Go Mobile® - #159 - Sept. 16, 2005

  • Features: Tech Trends... IT Dept. Tips
  • Verticals: Asset Tracking... Education... Field Sales / Service... Healthcare
  • Products: Notebooks... Handhelds/Phones... Software... Network Gear
  • Industry: Trends & Analysis... Network News... Company News... Fall Events
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Featured Stories

 

 

Tech Trends

Researchers transcribe sounds of key clicks into text with 96% accuracy (IDG)

Dartmouth researchers create world’s smallest controllable robot (PhysOrg)

Toshiba develops prototype MP3 player with 60 hour fuel cell battery (engadget)

 

 

Survey: computer users more likely to take security risks at work

IT Dept. Tips

Gartner: secure end points are key for enterprise mobile computing (IDG)

How IT can communicate needs to management (Computerworld)

Why some end-users say "please don't upgrade me" (Computerworld)

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Mobile & Wireless in Vertical Applications

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Asset Tracking: Can RFID secure America's ports? (The Deal)

Asset Tracking: AT&T to trial end-to-end hosted RFID services

Asset Tracking: Accela adds web based asset management software

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Educaton: 120 Wake Forest Univ. students trial Pocket PCs (News Observer)

Education: Teachers face handheld revolution (BBC)

Field Sales: Sendia, iAnywhere, SolutionPlanet release mobile sales software updates

Field Sales: UnumProvident uses Treos, GoodLink to access email, contacts & other CRM data (Information Week)

Field Service: Electric utility deploys mobile field force automation system in four states

Field Service: Mobile software, scanners help utility services firm to cut paper forms

Healthcare: eClinicalWorks updates its remote EMR software to v6.7

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Product News & Reviews

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For more new notebook reviews, see NotebookReview.com and TrustedReviews.com

Above: ThinkPad Z

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Handhelds / Smartphones

General Device News

Garmin adds high-end "nüvi" GPS / translator combo device (engadget)

i-mate announces "Jasjar" 3G/WiFi smart phone with QWERTY keyboard (WindowsForDevices)

Magic Talker portable translator (engadget)

Motorola ROKR E1 questions answered (engadget)

Two Technologies' Windows CE RFID handheld has software defined radio (WindowsForDevices)

Above: Garmin nuvi

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Above: iMate Jasjar

Carrier or Country-Specific Devices

Cingular adds Motorola ROKR iTunes phone (engadget)

Cingular to get the Nokia 9300 (engadget)

O2 UK will offer HTC's 3G / WiFi Pocket PC phone (Register)

Sprint adds PPC-6700, aka HTC Wizard with Windows Mobile 5 (engadget)

Vodafone offers cell phone solar charger (3G)

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Device Rumors

3G network BlackBerry 8700 coming? (engadget)

Rumored Palm Tungsten X, Zire 22 details (Palm InfoCenter)

BlackBerry 8700

Device Reviews

What's the best GPS device? (engadget)

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Right: Garmin mobile menu

Wireless Service News

Hotspot news 9/5 - 9/16 (Wi-Fi Planet)

Canada's Bell Mobility adds MSN IM

Sprint adds Garmin Mobile GPS service to some phones (engadget)

Verizon, Vodafone intro wireless broadband service for international travelers

Phones gather location- or product-specific info in NTT DoCoMo service (TechWeb)

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Below: Cicero softphone interface

Personal Software

Cicero debuts VoWi-Fi / cellular softphone (WiFi Planet)

Preview: Yahoo Mail beta looks more like Outlook (ZDnet)

Intro to Windows Mobile 5.0 (MobileTechReview)

RAM upgrades offered for iPaq 2400 / 6500 (PDA Street)

Basic security for Pocket PCs (PDA Street)

Feature: real notebook security (Laptop)

Unpatched Firefox flaw may expose users (Cnet)

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Enterprise Product Features

Enterprise Mobile Software

Good adds voicemail access on Treo 650

Solving issues with GoodLink & Exchange's Global Address Book (PalmAddicts)

Meeting Maker goes mobile (PDA Street)

Sybase updates its database management system (Wireless Week)

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Wireless Connectivity Products

Linksys ships $100 MIMO Wi-Fi router (TechWeb)

Wi-Fi product roundup 9/5 - 9/16 (Wi-Fi Planet)

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Industry News, Trends, & Analysis

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Mobile Trends & Analysis

Diary of a PDA journalist part 3: modeling convergence (BargainPDA)

What's the best color bit-level for a mobile device? (Windows Mobile Team Blogs)

Can wallet phones ring up sales? (Reuters)

Survey 80% say no to mobile ads (TechWeb)

Samsung predicts death of hard drives (Techworld)

Opinion: Palm failed Marketing 101 (MobileRead)

Opinion: PalmSource sale won't kill Palm OS (ZDnet)

Access says PalmSource sale won't affect licensees (Palm InfoCenter)

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Wireless Trends & Analysis

Survey: two-thirds of European companies rolling out wireless email; 95% want broad device support

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2005 Mobile Star Awards

Latest Entrants:
Comverse (no profile)

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Embedded Systems

Airgo third-gen Wi-Fi chip outperforms 100Mbps Ethernet (The Register)

Spansion claims new type of Flash memory to make smaller devices (TechWeb)

 

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Oracle swallows Siebel for $5.8B (Cnet)

Palm upbeat on PalmSource acquisition (PIC)

Fall 2005 Events

See the event calendar here. To list your mobile event, see the link on the events page.


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