We first reported almost a year ago that Sharp was shutting down the venerable Zaurus PDA line but apparently that was premature. The Zaurus has been around for at least ten years and has long been an outstanding piece of engineering from Sharp. We were very impressed with the last Zaurus we reviewed, the SL-C3000, [...]
ST-NXP might not be a household name, but they're under the hood of phones you would recognize. The company has shipped over 120 million EDGE chipsets but knows that the future is in 3G and beyond. That explains the new 7210 UMA chipset the company just announced. They claim it's the first single chipset solution [...]
It's no secret that landlines are getting replaced by mobile phones. As soon as Verizon lights up the dark fiber they put in my front lawn five months, I'm cutting the landline cord myself. Unless I keep running out of juice on the mobile phone that is. So if phone calls are generally moving from [...]
You don't have to look far to find signs of the poor economic climate. The global climate is as bad as it's been in a very long time and it seems each day we hear another indication that points to how bad it really is. Forbes has reported that mobile phone sales are down 58% [...]
There's quite the buzz over a Business Week story today on Palm and their new Nova operating system. Word is that Palm will uncover Nova in a few short weeks at CES; we've got our invites, so we'll see what the "new-ness" is all about. Based on a couple of excerpts from the BW article, [...]
Is everyone suddenly losing their notebooks? Last week, we heard about Laptop Cop which can track and access a stolen or misplace laptop. Today, it's Ericsson and their Mobile Broadband Modules that work with Intel's Anti-Theft PC Protection. The modules provide standard wireless broadband for data using HSPA technology so they can also receive an [...]
We knew that Windows Live Sync was on the way since Microsoft announced last month that it would replace FolderShare with the new Live service. LiveSide.net says that today's the day you can get your first look at Live Sync and decide for yourself if and how it competes with Live Mesh… also by Microsoft.
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Yesterday, Microsoft launched Windows Live Sync, a new service that takes the place of the older FolderShare application that's been around for several years. While the cross-platform support of Live Sync is welcome, Mac owners saw immediate problems. A few hours after launching, it was apparent that the service wasn't ready for Mac OS X [...]
It's about time for another crazy mobile experiment. Last time was my 60-day "web-challenge" where I tried to use only a browser for my daily computing tasks. It went quite well, but indicated to me that web services still have plenty of room to mature. So what's the new challenge? This one fits in with [...]
Handango has long been one of the biggest online retailers for software for PDAs and phones. They offer apps for Windows Mobile, Blackberry, Palm and S60 devices. Their announcement details a new deal to sell software in the Best Buy brick and mortar stores. They will have a special branded version of their online store, [...]