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Mobile & Wireless in Vertical Markets |
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Field Service: MicroMain hospital maintenance app now on PDAs (Mobile Health Data) |
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Product News & Reviews |
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Notebooks & Tablet PCs Apple updates iBooks, but no widescreen (engadget) Fujitsu continues tiny tablet-notebook trend Fujitsu-Siemens LifeBook C1320 claims to run 12.5 hours (engadget) For new notebook reviews, see NotebookReview.com and TrustedReviews.com. |
Fujitsu LifeBook 1500 |
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Handhelds / Smartphones
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Five things handheld buyers need to know (FCW) Garmin intros iQue M3 GPS-PDA (InfoSyncWorld) HTC preps GPS-enabled Pocket PC (engadget) LG9800: a hi-end QWERTY phone (engadget) NEC Infrontia offers industrial PDA (engadget) SmarTerminal Windows CE RFID handheld has internal antenna (WindowsForDevices) Sony PSP adds a web browser: is it a PDA yet? (Bargain PDA) Symbol adds Win-CE based entry-level rugged handheld (MobileMag) Tapwave discontinues Zodiac (Palm InfoCenter) |
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Cingular Treo 650 patch fixes memory flaw (PDA Street) Verizon Treo patch fixes some - but not all - problems (PDA Street) Tip: Verizon Treo 650 Bluetooth photo transfer (Palm InfoCenter) Chinese-language Treo 650 ships (PDA Street) Pantech's PT-S130 is the first DMB cellphone with Bluetooth - but it's only in Korea (engadget) |
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Above: HTC Wizard; Below: Motorola Q |
Skype WiFi phone: first details (engadget)
Video of Treo 670 running Windows Mobile (engadget) HTC to supply Palm's Windows-based Treo for 2006 (PDA Street) HTC Apache (aka CDMA Wizard) pics (engadget) |
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Hands-on
with the Motorola Q
(engadget)
Motorola Q vs. Treo 650 (engadget) Will the Motorola Q rise to the hype? (ZDnet) BenQ preps smallest 3G phone (MobileMag)
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Nokia 9300 |
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BlackDog Linux: a real pocket PC (engadget) Belkin preps 802.11b/g travel router (MobileMag) Linksys shrinks its travel router (engadget) Socket claims smallest, fastest Wi-Fi card for Windows Mobile 2003
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Boulder, Colorado claims first solar-powered muni Wi-Fi (InternetNews) Hotspot news roundup (Wi-Fi Planet) |
Below: it's not real food, it's a USB dongle
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Personal Software Cellphones: iSkoot lets you make Skype calls from your cellphone (engadget) Cellphones: Opera unveils browser for J2ME - WAP phones (LinuxForDevices) Cellphones: RSVP rapid text reader gets a good review (Mobile Magzine) Cellphones: Mobile email without data costs (About) BREW phones: Namco offers ringtones of PAC-MAN & other games BlackBerry:
Gmail Mobile for Blackberry released
(PDA Blast) BlackBerry: ThinPrint enables Bluetooth printing from a BlackBerry (PDA Street) Palm releases Treo traffic navigation app for 10 US cities (Palm Addicts) Palm gets Windows Media DRM 10 support via Pocket Tunes 3.1 (engadget) Palm: is Xiino a faster Palm browser? (Geek) Palm: Fast Hide review (Palm 24/7) Palm: Agendus Mail 4.21 gets a good review (Geek) Windows Mobile: SideWindow turns your Pocket PC into a secondary display (engadget) Windows Mobile: Pocket PC web browsers: a roundup (Pocket PC Thoughts) Windows Smartphone now syncs to Macs (The Register) Windows: Microsoft launches WinXP sync tool (IDG) Windows: Migo remote PC access software adds USB compatibility Windows: laptop data protection options (Computerworld)
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Enterprise Product Features
Impatica software lets BlackBerry Server users view PowerPoint attachments iAnywhere updates Answers Anywhere middleware MobileDataforce updates its PointSync data collection tool, & Intercue forms-updating tool NetMotion Wireless updates its VPN software Perlego's new software helps to manage workers' smartphones Sproqit mobile email hits workgroups (Techworld) |
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Hot topics for WLAN buyers (FCW) Wi-Fi products watch (WiFi Planet) Fortress, Rajant team on portable WLAN units for disaster response or military use Symbol's latest wireless client bridge connects up to 16 wireless devices Zultys launches Wi-Fi phone (Network World)
PalmSource teams with MontaVista; plans Linux phone by next summer (TechWeb) Win Mobile 5.0 allows a single application to run on PPCs & smartphones (Brighthand) Cingular opens walled garden for content providers (Wireless Week) |
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Mobile Trends & Analysis Palm CFO makes the case for Windows on Palm devices (Cnet) Is RIM ready to rumble? (Business Week) Opinion: smartphones: where the computer & telephony cultures clash (ZDnet) IDC: plain-PDA sales are still declining (Cnet) Gartner: PDA sales are actually up (TechWeb) IDC: Symbian is still the leading mobile OS (TechWeb) Has the notebook-to-handheld conversion begun? (ZDnet) IDC: Windows Vista will aid Tablet PC sales (The Register) Windows Vista promises to speed up PCs (Cnet) Poll: few care about mobile video (TechWeb) |
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Industry News, Trends, & Analysis |
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Wireless Trends & Analysis Opinion: Cisco plans to acquire Nokia? Surely no one buys that (eWeek) Qualcomm-Flarion deal may rock the wireless world (IDG) Wi-Fi, cell phones, cancer, & legal corporate liability (ZDnet)
802.11n rivals agree to merge (The Register) Group preps wireless mesh standard (TechWeb) Enterprise WLAN revenue to double by 2009 (IDG) Single-mode WiFi phones to boom? (Techworld)
Can cellphones hurt our eyes? (engadget) Blog: my EVDO will beat your WiFi (ZDnet) OnAir technology lets aircrew switch in-flight calls on/off (The Register) Cell phone sales to top $1B in 2009 (TechWeb) New .tel domain coming (Techworld) U.S. 3G wars heat up (Cnet) Turf war brewing over Europe's 3G spectrum (The Register) T-Mobile preps high-speed HSDPA (TechWeb) Will Apple enter the MVNO market? (Wireless Watch) Will Europe fall in love with Qualcomm, now that it owns Flarion 4G technology? (Wireless Newsnet) |
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Embedded Systems Esmertec samples PTT software (EE Times) |
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