Source: Information Week
L33tdawg: Blackberry's are waaaaayyyyyy cool. I remember jooz telling me about them quite some time ago. Unfortunately, I've yet to see them for sale here in Malaysia. Then again, it could just be that I haven't looked hard enough.
Massachusetts state troopers working at Boston's Logan Airport now have wireless access to the National Crime Information Center thanks to technology from Aether that delivers data to BlackBerry handheld devices.
Source: SecurityFocus
PalmOS is the commercial handheld software maintained and distributed by Palm. It is available for Personal Desktop Assistants (PDAs) manufactured by various vendors.
Think you've got a secure wireless connection to a trusted party? Don't be too sure. Attackers can use a technique known as ARP spoofing to convince two machines that they are communicating with each other, when both are actually connected to a third computer under hostile control. IBM developerWorks article
This is nothing new, but an interesting article nevertheless.
Microsoft's October release of its Pocket PC 2002 operating system was the latest maneuver in a battle to wrestle PDA market dominance from Palm, an incumbent if ever there was one. Like political incumbents, Palm can't depend simply on past success to ensure continued market dominance. The company must divert attention from the skeletons in its closet and prove to the world it is as worthy a player in the enterprise mobile computing market as it has been in the consumer market for high-end personal organizers.
10art-ni Corporation, a Linux and Java system integrator in Japan, has announced their new product named "Melon." Melon is a Linux kit which provides Japanese Linux environment on iPAQ, and is composed of Linux pre-installed 64MB Compact Flash and a manual. It does not require to remove the default OS on the inside flash ROM of iPAQ. Linux boots just by putting the CF into the iPAQ's card slot and starting Melon from the file manager. It is priced at about $100 and they are expecting to sell 1,000 kits in one year.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is holding a coming-out party Thursday in San Francisco for a new version of the Pocket PC operating system, joined by handheld makers and, yes, developers, developers, developers.
The major device makers that supported Pocket PC the first time around--Compaq Computer, Hewlett-Packard and Casio--will be there. Also on hand will be a number of new supporters, including Toshiba, NEC and Acer.
Psion Teklogix has launched a ruggedised * industrial handheld device it calls the netpad. It's a half-kilo "half-VGA" (640x240) tablet. This was first showed in prototype form two-and-a- half years ago at CeBIT alongside the prototype netBook.
Like the netBook, it uses an SA-1100 StrongARM and Symbian's ER5 OS. Unlike the netBook, and unlike most water-filled novelty snowstorms, too, it's capable of withstanding a five-foot drop test onto concrete.
It was AXE Inc. of Kyoto, Japan, which succeeded in operating Linux on iPAQ. AXE is a developer of a real-time operating system. The company realized the graphical operations by combining Linux for iPAQ developed by a project called "the Familiar Project" and the company's graphical user interface environment "Sikigami," which still is under development.
Sensate Inc has launched a system that will deliver streaming MP3 music to wireless devices. Called 2nR-Musiker, the wireless media server for Real Jukebox was today released as a beta.
Handspring plans on Monday to announce two new handhelds, one of which features 16MB
of built-in memory--a first for a device using the Palm operating system.
The $299 Visor Pro will come with double the memory of most current Palm OS handhelds. The
$199 Visor Neo is essentially a renaming of the 8MB Visor Platinum, although the Neo will come
in three colors. Both the Pro and the Neo feature grayscale screens and use the same design as
Handspring's current Visor Deluxe and Platinum.
