Posted Friday, November 29, 2002 11:52:56 AM PST
by Ryan
AvantGo has unveiled the results of the AvantGo 2002 Sales Management and Field Sales Representative Study. The study surveyed sales management executives and sales representatives to gauge their opinions on the level of success their current customer relationship management (CRM) and sales force automation (SFA) system implementations enjoy and identify how handheld personal digital assistant (PDA) solutions might impact the use of these systems. Overall, the study found that these systems suffer from low adoption in the field, and that PDA access could dramatically drive usage.
Posted Tuesday, November 26, 2002 10:17:32 AM PST
by Ryan
Handspring, today released its GPRS software upgrade for Treo customers using T-Mobile wireless service in the United States. This user-installable software upgrade brings a new level of performance and simplicity to the Treo 180 and 270. The software enhances applications like email and web with faster, persistent connections to high-speed data networks.
Posted Monday, November 25, 2002 11:57:15 AM PST
by Ryan
ClieSource is sponsoring a Clie NX Compact Flash Memory Driver contest. The contest is open to all individual programmers. The driver should be able to support any of the commercial Compact Flash (CF) memory cards. Deadline for submission will be on January 3, 2003. See
this for more info.
Posted Sunday, November 24, 2002 11:21:36 AM PST
by Ryan
A new real-time navigation product, announced by Mapopolis aims to eliminate time spent waiting in traffic jams for its users. The product actively searches for accidents, slow downs and construction on the user’s route and re-routes them if necessary to avoid it.
Posted Friday, November 22, 2002 9:54:01 AM PST
by Ryan
Socket Communications has announced the availability of its Bluetooth GPS Receiver, the first stand-alone wireless Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver for Bluetooth-enabled mobile devices supporting virtual COM ports. The Receiver is small and lightweight for optimum portability and allows anyone with a Bluetooth-enabled handheld computer to wirelessly receive GPS location signals within 30 feet of the Receiver. It works with a number of popular GPS map programs including Destinator, Mapopolis, Pharos and TeletypeGPS.
Posted Thursday, November 21, 2002 4:38:46 PM PST
by Ryan
Fossil, today announced its Palm Powered WRIST PDA was named "Best of COMDEX" in the mobile devices category at COMDEX Fall 2002 by show organizer Key3Media Group Inc. and sponsor PC Magazine. Other products in the mobile devices category included the HP iPAQ Pocket PC h5400 and the Nokia 3650 phone.
Posted Thursday, November 21, 2002 4:20:22 PM PST
by Ryan
Handspring has announced the availability of the Treo 270 communicator in China by a partnership with CEC Telecom Co., Ltd.and GrandTech. The new metallic silver Treo will be sold as the CECT Treo 270 and is anticipated to be available in business channels and leading mobile phone and IT stores within the next 30 days.
Posted Wednesday, November 20, 2002 1:27:47 PM PST
by Ryan
PalmSource announced that it has joined Open Mobile Alliance (OMA), a mobile industry body dedicated to removing barriers to global user adoption and ensuring seamless mobile application interoperability. The OMA was formed in June 2002 by approximately 200 companies representing the world's leading mobile operators, device and network suppliers, information technology companies and content providers.
Posted Wednesday, November 20, 2002 11:53:15 AM PST
by Ryan
Best Software has announced ACT! for Palm OS handhelds. From a single application on the device, individuals as well as sales teams can access notes, histories and appointments for each contact record, view custom and user defined fields from their ACT! desktop, and manage sales opportunities.
Posted Tuesday, November 19, 2002 10:56:24 AM PST
by Ryan
The highly anticipated, Launcher X, has been released today. Launcher X is a highly configurable application launcher that replaces the built-in launcher on your Palm Powered Handheld. It features a new configurable skin technology called Active Skins, which allow the UI to be infinitely configurable and openes the road to vastly improved aesthetics. PIC Forum Moderator, Saw9000, brings us this in depth review.
Posted Monday, November 18, 2002 10:34:02 AM PST
by Ryan
Fossil, Inc. and PalmSource, today announced that Fossil has licensed the Palm operating system. Through the agreement, Fossil will introduce the world's first Palm OS Powered watch called the WRIST PDA. Fossil will showcase prototypes of the WRIST PDA with Palm OS this week at COMDEX at Booth #5242 in the Digital Lifestyles exhibition area of the Las Vegas Convention Center.
Posted Monday, November 18, 2002 10:23:50 AM PST
by Ryan
RealNetworks and Palm, Inc. today announced a strategic alliance that will enable consumers to use their Palm Tungsten T handhelds as digital audio players. RealOne Player Mobile, which is based on the Helix platform, will deliver audio multimedia playback and storage for both RealAudio and MP3 files on Palm's newest handheld, enabling users to play and store music wherever and whenever. It will be made available as a free download by the end of the year.
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