Go Mobile® - #157 - August 12, 2005

  • Features: Tech Trends... Mobile Web Searches... Security Spotlight
  • Verticals: Field Service... Healthcare... Law Enforcement... Real Estate
  • Products: Notebooks... Handhelds/Phones... Software... Network Gear
  • Industry: Trends & Analysis... Network News... Company News... Summer Events
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Featured Stories

 

 

Tech Trends

Handheld gambling to hit casinos (AP)

U.S. Congress drafts tech recycling plan (Medill News Service)

UK cars to get RFID license plates (engadget)

Birds copy ringtones (engadget)

coming to handhelds
   

Boeing successfully tests in-flight cellular

NEC preps new 'organic' mobile battery (IDG)

Sharp LCD shows a different image at a different angle (engadget)

MIT project uses cellphone data to predict activities (Wired)

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Mobile Web Searching

Study claims two types of mobile web searchers (PDA Street)

Mobile search tools roundup (engadget)

Security Spotlight

Opinion: firms should strictly control employee use of mobile devices (Network World)

Opinion: let your staff loose on mobile devices (Network World)

How IT can manage workers' consumer devices (Computerworld)

A missing link in data security (Computerworld)

Secure VoIP software in the works (MobileMag)

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Mobile & Wireless in Vertical Markets

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Field Service / Mapping: GE Energy adds GPS to Smallworld Field IS; Freeance puts ESRI GIS on BlackBerry

Field Service: MicroMain hospital maintenance app now on PDAs (Mobile Health Data)

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Healthcare: Carolinas HealthCare expands on Wi-Fi (Computerworld)

Healthcare: DRS Corp. PDA software tracks drug samples (Mobile Health Data)

Healthcare: PatientKeeper mobile dictation adds AssistMed transcription

Healthcare: a robotic nurse gets all the glory, but PDAs can do much of the same (TheMatureMarket)

Law Enforcement: handheld crime fighting (PDA Street)

Military: U.S. Army finishes testing sensor system for automated maintenance alerts (Computerworld)

Real Estate: CellStory offers Series 60 cellphone software for realtors

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Product News & Reviews

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Fujitsu LifeBook 1500

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Handhelds / Smartphones

Above: LG 9800

General Device News

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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Carrier or Country-Specific Device News

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

Device Rumors

Skype WiFi phone: first details (engadget)

Device Previews

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)

HP iPAQ hw6710 and hw6715 to have WiFi & WinMo 5 (engadget)

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)

Left: Windows Mobile Treo test model

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Device Reviews

Nokia 9300

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BlackDog

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Wireless Service News

Boulder, Colorado claims first solar-powered muni Wi-Fi (InternetNews)

Hotspot news roundup (Wi-Fi Planet)

US carriers ramp up data services (IDG)

UK service lets phone users dictate email (vnunet)

Below: it's not real food, it's a USB dongle

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Above: Palm Traffic; Below: Agendus Mail

Above: Opera's small screen rendering

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: Mobile Systems' OfficeSuite adds Palm support (Geek)

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

Enterprise Mobile Software

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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Enterprise Wireless Products

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)

Developer News

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)

2005 Mobile Star Awards

Final entry deadline Aug. 31. Email awards@mobilevillage.com for an entry form.
Latest Entrants:

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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)

WLANs / WiMax / Wi-Fi

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)

Cellular

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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