Bill Gates speech: Mobility Developers Conference
Posted on 21-Mar-2003 07:32 News, Computing
This time I couldn't make it, but next year I want to be there too... Bill Gates was the keynote speaker at this year's Mobility Developer Conference. The transcript and a video is now available.
PC World New Zealand article on WANDA
Posted on 20-Mar-2003 07:36 News, Computing
PC World's John Cox wrote an article about the integrated future, and uses the TI's WANDA design (reported here a couple of days ago) as an example.
Action Engine closes $15.5 million financing
Posted on 18-Mar-2003 07:55 News, Computing
Action Engine provides a free downloadable SDK for its Mobile Web Services Platform that allows developers to build smart client, smart server applications using industry standard XML. Its services are now running on O2 and Orange networks.
CeBIT week from TheFeature...
Posted on 16-Mar-2003 11:23 News, Computing
A wrap up of this week at CeBIT, from The Feature: camera phones, game/music/mobile devices, Centrino, Italian 3G...
O2 plans media distribution model on mobile GPRS networks
Posted on 16-Mar-2003 10:58 News, Computing
mmO2 announced that it is to trial the world's first 'music over mobile' service using existing mobile data (GPRS or 2.5G) networks. The O2 music service will enable customers to select, retrieve and store the latest chart hits via their GPRS-enabled mobile handset onto a specially designed 'digital music player' - and start listening in around 12 seconds.
Centrino launched
Posted on 14-Mar-2003 17:20 News, Computing
New capabilities unwire Mobile PCs to change where and how people compute and communicate.
Microsoft mobilizing?
Posted on 11-Mar-2003 18:27 News, Computing
TheFeature is running a viewpoint article about the Microsoft experience in the mobile/mobility market.
Pocket PC Browser comparison
Posted on 9-Mar-2003 17:49 Reviews, Computing, by M Freitas
A comparison of features of three major players in the browser arena: Pocket Internet Explorer, Access NetFront and Bitstream ThunderHawk.
BMW Films: The Hire
Posted on 8-Mar-2003 17:40 News, Computing
I was reading today's paper looking for a movie, and saw an ad for BMW Films in the movie section... No, it's not coming to the big screen, yet.
Intel claims changing a device's clock speed is bad... Developer says it's all right.
Posted on 7-Mar-2003 16:39 News, Computing
A developer of a software program that allows handheld users to increase the speed of their XScale processor from Intel Corp. said his customers haven't reported any problems with their handheld devices, but Intel Corp. Monday reiterated its recommendation that users avoid changing the operating speed of their processors with third-party software.
Comparison of QTEK (XDA) and P800
Posted on 7-Mar-2003 08:34 News, Computing
The NZ Herald has an article about these two phones. They describe the Pocket PC Phone Edition based QTEK (a.k.a. XDA) and the SonyEricsson P800.
Xtra blocks pop3 and upsets Vodafone NZ
Posted on 5-Mar-2003 20:24 News, Computing
Xtra, the largest New Zealand ISP is blocking access to its pop3 servers from computers outside its network. This causes some problems for mobile and handheld users.
Another fighter against SPAM
Posted on 4-Mar-2003 11:35 News, Computing
AvantGo founders Felix Lin, Linus Upson and Dave Moore launched their newest endeavor, Qurb, Inc., a provider of unique software solutions to combat junk e-mail.
Visto Corporation to provide e-mail solution for Pocket PC users
Posted on 1-Mar-2003 11:54 News, Computing
Visto already supply services for the Palm platform (including the new Palm Tungsten W) and announced that these services will be available for Pocket PC users. The solution is an Outlook or Exchange "redirector", to provide an "always on e-mail" experience to the user.
NZOOM Video (from Breakfast program) with GPRS and CDMA talk
Posted on 28-Feb-2003 21:20 News, Computing
The NZOOM news site is hosting a video (Windows Media or Real) from the Breaksfast program (TV1 New Zealand) with a 4 min talk with Pat Pilcher showing off CDMA, GPRS and Wi-Fi available down under (program from 17th Feb).
Newton sync with Mac OS X
Posted on 28-Feb-2003 17:33 News, Computing
What is more geek than an Apple Newton? The community is very active, and in the last years support for Wi-Fi e other new technologies was developed. Now it's time to sync with Mac OS X.
Pocket MSN to deliver aways-on services to Pocket PCs and Smartphones
Posted on 26-Feb-2003 20:34 News, Computing
The MSN network of online services announced that mobile operators can look forward to the release of Microsoft's first feature-rich mobile data service optimized for Windows Powered Pocket PCs and Smartphones before the end of the year.
