A little fun: Nigerian Scam Conference
Posted on 13-Jun-2003 12:08 News, General
What better way to enhance opportunities than to attend the 3rd Annual Nigeriam Scam Conference? After all, Geekzone is about "How we connect" .
802.11g is official now
Posted on 13-Jun-2003 08:17 News, Wi-Fi
It’s official. The 802.11g protocol received the final approval from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Orange released SPV E100
Posted on 12-Jun-2003 18:40 News, Windows Mobile Smartphone
Orange started selling the SPV E100, and update version of the original SPV, based on the Tanager reference model (also known as QTEK 7070).
Competition results: Skweezer
Posted on 12-Jun-2003 18:31 News, Promotions
We asked our readers to write a showt poem or haiku... We selected a few of them, and here are the results.
What if Hutchison walks away from 3G?
Posted on 11-Jun-2003 19:58 News, Mobile
With lower than expected subscription numbers, 3 (Hutchison brand for 3G operations) reduced prices in what can be the start of a price war. Also, rumours are that the financial operation is completely separated from other Hutchison interests, making it easy to the operator to walk away from this venture.
Instant access to memory contents - fast boot
Posted on 11-Jun-2003 14:08 News, General
IBM and Infineon Technologies improve the MRAM (Magnetic Random Access Memory) technology by integrating magnetic memory components into a high-performance logic base.
Intel celebrates 25 years of Intel Architecture products and one billion chips
Posted on 11-Jun-2003 03:28 News, General
Intel is celebrating the 25th anniversary of a processing architecture that has spawned an industry: the Intel® architecture (or x86). It all began with the 8086 CPU, which was the logical evolution of Intel's processor family to 16-bits, and a follow on to the successful 8080 and 8085 chips. Intel's goal at the time was to retain backward compatibility with the large installed base of 8-bit code, while providing a greater address space (a full 1MB!) and faster clock speeds of up to 5 MHz.
New version of Bluetooth 1.2 included in new CSR chips
Posted on 10-Jun-2003 07:47 News, Bluetooth
CSR announced the launch of its third generation single chip silicon, marking a major step in the evolution of Bluetooth silicon. BlueCore3 is the first complete implementation of the Bluetooth v1.2 standard (including all optional features of the standard) which improves coexistence of Bluetooth with other 2.4GHz systems, and allow for new services, like stereo headphones and more
Is the Pocket PC fading?
Posted on 10-Jun-2003 07:40 News, Windows Mobile Pocket PC
Jeff Kirvin, from writingonyourpalm.net looks at how Microsoft is moving slower in the PDA and handheld markets, and forecasts a time where these MS devices may go away, giving space for tablet PCs and pure MS Smartphones.
CNET Video: Viewsonic stacked displays
Posted on 9-Jun-2003 07:26 News, Windows Mobile Pocket PC
In this CNET Video (6:19) Young Bae, senior product manager, ViewSonic discuss about the "display-centric era", and how Viewsonic comes with a new series of ThinEdge high-definition monitors that are designed to be stacked on top of one another as well as placed side by side.
Pocket PC 2003 screenshots
Posted on 9-Jun-2003 07:11 News, Windows Mobile Pocket PC
Still waiting for the first devices with the new Pocke PC OS 2003, based on .NET 4.2, but some sites already leaked screenshots of this new system.
Microsoft SPOT: definitions
Posted on 6-Jun-2003 19:36 News, MSN Direct (SPOT)
A couple of months ago we reported on Microsoft SPOT (Small Personal Objects Technology). Now microsoft defined a brand, costing and more.
PDA market declines 22% in Asia-Pacific, 9% in USA
Posted on 6-Jun-2003 13:52 News, Mobile
IT research company Gartner reported first quarter 2003 PDA shipments were down by 4 percent to 9 percent year over year in the United States, Western Europe and Japan but were down 22 percent in the Asia/Pacific region. Given that PC shipments in the Greater China region increased in the first quarter of 2003 compared with the first quarter of 2002, we observed that a major reason for the decline in PDA shipments was that PDAs were considered to be a "trendy" gift in 2002, but in 2003, digital cameras appear to have that status.
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