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Photo Astronauts living on the International Space Station (ISS) will soon be using PDAs to help them with a variety of on-board tasks. Using PDAs as a voice or speech processing platform to get astronauts chatting to each other and the ISS' computer... [29 Jan 2007]
PDAs to fight war on hospital wear and tear
Case Study The team of 26 workmen in the Operational Support Services Maintenance Department at Bedford Hospital can record instant updates on jobs using PDAs that communicate via a GPRS network. The licence for the system costs the Trust about £6,000-a-year... [18 Jan 2008]
PDAs: Mobile Diagnostic Workstations
White Paper Physician’s use of personal digital assistants (PDAs) and handheld computers is on the rise. According to Manhattan Research, a New York based healthcare marketing information and services firm, 29 percent of practicing physicians in the U.S report... [01 Mar 2004]
PDAs and laptops help nurses dispense drugs
News Nurses are being given PDAs and laptops to help support their drug prescription duties as part of a six-month NHS pilot. Shuttle told silicon.com: "What we're hoping to identify in this pilot is [whether] by nurses having access to the technology... [15 Nov 2006]
PDAs in the Corporate Environment
White Paper As the use of PDAs in the workplace increases, companies are beginning to recognize the need to protect their most sensitive corporate data and business applications, which may be contained on the PDA in the event it is compromised, lost or stolen. [24 Feb 2004]
PDAs: Integrating Consumer Technologies into the Work Environment
White Paper The objective of this paper is to provide a good understanding of how Intel IT is incorporating PDAs into the enterprise environment today. It gives a background on how PDAs were introduced to Intel and how they have evolved. [24 Feb 2004]
PDAs, smart phones still flying off the shelves
News Demand for smart phones and PDAs is continuing to grow rapidly, according to the latest statistics from analyst house Gartner. Sales of PDAs also continue to grow - by 5.7 per cent in the last year to 7.4 million units. [10 Oct 2006]
PDAs to become mini towers of Babel
News Big Blue will today start selling its ViaVoice Translator software for PDAs that use Microsoft's PocketPC operating system. The problem with translation software is it uses up a lot of memory for PDAs, and IBM concedes the ViaVoice Translator is no... [18 Sep 2002]
PDAs: Vital, useful yet ultimately replaceable
News PDAs have become an essential part of our working lives, with users becoming almost surgically attached to the digital assistant - until, that is, a mobile phone comes along which can perform all the tasks of the top of the range handheld computers. [19 Sep 2003]
PDAs increasingly an enterprise play
News The latest National Computing Centre (NCC) IT Strategy survey shows 72 per cent of organisations now reporting some use of PDAs - up from 61 per cent a year ago. Although only about a fifth of user organisations include PDAs as part of their wider... [06 Aug 2003]
Motorola launches tough as old boots PDAs
News Motorola has launched its first range of military-grade PDAs. The first of the Windows-based HC700 range to arrive, the HC700-L, will come with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS, as well as barcode reader and stylus interface. [18 Oct 2005]
OmniSky connects European PDAs
News It's a move that could speed up the race to make more PDAs wireless-enabled. Through OmniSky International, users initially taking part in a beta programme will be able to access their corporate email and sites including Sports.com, Maporama and... [19 Feb 2001]
Smartphones no challenge to PDAs, says report
News In fact, wireless handhelds, which ABI dubs 'connected PDAs', will comprise over half the market in 2006, said ABI. To date, connected PDAs have not been popular because of limitations in technology. For 2003, worldwide shipments of PDAs are... [10 Sep 2003]
Lost PDAs betray company secrets
News This problem is made all the worse given 54 per cent of respondents to a silicon.com survey confessed to storing sensitive company information on their PDAs. While that may not sound staggering, it equates to a vast amount of PDAs at large. [15 Sep 2003]
Improving Web Browsing on Wireless PDAs Using Thin-Client Computing
White Paper Web applications are becoming increasingly popular for mobile wireless PDAs. This paper presents the first experimental study to quantitatively compare the web browsing performance of thin-client systems versus traditional fat clients running... [10 Apr 2008]
