The operating system war is heating up again in the mobile world. Microsoft is re-asserting itself in the larger form factor space with an entirely new initiative called Origami (backed by Intel, Samsung and others) which is a cross between a PDA and a tablet. Linux is gaining ground with support from Nokia and Palm...
2006 is here, and with the big CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in Vegas just over, everyone is throwing around their new year predictions on where all this new technology is taking us next. Here are a few I felt worth passing along: "I am comfortable in saying that we expect the market for convergence devices...
Even as PDAs are ubiquitous in the corporate environment, vendors still see many opportunities to bring handheld devices further into the enterprise. Handheld computers, most often loaded with the default mobile office suite, are making inroads with people who spend more than a quarter of their time on the road, and executives. To quote Marwan...
It is undeniable that the number one handheld business productivity application is push email. The Blackberry from Research In Motion(RIM) continues to thrive in all parts of the world growing to a record 3,000,000 users in recent months.It was no surprise when we reported that HP and Microsoft have their sights set on RIM’s almost...
In our latest newsletter we've highlighted a few in the hot technologies section. For PDAs however there has been one notable and potentially disruptive addition. The Palm LifeDrive offers a new genre possibly on the scale of the iPod. From a technical perspective this new announcement gives mobile workers the ability to hold all their...
We have seen the launch of Microsoft’s new “Windows Mobile 5.0” which technically is their third major release, and where Microsoft historically gets it all right. Microsoft has yet to make a profit on any of the previous releases, losing over $100 million each year. With this version they seem to have addressed many of...