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Go Mobile® - #196 - Sept. 21, 2007

  • Feature Stories: Mobile Trends... Muni Wi-Fi Troubles
  • Mobile Products: Notebooks... Smartphones & UMPCs... Software
  • Mobile Enterprise: Applications & Networking
  • Mobile Industry: Trends & Analysis... Financial & Legal News
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Featured Stories

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Mobile Trends
Moore sees 'Moore's Law' dead in 10-15 years (Extreme Tech)
Intel previews its upcoming mobile device platforms (PC Mag)
Multi-touch display project uses all 10 fingers (PDA Street)
concept device with Moorestown chip

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RFID is heading to cell phones (IDG)
How PDAs are saving lives in Africa (UN Dispatch)
Mobiles help in food relief efforts (MobileActive)
California bans teen driver cell phone use (PC Mag)
Muni Wi-Fi Troubles
US municipal Wi-Fi loses its shine (Faultine)
What's behind all the municipal Wi-Fi failures? (Wired)
Why Wi-Fi will survive (Computerworld)
Muni Wi-Fi still thrives, on a smaller scale (CS Monitor)

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Product News & Reviews

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Notebooks / Tablets
Left: Xeratus DuraPad T9000 (link is below)
CradlePoint releases new cellular travel router (Engadget)
Asus readies its U3S laptop with GPS (Navigadget)
Dell D630, D830 offer Seagate's Crypto Drive option (Techworld)
HP rolls out Compaq 6520s, 6720s, 6820s laptops (Engadget)
HP's WWAN equipped Pavilion dv2500t is now official (Engadget)

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NEC rolls out LaVie laptops with "face pass" (Engadget)
Neoware thin client notebook to run Windows CE, XPe (Windows for Devices)
Packard Bell launches EasyNote XS 7-inch UMPC (Pocket-Lint)
Palm kills the Foleo, for now (Engadget)
Sony debuts the VAIO CR20 and NR10 series (Engadget)
Toshiba's mobile projector matches widescreen notebook resolutions (PC Mag)
Wyse releases X90 thin clients with Windows XPe (Windows for Devices)
Xeratus Windows XPe tablets target tough environments (Windows for Devices)

Packard Bell EasyNote XS

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New reviews: Cnet / ZDnet, GottaBeMobile, Laptop, Notebook Review, PC Authority, PC Pro, TabletPCReviewSpot, Trusted Reviews

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Smartphones, UMPCs, & Accessories
Left: one of HP's five new iPaqs
Cubic launches 'global' mobile phone (The Register)
Danger / Motorola Sidekick Slide hits the FCC, user's manual and all (Engadget)
Google phone rumors get specific (Engadget)
HP adds five new iPAQ phones (PDA Street)
HTC Kaiser could be T-Mobile USA's first 3G smartphone (Brighthand)
Kohjinsha SH-series UMPC bumped to Intel A110 processor (Engadget)
LG's VX10000 and VX8800 touchscreen preview (Engadget)

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Magellan's MobileMapper has GPS/GIS & PDA features (Windows for Devices)
Mio's DigiWalker A702 has GPS, WM 6, 3.2-mp camera (Windows for Devices)
Nokia's new E51 business smartphone has Wi-Fi (PDA Street)
OQO Model 02 UMPC gets price cut, bigger hard-drive (PC Magazine)
Palm Treo 500 isn't just for Vodafone; receives FCC approval (Palm Infocenter)
RIM's first Wi-Fi BlackBerry 8820 debuts on AT&T (Mobile Burn)
Samsung SCH-i760 has slide-out keyboard (Windows for Devices)
Samsung's SGH-F700 gets official on Vodafone (Engadget)

Samsung F700

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Smartphone & UMPC Reviews
Fujitsu U810

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Consumer Software & Services
IBM launches free, online Office app suite called Symphony (PC Magazine)
Mac: Navizon brings virtual GPS to iPhones (Engadget)
Symbian: Nokia improves its Nokia Maps satellite navigation app (The Register)
Symbian & Windows Mobile: Fring roams between Wi-Fi, 3G networks (Geekzone)
Windows Mobile: best utilities (Pocket PC Magazine)
Windows Mobile: advanced applications, part 3 (PDA Street)
Windows Mobile: SimulScribe vs. SpinVox for visual voicemail (PocketNow)
Navizon

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Mobile Enterprise
Datalogic's new handheld scanner resists drops & shocks (Windows for Devices)
StyleTap puts Palm apps into rugged Windows Mobiles with scanners (PDA Street)
HP adds mobile device management service (PDA Street)
Interview: VP of Nokia Enterprise Solutions Mary McDowell (IDG)
Managing your move into mobility (ZDnet)
Enterprise Networking
AirMagnet announces Survey/Planner 5.0 (Wi-Fi Planet)
Cisco adds its first 802.11n AP (Unstrung)

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Trapeze releases Wi-Fi guest provisioning tool (Techworld)
Wi-fi security left out in the cold (Silicon)
Wireless technology hits security budgets (Computerworld)
Bringing VoIP to the smart phone (TMCnet)
RIM BlackBerry Connect review (PC Authority)
Baylor Medical Center uses wireless for IM & presence technology (Computerworld)
Study claims mobiles can upset hospital equipment, after all (The Register)

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Industry News, Trends, & Analysis

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Content: PC desktop applications move to being network-hosted (Techworld)
Content: Google puts AdWord on mobiles (The Register)
Content: Apple's Joswiak: We don't hate iPhone coders (Gearlog)
Content: Mobile walled garden vs open plain strategies debate (Palm Infocenter)
Devices: What iPhone's competition thinks (Laptop)
Devices: Apple, Nokia drive phone growth (PDA Street)
Devices: Palm's future is not so rosy (PC Magazine)
Networks: Moovera proposes cellular backhaul for muni Wi-Fi (Techworld)
Networks: Verizon, Vodafone converging on global 4G (Unstrung)
Networks: Why Europe's MVNO startups sing (Business Week)
Financial / Legal News
BenQ relaunches, but phones take a back seat (IDG)
Gateway sells professional services unit to MPC (PC Magazine)
Google wants to patent text message payments (The Register)
Motorola's goal: be 'boringly consistent' (IDG)
NTP sues U.S. wireless carriers (PhoneScoop)
Palm stockholders approve $325m Elevation investment (Palm Infocenter)
Qualcomm chips ok'ed in newest U.S. phone imports (IDG)
Sony Ericsson President will step down (Reuters)
T-Mobile to buy SunCom for $2.4B (Unstrung)

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Operating Systems: Who's afraid of Apple & Google? Not Symbian (GigaOm)
Operating Systems: Does Symbian mean business? (Personal Computing World)
Operating Systems: Embedded OS market increases 20%, despite Linux (Windows for Devices)
Operating Systems: Fragmentation threatens mobile Linux momentum (IDG)
Standards: Pat Gelsinger demos USB 3.0, PICe 3.0 and other new toys (The Inquirer)
Standards: Nokia, others back new Universal Flash Storage standard (IDG)
Standards: U.K. operators announce PayForIt mobile wallet scheme (The Register)
Users: In Moscow, not all smartphone owners are smart (MN Weekly)

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