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Go Mobile® - #182 - Dec. 8, 2006

  • Features: Mobile Trends, Networks Spotlight
  • Products: Notebooks... Handhelds/Phones... Software... Network Gear
  • Industry: Trends & Analysis... Network News... Company News
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Featured Stories

Mobile Trends

Cell phones as lifelines (Cnet)
Five problems with portable navigation devices (TechnoRide)
Prototype GPS that never fails (Technology Review)
Carriers to offer speech-to-text technology next year (Australian IT)
Mobiles just a new tool in students' old cheating game (The Register)

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Product News & Reviews

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SideShow on Asus laptop
Notebooks / Tablets
New gadget can save data on lost or stolen laptops (ComputerWorld)
Lose your laptop, but not your mind (ComputerWorld)
Asus preps first laptop with Microsoft SideShow display (Engadget)
Fujitsu announces new Stylistic tablet PCs (Laptoping)
Rock reveals 13.3" multimedia laptop line (The Register)
Systemax upgrades to Core 2 Duo processors (Engadget)

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Toshiba's Portege M400 gets Core 2 Duo & HSDPA (Engadget)
Toshiba updates its Satellite K16, K11, and J61 (Engadget)
Trigem adds the 11" Averatec 1500 (Akibahara News)
AMD says its 2007 chips use half the power of Core 2 Duo (PC Magazine)
Intel develops mobile WiMax chipset (PC Magazine)
Intel to put pre-standard 802.11n in Centrino (InfoWorld)
New reviews: Cnet / ZDnet, Laptop, Notebook Review, PC Pro, TabletPCReviewSpot, Trusted Reviews

Toshiba Portege M400

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HTC p4350

Handhelds / Smartphones
Cell phones for the holidays (Forbes)
Averatec ships Voya 320 media handheld with GPS (Windows for Devices)
Azentek reveals new UMPC plans (Carrypad)
Dopod's WM devices get Blackberry Connect service (Windows for Devices)
Fujitsu concept phone slides four ways (Engadget)
Garmin kills all its GPS PDAs except for one (The Inquirer)
HP launches new series of iPAQ handhelds (Brighthand)
HTC announces its 'Herald' Windows Mobile phone (The Register)
LG's Chocolate u830 supports HDSPA (Engadget)
LG WinMobile phone to support high-speed Wimax networks (Slashphone)
Samsung's i600: "world's thinnest" 3G QWERTY phone (Geekzone)

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Carrier Specific or Regional News
Palm Treo 680 launches on Cingular, $199 (Engadget)
Cingular adds the RIM BlackBerry Pearl (Wireless Week)
O2 follows T-Mobile with launch of O2 Xda Orbit from HTC (Pocket Lint)
O2's Xda Flame to redefine Pocket PC high end? (Pocket PC Thoughts)
Sprint to add new black Motorola Q (Engadget)
Verizon LG enV launches, QWERTY nerds rejoice (Engadget)
Verizon branded Pantech PN-820 pictures leaked (Engadget)
Vodafone UK gets serious about mobile remote access (The Register)
China gets Motorola's ROKR E6; is the US next? (Engadget)

O2's XDA Flame

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Treo 680
Handheld Reviews (includes regional releases)

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Consumer Software
CorePlayer review (Palm InfoCenter)
Mac OS X patch fixes 22 flaws, including WiFi vulnerability (PC Magazine)
Opera Mini browser 3.0 review (The Register)
Speedscript aims to speed UMPC text entry (Windows for Devices)
Nokia honors top developer applications (Wireless Week)

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The Mobile / Wireless Enterprise
Microsoft officially launches Vista, Exchange 2007 for businesses (PC Magazine)
Avoid "dripping" data leaks (Dark Reading)
UMA networks could make progress in the office (Wi-Fi Planet)
Dynamic Wi-Fi power can hinder VoIP (Network World)
Colubris targets manufacturing plant floors for wireless nets (Managing Automation)
Healthcare Mobile Software roundup Oct. - Dec., 2006
Look for an Enterprise Mobile Software roundup next issue.

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Network Products & Tips

Wi-Fi hotspot security: using VPNs (Wi-Fi Planet)

Four things to do once you have a 'ping' or network connection (Wi-Fi Planet)
Nokia hedges bets on VOIP service (IDG)
WLAN faceoff: Cisco versus Meru (IDG)

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Industry News, Trends, & Analysis

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Access: 2/3 of London's hotspots unfit for voice (The Register)
Access: Singpore's free Wi-Fi goes live (IDG)
Content: How long until the mobile is the heart of entertainment? (The Register)
Content: The gorilla that ate the carriers (Verizon-YouTube deal analysis) (Unstrung)
Embedded Systems: Samsung produces slimmest LCD (PC Magazine)
Law: Taxing times for WiFi in Australia? (Unstrung)
Markets: Report outlines enterprise WLAN market challenges (Unstrung)
Markets: Mobile phone sales grow -- except in Japan (IDG)
Markets: Sales of PC-free Skype handsets take off (Network World)
Markets: Software market may double between 2003 and 2010 (The Register)
Markets: It's not easy being Palm (Unstrung)
Operating Systems: Smartphone satisfaction largely driven by OS (Palm InfoCenter)

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Operating Systems: The mobile user interface challenge (ComputerWorld)
Operating Systems: Linux handset adoption - it's the ecology stupid! (Quocirca)
Standards: Qualcomm buys Airgo, but does it really have 802.11n draft 2.0? (Techworld)
Standards: GSM operators team on near field communications (IDG)
Standards: Sony, NXP to standardize contactless chip cards (Wireless Week)
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