Daxian Pocket PC phone

A Chinese wireless service provider announced earlier this week that it will soon begin carrying a new cellular-wireless Pocket PC designed by Daxian Telecom. Brighthand has more information on the rumors surrounding the Daxian Pocket PC.

Posted on: April 27, 2004 9:00 am

In-Flight Broadband

Korean Air said that it has agreed to install broadband access provided by Connexion by Boeing. The Korean airline joins Lufthansa, Scandinavian Airlines System, Japan Airlines, ANA, Singapore Airlines and China Airlines in providing in-flight broadband access to its customers.

Posted on: April 27, 2004 9:00 am

Symbian in the lead

The Symbian operating system, controlled by a group of cell phone handset makers, is likely to dominate the market for high-end Smartphones for the rest of the decade, according to a study by ABI Research. While the system’s lead is unlikely to be immediately threatened by competition such as Windows CE, the Palm OS or Linux, ABI said Nokia’s tightening grip on Symbian could lead other handset makers to shun the software.

Posted on: April 27, 2004 9:00 am

Samsungs new LCDs

Samsung has introduced several new high-end LCD displays. The new models sport such features as bezel displays, MagicTune and Magic Bright technologies, built-in TV tuner, picture-in-picture functionality, and dual analog and digital inputs.

Posted on: April 27, 2004 9:00 am

LPGA Mobile Channel

Sybase and the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) have teamed up to deliver golf tournament news updates, schedules, course information and player statistics to PDAs and smartphones. This new channel provides mobile access to LPGA.com and is available to the more than ten million registered subscribers of the free AvantGo mobile Internet service.

Posted on: April 27, 2004 9:00 am

Netsky-Z hits education

Three education portals remain the focus of the latest Netsky variant, which targets the sites for a distributed denial-of-service attack in early May. Antivirus experts are baffled as to why the three sites, located in Florida, Switzerland and Germany are the target of the worm writer.

Posted on: April 26, 2004 9:00 am

Tungsten E JAVOSkin

JAVOSkin, made of high-quality, flexible and durable silicone, is a case that protects and covers all edges, buttons and d-pad from any scratches on your Palm Tungsten E. The JAVOSkin has cutouts for easy access to stylus, charging/synchronization socket, IR port, reset button, speaker, memory card slot and headphone jack.

Posted on: April 26, 2004 9:00 am

Theoretical Data Speed Limit

Scientists say they’ve discovered an apparent speed limit that will restrict how quickly data can be written onto disks and then retrieved. This limit is about 1,000 times faster than today’s state-of-the-art data storage devices.

Posted on: April 26, 2004 9:00 am

Octiv launches Volume Logic

Octiv announced the availability of Volume Logic for Windows and an upgraded version for Mac, the audio digital re-mastering plug-in for the Apple iTunes player. Now available for Windows, Volume Logic was first released for the Macintosh in January 2004.

Posted on: April 26, 2004 9:00 am

WiFile for Palm

Hands High Software announced the release of WiFile for Palm-powered handhelds and smartphones. With WiFile and a Palm device that is connected to a local area network or the Internet, users can directly access applications, databases, Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, MP3 music files, digital photos, and more, all located on their personal computers or corporate servers.

Posted on: April 26, 2004 9:00 am