Room, board and Palm?

By | 5/2/2001

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

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Sony tries again with Clie handheld

By | 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 shipping its second-generation Clie device, the PEG N710C, early next month. The $499 device will be able to play digital audio and video files and will have a 320-by-320-pixel color screen.

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Pocket PC and Wireless

By Ed Hardy | 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 electronic signals, such as those generated by telegraph, between two points without the use of wires.

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Details of Sony's new Clie leak out on Web

By | 4/30/2001

In what is becoming a commonplace gaffe among tech companies, Sony has unveiled the U.S. version of its new Clie handheld by inadvertently posting details and photographs of the product on its Web site.

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Will it take a "Village" to raise an IM?

By | 4/26/2001

Three of the world's top four handset makers are joining forces to create a way for cell phone users to send instant messages to each other, regardless of the make, model or software inside the phone.

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Bluetooth nibbles at wireless market

By | 4/26/2001

Bluetooth will be taking a slightly smaller bite out of the wireless-networking market than previously expected, according to new projections.

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AvantGo to cut 15 percent of staff

By | 4/25/2001

Despite its narrower-than-expected quarterly loss, mobile Internet content provider AvantGo is cutting 15 percent of its employees.

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Cell phone makers learn software the hard way

By | 4/24/2001

Of all the features on the Kyocera Smartphone released last month in the United States, one stood out: a "reboot" button.

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Inside Franklin Covey

By Ed Hardy | 4/23/2001

Franklin Covey may have started out selling paper-based organizers but it's also been selling PDAs since the first Palm appeared.

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A Palm from the Plains

By | 4/21/2001

That's the question for Palm's smallest licensee, a 40-person Iowa company called HandEra. The company, which until recently was known as TRG Products, plans to announce Monday a Palm OS-based handheld for businesses that has two expansion slots and a screen with a higher resolution than most competitors.

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An end to recharging for mobile phones

By | 4/19/2001

German researchers are developing new types of power cells that could mean mobile phones will never have to be recharged at the mains again.

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Palm begins handing out pink slips

By | 4/19/2001

Handheld maker Palm began making large-scale job cuts Wednesday and, according to internal documents, has been detailing other ways it will cut costs.

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