New Zire handhelds

palmOne announced two new color Zire handhelds, the Zire 72 handheld, with a built-in 1.2-megapixel camera and MP3 player, and the Zire 31 for value-conscious students, parents and seniors.

Posted on: April 28, 2004 9:00 am

Bluetooth Print Adapters

IOGEAR has unveiled the Bluetooth USB Print Adapter and the Bluetooth USB/Parallel Combo Print Adapter, which will allow Bluetooth-enabled computers and PDAs to print wirelessly.

Posted on: April 28, 2004 9:00 am

Wacom PenPartner

Wacom’s PenPartner is a compact pen tablet that allows you to navigate Windows and make handwritten notes using a pressure-sensitive pen. Targeted primarily at laptop users, PenPartner offers an alternative way of inputting data compared to a regular mouse.

Posted on: April 28, 2004 9:00 am

DVD double layer burning

Roxio has released a downloadable update to its Creator 7 suite that will immediately enable DVD Double Layer (DL) data burning capabilities and allow consumers to nearly double the amount of valuable personal data they can record to a single DVD +R DL disc.

Posted on: April 28, 2004 9:00 am

Mobile blogs

Mobile phones with cameras onboard are popular and weblogs, or blogs, are gaining in popularity. Now the two have come together in moblogs, in which people post pictures, text and even video from their phone.

Posted on: April 28, 2004 9:00 am

Worm attack on SSL vulnerability

Security experts on Tuesday said they are seeing evidence of what appears to be a worm exploiting the recently announced vulnerability in the Windows implementation of the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.

Posted on: April 28, 2004 9:00 am

Treo 610 confirmed

A recent research note written by Detwiler Mitchell & Co. covers palmOne’s plans to change parts suppliers for the CDMA modems used in some of its models following the Treo 600 and 610. See the full story on Brighthand for more complete information.

Posted on: April 27, 2004 9:00 am

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