handhelds in news
RSS handhelds in newsPolice to be armed with 10,000 handhelds
News Prime Minister Gordon Brown has pledged to arm police with thousands of "handheld computers" so officers can make more effective use of their time and increase the amount of frontline policing they do. [26 Sep 2007]
Google: Personalisation is the future
News You could see people almost switching off their computers and switching on their handhelds," she said. Marissa Mayer, Google's vice president of search products and user experience, likes her iPhone and she's a big fan of social networks... [23 Aug 2007]
Row over European mobile TV standards
News By promoting the Nokia-backed DVB-H (Digital Video Broadcasting for Handhelds) technology, EC intends to reduce fragmentation and accelerate the uptake of mobile TV across its member states. The European Commission has thrown its weight behind... [19 Jul 2007]
Update: BlackBerry blackout hits RIM's customers
News The outage reportedly affected users in Canada and the US for several hours and resulted in emails not being sent from or delivered to the handhelds. BlackBerry addicts were forced to undergo a period of unplanned cold turkey last night after a... [18 Apr 2007]
Dell axes its pocket PC
News She noted the company does sell handhelds from other makers on its website, including GPS devices and smart phones. Dell has stopped selling its Axim line of pocket PCs and is not planning a new product in the category. [10 Apr 2007]
Laptops to outstrip desktops by 2011?
News Desktop shipments grew an anaemic two per cent to 138.3 million in 2006, while portables - a category that doesn't include handhelds - jumped 26.3 per cent to 82.4 million, according to the report. As worldwide desktop shipments continue to slow... [21 Mar 2007]
Alert over Treo data-access flaws
News Some versions of the Palm Treo carry security flaws that could allow a person in possession of the device to access data even when the handheld is locked, Symantec has warned. The Palm Treo models 700p, 680 and 650 contain the security flaws... [16 Feb 2007]
Coming to a mobile near you: Ads
News The service will work on most mobiles and handhelds that have web browsing capabilities. Yahoo! on Wednesday launched a beta version of sponsored search results on mobile phones in the UK and US. Like Yahoo! [05 Oct 2006]
Lenovo not yet ready to do global mobiles
News Besides PCs and handhelds, Lenovo also manufactures servers. Don't expect Lenovo-branded mobile phones outside of the Chinese PC giant's home turf yet, according to the company's head honcho William Amelio. [05 Sep 2006]
eBayed smart phones give up corporate secrets
News Palm Treo 650s and BlackBerry handhelds from RIM have a built-in hard wipe function. Smart phones and PDAs offer the benefit of storing information but consumers are not always wiping the data clean before selling the devices on eBay, according to... [31 Aug 2006]
Co-op takes warehouse wireless
News East Anglia Federal Co-Op Society is spending £210,000 to install Vocollect's voice picking technology and Psion Teklogix's Workabout Pro handhelds, alongside AquiTec's Warehouse Management System, in its 140,000 square foot warehouse. [14 Aug 2006]
Trojan sinks its teeth into BlackBerry
News A typical installation includes server software that is installed on a corporate network as well as the handhelds used to send and receive messages. One of the first examples of malicious software on BlackBerry devices has surfaced but manufacturer... [09 Aug 2006]
3 eyes up small business with phones and email
News On the hardware front, the operator has lined up two business handhelds for its new SME charm offensive, both sporting Qwerty keyboards - the Nokia E61 and the Windows-based Qtek 9000, made by HTC. Mobile operator 3 is eyeing up the small business... [22 Jun 2006]
RIM CEO: 'China's RedBerry is no threat'
News After all, today's smart phone functionality will more than likely end up in tomorrow's bog-standard, ubiquitous handhelds. Time was, RIM was synonymous with dodgy thumbs and exec envy. Now it seems the Canadian company is more renowned for its... [18 May 2006]
Nokia business phones get voice newbie
News The Finnish handset giant has extended its Intellisync Device Management offering for Open Mobile Alliance Device Management compliant devices, including handhelds running on the Microsoft, Palm or Symbian OS and BlackBerrys. [18 May 2006]
