TECH NEWS RADIO #276 | 060401 | AT&T, Wireless, Palm Pilot, Windows CE, HDML, RIM, Apple Newton, Hammerhead
Saturday, April 01, 2006
This Tech Rag Tear Outs podcast from TechNewsRadio.com examines Wireless for the Corporate User (no URL), Vol. 6, No. 3 published on March 1997.
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Key articles mentioned in this article:
- Sean Keating recommends moving focus away from the US Robotics Pilot 1000 to Windows Consumer Electronics (CE) devices.
- Alain Rossman from Unwired Planet says that Handheld Device Markup Language (HDML) is ideal for "superphones" from Motorola-Uniden using CDPD networks or the new Qualcomm CDMA networks.
- Steve Mann thinks that Research In Motion's Inter@ctive Pager has great potential as a development platform.
- Andrew Seybold makes an assertion that Microsoft handheld PCs will ultimately rule the marketplace.
- Yours truly -- makes the case that the Apple Newton MessagePad 2000 is an ideal mobile device to be the foundation of your future enterprise mobile architecture. [NOTE: Just because I bleed six colors and in the Newton Hall of Fame does not mean I am biased.]
- The WalkAbout Computer's Hammerhead 586 seems ideal for running Windows 95 or Windows 3.1 or DOS in a "slate" form-factor.
Other links or items mentioned in this podcast:
- Dan Klass @ The Bitterest Pill (who apparently plans to start charging listeners for podcasts)
- Friends In Tech (FIT) (which has no affiliations with FIT@NYC)
- Adam Curry
- Official wine of the podcast: Fetzer Valley Oaks Gewurztraminer
- Grape Radio
- HyperText Markup Languages (HTML)
- World Wide Web (WWW)
- General Magic
- Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
- 160-MHz StrongARM processor
- Newton Internet Enabler 1.1
(Size 4.4 MBs, Running Time 9:30)
