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Go Mobile® - #198 - Nov. 2, 2007

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

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Mobile Trends
13 future technologies (Computerworld)
Handheld supercomputers: 10-15 years away? (Computerworld)
Nanotechnology could replace disk drives in 10 years (Computerworld)
Wearable computers have improved since their early years (Computerworld)
Japanese are already using mobiles as wallets
What went wrong with the mobile Web? (Computerworld)
Patent filings show possible future iPhone & Windows Mobile features (PDA Street)
Opinion: free my phone (Wall Street Journal)
A wireless revolution in India (BusinessWeek)
Muni Wi-Fi Optimism
Wi-Fi lives as cities refine approaches (SF Gate)
Cities themselves can save muni Wi-Fi (Cnet)
Don't count metro Wi-Fi (or Earthlink) out just yet (Wi-Fi Planet)
Symbian & CTIA Show News
CTIA Fall best product winners (Laptop)
Smartphone Show significant statistics (IDG)
Symbian promises enhanced networking & graphics acceleration (IDG)
Nokia's S60 OS to be touch sensitive in late 2008 (The Register)

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Product News & Reviews

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Notebooks / Tablets
LG's XNote R200
Apple upgrades Macbooks to Intel Santa Rosa processors (Gearlog)
Asus' new cheap Eee subnotebooks earn good reviews (Engadget)
Dell starts selling notebooks at Staples (PC Magazine)
Fujitsu adds new LifeBook A6110 15.4-inch laptop (Engadget)
LG releases its XNote R200 with SideShow external display (Engadget)
Packard Bell EasyNote XS is priced & dated (PC Magazine)
Toshiba Launches Satellite Pro small-biz laptops (PC Magazine)
Wacom adds a smaller Cintiq tablet (Engadget)
Western Digital first to ship 320GB 2.5-inch hard drive (Engadget)
New reviews: Cnet / ZDnet, GottaBeMobile, Laptop, Notebook Review, PC Authority, PC Pro, TabletPCReviewSpot, Trusted Reviews

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Black Diamond Switchback
Mobiles & Accessories
Black Diamond's rugged Switchback UMPC ships (Engadget)
CipherLab's 9400 series data collection handheld does RFID, WLAN, WAN (Windows for Devices)
Datalogic data collection handheld has GPRS, GSM, & EDGE (WFD)
Ectaco intros iTravl speech powered dictionary & translation device (Windows for Devices)
HTC Touch for Sprint gains EV-DO, loses WiFi (Windows for Devices)
iMate's Ultimate has QWERTY input & video out (Windows for Devices)
LG's Shine and Vu: colors, dates, & FLO touchscreens (Engadget)
LXE's MX8 offers scanner & voice recognition (Windows for Devices)

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Motorola Q9h global phone comes to AT&T (PDA Street)
Nokia takes 8GB N95 worldwide (PDA Street)
Nokia N810 Wi-Fi tablet hands-on preview (Engadget)
Pantech's Duo dual slider Windows Mobile phone comes to AT&T (PDA Street)
Psion Teklogix returns to rugged PDA market with the iKon (Windows for Devices)
RIM BlackBerry Pearl 8130 hands-on preview (Engadget)
Samsung BlackJack II gets official (Engadget)
Samsung's 5 megapixel G800 available next month (Engadget)
Nokia N810
Samsung's SGH-i780 for Europe, features touchscreen & "optical joystick" (Windows for Devices)
Sandisk adds 6GB microSDHC & 16GB SDHC cards (Palm Infocenter)

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Smartphone Reviews

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Consumer Software & Services
All Platforms: Consumer mobile software roundup for October (MobileVillage)
All Plaforms: Dashwire software 'mirrors' your cell phone online (Computerworld)
All Plaforms: Gmail's new IMAP support lets users synchronise with email clients (Techworld)
All Plaforms: Opera Mini 4 beta 3 review (Mobility Site)
BlackBerry: Yahoo IM, GoogleTalk both updated (PDA Street)
iPhone: What iPhone apps do you want next year? (Engadget)
Mac: Leopard (OS X v10.5) news roundup (Engadget)
Mac: OS X 10.5 Leopard review: "beautifully easy" (Laptop)
Symbian: Google Maps for Symbian review (Coolest Gadgets)
Google Maps on Symbian
Symbian: Chronicles of a Windows Mobile user gone Symbian: part 1 (Pocket Now)
Windows Mobile: CooTek's TouchPal brings iPhone-like touchpad to Windows Mobile (Engadget)
Windows Mobile: Microsoft refines Live Search client for Windows Mobile (Windows for Devices)

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Windows Mobile: Getting in sync with Daylight Savings Time (PDA Street)

Personal Networking
AT&T offers temporary free Wi-Fi access in Southern California (release)
BT, FON join in Wi-Fi sharing service (Wi-Fi Planet)
Testing out UK McDonald's free Wi-Fi (All About Symbian)
Talkster brings free ad-funded worldwide calling (Engadget)
Hutchison 3 UK unveils Skype mobile handset (Unstrung)
Rogers brings HSPA 3G speeds to 22 Canadian cities (Engadget)
Sprint agrees to unlock previously bought phones (Reuters)

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Mobile Enterprise
Monthly Mobile Mentor: Conceivium's Lifecycle Management for BlackBerry (MobileVillage)
Microsoft previews new mobile device management server (Windows for Devices)
Red Five's .NET CF clone lets WM or CE apps run on Symbian 60 (Win for Devices)
RSA adds security token for Symbian phones (ComputerWeekly)
Handhelds remove logistics labor for International Energy Services (Australian IT)
More UK classrooms use PDAs & other gadgets (The Independent)
An International Energy Services employee in the field
Enterprise Networking
Extricom aims to wipe out Wi-Fi's 'original sin': cell-planning (Techworld)
SmartSynch releases Wi-Fi-enabled SmartMeters (Wi-Fi Planet)
Zyxel delivers blanket Wi-Fi and a big chassis (Techworld)
Wi-Fi aids California fire watches& other public safety apps (Wi-Fi Planet)
LAPD uses high-speed wireless for surveillance & communications (Fast Company)
Derbyshire, UK Fire & Rescue uses wireless scross dispersed sites (PublicTechnology.net)
Hospital stations uses WiMax (Computerworld)
802.11n wireless: Is now the time to deploy? (InformationWeek)
WLAN troubleshooting with spectrum analysers (TechTarget)
How multipath environments affect WiFi propagation (TechRepublic)
VoIPowering your office: Doing VoIP Wi-Fi (VoIP Planet)

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Industry News, Trends, & Analysis

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Content: Still waiting for good mobile apps? (The Register)
Content: Is mobile entertainment ready? (Internet News)
Devices: Steve Wozniak talks about Apple (Laptop)
Devices: What's next for Palm? (IT Pro)
Networks: Bluetooth group picks Wi-Fi protocol for future handsets, not UWB (Techworld)
Networks: WiMax approved as ITU standard (Unstrung)
Networks: WiMax's bright future and five hurdles to overcome (Computerworld)
Financial / Legal News
Buffalo wins US tech industry support in its Wi-Fi patent spat (The Register)
Google talking with major carriers (WSJ)
Motorola takes 50% stake in UIQ (The Register)
SanDisk sues 25 companies for patent infringement (PC Mag)
Sprint's net income drops 77% in Q3 (Unstrung)
Wi-LAN sues 22 firms for Wi-Fi & DSL power consumption patent infringement (Reuters)
Networks: After its Navini buy, can Cisco dominate the WiMax world? (Network World)
Networks: Startup's novel approach converges cellular, Wi-Fi (Computerworld)
Systems: Bsquare's SDIO software stack for handhelds updated to v1.2 (Windows for Devices)
Systems: Sun ready to kill-off J2ME (The Register)
Systems: Microsoft officials reveal embedded OS futures (Windows for Devices)
Systems: Broadcom debuts '3G on a single chip' HSUPA processor (Reuters)
Systems: Application processors are a vanishing species (Windows for Devices)
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