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Five Years Ago: Palmtop Know-how Puts HP Ahead In Win CE Race
News Microsoft's Windows CE will sort out the palmtop kings from the paupers, Hewlett-Packard (HP) claimed today. Competitors are having trouble with power management and temperature [on CE devices], and several are new to palmtop design," said Sharon...
[March 3, 2002, 6:01]
Psion Forges Ahead With Palmtop OS Licensing Plan
News We are already recognised as the world leader in the palmtop computer market and this sector will inevitably attract more players as communication and computing technologies continue to converge. With more than two million units sold and 33 per...
[July 16, 1996, 12:46]
Member Review Comdex Fall: HP Has Coolest Colour CE 2.0 Palmtop
News Although several vendors showed devices based on Windows CE 2.0 at the show, HP scored bonus points with the unit's beautiful 256-colour backlit TFT screen. The firm matched the display with a powerful specification of 16Mb RAM, Plug -and-Play VGA...
[November 18, 1997, 9:27]
Smartphones Aren't Smart Enough To Kill The PC
Talkback Smartphones won't kill PC for a very simple reason : they ARE PC, aka Information Processing Units that are owned by a single person.smartphone" is just a bad word for "palmtop" computer. Thus "palmtop" computers WILL kill "Laptop" computers, not...
[October 18, 2006, 13:31]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog I was in conversation online with Steve Litchfield, who works on a pair of rather nice magazines -- Palmtop and Palm User. They are, so I have -- and www.palmtop.co.uk is the place to go, handheld aficionados -- but if anyone has some bright ideas...
[May 17, 2002, 17:45]
Interview: USR's Ed Colligan On The Future Of Palmtops
News With US Robotics' Palm Computing division set to release a lower-cost, lower memory version of its highly fashionable Pilot handheld next month, PCDN spoke to VP of marketing Ed Colligan about the Pilot the development of the palmtop market.
[August 20, 1996, 18:14]
Tosh Mulls UK Release For World's Smallest PC
News So far only available in Japan where it has been a surprise hit among buyers, the Libretto is slightly larger than a palmtop and is aimed at plugging the gap between non-standard operating system handhelds and subnotebook PCs.
[January 13, 1997, 11:44]
Five Years Ago: Toshiba Mulls UK Release For World's Smallest PC
News So far only available in Japan where it has been a surprise hit among buyers, the Libretto is slightly larger than a palmtop and is aimed at plugging the gap between non-standard operating system handhelds and subnotebook PCs.
[January 11, 2002, 6:01]
A Year Ago: Tosh Mulls UK For World's Smallest PC
News So far only available in Japan where it has been a surprise hit among buyers, the Libretto is slightly larger than a palmtop and is aimed at plugging the gap between non-standard operating system handhelds and subnotebook PCs.
[January 13, 1998, 7:00]
Copyright Reform Lends Itself To Libraries
Talkback Google on the other hand is available at home, on my work PC and on my Wifi-enabled palmtop. I don't live near a great National Library - so they're not a "public benefactor" for me. Google most definitely IS a "public benefactor" for me, so you...
[August 22, 2005, 8:45]
Wireless Untangled: Technologies For The Mobile Internet
White Papers Mobile Internet access via WAP-enabled mobile phones and PDAs (palmtop computers) offers exciting opportunities for implementing new business models. However the field is technologically very complex, rapidly changing and presents a number of...
[November 23, 2004, 23:00]
Psion Consults Oracle For Remote Comms
News UK palmtop vendor Psion has received a boost with the news that Oracle will develop a key piece of remote communications software for the London-based firm's EPOC platform. Under the terms of the agreement Oracle will develop its Mobile Agents...
[October 8, 1996, 14:31]
Motorola To License 3Com's Palm OS
News British palmtop computer group Psion (quote: PON) and US telecoms equipment maker Motorola said on Tuesday that Motorola is still fully committed to the Symbian operating-system alliance, in the wake of Motorola's deal with handheld company Palm.
[December 14, 1999, 15:24]
News Burst: New OS For PDAs
News Mitsubishi will develop silicon for the devices, while ISI will take a chief role in engineering an OS to rival current PDA and palmtop interfaces from Microsoft, 3Com and Symbian. A research manager at analyst firm IDC said that although any...
[September 7, 1999, 16:56]
News Burst: Casio, Vodafone Team On Mobile Internet Devices
News The race to be the first to provide a portable Internet solution continued apace Tuesday, with Casio and Vodafone Airtouch (quote: VOD) teaming up to develop multimedia wireless palmtop computers. The announcement also bolsters Microsoft's ambition...
[February 1, 2000, 17:19]
Psion Champions Consumer With New Revo Organiser
News Handheld computing trailblazer Psion is pitching its latest offering -- the £299 Revo -- as the "organiser for everyone", in an attempt to capture a previously unconvinced audience of potential palmtop users with an appreciation for style and...
[October 4, 1999, 14:06]
CeBIT 98 Exhibitors List For PalmPilot
News The guide comes courtesy of Palmtop Publishing, which specialises in creating professional pocket reference guides for the PalmPilot. ZDNet UK readers can download a handy CeBIT 98 Exhibitors List in the form of a PalmPilot applet (129KB), via FTP...
[March 12, 1998, 6:00]
News Burst: Psion Champions Consumer With New Revo
News Handheld computing trailblazer Psion is pitching its latest offering -- the cutesy £299 Revo -- as the "organiser for everyone", in an attempt to capture a previously unconvinced audience of potential palmtop users with an appreciation for style...
[October 4, 1999, 13:13]
Nuggets: Divided Smartphone Concept From Ericsson
News So much so in fact that Psion has agreed to manufacture Ericsson's first attempt at a palmtop. Good chums rework ol' favourite. Those gadget gods at Ericsson and Psion have obviously been getting very pally while working together on Symbian...
[August 25, 1999, 15:19]
