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Mobile & Wireless in Vertical Markets |
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M-Commerce: New parking meters phone-text users to save coin runs (Newsfactor) Police: Dutch police launch system to track banned soccer fans (engadget) Police: PacketHop enables instant wireless at the scene of a crime (Information Week) |
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Product News & Reviews |
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Notebooks & Tablet PCs Chinese companies work toward a $100 wireless laptop (Wireless Watch) Acer intros $899 Centrino-based TravelMate 4020 (engadget) Averatec adds 3700 12-inch notebook under $1000 (engadget) Fujitsu adds two new Loox models (engadget) Lenovo previews widescreen Thinkpad Z (engadget) Samsung "thumb width" notebook promises to run 13.5 hours (engadget) Sony preps Vaio BX with biometrics (engadget) For more new notebook reviews, see NotebookReview.com and TrustedReviews.com. |
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Handhelds / Smartphones
Dell Axim X50 series gets ROM updates (PDA Street) Samsung kills Palm phones after Sprint pulls SPH-i500 from biz site (PDAphonehome) |
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Carrier
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Cingular to offer HTC Wizard Pocket PC (PDA Street) Cingular iTunes phone due next week (AP) Orange adds M5000 3G Pocket PC phone (The Register) T-Mobile USA getting HTC Tornado Windows Mobile phone in October (engadget) T-Mobile Germany adds HTC MDA Universal 3G/ Wi-Fi phone (The Register) Verizon to carry the Motorola Q Windows Mobile phone? (engadget) |
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What's your next cellphone? (engadget)
Axim X51v photos, SonyEricsson P950 pics & specs (BargainPDA)
Roundup: 4 soon-to-come Windows Mobile smartphones (PDA Street) Hands-on with the HTC Universal (engadget) Kinpo S600 Pocket PC coming, but still has Windows Mobile 2003 SE (PDA Live) Mitac Mio GPS smart phone exposed (The Register) Mitac Mio GPS Pocket PC: more details (Brighthand) Mio A701 GPS smart phone |
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Two ways of calling Skype wirelessly: DECT and Nokia (Newswireless.net) Mobility Electronics adds power adapter for power-hungry notebooks, PCs Student constructs hamster-powered mobile phone charger (The Register) UltraCell previews 40-oz. methanol fuel cell for notebooks (engadget) |
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Boingo WiFi network adds 36 airports (TechWeb) San Francisco joins municpal Wi-Fi craze (Wireless Week) Weekly hotspot news roundup (WiFi Planet) Sprint Nextel unwraps new rate plans (Wireless Week) Review: Sprint's new high-speed data (EV-DO) network rates 3 out of 5 (PC Magazine) T-Mobile USA's EDGE to (finally) debut end of September (engadget) Verizon expands EV-DO service, cuts rates (TechWeb) Carriers bid for N.Y. subway cellular system (NY Times via Cnet) |
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Personal Software Handmark releases Oxford Spanish Dictionary for PDAs & smartphones PostX plugs mobile email encryption/decryption sans enterprise server Use Google Talk on your mobile device (Geek) KMaps puts Google maps on Java PDAs/phones (Palm InfoCenter) Palm updates Mac Palm desktop app (Palm InfoCenter) Opera Mini browser for Windows (BargainPDA) DDH HanDBase database application adds Nokia Series 60 support |
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Enterprise Product Features
Cerience adds BlackBerry version of RepliGo document viewing software Extended Systems upgrades its mobile security software (TechWeb) IBM produces continuous data protection (Network World) Microsoft previews push e-mail Exchange update (Newsfactor) RIM adds "presence" status to BlackBerry Server devices (Wireless Week) Sybase updates its "Unwired" mobile app development platforms Mobile middleware: an overview (Newsfactor) |
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Bountiful router extends WiFi range up to 1,200 feet (engadget) Conceivium & LANDesk remote IT management software updated Convergin offers fixed-line & mobile calling convergence (PDA Street) PacketHop kills access-points model of wireless network (Network World) |
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Mobile Trends & Analysis Opinion: How to speed your text entry (Brighthand) Opinion: Thinking mobile? Think Web. (Computerworld) Opinion: Handsets are the last frontier for Linux (InfoWorld) Analysis: Can Linux put PalmSource on top? (TechWeb) Analysis: 31% mobile PC growth in 2005 balances out lower desktop revenues (The Register) Analysis: Does LoJack for laptops work? (Forbes) Trend: CFOs rank cell phone most useful portable tool; laptops a close second Trend: Mobile users are now less mobile (TechWeb) Analysis: a look into the future of mobility (BargainPDA) |
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Analysis: University study claims good timing helps mobile success (TechWeb) Analysis: execs say more free time on business trips aids productivity (Techworld) Analysis: How IT depts. can calculate worker productivity (Computerworld) |
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Industry News, Trends, & Analysis |
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Wireless Trends & Analysis
Analysis: VoWLAN is poised for huge growth (WiFi Planet) Analysis: Open, public Wi-Fi: the risks (Newsfactor) Analysis: Making a mesh of your WLAN (InformationWeek) Opinion: 'Virtual' LANs could mean better wireless security (Computerworld) |
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NIST releases guides on ways to improve wireless device security (GovTech)
Louisiana governor blasts faulty wireless networks (TechWeb) Researchers link cell phones to allergies, skin rashes (MobileMag) Report: U.S. cellular data revenues to almost quadruple by 2010 (TechWeb) Symbian phone shipments up 191% (TechWeb) Verizon completes next-gen 3G tests (TechWeb) |
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Embedded Systems Perpendicular drives hit the market (Cnet)
Intel, Panasonic prep 12-hour notebook PC battery (The Register) Intel details its mobile chip efforts (Cnet) Intel's low-power future (Laptop) |
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