A PDA Will Change The Way You Consume Data by James Hunt
PDA (personal digital assistant) devices are more useful than ever. What began as a convenient way to store contacts and calendars has evolved into a new conduit for information in the digital age. PDAs are now being used for many purposes beyond simple calendaring and phone number storage. ... This means you can watch your TiVo’ed programming on your 802.11b -enabled PDA at the local coffee shop or on your cell phone over the wireless broadband services that are being rolled out these past few years.

Xbox Catching Up in 2006 by Chris Robertson
Although there was a delay in delivering the number of Xbox 360s that consumers demanded for the 2005 holiday season, Microsoft is expected to manufacture over 2 million of the gaming consoles in the first quarter of 2006. It's estimated that about 1 million Xbox 360s made it to stores in time... Although many developers of video games seem to be waiting until the next generation of gaming consoles saturate the market, a few recent titles are noteworthy. ... Manufacturers are also producing after market products to integrate MP3 players and iPods into a vehicle's sound system.

Motorola Cell Phone Gaming One-Ups Pocket PC by Damian Julien
If your Pocket PC RPG game forays need to be buttressed by Motorola cell phone gaming, read on. TechNewsWorld broke the scoop on an exciting union that bodes well for Motorola cell phone gamers . Chinese gaming company Shanda Interactive and Motorola have just signed the ink on a partnership. ... Pocket PC gamers will have to be content with using this as a Motorola cell phone platform backup while their iPAQ or Axim is docked, at least until some other titles are released. ... Virtual denizons of the desktop PC virtual worlds in World of Warcraft and EverQuest (dubbed EverCrack by my...

Lose a Laptop or PDA? You Get Your Stuff Back with Property ID Asset Tags by Mike Valentine
You've finally done it, you left your laptop at the coffee shop, your cell phone at the supermarket or your PDA on the counter at the office supply store. Maybe you forgot to pick up your iPod from the ATM, where you put it down to answer your cell phone during a banking transaction. ... More recently, corporate and government entities have begun placing asset tags on more high value movable items like laptops, PDA's, scanners and cell phones carried by employees in their work. ... If this trend takes hold and becomes popular in the consumer market, it will mirror a concept long used by...

Palm PC critique by Lance Winslow
I met an entrepreneur who hole heartedly disagree with an article in Advertising Age by Bradley Johnson that Palm Pilot can keep their market share through brand name. We discussed RIMM Research in Motion and my stock in that company and I defended the wireless venue, but he went into a tirade,... We chose Palm PC units because Microsoft who has extended its reach into markets such as satellite TV, communication, cell phone technology, Internet will be primarily designing software that work on the Palm PC based systems and therefore better opportunity in the future with regards to video...

A Brief Introduction To Bluetooth by Oliver Dvorak
Bluetooth was designed to allow low bandwidth wireless connections to become easy to use so even those who are new to wireless can use them. Version one.One of Bluetooth describes a low power, short range wireless networking technology that uses radio waves to send data at rates up to 720... Industry Standard Bluetooth is an industry standard communication of wireless, meaning that it enables the connection of other devices as well, such as cell phones, computers, digital cameras, & other types of electronic devices.

Personal Digital Assistants by Mike Bryant
Are you a post-it note kind of person? I am. Every morning, my first three tasks are to get coffee, check email and write my daily prioritized to-do list. I try my best to spend the day completing my list, checking off each item as it is completed. Without this trusty companion telling me what... Others have a built-in cell phone or digital camera. ... Actually, the PDA’s on the market these days are so powerful that you can really consider many of them a mini-laptop computer. ... Phone numbers and email addresses?

Where does technology come from? by Lance Winslow
Ever wonder where all the cool gadgets come from? Ever wonder who gets to try this stuff out first? Usually the war machine scientists get it first, try it out and find an application by using it for destruction; an obvious outlet for the human species and our desire to blow things up. ... Many things are now being created in private sector and the military is finding great applications for them such as the palm computer technology for Navy Seal Teams, cell phone telemetry tracking. ... With the Internet as a distribution channel a new wiget can be to market in months and delivered in 8-12...

Mobile Computing for Language Translators by Clint Tustison
One of the best things about being a freelance language translator is the mobility and freedom that comes with the job. Instead of having to go to the office to work, you can instead stay home, go to the library, or head over to your favorite coffee shop to work on your translation projects. ... 2) Cell Phone : You never know when a client is going to contact you. ... Here are some tools that you shouldn't go to Starbucks without: 1) Compact Laptop : There are a ton of different laptops on the market these days.

Interactive Mapping Brings Information to Life by Joe Miller
What is Interactive Mapping? Interactive mapping is a visual display medium which allows graphing, mapping, and even conversion to PDF of any type of information. This technology is used by national government agencies, airlines, chambers of commerce, ski resorts, and countless corporations to... The CIA World Factbook collects and presents geographical, population, and even cell phone usage across the world with interactive mapping. ... Business, government, and educational reports and informational presentations are constantly being created and published with a variety of technologies...