Tue November 16 2004
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08:40 AM by Alexander Turcic in Archive | Sunrise
Just as a side note: Sunrise 0.36d is released today removing the HotSync Manager requirement (= Vade Mecum users can now use Sunrise as well). |
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08:28 AM by Colin Dunstan in E-Book General | News
"Particularly using the Adobe scheme, we found that to download a 2 megabyte e-book required a user actively participating in various logins, registrations, and downloads for an average of 12 hours, resulting in an average of 173.2 megabytes of data transfer," explained Arther, "Boiling all that down to kilowatt hours of energy shows that e-books consume approximately 18 times the fossil fuel of an equivalent published work." This is not an April joke it seems (edit: well perhaps I should give that a second thought, *shame*). 173.2 MB to download an e-book?? Could someone explain? Perhaps I am missing something in that story... |
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Mon November 15 2004
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04:58 PM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones
The WCF54G is compatible with Windows Mobile Pocket PC 2002 or later. In addition to supporting 802.11g, the card is also backward-compatible with the 11 Mbps 802.11b standard. According to Linksys, the card roams seamlessly among multiple 802.11g/b wireless network access points or wireless routers, it also operates in ad hoc mode (without an access point) to download data from wireless PCs without a cradle or network connection, and can share data directly with other wireless PDAs. The card will be available for an estimated street price of US $99. |
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02:28 PM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones
Colligan's key points: Here is one bit of the interview I found quite amusing. To the question whether palmOne is lagging on the technology curve, Colligan replies: I probably would have accepted that a year ago. I think the category defining products in this space are at PalmOne. You read any review of any smartphone and the Treo 650 wins. So I don't accept that premise. Well. I don't recall anyone questioning palmOne's leadership one year ago. Do you? |
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09:57 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones
According to RIM Asia-Pacific vice-president Patrick Spence, "Disconnected PDAs were great in the past but today, people's information is changing too rapidly for that type of model and customers want to synchronise their PDAs with their PCs fast." This statement is not suprising in light of RIM's announcement from last month of the 7270 BlackBerry, the first Blackberry to support VoIP and 802.11b WiFi. The device is due to go on sale in early 2005, with selected customers testing it already. |
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Sun November 14 2004
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02:42 PM by Alexander Turcic in Archive | Sunrise
Note that his decision does not affect the Sunrise desktop convertor, at least for now. Sunrise 0.4 is still due for release next month. |
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02:25 PM by Alexander Turcic in E-Book Software | Reading and Management Free PPC-based Plucker document viewer Vade Mecum V0.6 alpha has been released. New in this version: support for composite images; 16 bit images no longer turns up black; images that are too wide to fit in the reader are resized; all images, except those used as links, are clickable and opened in a new image viewer, which allows you to scroll and zoom the image; a few minor changes to the search dialog and small bug fixes. |
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10:02 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones
As a result, your e-mails, SMS, tasks, dates and contact data can no longer be displayed without the correct authorization. Even after a hard reset the PDA's security settings remain active giving only authorized users access to the data. There are two variants, intended for private customers and companies. The enterprise edition also allows companies to block Bluetooth, WLAN, infrared interfaces and telephones on staff PDAs, control ActiveSync connections and use Active Directory to distribute security guidelines. You can download this pdf for more information. |
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