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Linux carves niche in PDA market
News With a list price of $499, the Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 is at the higher end of the PDA market. In addition to the PowerPlay V PDA, the company plans to use the OS in developing "intelligent appliances. Royal Consumer Business Products, for example, is...
[June 11, 2002, 12:34]
Yopy survives death rumours
News Linux fans were saddened to learn of the death of Yopy, the long-awaited Linux-based PDA, earlier this week. A representative of Samsung, developer G.Mate's partner in the project, told CNET News.com at this week's Consumer Electonics Show in Las...
[January 11, 2002, 17:15]
Yopy comes to Europe
News Having survived a tumultuous development and rollout process, Yopy, which was arguably the first Linux PDA, has arrived in Europe. Tuxmedia said it would initially be marketing the PDA to programmers, Linux enthusiasts and those curious about open...
[July 12, 2002, 14:36]
IBM plans more Linux-powered PDAs
News IBM's Microelectronics division announced on Tuesday it will offer a PDA blueprint aimed at fostering the development of new versions of handhelds based on its PowerPC 405LP chip and MontaVista Software's Linux.
[January 22, 2003, 7:38]
HP sacrifices Linux handhelds
News Rumours of a low-end HP Linux PDA have circulated recently, and the model was scheduled for release in late November or early December, according to the engineer. HP was also developing a wireless Linux PDA supporting GPRS (general packet radio...
[November 16, 2001, 12:40]
News Schmooze: Gizmos galore at CeBIT
News Users find one-handed Linux PDA gripping Sony Ericsson aimed to put everything into the pen, with their fabulous emailing device, while Invair got rid of the pen with its Linux PDA, which can be used one-handed with buttons and a scroller.
[March 15, 2002, 16:41]
News Roundup: Bluetooth ache means wireless woe
News In Hannover last month, at the World's largest trade show, manufacturers such as Hewlett-Packard, Ericsson and Psion were showing off Bluetooth devices -- and a Linux-based PDA with Bluetooth connectivity will be on sale by this summer.
[April 6, 2001, 10:16]
Look Out Transmeta!
News Lineo soon will be hard at work developing Lineo Embedix PDA, a Windows CE compatible embedded Linux software solution. What that means is that Embedix PDA will provide an application Windows CE compatible layer.
[February 1, 2000, 9:12]
MXI: Run any desktop program on your handheld
News At a media conference last week, the duo showed off a Compaq iPaq PDA running desktop versions of Word, Powerpoint and Internet Explorer. Because MXI saves interim data on the PDA, you can edit a document without being online.
[June 17, 2002, 10:16]
News Schmooze: Budgeting for e-business
News Sharp is getting back in on the PDA action, but has decided in typical idiosyncratic fashion to place its bets on Linux rather than Palm OS or Pocket PC. Sharp aims Linux-based PDA at UK corporations It might work better if Microsoft can figure out...
[April 19, 2002, 17:01]
Security hole discovered in Linux handheld
News The Embedix Plus PDA OS is built around the Linux kernel. Sharp is using a modified version of Lineo's Embedix Plus PDA OS in its Zaurus handheld device. Sharp's Linux-based handheld suffers from security holes that could let hackers grab private...
[July 12, 2002, 8:42]
NeoPwn developer gives Linux device pwn details
Blog Answer: A long time obsession with porting Linux pentesting applications to PDA’s and mobile phones! From there, getting packet injection with the Aircrack suite seemed like mission impossible on a PDA.
[September 25, 2008, 17:43]
Roundup: Palm shifts focus
News Fri, 09th MarPalm licencee gears up to introduce its slimline PDA with extra memory and new expansion slot Palm begins shipping new PDA HP may dump MS for Linux Fri, 02nd Mar Hewlett-Packard mulls Linux or Palm OS for Jornada, announces a wireless...
[March 9, 2001, 7:41]
Crusoe's ripple effect on Psion, ARM, others
News In the case of PDA makers like Psion and 3Com, which owns Palm Computing, maker of the Palm line of handhelds, the notion is that Crusoe will bring near-desktop PC capabilities to the handheld market, drawing interest away from products with more...
[January 20, 2000, 17:10]
Effy-Editor 1.0
Downloads is the program to encode in WinCE-based PDA a document that is compatible to the one in PC. That is, you can set up the way of encoding for each language using Effy-Editor in PDA. Effy-Editor 1.0 supports Unicode such that it is possible to freely...
[January 20, 2004, 7:00]
News Schmooze: China gives up software piracy
News The concept is that any day now you're going to be using a wireless PDA to write little messages and so there will, Compaq predicts, be a special business-speak for handheld-generated messages, comparable to the text abbreviations used by 10 year...
[December 7, 2001, 17:07]
Linux set for central role in 3G devices
News Back in April chip-designer ARM signed a deal to bring embedded Linux to its processors, while Lineo's version of embedded Linux has found favour with Sharp's PDA designers. Linux could soon be playing an important role in the third-generation...
[October 10, 2001, 16:16]
LinuxWorld: Linux gets Bluetoothed
News Manufacturers say that this will also help to drive Linux within the wireless space because these companies are keen to make all manner of devices -- from home network routers to PDA's -- wireless. Bluetooth -- the short-wave radio technology...
[February 2, 2001, 7:59]
Linux gets Bluetooth
News But while the radio technology has begun to advance in the mobile phone and PDA markets, PCs have been slower to gain native Bluetooth support, partly because it is perceived to compete with wireless LANs.
[May 27, 2002, 16:39]
Second open Linux handset unveiled
News The PDA-styled form factor is also markedly different from that of the candybar Greenphone, and the device will apparently cost $350 (£184) — half the price of the Greenphone. A second reprogrammable open Linux handset has been unveiled, just...
[November 9, 2006, 9:24]
