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Go Mobile® - #199 - Nov. 20, 2007

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

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Google's Android OS announced
Android visual tour (Engadget)
Google offers $10m in prizes for the best Android apps (The Register)
Analysts: Android lacks substance (Unstrung)
Rivals mostly dismiss Android threat (Reuters)
Android screenshot
Can Symbian really shrug off Android? (Techworld)
Android phone project is a huge effort, says HTC (The Age)
Mobile Trends
Mobile Web leaders push for open standards, devices, & networks (Infoworld)
PARC's Magitti phone software suggests activities based on location & past behavior (MIT Technology Review)
Is the DRM-free movement making its way to mobiles? (PDA Street)
Mobile networks: the new Big Brother? (The Register)
Survey: half of laptop users Wi-Fi thieves? (The Register)

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Product News & Reviews

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Toughbook T7
Notebooks, Tablets, & Gear
Dell rolls out Precision M2300 laptop (Engadget)
Dell previews its Latitude XT tablet & XPS ONE desktop (Engadget)
Fujitsu adds another LifeBook, the 14-inch S7211 (Engadget)
OLPC kicks off "buy one, get one" initiative (PC Magazine)
Panasonic's ultraportable Toughbooks get Intel Core 2 Duo processors (PC Magazine)
PC MicroWorks rolls out high-end Black-Hawk XR5 notebook (Engadget)
Review: Belkin N1 Vision 802.11n router (Wi-Fi Planet)
Sierra Wireless ATT USBConnect USB gadget promises upload speeds of 800 Kbps (Computerworld)
New reviews: Cnet / ZDnet, GottaBeMobile, Laptop, Notebook Review, PC Authority, PC Pro, TabletPCReviewSpot, Trusted Reviews

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Mobiles & Accessories
Amazon releases its Kindle ebook reader (Engadget)
E-Ten Glofiish X800
Asus previews its R50A UMPC (Engadget)
E-Ten's Glofiish X600 slim phone features GPS, Wi-Fi (Windows For Devices)
E-Ten's Glofiish X800, with VGA & HSDPA, is now shipping (Engadget)
HP iPAQ smartphones delayed til next year (PDA Street)
HTC's Touch Cruise adds GPS (Engadget)
Intermec's CK61 rugged data collection handheld runs all day (Windows For Devices)
LG Voyager (VX 10000 for Verizon) hands-on (Engadget)
Motorola's new Moto Q & RIM BlackBerry Pearl coming to Sprint November 23 (PDA Street)

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HTC Touch Cruise
Nokia's N82 gets official (Engadget)
NTT DoCoMo's launches 905i series high-end phones (Engadget)
RIM BlackBerry 8130 makes its way to Telus (Engadget)
Samsung U940 preview (Phone Arena)
Samsung's first touchscreen phone gives vibratory feedback (Windows For Devices)
Samsung's Q1 Ultra Premium UMPC gets 1.33GHz CPU (Engadget)
Sony VAIO UX490 UMPC finally on sale, for $2500 (MicroPC Talk)
Sony Ericsson intros K660, W380 and W890 handsets (Engadget)
T-Mobile suspends Sidekick Slide sales due to power loss issue (Engadget)
Trimble's newest Nomad GPS handhelds resist water (Windows For Devices)

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Smartphone Reviews

LG Voyager

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Consumer Software & Services
Please look for November's consumer mobile software roundup in the next issue.
Multi-Platform: Bango Button puts web content to phones (eWeek)
BlackBerry: Five common questions users ask (PDA Street)
Linux: Red Hat releases Fedora 8 OS (Engadget)
Mac: Apple updates Leopard to 10.5.1 (Engadget)
Mac: NativeCN enables Chinese input on iPhone (Engadget)
Palm: Access' Garnet VM beta lets Nokia Internet tablets run Palm apps (PDA Street)
Fedora 8 operating system
Windows Mobile: Microsoft Live Search adds speech recognition (Engadget)
Windows Mobile: MobilityFlow software adds sliding UI to Windows Mobile (Windows For Devices)
Public Networks
Bell Canada offers $7 monthly unlimited Internet for HTC Touch (Engadget)
CBS launches free Wi-Fi trial in Midtown Manhattan (PR Newswire)
Three months later, Wi-Fi's role after the Minneapolis bridge collapse (GovTech)

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IDEAM Mobile
More Muni-Wi-Fi Project Slowdowns in Boston, Cleveland (MuniWireless)
Are U.S. cities abandoning public Wi-Fi, or just retrenching? (InformationWeek)
Mobile Enterprise
Enterprise mobile software roundup (MobileVillage)
An IT challenge: device management (Computerworld)
Monthly Mobile Mentor: Conceivium's Lifecycle Management for BlackBerry (MobileVillage)
RIM's new BlackBerry Professional Software targets small/med biz (Techworld)
Teklynx IDEAM Mobile 6.0 data collection software leverages .NET CF 2.0 (Windows For Devices)

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Trend Micro Mobile Security updated to v 5.0 (Infoworld)
US Census Bureau previews its custom data collection devices (Popular Mechanics)
Aruba joins 801.11n WLAN product market (Techworld)
Cisco updates its business communications system (The Register)
WLANs product reviews: One size does not fit all (Network World)
WLANs for small businesses: bandspeed's back (Network World)
Want to manage your wired/wireless LANS together? Too bad (Computerworld)
RFID gets a new life from small scale apps (Network World)
10 things IT support staff hate about laptops (Computerworld)
US Census Bureau's custom handheld

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Industry News, Trends, & Analysis

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Content: Volantis open sources its mobile content optimisation server (The Register)
Devices: Better battery life & flat rate Internet top mobile user needs poll (The Register)
OS: Access Linux Platform (ALP) preview (Brighthand)
OS: Nokia says it's open to Google's Android (Reuters)
OS: Sun discusses its Mobile and Embedded Community (eWeek)
OS: Symbian licences are up 56 percent (The Register)
OS: Microsoft starts customizing Windows Mobile (Windows for Devices)
OS: Windows CE 6.0 R2 is now available online (eWeek)
Networks: Operators flock to Femto Forum (Unstrung)
Financial / Legal News
Mobile gaming revenue drops (Reuters)
SMS patent suit targets 131 companies (Digital Trends)
Earthlink may drop its muni Wi-Fi biz (Slashdot)
HP profit rises on notebook sales (PC Magazine)
Qualcomm buys mobile banking provider Firethorn (Unstrung)
SK Telecom to gain management rights in Helio (Reuters)
Sony & NXP launch mobile payment company Moversa (Reuters)
Sprint breaks with Clearwire; reconsiders WiMax plans (Unstrung)
Vodafone revenues up from enterprise data services (Unstrung)
Networks: GSM Association picks LTE, not UMB or WiMax, for next-gen mobile broadband (Infoworld)
Networks: Will Wi-Fi hot spots survive WiMax and 3G? (Computerworld)
Networks: Will we see a next-gen spectrum shortage? (Unstrung)
Networks: In emergencies, can cell phone network overload be prevented? (Computerworld)
Networks: Device authentication technology failing to deliver on promises (Infoworld)
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