Sony has released an adapter for their Clie PDA line that allows the units without built-in MP3 capability to play digital music files. The Clie Audio Adapter sells for $130 and comes with headphones and RealJukebox 2 Basic to upload and manage song files on the player.
Palm's upcoming wireless handheld has moved closer to launch after the company received regulatory approval Monday for the device, which Palm is calling the i705.
According to documents filed with the Federal Communications Commission, the i705 will have a built-in antenna, a universal connector for add-ons and syncing, and a postage stamp-size Secure Digital expansion slot. There will also be new features aimed at making e-mail a key function of the device.
Handspring on Tuesday received regulatory approval for two handhelds that combine cell phone, Web browsing and traditional organizer functions, CNET News.com has learned.
Code-named the Manhattan, one of the units has a built-in keyboard similar to Research In Motion's BlackBerry e-mail pager, according to documents filed with the Federal Communications Commission. The other unit, code-named Shea, relies on the Grafitti handwriting-recognition program and software keyboard that are a standard part of the Palm operating system.
Almost four out of five PDAs have been left unprotected against hacker attacks, a ZDNet reader poll has found.
The poll, conducted by ZDNet Australia late last week, found only 21 percent of respondents had taken measures to protect their handheld devices against unwanted intruders. That left 79 percent of PDAs (personal digital assistants) without any protection against hackers.
I've seen people as young as 13 owning a Palm Pilot. Mainly because their parents want them to keep better track of their day. But like the Tamagotchi, and video games, this could bring even more trouble to the classroom.
manicvelocity:
"Teacher, can I be excused to watch the rest of Springer?"
AK TV on Friday became the first Web-based television station accessible by wireless devices.
Handheld computers are increasingly vulnerable to hacker attacks and should not be trusted to store "any critical or confidential information," security experts warned Thursday.
Peiter Zatko, chief scientist and a vice president of @Stake, a Cambridge, Mass.-based security-engineering firm, and Joe Grand, an @Stake research scientist, noted that the growing business use of personal digital assistants (PDAs) raises concerns about security.
Security firms have been making similar warnings for some time.
A Singapore company has unveiled a handheld device that stores up to 10GB of data and multimedia files.
THE DEVICE, dubbed the Terapin Mine, measures 7 inches by 3.2 inches by 1 inch.
Consumers can dump their digital photos into it, back up their computer files and store digital audio. The Terapin Mine also can be connected to a corporate LAN (local area network) and used as a mini file server. A PC card slot allows the use of wireless network adapters.
The battery-operated device runs a stripped-down version of the open-source operating system, Linux.
Palm will release PalmOS 4.0 as a standalone update in November, according to sources cited by Web site Palm Infocenter.
Playing the underdog is familiar territory for Linux, but now the open-source community prepares to go up against PDA leaders Palm and Microsoft. To make inroads in the market, Linux will need to provide a standardized platform for business applications. When Greg Richards went looking for a wireless handheld to connect his 3,500 field engineers, he chose the Linux operating system to power it.
Toshiba enters the competitive market for personal digital assistants today, unveiling a Pocket PC device it will sell in Japan this August and in the United States by the end of this year. Toshiba unveiled the Genio e550 Monday at Tokyo's Wireless Japan 2001 Expo. It uses Microsoft's Windows CE operating system and comes with both Compact Flash and Secure Digital expansion slots. This lets people use one slot for additional memory and the other for a wireless connection, says Ed Suwanjundar, a spokesperson with Microsoft's Mobility Group.
