Go Mobile® - #164 - Dec. 20, 2005

  • Features: End-of-Year Buyers Guides... Mobile / Tech Trends
  • Verticals: Education... Field Service... GPS... Healthcare... Hospitality... Retail
  • Products: Notebooks... Handhelds/Phones... Software... Network Gear
  • Industry: Trends & Analysis... Network News... Company News
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Featured Stories

 

 

NEC's prototype biodegradable phone
End-of-Year Buyers Guides

A Wi-Fi traveler's holiday wish list (WiFi Planet)

Opinion: top-10 Windows Mobile apps (Clinton Fitch)

PalmSource picks best Palm software (PDA Street)

Geek.com 2005 holiday buying guide (Geek)

SmartPhoneToday holiday gift guide (SmartPhoneToday)

Pocket PC buyers guide 2006 (Pocket PC Magazine)

Four new HTC-made Windows Mobile phones compared (Geekzone)

Tablet PCs: quick comparison (Tablet PC Talk)

 

 

Samsung 7" flexible display

Twas the Night before a Hacker's Christmas

Mobile / Tech Trends

Details on Napa, Intel's next-gen Centrino chipset (engadget)

NEC shows off corn-based phone (engadget)

NEC develops paper-thin mobile battery (IDG)

Samsung claims first 7-inch flexible color display (engadget)

NEC's prototype mobile battery

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Mobile & Wireless in Vertical Applications

Various: Wireless All-Stars (top wireless deployments) (Network World)

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Education: Handhelds go to school (AP)

Education: Japanese college will put ID cards on cellphones (engadget)

Education: Indiana University exec tells of WiFi rollout challenges (Network World)

Field Service: Mobile Field Service software news roundup: Dec. 5-16, 2005

Field Service: Rogers Comm. offers Canadian field workers mobile devices, software (ComputerWorld)

student IDs go mobile

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GPS: Map-Aided GPS Navigation (GPS World)

Healthcare: Mobile Healthcare software news: PDS' billing software weds MDT's MD Coder; Unbound Medicine updates Current Consult Medicine

Healthcare: Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center follows optical wireless plan (Computerworld)

Healthcare: Unwiring the ambulance (WiFi Planet)

Healthcare: Wireless healthcare spending will reach $7B by 2010 (Mobile Health Data)

Hospitality: Converged network gives Canadian ski resort a lift (Computerworld)

Retail: Winery aims to boost sales with mobile retail system

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Product News & Reviews

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Notebooks / Tablets

Quanta to build MIT's $100 laptops (eWeek)

Intel's Barrett slams $100 laptop idea (Reuters)

Notebook vs. desktop costs today (PC World)

Acer adds hinged C200 tablet PC (engadget)

Asus W1 notebook gets carbon jacket (ISW)

Averatec adds 6500 15.4-inch 'mainstream' laptop (engadget)

Dell recalls 35,000 notebook batteries (Cnet)

Acer c200

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NEC intros hard disk-less notebook (engadget)

WidowPC’s Sting claims to be the world’s first dual core laptop (engadget)

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Notebook Reviews
Avaratec 6500

Above: DualCor cPC; below: Vonage WiFi phone by UTStarcom

Handhelds / Smartphones & Accessories

Getting started with your wireless PDA (BargainPDA)

Does your mobile need defragging? (Techworld)

Who's using my RAM? (Windows Mobile Team Blog)

Treo 650 tips and tricks (engadget)

Add a vibration alarm to your Palm TX (Palm InfoCenter)

General Handheld News

DualCor's upcoming cPC Windows XP phone will compete with OQO (engadget)

HP iPaq 4500 PDA hyped on web (The Register)

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Carrier or Country-Specific Handheld News
Right: Moto PEBL

Cingular's 2125 aka HTC Faraday (engadget)

Sprint debuts Sanyo MM-7500 multimedia clamshell (InfoSyncWorld)

T-Mobile adds Motorola PEBL V6 (InfoSyncWorld)

T-Mobile USA adds Samsung SGH-T809 slider (InfoSyncWorld)

UK carrier '3' adds LG-U8550 (engadget)

Verizon adds Motorola RAZR V3c (engadget)

Our five favorite Verizon phones (InfoSyncWorld)

Verizon to carry Palm's Windows Mobile Treo 700 in January (Brighthand)

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New Handheld & Accessories Reviews

Left: E-TEN M600

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Cellular Service News

Cingular offers international discounts (Wireless Week)

Cingular launches push-to-talk service (Wireless Week)

Cingular (finally) launches 3G network (Wireless Week)

Sprint offers full-length films on phones (Wireless Week)

Vodafone adds mobile TV service (Wireless Week)

Left: Downtown Tempe, AZ

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Wi-Fi Service News

Tempe, Arizona claims largest dual-use muni Wi-Fi network (AP)

Hotspot news roundup: past month (WiFi Planet)

Review: Mobile PA mobile email/news service rates 8 out of 10 (Pocket-Lint)

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Gmail for mobiles

Personal Software

AOL offers mobile search services (IDG)

Google launches Gmail for mobile devices (IDG)

Navizon's free software uses Wi-Fi & cellular for P2P GPS positioning (WiFi Planet)

StealthText offers self-destructing text messages (Geek)

Taking a look at Caller ID with Windows Mobile 5 (Smartphone Thoughts)

Bitstream's ThunderHawk browser now works on S60 phones (PDA Street)

Personal mobile software roundup Nov. 28 - Dec. 20, 2005

Review: FranklinCovey PlanPlus 3.0 for Microsoft Outlook (Pocket PC Magazine)

Review: Phatware CalliGrapher 8.0 (Pocket PC Magazine)

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Enterprise Product Features

Enterprise mobile hardware roundup Nov. 28 - Dec. 20, 2005

Enterprise Mobile Software

Enterprise mobile software roundup Nov. 28 - Dec. 20, 2005

iAnywhere updates XTNDConnect PC sync software & M-Business Anywhere developer platform

Microsoft upgrades its mobile communications software for small-medium businesses (TechWeb)

Omni Technology Windows Mobile clients gain Novell Groupwise support (WFD)

Vendors offer alternatives to squeezing desktop apps on mobiles (Computerworld)

Wireless Network Products / How-To's

Wi-Fi product roundup: past month (WiFi Planet)

AirDefense 7.0 wants to be your wireless log (Techworld)

AirMagnet updates Laptop Analyzer WLAN security & troubleshooting software (MobileMag)

Aruba, Bluesocket tweak WLAN security software (Techworld)

Colubris promises airtight WLANs (TechWeb)

Network Chemistry launches endpoint security software (IDG)

Trend: APs to sensors and back again (WiFi Planet)

Mobile anti-virus: now or later? (TechWeb)

Mastering mobile madness (mobile device management how-to) (CIO)

How to set up a WiFi network in 10 minutes (TechWeb)

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Converting to wireless (PC Pro)

Troubleshooting poor WLAN performance (WiFi Planet)

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BridgePort Networks announces VoIP offerings for mobile operators (WiFi Planet)

Developer Features

Articles help Palm, Symbian developers migrate to Win Mobile (Windows for Devices)

Mastering Windows Mobile Crypto API: the basics (Developer)

Mastering Windows Mobile Crypto API: Using Signatures and Certificates (Developer)

SQLCEDBView (View, edit and run SQL queries on your Pocket PC's SQLCE databases) (DevBuzz)

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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 January.

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WLANs / WiMax / Wi-Fi

Standards: Next-gen Wi-Fi rivals may join forces (The Register)

Standards: WiMAX standard is approved (IDG)

Analysis: Moving toward mesh networks (Computerworld)

Analysis: Wi-Fi security: are we there yet? (Newsfactor)

Cellular

Analysis: Will 3G change the enterprise? (IT Mgmt)

Analysis: Mobile video has promise, but also peril (TechWeb)

Trend: Q3 cell phone sales jump 22% (TechWeb)

Trend: Half of telecom revenues to be mobile in 2006 (TechWeb)

Trend: Cellular voice revenues fall, and data doesn't close the gap (eWeek)

Analysis: Mobile operators keep quiet on lost revenue (TechWeb)

Analysis: 2006 will be crunch time for mobile operators & partners (The Register)

Analysis: Operators join royalties debate while patents war shifts to email (Wireless Watch)

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Sprint creates enterprise mobility services subsidiary (TechWeb)

Sprint continues buying spree (Wireless Week)

Visto sues Microsoft over email patents, teams with NTP (TechWeb)

Winter 2006 Events

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


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