Beiks Pocket Medical Encyclopedia

Beiks announces a major upgrade to its MedicineNet Pocket Medical Encyclopedia for Palm OS and Pocket PC handheld devices. The reference guide now includes more than 15,000 entries of medical terms, written and compiled entirely by U.S. board certified physicians, which can provide quick and easy access to healthcare related information whenever and wherever a user may need it.

Posted on: November 19, 2004 9:00 am

Earthcomber

Earthcomber is a mobile lifestyle tool for your Palm-powered device that helps you find exactly what you want, wherever you are. Earthcomber contains information about more than one 1.2 million locations, landmarks, and businesses across the United States.

Posted on: November 19, 2004 9:00 am

PocketMac Lite

Information Appliance Associates announced the new release of PocketMac Lite Edition, their new condensed version of the PocketMac technology allowing Mac users to sync their Pocket PCs to their Macs. Now Mac users can sync their Pocket PC to their Mac for under 15 dollars.

Posted on: November 19, 2004 9:00 am

RSS feed thoughts

We’re looking at enhancing our RSS feeds here, so aggregators and feed readers can get more and better information. However, we’re running into a fundamental question that we’re having a bitch of a time answering: why should someone care? We know many of you read blogs and RSS feeds, but if you’re not part of the “blogosphere,” do you really care about RSS? So far, we’ve really had a hard time showing a real reason RSS feeds are compelling to the reader. What’s the “Aha” moment — especially if you are not a blogger? If you’ve got any opinions on this topic, please send your thoughts to editor@ZATZ.com. We’re probably going to be working through these issues a lot over the coming months.

Posted on: November 16, 2004 9:00 am

BlackBerry in Europe

BT reinforced its presence in the mobile market by signing an agreement with Research In Motion (RIM) to become Europe’s first Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) to sell the BlackBerry wireless solution.

Posted on: November 16, 2004 9:00 am

Dell sueing CompAmerica.com

Dell, has unexpectedly sued a much smaller competitor, CompAmerica.com, in US Federal Court. In what may be the strangest lawsuit in computer industry history: Dell claims that CompAmerica.com may not describe it’s products as “Dell Killers”. In addition, Dell claimed CompAmerica was trying to pass itself off as Dell.

Posted on: November 16, 2004 9:00 am

Beiks Pocket Medical Encyclopedia

Beiks announces a major upgrade to its MedicineNet Pocket Medical Encyclopedia for Palm OS and Pocket PC handheld devices. The reference guide now includes more than 15,000 entries of medical terms, written and compiled entirely by U.S. board certified physicians, which can provide quick and easy access to healthcare related information whenever and wherever a user may need it.

Posted on: November 16, 2004 9:00 am

Earthcomber

Earthcomber is a mobile lifestyle tool for your Palm-powered device that helps you find exactly what you want, wherever you are. Earthcomber contains information about more than one 1.2 million locations, landmarks, and businesses across the United States.

Posted on: November 16, 2004 9:00 am

Adobe to update PDF tools

Adobe is set to announce new versions of Acrobat and Reader, the company’s main tools for creating and viewing files based on the PDF (Portable Document Format) standard. New features include expanded collaborative functions intended to improve the exchange of information between businesses and customers or partners.

Posted on: November 16, 2004 9:00 am

Data storage for travelers

Western Digital has unveiled its new family of WD Passport Portable USB Hard Drives. WD Passport Portable Drives are manufactured with the high-performance, low-power, cool and quiet-running WD Scorpio 2.5-inch EIDE hard drives, a rugged protective case and Data Lifeguard providing maximum protection from data loss.

Posted on: November 15, 2004 9:00 am