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Go Mobile® - #194 - August 10, 2007

  • Features: Mobile Trends... Mobile Tips
  • Products: Notebooks... Handhelds/Phones... Software
  • Networking: News, Products, & Tips
  • Industry: Trends & Analysis... Company News
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Featured Stories

Mobile Trends
Left: Mobile tech monitors Moana Loa's endangered silversword & other plants
In Hawaii, wireless PDAs help combat plant extinction (IDG)
Mobile robots aren't science fiction any more (Computerworld)
HP technology will let people match colors via cell phones (IDG)
Super V-chip' could screen mobile web content (Reuters)
Microsoft researchers show off wireless projects (IDG)
Poll: Ban texting while driving, even though we do it (The Register)
Mobile messaging aims to help prevent friendly fire (IDG)
Guarding against "snoopware" in your pocket (Computerworld)

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Product News & Reviews

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Notebooks / Tablets
Left: TabletKiosk Sahara
Asustek adds Asus U3 13.3" laptop with 3G, GPS (Laptoping)
Fujitsu's 17" N6460 laptop now available in the US (PC Launches)
HP Compaq's 2210b/CT ultraportable targets businesspeople (Engadget)
Lenovo laptop aims to boost performance, reduce energy use (Computerworld)
Lenovo to preload ThinkPads with Linux (PC Magazine)
Sony's VAIO TZ superultraportable hands-on preview (Engadget)
TabletKiosk's Sahara i440D Slate PC now shipping (Engadget)
New reviews: Cnet / ZDnet, GottaBeMobile, Laptop, Notebook Review, PC Authority, PC Pro, TabletPCReviewSpot, Trusted Reviews

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Mobiles & Accessories

Acturion's UMPC shows its ports
BlueAnt launches voice isolating Z9 Bluetooth headset (Engadget)
HTC Advantage UMPC-like phone now available, $899 unlocked (Engadget)
HTC Kaiser gets ok from FCC (Engadget)
HTC Polaris: HTC's Artemis successor (MoDaCo)
i-Mate releases budget Windows Mobile 5 phone (WFD)
Nokia N800 internet tablet adds Skype Wi-Fi calling (PC Mag)
Nokia 8GB N95 with 3G may soon hit the US (GigOm)
RIM BlackBerry 8820 switches between Wi-Fi & cellular (PDA Street)
BlackBerry Curve 8310 with GPS debuts on Vodafone Germany (Engadget)
RIM BlackBerry Pearl 2 rumored due soon (PDA Street)
Samsung SGH-P520 touchscreen phone: preview (Engadget)
Samsung's new i550 integrates GPS (Navigadget)
Socket Mobile's SoMo 650 rugged handheld sticks with Win Mobile 5 (PDA Street)
Sophia's Nani Windows CE phone offers PMP, touchscreen display (Windows for Devices)
Yukyung's Viliv PMP line boasts GPS, DTV, Windows CE & Linux (Windows for Devices)
Yukyung Viliv, from Korea

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Smartphone Reviews

HP iPAQ 514

 

 

 

Below: HTC Advantage

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Consumer Software

 

Teksoft Fingertouch
All: Consumer Mobile Software news roundup for July 2007
All: Chapura FolderMirror mobilizes Outlook folders, including on the iPhone (PDA Street)
Mac: Synchronica's MS Exchange gateway supports Apple's iPhone (The Register)
Mac: BeeJive, Cerulean offer iPhone IM (PDA Street)
Mac: Apple iPhone gets a third-party voice recorder (TUAW)
Mac: 10 must-see iPhone apps (Computerworld)
Palm: Palm Desktop Beta for Windows Vista released (Palm Infocenter)
Windows Mobile: Teksoft offers FingerTouch software keyboard for Windows Mobile Pocket PC (Geekzone)
Windows Mobile: Prevalent Devices Phraze-It text entry review (CIO)
Windows Mobile: WorldMate Live & Pocket Express Travel: smartphone apps for travelers (PDA Street)
Windows Mobile: Yahoo! GO 2.0 finally available for Windows Mobile (Engadget)
Windows: iPass layers on security for laptops (The Register)

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Mobile Enterprise
Software assesses enterprise mobility readiness (Computerworld)
Mac vs. PC cost analysis, Round II (Computerworld)
Auto Warehousing Co. switches from Windows Mobile to iPhones (Computerworld)
How IT must learn to love the iPhone (Techworld)
Using mobile logistics apps to streamline your business (IDG)
Mobile middleware will allow docs to remotely monitor patients' health (IDG)

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Six things you need to know about developing mobile applications (Computerworld)
FirstHand Technologies' FMC product adds Windows Mobile 6 (Windows for Devices)

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Networks & Networking

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Enterprise Networking
AirMagnet launches 802.11n analyser (Techworld)
Cisco offers patch following Duke University's WLAN outages (Techworld)
Varaha links smartphone users to company PBX systems (Network World)
Using 802.11n bridging for fast wireless speeds (Computerworld)
Is 802.11n ready for the enterprise? (Computerworld)
10 things you should know about wireless VoIP (TechRepublic)
Xirrus breaks down classroom walls in Boulder (Network World)
Personal Networking
Devicescape takes on Wi-Fi guest access problem (IDG)
Jajah's international VoIP calling service uses hotel phones (PCW UK)
Mexen's Navizon offers GPS without satellites (Techworld)
AT&T adds mobile music service (IDG)
Paris moves forward with free city Wi-Fi plans (IDG)

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Industry News, Trends, & Analysis

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Content: Mobile websites fail to satisfy users (The Register)
Content: 5 tips for creating mobile content (WebVideo U)
Devices: Apple's iPhone: the $1,975 iPod (InfoWorld)
Devices: Why the iPhone is a success (Newswireless)
Devices: iPhone's secret sauce: software (Business 2.0)
Devices: Google plans its own phone (The Register)
Devices: Nokia's Communicator software debacle: its "New Coke" moment? (The Register)
Devices: Laptops beat mobiles in mobile working poll (The Register)
Financials: Dismal Q2 evidence of deeper problems at Motorola? (The Register)
Networks: EarthLink's new caution reflects changes in municipal Wi-Fi (IDG)
Networks: Mobile roaming. Do you care? (The Register)
Financial / Legal News
Apple, AT&T report good, but not great iPhone sales (Unstrung)
Apple files text-to-voice patent (Mac NN)
Aruba buys Network Chemistry's Wi-Fi security business (Unstrung)
DotMobi doles out domains to cities (Register)
Ericsson/Samsung, Visto/Seven settle differences (The Register)
IBM to buy DataMirror for $161M (Reuters)
Motorola signs up MicroVision for mobile phone projectors (The Register)
Qualcomm charged with 'standards abuse' (The Register)
Sprint income down 94% (Unstrung)
Vodafone invests in WiMax (Unstrung)

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Networks: T-Mobile - Truphone VoIP settlement: the first battle between operators & VoIP providers? (Techworld)
Networks: How do you create the right mobile access services mix? (The Register)
Networks: Why i-mode failed outside Japan (The Register)
Standards: Bluetooth version 2.1 approved (Techworld)
< Standards: Mobile Linux group LiMo Foundation gains new members < (IDG)
Systems: Motorola to put Linux on 60 percent of its handsets in 2 years (IDG)
Systems: Palm selects Wind River for Foleo Linux OS (Palm Infocenter)
Systems: Ezurio offers Bluetooth chip with 1km range (Techworld)
Systems: Notebook makers face parts shortage (PC Magazine)

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