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Go Mobile® - #204 - March 14, 2008

  • Features: 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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This earpiece reads eye blinks to control the user's iPod
Mobile Trends
Japanese researchers invent blink-controlled iPod sensors (Reuters)
MTI shows methanol fuel cell prototypes (IDG)
Energy-efficient windows can block mobiles (Computerworld)
Brain imaging shows cell phone use affects driving 37% (Textually)
Israeli study: heavy mobile use linked to salivary gland cancer (BBC)
Mobile apps, RIP (Mobile Opportunity)

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Consumer Product News

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Notebooks, Tablets & Gear
Dell goes fully rugged
Apple MacBook, MacBook Pro get faster CPUs, multi-touch (Engadget)
Dell updates its D & M series with Intel Penryn (Engadget)
Dell debuts its first fully rugged laptop (PC Mag)
DreamCom previews ergonomically adjustable laptop (MobileMag)
Elonex punts $200 Linux laptop (The Register)
ECS launches Asus Eee challenger (Pocket-Lint)
Everex CloudBook vs. Asus Eee (Computerworld)

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Lenovo X300 review roundup (Engadget)
SanDisk card offers real-time notebook backup (PC Mag)
Zonbu Zonbook Linux notebook review (Wi-Fi Planet)
The best laptops under $1000 (Computerworld)
Processor Face-off: Intel Santa Rosa vs. Penryn (Laptop)
Notebooks based on Intel's Atom due next year (Computerworld)
More Laptop reviews: Cnet / ZDnet, GottaBeMobile, Laptop, Notebook Review, PC Authority, PC Pro, TabletPCReviewSpot, Trusted Reviews
Dreamcon's laptop adjusts for comfort

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Mobiles & Accessories

Samsung Glyd
Apple iPhones smuggled back to China (NY Times)
Asus adds Galaxi Mini P320 Win Mobile 6.1 phone with GPS (IntoMobile)
General Mobile's WM 6 phone packs dual SIMs (Windows for Devices)
HTC Advantage X7510 available for pre-order (Engadget)
LG unveils new phones at Mobile Asia 2008 (TechShout)
LionKing800 phone, from China, claims 1-year standby (Engadget)
Magellan adds MobileMapper 6 GPS receiver for GIS (Windows for Devices)
Netronix CE-based e-reader has 9.7-inch display (Windows for Devices)
Nokia 8GB N95 available in North America (Engadget)
Nokia conceptualizes stretchable self-cleaning phone (PDA Street)
RIM sets to patent BlackBerry sliding keyboard (PDA Street)
Samsung Glyde for Verizon preview (Windows for Devices)
Sybmian phone upcoming launches (Mobile Business)
Nokia's concept Morph phone

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Smartphone & Handheld Reviews

Left: Samsung Sprint Ace, a revised Blackjack

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Consumer Software
Implicit's task manager
Multi-Platform: Consumer Mobile Software roundup for February 2008
Multi-Platform: Jaxtr launches free mobile calling community (PC Mag)
BlackBerry: SpinVox launches voicemail to email plug-in (MobileBurn)
BlackBerry: 6 free 'must-have' downloads (Computerworld)
Mac / iPhone: Mark/Space updates Missing Sync for iPhone (PDA Street)
Mac / iPhone: Nav N Go GPS app now on iPhone, iPod touch (Engadget)
Mac / iPhone: StyleTap previews Palm OS emulator for iPhone (Wired)
Palm: Ten must-have Treo or Centro apps (Palm Infocenter)
Symbian: Google releases native search client for S60 (All About Symbian)
Symbian: 10 great S60 apps (Reuters)
Windows Mobile: Seven fantastic free apps (CIO)
Windows Mobile: Implicit's utilities mimic PC utilities (Windows for Devices)

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Windows Mobile: Raspberry True Connect lets users control WM apps & SMS on a PC (Windows for Devices)
Windows Mobile: Zumobi's "zooming" user interface is out of beta (Windows for Devices)
Windows Tablet PC: K-Sketch app animates tablet PC sketches (The Register)

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Mobile Enterprise News

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Enterprise Hardware
Getac previews rugged PS535e with GPS (Navigadget)
Igel's thin clients gain speech recognition (Windows for Devices)
MobileDemand rugged handheld tablet has 7-hour battery (Windows for Devices)
Motorola launches 802.11n-capable switch & access point (Computerworld)
Nordic ID Barcode scanner offers VoIP option (Windows for Devices)
Panasonic previews Toughbook CF-U1Atom-based UMPC with Vista (WFD)
Topcon CE-based handheld controls surveying equipment (Windows for Devices)
Vocera offers new handset for voice-over-Wi-Fi (Network World)
Wyse thin client laptops feature Gigabit Ethernet (Windows for Devices)

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iPhones will soon get enterprise apps
Enterprise Software
Enterprise Software Roundup: Jan - Feb., 2008
Aperture mobilises its Vista datacenter planning software (Techworld)
Apple announces iPhone enterprise support & SDK (PDA Street)
Fonality forwards calls to cellphones when users are away from PCs (eWeek)
Skyhook & Locr team for Wi-Fi geotagging (Windows for Devices)
Siemens unveils OpenScape Unified Communications suite (eWeek)
How will IT departments manage the iPhone? (eWeek)
Mobile Deployments
Albuquerque utility uses BlackBerry GIS & mapping software (Spatial News)
Au Bon Pain bakery chain tastes mobile outsourcing (InfoWorld)
Cellular - Wi-Fi convergence wins over some early users (Network World)

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Chicago Transit Authority rail yards get solar-powered mesh network (Wi-Fi Planet)
Duke University plans huge 802.11n network with 2,500 APs (Network World)
University of Minnesota plans Wi-Fi network for 80,000 (Information Week)
Morrisville State students, staff quickly spoiled by 11n net (Network World)
New Ohio hospital maximizes wireless processes (Nurse.com)
Wireless IT Help
How to create an enterprise wireless infrastructure (eWeek)
Maturing Wi-Fi - cellular convergence options push Unified Communications forward (TechTarget)
Wi-Fi options for branch offices (Network World)
That Wi-Fi network you thought was secure? It ain't (The Register)
Distributed antenna systems: remoting the AP (Network World)
Review: Cisco's 11n AP: timing is everything (Network Computing)
Why can't we manage wired & wireless networks together? (Computerworld)
Municipal Wi-Fi network surveying & testing: part 3 (Wi-Fi Planet)

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Public Network News

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How new flat-rate pricing changes the future of cellular (Computerworld)
Sprint's HTC Mogul gets EV-DO Rev. A update, plus GPS (Windows for Devices)
Verizon moving to 100Gbps network in 2009 (Network World)
How U.S. iPhone users can keep costs down abroad (PDA Street)
Wi-Fi news: Wales, Stockholm, Seoul, Mexico, more (Wi-Fi Planet)
Survey exposes airport free Wi-Fi vulnerabilities (Wi-Fi Planet)
In Silicon Valley, a way forward for muni wireless (Information Week)
Doubts cast on municipal Wi-Fi as projects hit potholes (Computerworld)
Tata in India claims world's largest WiMax network (Unstrung)

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Industry News, Trends, & Analysis

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Content: What iPhone 2.0 means to developers, enterprises (Computerworld)
Content: iPhone SDK restrictions: the details (TechCrunch)
Content: iPhone SDK is not too restrictive after all (Network World)
Content: Google mobilizes its Gears offline browser extension (Windows for Devices)
Content: Microsoft explains its Silverlight 2.0 data & web services (The Register)
Content: Yahoo! previews 'OnePlace' service for managing mobile content (The Register)
Content: More people are seeing & responding to mobile ads (PC Mag)
Mobiles: Ghosts of the 128kb Mac haunt the iPhone, Touch (The Register)
Mobiles: Evolution of the smartphone (EE Times)
Laptops: HP still on top, & Acer trumps Dell in Q4 07 world laptop sales (The Register)
Networks: W-Fi hotspots doomed, says Ericsson (IDG)
Networks: Wi-Fi, 3G: friends & rivals, iPass survey finds (Information Week)
Networks: Muni Wi-Fi coverage to soar (IT Week)
OS: iPhone SDK vs competitors comparison (Engadget)
OS: More details about Windows Mobile 6.1 (Brighthand)
OS: Linpus rolls out Linux OS aimed at low-cost laptops, UMPCs (Engadget)
OS: Can Linux make an impact on phones? (IT Week)
Security: WiFi security is always behind (TechRepublic)
Financial / Legal News
Acer to buy E-Ten for US $280m (IDG)
Clearwire's revenue drops (Unstrung)
Dell's income drops despite higher sales, layoffs (IDG)
Motricity announces layoffs, plans to sell PocketGear (Palm Infocenter)
Qualcomm buys content discovery startup Xiam for $32m (Unstrung)
Sprint Nextel rings up huge losses (AFP)
Texas Instruments sounds alarm on 3G phone cutbacks (The Register)
T-Mobile invests in femtocell vendor Ubiquisys (Unstrung)
Virgin Mobile launches its first 'brand franchise' in India (MoCo News)
Security: Wireless worms will follow influenza's example (New Scientist)
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