Source: Mobile Commerce World
Palm is attempting to make it up to its customers after it overstated the number of colours available on its m130 handheld.
Palm is offering disappointed customers a cash refund or a free game download in order to make amends.
Source: Info World
REALNETWORKS' REALONE MEDIA player will ship with all NEC Solutions America MobilePro P300 handhelds, RealNetworks said Thursday.
The deal is an attempt by RealNetworks to gain ground in the personal digital assistant (PDA) arena. The MobilePro P300, targeted at corporate users, runs Microsoft's Pocket PC 2002 software, which includes Microsoft's Windows Media Player.
Source: Tech TV
A new PDA from Godspeed Computing takes handheld computing to a higher place, and we're not talking airplanes.
The eBible combines traditional PDA functionality, including a calendar and scheduler, with many targeted religious applications. The interface is simple and meant for clergy and laity alike. See it tonight on "Tech Live."
Source: BUSINESSWEEK
Times have been tough for Palm (PALM ). Growth of handheld-computer sales has stalled, low-price rivals running Microsoft's (MSFT ) Pocket PC software threaten its core markets, and the company's stock price has fallen below 75 cents. But both halves of the beleaguered company--software and hardware--are fighting back.
PalmSource, the company's software unit, has released the first fundamental overhaul of Palm's operating software since the Pilot began shipping in 1996.
Source: ZDNET
Corporations thus far have only bought a fraction of the PDAs sold worldwide, but Gartner Dataquest analyst Todd Kort expects that to change real soon. But if companies don't establish clear guidelines for employees when handing them PDAs, handhelds could quickly become the company's biggest problem.
Source: ZDNET
Platform vendors Palm, Microsoft, and Symbian have moved the battleground from handhelds to smart phones. We do not expect any vendor to dominate, and companies will need to live with a messy market through 2007.
Meta trend
Through 2003, integration and extension of mobile, wireless, and enterprise applications will require specialized IT skills and resources. By 2004/05,
Source: Digita|mass
OWEGO, N.Y. (AP) If U.S. troops soon storm into Iraq, they'll be counting on computerized language translators to help with everything from interrogating prisoners to locating chemical weapons caches.
Source: IDG
CHIBA, JAPAN - Sharp Corp. is giving visitors to the Ceatec 2002 exhibition a first look at what is likely to be a new high-end member of its Zaurus PDA (personal digital assistant) family.
The company is showing a prototype of the device, which it has labeled a "personal mobile tool," at its Ceatec booth and says the company hopes to put it on sale in Japan by the end of the year.
Source: Electronics Talk
Toshiba has a Bluetooth SDIO card that brings wireless communications capabilities to mobile and digital consumer products equipped with an SD slot.
The new card fully conforms to SDIO Card Type-B standards for Bluetooth and Bluetooth Ver.1.1.
The SDIO card supports wireless digital uploads and downloads between suitably equipped products, and can also be used with an adapter in PCMCIA slots of portable PCs.
Source: SILICON VALLEY
Developers in the handheld sector have had an interesting summer to say the least.
When Palm's (NASDAQ:PALM) software division PalmSource shipped the gold master of its latest operating system (Palm OS 5) to licensees on June 15, many were faced with a conundrum: how to deal with a new ARM microprocessor architecture instead of the DragonBall configurations they've been used to.
