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Microsoft PocketPC By April
News The Professional, a name borrowed from Microsoft's Handheld PC Professional, will include Microsoft's Pocket Word and Pocket Excel applications for the first time, as well as the new Pocket Explorer, sources said.
[February 24, 2000, 15:38]
Microsoft Adds To PocketPC
News These applications have been available for Microsoft's Handheld PC platform -- with larger screens and keyboards than typical handhelds -- but not for the company's Palm-size PC units, the predecessor to PocketPC and chief rival to Palm's handheld...
[March 8, 2000, 11:40]
Words Unlimited
Downloads The ultimate word search game for your handheld Pocket PC. Get ready to enjoy an unlimited number of puzzles featuring four different themes: Sports, Animals, Space, Food. Easy and fun to play.
[October 14, 2004, 0:16]
Palm Faithful: Can't Buy Pocket PC Love
News Rick Broida, author of the book How to Do Everything with Your Palm Handheld, was even more blunt. Here we were, a room full of handheld experts, and we had trouble figuring even the basic stuff out. It was billed as an innocuous product demo...
[October 20, 2000, 8:39]
Microsoft Devices To Get Speech Recognition
News Details have leaked onto the Web about a new Microsoft application that will add voice recognition to handheld computers that use the company's Pocket PC software. The software will also integrate with the handheld version of Microsoft's Media...
[October 29, 2003, 12:10]
Pocket PC Details Unveiled
News Microsoft launches its latest challenge to Palm's Pilot handheld device Wednesday in the form of Pocket PC, a major upgrade to its Windows CE platform. And that's enough reason for Palm to be nervous about the software giant's third entry in the...
[April 19, 2000, 10:17]
Microsoft To Unveil Pocket PC 2002
News Handheld makers that plan to use Merlin, such as Compaq Computer, are expected to announce new products on the same date. The most significant new feature of the OS is its support for virtual private networking, which allows handheld users to...
[September 6, 2001, 9:32]
Palm Losing The Revenue Game To Compaq
News The data reflects the increasing popularity of handheld devices in the enterprise market -- a market "Palm has failed to put roots into," but handhelds using Microsoft's Pocket PC have done with better success, Gartner analyst Ken Dulaney said.
[June 18, 2001, 10:20]
Handhelds: More Social, Less Secure
News Once a user copies the program to a PC and syncs their Palm device, the Trojan deletes applications from the handheld. If someone who uses a device like this gets infected, it's different from a PC," said Ken Smiley, a handheld analyst for Giga...
[August 30, 2000, 13:26]
Sharp Ships Linux PDA
News The major advantage of a Linux-based handheld would be the cost savings in the overall price point of the device, and the price of the Zaurus isn't appealing enough to make companies want to choose a Linux device over devices based on the two big...
[April 4, 2002, 9:22]
Sharp Aims Linux-based PDA At UK Corporations
News The major advantage of a Linux-based handheld would be the cost savings in the overall price point of the device, and the price of the Zaurus isn't appealing enough to make companies want to choose a Linux device over devices based on the two big...
[April 17, 2002, 16:05]
Nuggets: Ogle Convergence Hybrid Mondo
News The idea of merging a mobile phone with a handheld PC has been knocking around for while. There's plenty of Microsoft applications, with pocket versions of Word, Excel, Organiser and Reader, so you'll be able to plough through a bit of literature...
[September 28, 2000, 15:51]
StrongARM Muscles Into Low-end HP Handhelds
News Hewlett-Packard on Thursday announced a new range of handheld computers, the 560 series, based on Microsoft's newly announced Pocket PC 2002 operating system and Intel StrongARM processors. In the past Pocket PC devices have been criticised for...
[September 7, 2001, 14:32]
US Report: Microsoft To Consolidate Windows CE
News That software comprises Windows CE 2.11 and the Handheld PC Professional software, which includes items such as a new TCP/IP stack; drivers for Proxim Inc.s wireless LAN technology; and a set of Pocket applications, including Word, PowerPoint and...
[December 3, 1998, 9:56]
Amazon Mis-priced IPaqs: No Sale
News Amazon.co.uk has said it does not intend to fulfil the orders of customers who took advantage of a pricing mistake to buy iPaq handheld computers for less than £10 on Wednesday. The iPaq H1910 Pocket PC, which retails for about £287 inc VAT...
[March 19, 2003, 11:54]
IBM Announces Win CE-based WorkPad
News He expects that within 18 months the platform, based on Windows CE Handheld PC Professional Edition, will start proving itself in the mainstream, enterprise market. It also includes Microsoft Pocket Office -- the Windows CE-sized versions of Word...
[May 6, 1999, 8:38]
Can Magneto Repel Microsoft's Mobile Rivals?
News He noted that Microsoft's move comes as some companies, such as Sony, have pulled out of the slow-growing handheld market. The operating system had its first hit with Compaq's iPaq and eventually garnered a significant chunk of the handheld market.
[May 9, 2005, 19:00]
Musical Tribute To IPod And Treo
News A small San Diego company has come out with a device that shares similarities with two of the hottest gadgets in the tech world: Apple Computer's iPod and Handspring's Treo.eDigital has started selling a pocket MP3 player known as Treo 10, which...
[December 6, 2001, 15:27]
MS Slips 'simplicity' Into PocketPC
News Until now, Word and Excel haven't been shipped on or available for handheld PCs. To date, Microsoft has announced the PocketPC name, along with two PocketPC applications and the release of Internet Explorer for the handheld this week.
[February 23, 2000, 9:19]
Printer In Your Pocket? HP's Got It
News The technology includes software for handheld devices and software for a corporate network. The handheld software will be available as a Web download in December for free. Initially, RIM BlackBerry devices and devices using the Pocket PC 2002...
[October 17, 2002, 9:53]
