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Government admits to 200 more laptop thefts
News Department for International Development: 29 laptops stolen and three lost, two PDAs stolen and 18 mobiles stolen and nine lost. Department for Communities and Local Government: 28 laptops stolen and four mobiles stolen and one lost. [19 Feb 2008]
BlackBerrys squashed by Whitehall data ban
News The ban does not affect RIM's BlackBerry enterprise version (4.0 and above), which has been certified by CESG as secure enough to carry 'restricted'-level documents - the only PDA device that has been - and so can still be used by civil servants... [04 Feb 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Security twitch
Comment Like most business people I have everything backed up but still have a slightly irrational fear of losing any vital part of my hardware - whether laptop, PCs, PDAs or mobiles. Similarly, should someone steal your mobile or PDA, the hardware stops... [11 Apr 2007]
Motorola takes Razr to its handset range
News Later today Motorola CEO Zander is expected to address the 3GSM show for the second year, speaking about mobiles in the developing world. The company breaks down the six major form factors as clamshell, candy bar, qwerty, slider, PDA and rotator. [15 Feb 2006]
Analysis: What is a smart phone?
Comment Smart phones, in fact, bear as much in common with PCs as with mobiles. Analyst house Gartner gives the definition of a smart phone as: "A large-screen, data-centric, handheld device designed to offer complete phone functions whilst simultaneously... [13 Feb 2006]
Microsoft lets your IT manager wipe your phone
News Just weeks after releasing its latest operating system for mobiles, Windows Mobile 5.0, Microsoft has unveiled a security and messaging features top-up. The pack will enable Windows' 'direct push' technology, where information is pushed from... [06 Jun 2005]
Devil's Advocate: The trials of buying a new mobile phone
Comment Lots of moderately upmarket mobiles now boast PDA facilities and those features are quite as important to me as being able to make calls. Disgruntled with the premature failure of the old Nokia, my first attempt was with an Orange smart phone... [08 Mar 2005]
Bought a new phone? You and 194 million others
News While mobiles have been continuing on an upward tangent, voice-enabled PDAs and smart phones have been beating them hands down in terms of growth.saw year-on-year growth of 40 per cent in the PDA and smart phone segment. [28 Jan 2005]
Leader: iTunes mobiles - is this the death of the iPod?
Leader One theory is that if MP3 mobiles are going to happen anyway and it looks like they are - O2 and Sony have already teamed up on a similar device - it's a sound move for Apple to be the first to get a foot in the door and boost its brand. [27 Jul 2004]
2004: The year of the smart phone? Yes and no
Comment There is a fair size, good quality screen - though it doesn’t do justice to photos taken with the integrated VGA camera - and an aerial that could be from any number of mobiles, most memorably an Ericsson from two or three years back. [23 Dec 2003]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: You wear it well
Comment In just 12 years 59 million people have purchased 90 million mobile phones in the UK - giving us a situation where today there are 45 million operational mobiles. With conventional mobiles the communication cell spans 1km to 25km, to cope with the... [08 May 2003]
Devil's Advocate: Mobile mania
Comment Those that take notice of the ban on mobiles then rush out of the coach, clutching the phone and asking in a stage whisper for the caller to hang on. If the key click is switched off, it is not clear whether that counts as using a mobile phone or... [12 Nov 2002]
Cheat sheet: Mobile and wireless security
Cheat Sheet They're already banking with their mobiles. You could be using your WAP mobile phone/PDA hybrid to connect to the corporate network remotely. All critical PDA files should be encrypted in the first place. [14 Feb 2002]
The PC is dead - long live the PC... and the PDA, the mobile phone, the thin client...
Comment And for accessing networks there are now a vast number of alternative platforms on the market - laptops, thin client terminals, mobiles, PDAs and even digital TVs. We've heard about the death of the PC before. [29 Nov 2001]
Trekkies see science fiction become science fact
News On Star Trek: A little box, a bit like a PDA, which can do anything the plot requires -scanning for hidden aliens, medical diagnosis, scientific research, whatever. Reality check: The communications bit we already have, with the mobile phone. [30 May 2001]
