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Product News & Reviews

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Notebooks / Tablets

Rock's Pegasus 550N

Dell notebooks with Intel Core Duo chips coming soon (Cnet)

Mitsubishi releases 'Apricot' ultraportable laptop (engadget)

NEC's new Versa S950 notebook targets business users (MobileMag)

Rock unveils Pegasus 550N laptop (MobileMag)

PortalPlayer offers 'Always On' interface for lids in future notebooks (IDG)

Getting 3G wireless on Mac OS X (IDG)

Notebook Reviews

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Handhelds, Smartphones & Accessories

General Handheld News

Aceeca releases rugged low-end grayscale PDA (Trusted Reviews)

BenQ-Siemens SXG75 Linux GPS phone now shipping (InfoSyncWorld)

Fujistu unveils Pocket LOOX C550 (MobileWhack)

HP iPaq rx1950 gets GPS cradle (engadget)

HP iPaq hx4700 users offered Windows Mobile 5.0 upgrade in March (PDA Street)

Intel's Ultra Mobile PC due this spring? (engadget)

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Motorola Q delayed until April (engadget)

'NokiaBerry' E61 shipping in mid Feb? (MobileTracker)

Palm OS Treo 700p surfaces (Palm InfoCenter)

Samsung ships 4 Gig SGH-i300x (PDA Street)

Samsung 3 Megapixel cameraphone coming to the US? (engadget)

Sony Ericsson launches M600i communicator; delays P990i but adds features (InfoSyncWorld)

Left: Sony Ericsson M600i

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• Acer n35 handheld with GPS card (PC Authority)
• ASUS MyPal A636 with GPS rates 4/5 (Mobile Tech Review)
• Cardo Systems Scala 500 Bluetooth headset (PDA Buzz)
• GlobalSat BC-337 GPS receiver for PDAs with Compact Flash slots (GeekZone)
• I-mate Jamin editor's take (Cnet)
• Orange SPV C600 (PDA Buzz)
• Orange SPV M5000 rates 8/10 (Trusted Reviews)
• Palm Treo 700w vs. Treo 650 (Washington Post)
• Palm Z22 good for a plain PDA (Techworld)
• RIM BlackBerry 8700g for T-Mobile Europe rates 2.5/5 (The Indpendent)
• Top PDA picks (InfoSyncWorld)

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Enterprise Features

Enterprise Mobile Software

Device management software 101: support PDAs, but with caution (InformationWeek)

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Vertical Market Applications

Asset Tracking / Retail: RFID helps sales at Wal-Mart (Internet Retailer)

Education: Nebraska's Creighton University texts acceptance notes to student phones (AP)

Field Service: Home energy inspectors go mobile (Unstrung)

Finance: Banks have big plans for wireless deployments (Unstrung)

Healthcare: Anesthesia Central -- mobility for the gases (medgadget)

Healthcare: Study: hospital cell phone bans hinder good healthcare (NY Times vis Cnet)

Healthcare: Medtronic adapts Palm PDAs for patients to control intravenous pain-relief (e-Health Insider)

Public Safety: LA Police Dept. hopes GPS darts will end car chases (LA Times)

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Industry News, Trends, & Analysis

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Mobile Trends & Analysis

Handhelds: IDC report: holidays didn't help 2005 Q4 handheld sales

IT Dept: Coders get their own search engine (Linux Watch)

IT Dept: How much tech vendors can influence IT analysts' research (InformationWeek)

Laptops: Embedded HSDPA for notebooks: Wi-Fi complement or competitor? (The Register)

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Wireless Trends & Analysis

Cellular

Access: More big brands become wireless MVNOs (Cnet)

Access: How to duck roaming charges abroad (ISW)

Law: President Bush OK's more spectrum for mobile broadband (IDG)

Law: Europe to get tough on roaming charges (IDG)

Technology: Next week's 3GSM World Congress preview (IDG)

Technology: Companies prepare design for US $100 WiFi - cellular phone (EE Times)

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WLANs / WiMax / Wi-Fi

Access: Hotspot news roundup: past month (WiFi Planet)

Access: Cambridge, Mass. gets Wi-Fi with help from MIT (TechWeb)

Access: London buses trial real-time wireless (vnunet)

Handhelds: Wi-Fi phones take off, mostly in Asia (Techworld)

Security: Wi-Fi for dummies (Security Focus)

Standards: WLAN standard: still a ways to go (EE Times)

Technology: IBM intros chipset for 802.15.3c (WiFi Planet)

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Technology: IBM claims its new wireless chip is 10x faster than today's Wi-Fi networks (IDG)

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