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  • location awareness

    Location awareness is a component of presence technology that delivers information about a device's physical location to another user or application. The location is usually determined by one of th...

  • Fuel cells still years away for mobile devices

    While fuel cell manufacturers have long fought to consumerize the technology, they're finally finding success in niche professional markets.

  • As others flock to iPhone, Palm faithful await the Nova

    Despite a troubled few years and lack of innovation, Palm still commands a loyal user base awaiting the next big thing.

  • inductive charging

    Inductive charging is a wireless charging method used for charging mid-sized items such as cell phones, MP3 players and PDAs... (Continued)

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  • Mobile devices: Upgrade considerations

    Mobile device upgrades can be a minefield involving a number of considerations. This tip focuses on how to evaluate a device's age, capability and adaptability for potential hardware or software updates.  Tip

  • Mobile trends: The big stories of 2007

    Mobile trends and news are wrapped up in Craig Mathias' latest column.  Tip

  • New mobile devices -- Diversity and innovation

    Convergence may be the theme in networks, but it's the opposite in the ever-evolving world of subscriber units. I was recently asked to participate in a survey of industry analysts on the subject of handset trends over the next five years. I'm always...  Tip

  • Mobile form factors: Handhelds

    The size and layout of a mobile device is just as important as what it does – and the form-factor options in handhelds are both plentiful and growing.  Tip

  • Mobile email on 20 keys

    Mobile email is no longer reserved for corporate executives and IT departments need to plan for the next wave of mobilization.  Tip

  • Alternative input technologies

    Find your mobile device keypad too restricting? Did you know that it could actually cause thumb-joint damage? (BlackBerry Thumb sound familiar?) In this column, Craig Mathias explores several options designed to help us input information on our mobil...  Tip

  • Wireless adapters for PDAs and smartphones

    In part-two of this series, Lisa Phifer considers the hardware options for adding wireless to your PDA or smartphone.  Tip

  • Wireless options for PDAs and smartphones

    Wireless PDA and smartphone sales are booming. Most of today's new handhelds have built-in wireless interfaces that can be used to reach other users, corporate servers, and the public Internet. Mobile connectivity has never been easier, but which wir...  Tip

  • Making cellular an integral part of the mobile enterprise

    Getting your mobile services in order is a daunting challenge and involves so much more than just the 'traditional' approach to IT management. Discover why it might be appropriate for enterprise IT and telecom departments to manage cellular devices a...  Tip

  • Evaluating mobile messaging

    Emulators can save you investment and evaluation costs when implementing corporate mobile messaging.  Tip

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  • location awareness

    Location awareness is a component of presence technology that delivers information about a device's physical location to another user or application. The location is usually determined by one of three methods... (Continued)  Word

  • inductive charging

    Inductive charging is a wireless charging method used for charging mid-sized items such as cell phones, MP3 players and PDAs... (Continued)  Word

  • radio charging

    Radio charging is a wireless charging method used to charge items with small batteries and low power requirements, such as watches, hearing aids and wireless keyboards and mice... (Continued)  Word

  • wireless charging

    Wireless charging is any of several methods of charging batteries without the use of cables. The three main methods of wireless charging are radio charging, resonance charging and inductive charging... (Continued)  Word

  • microblogging

    Microblogging is a web service that allows the subscriber to broadcast short messages to other subscribers of the service. (Continued)  Word

  • iPhone

    iPhone is a combination of an iPod, a tablet PC and a cellular phone made by Apple that pairs the ease of use of an iPod with robust multimedia, Internet browsing and networking capabilities...(Continued)  Word

  • Quarter Video Graphics Array (QVGA)

    QVGA (Quarter Video Graphics Array) is a small-screen display mode in which the resolution is 320 pixels horizontally by 240 pixels vertically (320 x 240). This is 25 percent of the total number of pixels afforded by the VGA (Video Graphics Array) di...  Word

  • Opera

    Opera is a Web browser that provides some advantages over the two most popular browsers from Netscape and Microsoft...(Continued)  Word

  • digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB)

    Digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) is the process of multicasting by satellite or terrestrial services (or a combination of both) for reception by mobile and portable devices, particularly cell phones... (Continued)  Word

  • FeliCa

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  • location awareness

    Location awareness is a component of presence technology that delivers information about a device's physical location to another user or application. The location is usually determined by one of three methods... (Continued)  Word

  • Fuel cells still years away for mobile devices

    While fuel cell manufacturers have long fought to consumerize the technology, they're finally finding success in niche professional markets.  Article

  • As others flock to iPhone, Palm faithful await the Nova

    Despite a troubled few years and lack of innovation, Palm still commands a loyal user base awaiting the next big thing.  Article

  • inductive charging

    Inductive charging is a wireless charging method used for charging mid-sized items such as cell phones, MP3 players and PDAs... (Continued)  Word

  • radio charging

    Radio charging is a wireless charging method used to charge items with small batteries and low power requirements, such as watches, hearing aids and wireless keyboards and mice... (Continued)  Word

  • wireless charging

    Wireless charging is any of several methods of charging batteries without the use of cables. The three main methods of wireless charging are radio charging, resonance charging and inductive charging... (Continued)  Word

  • PDA review: HP iPAQ 210

    Keeping to the standard, HP recently released the iPAQ 210 which retains the standard features and design of the traditional handheld.  Brighthand.com

  • Apple iPhone/iPod touch get doubled storage

    New Apple iPhones and iPod touches have been released and both devices have an increased storage capacity.  Article

  • Mobile devices: Upgrade considerations

    Mobile device upgrades can be a minefield involving a number of considerations. This tip focuses on how to evaluate a device's age, capability and adaptability for potential hardware or software updates.  Tip

  • HP's iPAQ 210 enterprise handheld released

    HP's iPAQ 210, a highly anticipated enterprise-level handheld, has been released.  Article

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