Qtopia To Power IBM Linux PDA Design
News IBM will use the Qtopia software in a PDA (personal digital assistant) blueprint along with its own PowerPC 405LP chip and MontaVista Software's version of the Linux operating system, Trolltech said earlier this week.
[February 14, 2003, 14:12]
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]
Linux On The ELAP
White Papers The IBM PowerPC 405LP PDA Reference Design, also known as the Embedded Linux Application Platform, or eLAP, is a sample board made by IBM based on the 405LP. The IBM PowerPC 405LP is an embedded CPU designed especially for handheld applications.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Pervasive Computing: E-Business Anywhere, Anytime
White Papers Combining the efficiency and power of Linux with IBM's state-of-the-art pervasive computing solutions, the authors take the user step by step through building a convenient PDA-based sales application.
[July 11, 2008, 1:20]
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. At the IBM stand a prototype watch running Linux...
[February 2, 2001, 7:59]
TechXNY: Crusoe Squeezes Into Meta Pad Spinoff
News Antelope, a company that makes mobile computing devices for niche markets, said on Wednesday that it will use Transmeta's Crusoe TM5800 in an upcoming device based on IBM's "Meta Pad" technology, a device the size of a PDA that morphs into a...
[June 26, 2002, 16:50]
Symbian To Drop Microsoft In Favour Of Opera
News Symbian's rivalry with Microsoft in the PDA and smart phone markets has been a public one. On the heels of that announcement, Opera unveiled an agreement with IBM, via which IBM will embed a version of Opera for the QNX operating system on IBM's...
[May 29, 2001, 17:17]
News Schmooze: Of Microsoft And Meta Pads
News The latest is the Meta Pad, a small black core which you're to carry about in your pocket and insert into various shells that turn it into a PDA, a laptop or a desktop PC. It's nice to know, in this increasingly bottom-line-driven business, that...
[February 8, 2002, 12:12]
Consumer Electronics Giants Opt For Linux
News It also uses the Palm OS in its Clie PDA and a version of MontaVista's Linux software in its "Cocoon" Internet-connected digital video recorder, sold in Japan. Like many other large companies such as IBM, Sony and Matsushita have increased their...
[December 18, 2002, 9:32]
Fossil Unearths Wrist PDA
News Fossil, the Texas-based maker of trendy watches and other accessories, has started selling the Wrist PDA, a Palm-compatible device that displays contacts, to-dos, appointments and other information from a handheld computer.
[April 30, 2002, 17:08]
Jubilation Over Sun's Java Victory
News At the end of the day, most believe that Java will run on mobile phones and hand-held devises/PDA's and do not buy into the notion that Microsoft will own it all," said Bloor. IBM's European software business marketing manager Tony Occleshaw told...
[November 18, 1998, 15:56]
Toshiba To Launch Bluetooth Card
News Whereas 802.11 supports wireless networking, Bluetooth is meant to create "personal area networks" that allow people to share files between devices, such as two PCs or a PC and a cellular phone and PDA.
[September 14, 2000, 9:23]
CDL Empowers High-Function Mobile Computing Device With DB2 Everyplace
White Papers Founded in 2000, CDL is a pioneer of pervasive computing networks and developed the cargo terminal’s solution with its Paron Multipurpose PC (MPC) personal digital assistant (PDA). For CDL, the choice was simple: IBM DB2 Everyplace for Linux.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Java Phones Take Centre Stage At JavaOne
News A big draw could be a discounted Zaurus Linux/Java PDA. Sun chief executive Scott McNealy talks about the politics behind the new Web Services Interoperability Group headed by Microsoft and IBM. Mon 25 Mar: Sun's JavaOne conference is to see...
[March 26, 2002, 12:50]
Exclusive: SuSE Linux Goes Handheld
News The PDA market is currently dominated by the Palm OS and Microsoft's Pocket PC platform. Established manufacturers including Compaq, HP and IBM are, however, reported to be developing hardware designed to run lightweight versions of Linux.
[January 4, 2001, 6:49]
Motorola Unveils First Linux Smartphone
News The A760 is a high-end smartphone whose functionality includes a PDA-style personal information management suite, a video player, a music player, and an instant messaging tool. Linux is collectively created by a large group of open-source...
[August 22, 2003, 16:30]
CeBIT 2000: What's Hot At This Year's Show
News Samsung, the highly secretive Korean manufacturer, is also rumoured to be showing a prototype of its first PDA -- running on Linux. Symbian and IBM will be showing off the wireless information systems they've been working on together, while WAP...
[February 21, 2000, 8:50]
Personal Server Takes Your Data With You
News I worked on PDA technologies for ten years, and thought that when we got to something like the iPaq, we'd have utopia. The project, called Ubiquity, combines portable mass storage -- in this case, an IBM Microdrive -- and wireless interconnectivity...
[September 16, 2003, 10:25]
3G: We're Off To See The Future! Pt II
News More likely the popular 3G devices will be a compromise with data enthusiasts owning both a 3G handset and an advanced PDA/portable PC, using Bluetooth to share and synchronise the data between handset, portable PC and desktop Internet terminal.
[August 23, 2000, 14:44]
Sun Brews Fresh Java For Mobile Devices
News Sharp's Zaurus SL-5500 PDA is the best-known example of Linux running on StrongARM. J2ME Personal Profile, known as JSR 62, made its way through an approval regime called the Java Community Process, members of which include Ericsson, IBM, Philips...
[September 26, 2002, 11:54]
