Go Mobile® - #174 - June 23, 2006
Featured Stories
Mobile Trends
Poll: 27% bring their laptop or PDA on vacation (PC Magazine)
More cruise ships offer cellular service (ComputerWorld)
All-you-can-eat 3G may not last (IDG)
Teens hijack 'silent' alarm for mobiles (vnunet)
Mobiles & special software help the blind to "see" (The Globe & Mail)
Personal displays keep data private (PC Magazine)
MIT researchers developing a long-life nanotube battery (Science Central)
New cell phone screens will be more battery-friendly (Cnet)
Laptop catches fire at a conference: bad batteries likely cause (Engadget)
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Product News & Reviews
Notebooks / Tablets
Dialogue Flybook
Avaratec updates its 10" laptop (Gadgets-Weblog)
BenQ shows off Joybook notebooks (Engadget)
Dell's new Latitude D420 business ultraportable replaces the X1 (Engadget)
Dialogue previews Flybook VM laptop with telescoping screen (Engadget)
Evesham adds a new business laptop (Engadget)
Fujitsu Siemens releases Q2010 Lifebook (Engadget)
HP Compaq nx6325 with AMD Turion to compete with Intel Core Duo (PC Mag)
LG previews its XNOTE V1 series of 15-inch Core Duo laptops (Engadget)
Toshiba adds J60 15" notebook (MobileMag)
Notebook / Tablet Reviews
Avaratec Ahi
Handhelds, Smartphones & Accessories
General Handheld News
Avaratec previews its UMPC (Engadget)
ASUS intros P525 PPC phone (Geekzone)
Fujitsu-Siemens unveils Pocket Loox N100 with GPS (First Loox)
Datalogic rugged Windows CE PDA gains speed, memory (WFD)
Microsoft still at work on tiny Haiku PC (IDG)
Motorola debuts five frill-free phones (The Register)
OKWAP's WM phones go touchscreen (PDA Street)
Nokia unveils 5 new handsets (MobileMag)
Palm Treo 650 ranks in top 10 for radiation (Palm IC)
PSC's Falcon 4400 rugged handhelds now with Windows Mobile 5.0 (WFD)
Samsung will debut its Motorola Q-like SGH-i320 in France (Engadget)
Sharp W-Zero3 handheld due 6/22 (Gizmodo)
T-Mobile Sidekick 3: hands-on (Engadget)
Sidekick 3
Left: Samsung i320
Regional News
Canada: Telus gets the Motorola Q (Engadget)
Europe: Six European mobile operators to cut roaming prices (Techworld)
U.K. & U.S: Vodafone & T-Mobile to carry Blackberry 7130 (Pinstack)
U.S.: Cingular adds RIM's BlackBerry 7130c (Engadget)
U.S.: 2 Cingular phones get push email (Wireless Week)
U.S.: Verizon officially adds the Motorola Q (Engadget)
U.S.: Nokia N91 music phone hits the U.S. (PDA Street)
New Handheld Reviews
Below: BlackBerry 7130
New Accessories News & Reviews
Sima's Hitch
3G cellular modems overview (Enterprise IT Planet)
EV-DO does it (EV-DO router roundup) (PC Magazine)
Samsung, WD update their hard drive lines (PC Magazine)
Motorola puts 4.9 & WiFi in one card (WiFi Planet)
Netgear ProSafe FVG318 Router/Firewall/VPN review (WiFi Planet)
Sima's Hitch allows PC-less file transfers (MobileMag)
Memorex TravelLink file transfer device review (ComputerWorld)
Personal Mobile Software
Personal Mobile Software news, June 1 - 23
Alternative text input choices (ZDnet)
Get Exchange e-mail on any phone (ISW)
eBay offers text alerts on phones (Wireless Week)
Parallels: switch between Win XP & OS X (ZDnet)
Setting up GPS on Windows Mobile 5 (WM Blog)
Software & OS Reviews
Enterprise Features
Developer News
Microsoft toolkit helps developers build Windows Mobile line-of-business apps (WFD)
Nokia releases source code for Apache webserver on Symbian (Linux Devices)
NS Basic upgrades its development tool for Windows CE, Windows Mobile (WFD)
See all entrants to date.
Enterprise Wireless Products
Aruba updates its WLAN management software (Network World)
Tests show 802.11n draft products have poor range (Techworld)
Wireless mesh gear passes the test (Unstrung)
Review: BlueSocket BSC 5000 wireless gateway (Techworld)
Enterprise Mobile/Wireless Tips
Here come WLAN dense deployments (ComputerWorld)
Are WLAN site surveys necessary? (IDG)
Can WLAN traffic degrade a specific WLAN? (ComputerWorld)
Who's hooking PBXs to cellphones? (Network World)
The handheld upgrade dilemma (IT Management)
The top 9 ways to secure mobile devices (ComputerWorld)
Focus on ROI in mobile rollouts too limiting, Intel CIO says (ComputerWorld)
Industry News, Trends, & Analysis
Access: Mesh mess sinks Sacramento WiFi (Unstrung)
Access: Metro Wi-Fi struggles for acceptance (Techworld)
Access: In-flight wireless faces obstacles (Business Week)
Engineering: Small displays present unique problems (EDN)
Markets: Asia nears 800 million mobile users (IDG)
Markets: Fancy phones don't sell in the U.S. (IDG)
Operating Systems: Startup launches mobile Linux OS (IDG)
Operating Systems: Has Windows Mobile beaten Palm? (Palm InfoCenter)
Financial News
Dopod to become HTC subsidiary (The Register)
Intel to sell its unprofitable Xscale biz (Geek)
Lenovo posts huge loss after IBM buy (Reuters)
Motorola buys TTP for $200m (IDG)
NetMotion Wireless, Padcom to merge (Wireless Week)
Nokia, Siemens merge phone infrastructure businesses (The Register)
Qualcomm's pressure mounts (Wireless Watch)
Vodafone reports £15bn loss (The Register)
Operating Systems: Next Windows Mobile to ship mid 2007 (Unstrung) / Win CE 6 due later this year (WFD)
Operating Systems: Symbian vs Windows Mobile standby times (All About Symbian)
Standards: Mobile companies join forces on Linux (Cnet)
Standards: Push-to-talk standard is approved (IDG)
Technology: Merging cellular & WiFi isn't easy (ComputerWorld)
Technology: The failure of RFID (ComputerWorld)
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