You’ve undoubtedly already heard the big news of last week — the world has lost Steve Jobs, the computer visionary who drove, directly and indirectly, much of existance and progress of the personal computer industry. Steve Jobs died at the age of 59, after suffering from pancreatic cancer. For most of the history of Apple, [...]
Killer Applications for PDAs and SmartPhones
As I was looking for a new cellphone, I began to consider the “Smartphone-type phones. These are combinations of cellphone plus other functions. I mentioned last week that I was looking at one of them — the Samsung Blackjack. Other Smartphones include the Blackberry phone/email devices and the Windows Mobile Smartphones. Thanks to the readers [...]
MP3 Players, PDAs and Cell Phones – the Convergence
Have you seen the television ad from Verison, where everyone is walking down the street, shimmying like Shakira’s video? The convergence of handhelds appears to be going full-stream. Last year, Sony announced that it was exiting the PDA market in the U.S. Palm split into an operating system company and a hardware company. Now, the [...]
Read Ebooks on your Computer or PDA
If you are a PDA user like I am, you keep your personal digital assistant with you at all times. What could be a better way to have a good book for those short dead-times in your schedule? I’m on my fourth PalmOS® PDA. With flash memory, I have 128MB of space for my ebooks [...]
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