Access your PC from your PDA or phone

By | 6/19/2001

(IDG) -- Your Web-enabled phone or PDA has picked up a new talent: helping you access files on your PC and all of its applications, in real time, through a utility from AlertWire.

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Opinion: Will Mobile Streaming Succeed?

By | 6/19/2001

Mobile devices may soon be connected to wireless networks, giving them the ability to run large applications without storing them locally.

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Palm hopes to score with Jordan handheld

By | 6/18/2001

Faced with slow sales, Palm is looking to Michael Jordan edition handhelds to help it regain momentum.

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Palm losing the revenue game to Compaq

By | 6/18/2001

Compaq Computer will topple Palm from the top spot in revenue from handheld devices, research firm Gartner predicts in a report to be released Monday.

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For RIM, sky's the limit with Blackberry

By | 6/16/2001

NEW YORK -- According to Jim Balsillie, chairman and co-CEO of Research in Motion, his company's Blackberry pagers are so addictive that some users' spouses are making them check the devices at the door when they get home.

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ZFrame Sends Web Page Replicas To Mobile Devices

By | 6/16/2001

General adoption of mobile devices has long been hampered by the fact that screen sizes vary, processors can't handle data-intensive applications like graphics, and access to the Internet is difficult. But ZFrame Inc. is looking to solve such problems by providing exact replicas of Internet pages and applications on Palm OS and PocketPC devices, which lets users "zoom in" on specific parts of each page.

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Palm chief executive mulls company split

By | 6/16/2001

Palm is considering a break-up into two companies to separate its software licensing operations from the manufacturing and distribution of its handheld devices, the company's chief executive said on Tuesday.

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Palm's new headquarters kaput

By | 6/15/2001

Handheld maker Palm will sell the land in San Jose, Calif., it had intended for a new corporate headquarters, the company said late Friday.

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Sony makes gains with Memory Stick

By | 6/14/2001

Sony, which has been trying to grab the flash-memory market for nearly three years, is finally making some progress.

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Palm hopes Jordan edition is a slam-dunk

By | 6/14/2001

As basketball fans continue to wonder "will he or won't he," Michael Jordan has made a decision: He will hawk his own Palm handheld.

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Giants and Palm Post Beaming Stations at Pacific Bell Park

By | 6/14/2001

In a move to bring baseball fans even closer to the action, the San Francisco Giants and Palm, Inc. (Nasdaq: PALM) today unveiled three "beaming stations" at Pacific Bell Park.

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Japanese companies go mobile with e-commerce

By | 6/14/2001

NTT DoCoMo Inc., Sony Corp. and NTT Data Corp. aim to prove that mobile e-commerce applications using non-contact IC (integrated circuit) cards and PDAs (personal digital assistants) are secure and efficient, the companies announced on Wednesday.

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