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SmartPhone Articles for May of 2001

Below are the 41 SmartPhone articles for May of 2001

1. Pocket PC and Wireless 5/1/2001

One hundred years ago, at his home in Italy, twenty-two year old William Marconi made a startling discovery. He found that he could transmit

2. Sony tries again with Clie handheld 5/1/2001

Sony is getting its second wind in the race for the handheld market. The consumer electronics giant announced Tuesday it will begin ship

3. Room, board and Palm? 5/2/2001

The University of South Dakota will require all first-year students to purchase a Palm handheld, the school said Wednesday

4. Palm's April sales slump 5/3/2001

Things appear to be going from bad to worse for Palm, the leader in the handheld market.

5. OmniSky links arms with Palm, Handspring 5/3/2001

Handspring and Palm owners who sign up for a year of OmniSky mobile e-mail and Internet service can get a free modem, the companies said Wed

6. Handspring sees $130 million quarter 5/4/2001

NEW YORK--The chief executive of Handspring said she expects the handheld computer maker to report fiscal fourth-quarter revenue at the bott

7. Palm, Handspring shares sink 5/4/2001

Shares of Palm and Handspring fell Thursday after a Lehman Brothers analyst downgraded Handspring, and Palm told investors that retail sales

8. RIM to give BlackBerry a voice 5/4/2001

When the BlackBerry e-mail pager makes its European debut later this year, it will be something to talk about. Soon afterward, it will be so

9. Linux makes a move into handhelds 5/7/2001

Linux is finding another inroad into the computing world besides PCs and servers. In a market report on handheld computers due out by th

10. 3Com Cutting 30 Percent of Work Force 5/7/2001

NEW YORK (Reuters) - 3Com Corp. (NasdaqNM:COMS - news) on Monday said it would cut its work force by 3,000 people, or 30 percent, as the com

11. A pair of new PDAs from Sony and Palm 5/8/2001

Introducing Palm's new m500 and Sony's MP3-playing CLIE. Find out how handheld hardware is evolving. Is it time to upgrade?

12. Amazon loses faith in wireless Web 5/8/2001

When Amazon.com CEO Jeffrey Bezos addressed a wireless-industry conference early last year, he made a bold prediction: Within a decade, Bezo

13. Wireless networking for Handspring 5/8/2001

Intel's Xircom unit will offer the first wireless Ethernet module for Handspring's Springboard expansion slot. The unit, which allows people

14. TI tries to secure the wireless future 5/8/2001

A new wireless technology will allow consumers to make secure purchases on next-generation cell phones and wireless handhelds, Texas Instrum

15. OmniSky fees reach new heights with iPaq 5/9/2001

OmniSky plans to announce Wednesday that it will offer wireless Internet service for Compaq Computer iPaqs--for a higher monthly fee than it

16. Handheld shipments rise in Japan 5/9/2001

Japan's domestic shipments of handheld computers rose 20 percent to 912,000 last year as new models triggered demand, market researcher IDC

17. Palm's share of European market dips 5/9/2001

Palm has seen its share of the European handheld market slip over the past year, according to a report released Wednesday.

18. SiPix Brings Tiny Portable Printing to PDAs 5/10/2001

The Pocket Printer A6 is the size of a paperback and prints from PDAs or notebooks with no ink cartridge or ribbon.

19. Are BlackBerries out of season? 5/11/2001

Shares of Research In Motion stumbled Thursday after a Merrill Lynch analyst questioned whether one of RIM's resellers has too many BlackBer

20. Palm slashes price on wireless handheld 5/11/2001

In the latest in a series of price cuts, Palm plans to announce later Friday that it has chopped the price of its wireless Palm VIIx.

21. Kasten Chase to Safeguard Palm Handheld Devices 5/17/2001

OTTAWA (Reuters) - In a move that takes its technology one step closer to the consumer market, Kasten Chase Applied Research Ltd. (Toronto:K

22. Intel Unveils New Wireless Chip Technology 5/17/2001

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - New semiconductor manufacturing technology developed by Intel Corp. (NasdaqNM:INTC - news) could mean that fancifu

23. Will Palm scrap businesses to survive? 5/18/2001

Palm executives have their hands full. With sales falling well short of even its worst forecasts and its cash dwindling, Palm faces a nu

24. Palm halves revenue forecast, exits deal 5/18/2001

Palm issued a double dose of bad news after the bell Thursday. The handheld maker warned that revenue in its current quarter will come i

25. It's getting scary at Palm 5/19/2001

With sales falling well short of even its worst forecasts and its cash dwindling, Palm faces a number of tough decisions in the coming month

26. FCC mulls fast track for wireless Net 5/20/2001

The Federal Communications Commission and a technology standards group are working to speed wireless Internet connections in homes and busin

27. The ultimate guide to wireless e-mail devices 5/21/2001

OK, we admit it--reviews of wireless email devices and add-on modems aren't as easy to find as they should be on CNET Wireless. Part of the

28. Palm gets boost from upgrade 5/21/2001

Shares of Palm surged Monday as one analyst upgraded the stock and called it a bargain. The gains, however, were not enough for the handheld

29. Activation problems hit Palm.net 5/22/2001

update Some customers trying to subscribe to Palm's wireless service, Palm.net, have been unable to activate their accounts, CNET News.com h

30. Pocket PC sales pass 1 million 5/22/2001

Handhelds using Microsoft's Pocket PC operating system marched to the million-unit shipment mark in under a year, according to the software

31. Psion, UBM to end joint venture 5/22/2001

Psion, Europe's biggest maker of handheld computers, will end its joint venture with media group United Business Media and write off up to $

32. Handheld makers duke it out on price 5/23/2001

The current price war in the handheld computer market between heavyweights Palm and Handspring may have consumers on the fence, but analysts

33. Acer to license Palm OS 5/23/2001

TAIPEI, Taiwan--Personal computer maker Acer said on Wednesday it planned to license Palm's operating system for its handheld computers, or

34. Microsoft Touts Success of Pocket PC 5/23/2001

It's not all gloom and doom in the handheld market. At least not from Microsoft's perspective. On Tuesday, the software giant said world

35. Gates Bullish on Tech, But Sees Broadband Weak Link 5/24/2001

REDMOND, Wash. (Reuters) - The spectacular bursting of the dot-com bubble is not the end of the technology boom only ``the end of the beginn

36. Music on Your Handheld 5/25/2001

Thanks in part to small MP3 files, digital audio is also on the rise, and it's becoming clear that music and PDAs are a natural match. Why b

37. Samsung Telecommunications America and Sprint PCS Announce Agreement to Bring Compact, Full-Color PDA Phone to Market 5/25/2001

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 20, 2001--Wireless industry leaders, Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung) and Sprint PCS (NYSE:PCS

38. Sprint to beef up wireless applications 5/29/2001

Sprint PCS will announce Wednesday the company is bolstering its wireless Internet service for businesses with software from Everypath.

39. PDAs hit hard times but hope lives on 5/31/2001

Consumers scoffed at personal computers, but personal digital assistants were a different story. The nerd-hip devices appeared on Christmas

40. Price pressure extends to new Palms 5/31/2001

With about three months' worth of Palm handhelds sitting on shelves and in warehouses, some retailers have begun selling the devices well be

41. iPaq can double as phone 5/31/2001

Compaq Computer's iPaq handheld computer can now make local and international calls at domestic rates in Singapore. The new service is relat