Go Mobile® - #163 - Nov. 18, 2005

  • Features: Mobile / Tech Trends... Portable Storage
  • Verticals: Field Service... Healthcare
  • Products: Notebooks... Handhelds/Phones... Software... Network Gear
  • Industry: Trends & Analysis... Network News... Company News
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Featured Stories

 

 

Mobile / Tech Trends & Oddities

Miniature windmills could power rural wireless networks (engadget)

Toilet-flushed mobiles clog city sewers (The Register)

Some carry their mobiles to the grave (Belfast Telegraph)

Future watch: mobile video for business users (Computerworld)

Got 2 extra hours for your e-mail? (Cnet)

No danger of this mobile getting flushed

 

 

Portable Storage

Buffalo display drive

Good portable hard drive suggestions (engadget)

BlackDog USB portable Linux server review (SmartMobileAssets)

Buffalo adds flash drive with LCD display (engadget)

LG USB flash drive phones home when lost or stolen (engadget)

BlackDog

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Mobile & Wireless in Vertical Applications

Field Service: A drug company's Rx for secure mobile access (TechWeb)

Government: Wireless plays strong role in GSA Networx RFP (Wireless Week)

Healthcare: RFID could revolutionize patient safety (NY Times via Cnet)

Healthcare: Study: PDAs help cut antibiotic over-use (ePrimaryCare)

Healthcare: Unbound Medicine, Tarius release 21 CFR handheld

Healthcare: Six steps to successful electronic records management (Computerworld)

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Product News & Reviews

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Alienware Sentia m3200

Negroponte wants to put these free laptops in the hands of needy kids

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Handhelds / Smartphones & Accessories

General Handheld News

Police arrest woman who robbed two banks while chatting on a cell phone (AP)

How fast is your mobile? FutureMark posts PDA, phone benchmark (Extreme Tech)

Asus MyPal A636 Pocket PC has GPS, Bluetooth & WiFi (engadget)

EMTAC releases Bluetooth S3-GPS receiver (engadget)

Hyundai's $1200 phone sprays perfume (engadget)

Motorola releases 2 Megapixel RAZR V3i, hi-speed CDMA RAZR V3c (InfoSyncWorld)


Asus A636

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Samsung credit-card size P300

Hyndai perfume phone

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Carrier or Country-Specific Handheld News

Alltel turns on wireless TV, launches RAZR (Wireless Week)

Cingular adds Motorola V557 with scrolling news service (PC Magazine)

Rogers (Canada) adds BlackBerry 8700 (PDA Street)

Sprint adds push to talk photo sending (Wireless Week)

T-Mobile UK releases Sidekick II (Wireless Week)

Verizon preps XV6700 aka HTC Apache (engadget)

Vodafone Japan to add Sharp phone with analog TV tuner, 3.2 megapixel cam (engadget)

Above: Moto V557 with Cingular's new SCREEN3 service

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Nokia 770

New Handheld & Accessories Reviews

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Cellular Service News

Cingular adds enterprise paging (Wireless Week)

Wi-Fi Service News

Toshiba's WiFi service goes global (TechWeb)

Google to setup free WiFi in Mountain View, Calif; other Hotspot News Nov. 7 - 18 (WiFi Planet)

Google headquarters in Mountain View

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Personal Software

Below: Opera 8.5 on a Series 60 phone

Google Local goes mobile (IDG)

PalmSource opens nominations for U.S. powered up awards

Palm: DataViz Docs To Go v8 adds native PDF support (Palm Infocenter)

Palm: Missing Sync puts iTunes & podcasts on Palms (PodCasting News)

Palm, Windows Mobile: TCPMP media player v0.70 released (Palm InfoCenter)

Series 60: Opera 8.5 mobile browser adds S60 support (MobileMag)

Windows Mobile: double your device button-presses with VITO ButtonMapper (Geek)

Windows Mobile: there are subtle changes in v 5.0 (Smartphone Thoughts)

See what's new this week on Handango.

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Enterprise Product Features

Enterprise Mobile Software

Enterprise mobile software roundup to date: week of Nov. 7 - 18, 2005

Lap9 offers speech-activated services for Win Mobile devices (Windows for Devices)

Wireless Network Products / How-To's

Cisco adds wireless mesh products (WiFi Planet)

Wi-Fi product watch Nov. 7-18 (WiFi Planet)

Tropos links indoor and outdoor Wi-Fi service (TechWorld)

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Ways to link emergency radio nets (Network World)

Personal wireless networking 101 (vnunet)

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Industry News, Trends, & Analysis

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2005 Mobile Star Awards

To receive information about entering in 2006, email awards@mobilevillage.com. Information will be available in late December.

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Wireless Trends & Analysis

Study: Wireless security threats are exaggerated (TechWorld)

WLANs / WiMax / Wi-Fi

Trend: Enterprise WLAN spending surges (TechWeb)

Analysis: Enterprises may lose with non-standard 802.11n products (InfoWorld)

Analysis: Cognitive radio enhances WLANs (TechWorld)

Trend: WiMax is on the horizon (WiFi Planet)

Study: MIMO is becoming necessary (TechWeb)

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Cellular

U.S. wireless carriers release rating guidelines for adult content (Wireless Week)

Study: everyone wants mobile media & email, especially women (Wireless Week)

Qualcomm claims 3G HSDPA test speeds of 3.6 Mbps (TechWeb)

Analysis: GSM patent attack hits Nokia (Wireless Watch)

Perspective: govt. vs. private telecom (Cnet)

Company & Financial News

Alltel to buy Midwest Wireless (TechWeb)

Dell posts huge Q3 loss (MobileMag)

Nokia to buy Intellisync for $430m; Symbian boasts 130% Q3 shipment increase

Palm chief denies Palm OS pull-back (IDG)

RIM gets more bad news on lawsuit (Geek)


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