Topic: Mobile & Handheld Industry
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Wi-Fi Technology Forum news 29-05-2003
WintopUSA introduces the affordable Tablet PC. The iMe has an amazing list of features including the optional Wi-Fi Wireless LAN Card and a GPRS Wireless Modem, making it the perfect PC for offices, schools, hospitals, libraries, or anyone who needs big power in a small package.
By Walter Mossberg
From bayarea.com
Laptop acts like PDA, but suffers design flaw
As lightweight laptops shrink more and more, and personal digital assistants gain greater functionality, the two are slowly merging in some respects. For instance, some PDAs now sport keyboards and can be used to edit documents. And the thinnest laptops are as slim as the larger PDAs.
By JULIO OJEDA-ZAPATA
Knight Ridder Newspapers
from kansascity.com
Think of Alex Huff's car as Windows on wheels. The Minneapolis man has outfitted his economy sedan with a full-featured personal computer that serves as his highway co-pilot.
It reads him his e-mail and the latest stories from The Wall Street Journal. It plays him Sarah McLachlan and "The Matrix." It finds him wireless Internet networks in the vicinity so he can surf the Web and get his latest messages. It even pinpoints his precise location using global positioning satellites so it can feed him driving directions.
From ebnonline
The wireless LAN (WLAN) industry will generate $1.67 billion in total revenue through the end of 2003, according to Allied Business Intelligence, Oyster Bay, NY.
from ZDNET Australia
Kire Terzievski, Technology & Business magazine
If you?re going to have to lug it around, you might as well get a laptop that will make business colleagues green with envy.
In this feature we look at some of the fastest notebooks on the market, as well as many that are very well featured in other words, notebooks that will drive your friends into paroxysms of envy. Today, there are just about as many different types of mobile users as there are people, and thankfully there is a notebook to suit almost everyone. With the notebooks we looked at in this comparison, no expense was spared. And while that would have meant ridiculous price tags even only a few years ago, you can now get real mobile performers at prices that are (almost) down to earth. Let?s take a look at some of the features buyers should familiarise themselves with before making that purchase.
CLARINET SYSTEMS DEVELOPS AN INNOVATIVE WAY TO CONNECT PDAS TO A 802.11 NETWORK
from a Clarinet's press release.
Fremont, CA. - February 10, 2003 - Clarinet Systems(R), Inc. a global provider of wireless infrared connectivity for handheld devices, announced today the release of their new product the ESB3011b, that can uplink data from a Palm Handheld or Pocket PC to an 802.11 network via the devices Infrared (IR) port. Unlike the other Clarinet Systems Infrared switches, the ESB3011b utilize an 802.11b uplink instead of a cable-based Ethernet uplink. The combination of an 802.11b network and Infrared connectivity enabled by the IR ports on virtually all PDAs and laptops makes the ESB3011b the most powerful single port switch to date.
By Matthew Broersma, Special to CNETAsia
Thursday, February 13 2003 3:43 PM
Intel is expected to formally introduce its chip for smart phones this week, ahead of next week's 3GSM Congress wireless trade show.
By Dan Briody
from redherring
Until now, wireless local area networks have been just another grass roots, hobbyist technology--the purview of home-networking enthusiasts and risk-taking IT managers. But all of that will change in 2003, as the major international wireless carriers roll out high-speed local networks. Paradoxically, this both threatens and assures the future of 3G--the heretofore heir to the wireless throne.