The xTablet from MobileDemand just may be the ultimate rugged Tablet PC that offers complete mobility with its 8.4” screen and its expandability with optional modules such as bar code scanners and credit card swipers. Linda Epstein of Tablet PC2 has published a thorough… Read More »
Archive for September 2006
Yahoo’s Hack Day might have looked a job fair from afar, but the announcements at the show indicate that the company is looking to go outside its campus, and jumpstart its innovation engine. The hack day comes at a time, when dark clouds are gathering over the… Read More »
Senators Mike DeWine (R) and Herb Kohl (D) want AT&T/BellSouth combo to divest some of their WiMAX-related spectrum. The $67 billion BellSouth/AT&T merger is under review and needs to be approved by the Department of Justice and the FCC. DeWine and Kohl want the combined companies… Read More »
One of the great benefits of being involved with the mobile tech community is the opportunity to meet with those individuals whom you might not meet otherwise. I have been corresponding with Mickey Segal for a long time and since he is based in Boston… Read More »
Following up on our previous report: When in doubt, extend deadlines and postpone decisions. That’s just what happened. While India’s Finance Minister turned down the telecom department’s ‘We give up’ proposal to cancel the increase in FDI in telecom and averred that, “the decision to… Read More »
There are some kinds of applications that just really strike me as admirable. These are the ones that really find a couple things to focus on and do those things really well. The “Microsoft Words” of the world today are so bloated and so feature-rich that… Read More »
Here is a quick rundown of stories published on Web Worker Daily: 1. Its Flow Time 2. Dislocation and working in strange places 3. Some of our favorite hacks 4. What’s in your refrigerator: Open Thread 5. Plaxo tries internal unconference 6. How do you bag… Read More »
Apple has released the eighth revision to Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), which includes general operating system fixes, security updates and specific fixes that relate to: - connecting to wireless networks using the EAP-FAST protocol - Apple USB modem reliability - using OpenType fonts in Microsoft Word - compatibility with… Read More »
I swear I don’t sit up at night and think of these uses for OneNote Mobile and a UMPC. They really just happen! Previously I used this… Read More »
Decentralized working has its upsides, as we’ve all been writing about on WWD, but one thing definitely suffers: my shoulders. It seems like everywhere I go – cafes, hotspot-enabled parks, office space – I’m lugging my laptop around, ready to work at a glimmer of a… Read More »
I have an hour to kill before they herd us up like cattle onto the metal tube that will shoot us up into the sky and if all works out as planned not fall back out of the sky. These are the moments that UMPCs live… Read More »
With all the hoopla around mobile VoIP applications, the mainstream media is beginning to ask the question: where is Skype? Good question actually, one we have been asking for sometime now. Business Week has picked up a report in a finnish newspaper, where (thankfully) Skype… Read More »
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