: LandWare launches Pocket Quicken 2.5 Windows Mobile: HNS Confidential Notes & Vito QuickContact Windows Mobile: Phatware Phatpad 2.1 rates 4.5 out of 5 (PocketNow) Windows Mobile: Spb Software releases all-in-one PIM Today plug-in (PDA Live) Windows: BeInSync & Laplink remote PC access / sync software updated Windows: Interlink free Wi-Fi security app supports a few users (TechWeb) Left: Socket's Navkit (see 'Accessories' above for review link) |
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Enterprise Product Features Wireless sparks enterprise network innovation at Gartner Mobile & Wireless show (Network World)
Air2Web offers mobile access to enterprise IM apps iAnywhere SQL Anywhere adds support for Microsoft Windows X64 TenDigits puts Microsoft CRM applications on BlackBerry Microsoft Communication Server to go mobile (eWeek) RIM to link BlackBerry with Microsoft, IBM and Novell enterprise IM (IDG) |
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Bluesocket & NextWeb product updates (InfoWorld) Spyguard window film aims to block Wi-Fi signals (engadget) New technology broadcasts Wi-Fi over in-building GSM networks (Computerworld)
Four things to know before deploying wireless LANs (eBCVG) Ice cold at a hotspot? Here's why (NY Times via Cnet) Extend your Bluetooth range up to a mile (Popular Science) |
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Industry News, Trends, & Analysis |
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Mobile Trends & Analysis Opinion: phone email is a bad idea (eWeek) Opinion: Broken dreams of the perfect e-book reader (MobileRead) PDAs make a surprise comeback; BlackBerry now #1 (Techworld) GPS drives Euro PDA sales (The Register) Symbian grabs 61.4% of smartphone market; Microsoft & Palm down (The Register) Microsoft aims to be cell phone 'Survivor'; set to unveil Windows Mobile 2005 (Cnet) Smartphones make inroads in business (The Register) Mobile email user poll results (Quocirca) More blue collar workers to use mobiles (The Register) |
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Wireless Trends & Analysis Bluetooth looks to Ultrawideband for bandwidth (IDG) Wireless rating system to tackle porn (Cnet)
Wi-Fi QoS standard coming soon (Network World) Microsoft joins the WiMedia Alliance (TechWeb) Vendors, carriers line up to support Intel's new WiMax chipset (IDG)
Handset delays slow HSDPA (TechWeb) Looking beyond 3G wireless (Network World) Report: 3G patents could strangle device innovation (TechWeb) Study: cell base stations are safe (Wireless Week) |
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Features
PalmSource Installer 1.5 released for developers (Palm InfoCenter) Opinion:
Why developing nations won't save open source
(ZDnet) Embedded Systems Fujitsu unveils WiMax chips (WiFi Planet) Intel launches WiMax chipset (TechWeb) Intel pushing for common bus for cellphone ICs (EE Times) MontaVista ships mobile Linux (TechWeb) Qualcomm 3G chips get Linux support (TechWeb) |
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