Palm Releases Audio Patch for Tungsten T Owners

By Brian | 2/6/2003

I've had the unofficial version for a few days, but now everyone can get into the act. Palm has officially released the fix for a number of audio problems and opens the door for the official Real Player release.

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Review: The Straight Story Behind a Bendable Stylus

By Brian | 11/6/2002

When the ComfortStylus showed up at my house, it was packed in a small bubble envelope. Not really expecting a delivery I had no idea what was in the package. I eagerly opened it up to find…a broken stylus! Uh what? Why did someone send me a stylus that was all bent up?

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Nokia trying to communicate better – Set to release the 9310 Communicator today

By Brian | 11/4/2002

In late May, Nokia released the Communicator 9290 in the US with limited success. While the large clamshell design opened to reveal a very nice, wide color screen and large (by thumb-pad standards) QWERTY keyboard, it was hampered by GSM connectivity speeds. All that is about to change - today in fact, as the Nokia Communicator 9310 gets its wings.

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PalmSource Open House

By Ed Hardy | 10/11/2002

Recently, PalmSource held an open house for its new Sunnyvale headquarters. Part news conference, part ribbon-cutting, all wrapped in a miniature PalmSource expo.

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iBIZ's Xela Combines Keyboard & Case

By Ed Hardy | 10/3/2002

The Xela clips onto a handheld, where it acts as a flip case but opens to reveal a keyboard. When fully open, the keyboard is wider than it is tall.

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Sony releases 2 new PDA's in Tokyo, US models to follow

By | 3/11/2002

Both devices, the Clie PEG-NR70V and PEG-NR70, run on the Palm operating system, and flip open to reveal a 320-pixel-by-480-pixel color screen and a keyboard.

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Power in the palm of your hand

By | 1/11/2002

Microsoft introduces three new Pocket PC units with cellular functionality, while Sharp woos the open-source crowd by unveiling a Linux-powered handheld. And more hardware turns up for DataPlay's dirt-cheap 500MB storage discs.

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Royal announces low-cost Linux PDA

By | 1/10/2002

Royal Lin@x aims to bring colour handheld computers to a lower price point using open source software

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TI offers three-chip OMAP solution for handsets, PDAs

By | 10/28/2001

Texas Instruments Inc. has introduced the first standard chipset based on its Open Multimedia Applications Platform (OMAP), providing OEMs with an “antenna-to-applications” three-chip solution for 2.5G smart phones and PDAs.

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Debating Merits of Palms in Class

By | 8/23/2001

Ann Arbor Open School in Michigan is an alternative public school that prides itself on accepting new ideas and student individuality, talents and interests. But to the chagrin of some parents and teachers, there is one idea the school isn't open to -- the use of handheld computers in the classroom.

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Linux In The Palm Of Your Hand

By | 7/16/2001

Playing the underdog is familiar territory for Linux, but now the open-source community prepares to go up against PDA leaders Palm and Microsoft. To make inroads in the market, Linux will need to provide a standardized platform for business applications.

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TI tries to secure the wireless future

By | 5/8/2001

A new wireless technology will allow consumers to make secure purchases on next-generation cell phones and wireless handhelds, Texas Instruments said Monday. The new security technology is a software library for TI's blueprint for wireless devices that use its digital signal processors. The blueprint is known as OMAP, or the Open Multimedia Applications Protocol.

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