Treasure hunt wi-fi style in Auckland
Posted on 11-Nov-2003 18:32 News, Wi-Fi
A wi-fi enthusiast web site is organising a treasure hunt competition in Auckland. Teams will war drive around town, and clues will be gathered from the different Access Points available.
Users petition on-line: bring Symbian OS to Netbook Pro
Posted on 11-Nov-2003 18:05 News, Symbian
With news that the new Netbook Pro will run Windows CE .Net, users are mobilising and asking Psion Teklogix to at least give the option to run the original Symbian/Epoc OS. A petition is available on-line.
Motorola investing in ultra-wideband (UWB)
Posted on 10-Nov-2003 22:29 News, Wi-Fi
Motorola has signed an agreement to acquire the assets of XtremeSpectrum, a pioneer of ultra-wideband (UWB) solutions for multimedia connectivity. XtremeSpectrum's UWB solutions have already been sampled to several leading consumer equipment manufacturers in 2003.
Optus mobile video streaming
Posted on 10-Nov-2003 21:47 News, GPRS
At first I saw these news about optus offering video streaming and thought that was great. Then I saw the conditions... Can't believe it . I'm sorry for Australian GPRS users.
Nokia planning to takeover Symbian
Posted on 10-Nov-2003 17:10 News, Symbian
Reuters UK reports that Nokia has plans to increase its participation in the Symbian consortium by buying Psion, which currently holds 31% of Symbian shares.
Palm and Windows Mobile face-off
Posted on 9-Nov-2003 00:57 News, Computing
I try to be agnostic when it comes to giving an opinion on the eternal Palm versus Windows Mobile dilemma. Let's see someone's else opinion then.
Gartner warns that Symbian may lose the smartphone battle
Posted on 8-Nov-2003 10:37 News, Computing
During the Gartner ITExpo Nick Jones, vice president and research fellow at Gartner, said that, while Microsoft did not have a good corporate smartphone today, he believed it would do by the end of 2004.
Toshiba E800 uses PocketGPhone as SIP phone
Posted on 7-Nov-2003 07:58 News, Windows Mobile Pocket PC
When Toshiba announce their E800/E400 series, they touted these as devices made for VoIP. In their press releases wasn't clear how that could be. It's actually bundling VLI PocketGphone Wireless VoIP Software with these PDAs.
. I'm sorry for Australian GPRS users.
