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Go Mobile® - #178 - Sept. 15, 2006

  • Features: Wireless Pros & Cons, CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment
  • Products: Notebooks... Handhelds/Phones... Software... Network Gear
  • Industry: Trends & Analysis... Network News... Company News
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Featured Stories

Wireless Pros & Cons
Wi-Fi lets kids access an unchaperoned Internet (Cnet)
WiFi: kid safe?
For wireless providers, control equals money (PC Magazine)
Is it time to close the wireless patent office? (ComputerWorld)
Wireless interoperability still an issue 5 years after 9/11 (Unstrung)
 
CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment
CTIA day 3 in brief (Wireless Week)
CTIA day 2 in brief (Wireless Week)
CTIA day 1 in brief (Wireless Week)
At CTIA, studio execs talk up mobile TV (PC Magazine)

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Product News & Reviews

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Notebooks / Tablets
Right: Cybertablet
Adesso announces its Cybertablet: monitor & tablet for Macs & PCs (Engadget)
Dell Latitude D820 rates well (Laptop Mag)
Panasonic adds new lightweight Toughbooks (PC Mag)
Sony unveils new Vaio N series (Engadget)
Toshiba Portege M400 rates 4/5 (MobileTechReview)
Korean Air bans Apple, Dell laptops (Apple Insider)
Virgin Atlantic bans Sony batteries in-flight (The Register)
More new reviews: Cnet / ZDnet, Laptop, Notebook Review, PC Pro, TabletPCReviewSpot, Trusted Reviews

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Handhelds / Smartphones
Handhelds & Smartphones
Apple announces new iPods & movies for iTunes (PC Magazine)
Apple cell phone ready for production, say rumors (Apple Insider)
Apple files patents for convergent wireless handheld (The Register)
Fifth Media intros CE.net phone with smartcard reader (MobileTechReview)
HP unveils media-centric iPaq rx4000 for Asia Pacific market (DailyTech)
HTC Artemis: hands-on (Engadget)
HTC Excalibur: hands-on (Engadget)
HTC Libra to support EVDO Rev. A (PhoneScoop)
iMate rolls out two new non-HTC models (Engadget)
Intermec claims smallest rugged WM handheld (Windows for Devices)
Median prepares UMPC with slide-out keyboard (Engadget)
Above: Microsoft Zune
Right: RIM BlackBerry 8100
Microsoft officially announces its Zune "iPod killer" (Engadget)
Motorola RAZR E690 Linux PDA phone preview (SlashGear)
Netgear finally ships its Skype WiFi phone (The Register)
Nokia E62 and E50: hands-on (Engadget)
Nokia to build satnav into N-series devices (The Register)
Raon Digital's Vega UMPC unboxing / impressions (Engadget)
RIM BlackBerry 8700 4.2 OS & 8800 confirmed (Engadget)
Samsung releases its SGH-i600 (PDA Street)
Sony's PRS-500 e-book reader in the wild (Engadget)
UTStarcom adds a portable WiFi handset (Tech Digest)
UTStarcom reveals HTC 6800; HTC Wizard followup will be Herald (Engadget)

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Samsung i830w
Carrier-Specific or Regional News
Cingular adds the 3125, aka HTC's "StrTrk" smartphone (Windows for Devices)
Cingular finally adds Nokia E61 (Engadget)
Cingular finally adds the RAZR V3i (Engadget)
Sprint adds Samsung i830w Windows Mobile phone (Engadget)
T-Mobile USA may offer HTC's Excalibur Windows Mobile phone (Brighthand)
T-Mobile UK to offer BlackBerry traffic image service (vnunet)
Verizon LG VX8600 Chocolate flip preview (Engadget)
Vodafone debuts Palm's new Treo 750w (Engadget)
Handheld Reviews (includes regional releases)

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Personal Software

 

Windows Earth Mobile
Editor's Pick: EasyReach enables remote PC access from any device
The pocket laptop project (word processing on a PDA) (ComputerWorld)
Voice recognition technology goes wireless (DNA India)
McAfee adds security software for Windows Mobile phones (PC Magazine)
Navigon releases navigation software for all smartphones (Palm InfoCenter)
Qmobilsoft's CallRec v3.1 vs. Motion Apps' mVoice v5 (Palm InfoCenter)
SoonR lets phone users access their computer with Opera Mobile 8.6 (TechWorld)
Toysoft releases new SIP VoIP client for Palm (Palm InfoCenter)
Vito CopyPaste is free app that lets smartphone users copy-paste info (MGN)
Windows Earth Mobile optimized for WinMo devices (MobileMag)

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Voting ends 9/25! Voting is open only to Go Mobile subscribers.

The Mobile Enterprise
Editor's Pick: Conceivium MobileAnalyzer & MobileMonitor
IT departments look for better mobile file sharing technology (Unstrung)
Securing company laptops: the options (ComputerWorld)