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AMD Adds Alchemy To Its Chip Arsenal
News Advanced Micro Devices will use a little alchemy to compete better with Intel and other chip makers in the portable computing devices market. However, it does not have a processor for small, portable computing devices such as the Pocket PC.
[February 6, 2002, 15:55]
PalmOne Case Study: Clarke College
White Papers The Clarke College Education Department of Dubuque, Iowa wanted to provide a portable computing tool for faculty, staff, and students in the College of Education and to begin infusing handheld technology into the students’ field experiences at...
[April 18, 2004, 0:00]
IPod Crash Protection Patent Published
News The company has applied for a patent on technology that would allow a portable computing device to detect when it is falling and then stop reading or writing to the hard drive. The portable computing device protects its disk drive by monitoring for...
[December 24, 2004, 8:50]
Qualcomm Launches Mobile Convergence Platform
News Qualcomm has launched a new chipset platform for portable devices, claiming it will offer a basis for mobile convergence across consumer and computing environments. Pineda claimed these could include portable games consoles which are "more powerful...
[November 13, 2006, 15:16]
Sun To Unveil Stackable Data-centre Boxes
News Giving a new meaning to the term "portable computer", Sun plans to sell a working data centre packaged in a stackable shipping container. Though the shipping containers are portable, Sun said the data centres must be switched off while moving.
[October 17, 2006, 10:30]
The Incredible Shrinking PC
News The growth of wireless has also created much stronger demand for fully portable computing. Established PC and consumer-electronics giants will later this year release two new types of Microsoft-centric devices: the tablet PC, a full-fledged...
[May 23, 2002, 10:43]
The Enterprise Must Give Up The PDA
Leader The technology started as a conduit for limited portable computing power in vertical niches, and it has returned there. Devices with most of the attributes of PDAs are on everyone's want list -- Blackberries, feature phones, portable music players...
[February 24, 2005, 11:10]
Crusoe's Ripple Effect On Psion, ARM, Others
News With the high-profile launch of Transmeta's new microprocessor Crusoe, aimed at portable devices, chipmakers such as Intel, Advanced Micro Devices and Cyrix aren't the only companies who could be affected.
[January 20, 2000, 17:10]
TechXNY: Crusoe Squeezes Into Meta Pad Spinoff
News Transmeta's chips are better for such portable devices because they consume less power and emit less heat than conventional chips from AMD or Intel, Antelope said. At the TechXNY trade show in New York this week, established PC and consumer...
[June 26, 2002, 16:50]
Motorola Resorts To Intel Chip
News Motorola develops and manufactures its own line of processors for portable devices, such as handhelds and cellphones, and its i250 chip will be used in the A760. The Linux-powered handset will be closely watched by those who foresee a bright future...
[October 31, 2003, 10:45]
IBM Chases A PC's Soul
News Researchers at IBM are testing software that would let you tote your home or office desktop around on an iPod or similar portable device, so that you could run it on any PC. The idea of booting from portable hard drives is not new, nor is the trend...
[August 15, 2005, 9:30]
Compaq To Unveil "Evo" For Business PCs
News MultiPort is a USB technology that lets owners connect a wireless device onto the flat side of a portable computer's lid. One portable, the N400c, will offer the company's long-anticipated MultiPort technology.
[May 21, 2001, 11:45]
Gates On Geekery And Gadgets
News So could we have had this portable explosion? Before XP came along, portables were a very small percentage of what people did, so as we put the wireless capability in there, the standard stack in there, we did some things that let Wi-Fi really take...
[January 9, 2007, 9:10]
New Microsoft Gadget Set For Debut
News In conjunction with a TV or a PC, Mira will deliver Internet content, serve as a portable game player in conjunction with Microsoft's Xbox video game console, and allow consumers to shop online, view programme listings and perform other tasks.
[January 7, 2002, 10:27]
Infrared Technology White Paper
White Papers Portable computing has become the accepted means of promoting productivity while enhancing a company's flexibility. According to a report published by International Data Corporation, the number of portable computers purchased in 1996 will increase...
[June 5, 2004, 0:00]
Planning Mobile Deployments
White Papers Learn how to integrate end-user demand for small portable computing devices to create a company-wide pervasive computing strategy. It discusses the importance of building a pervasive mobile computing architecture.
[April 1, 2004, 0:00]
µSleep: A Technique For Reducing Energy Consumption In Handheld Devices
White Papers Energy management has become one of the great challenges in portable computing. This is the result of the increasing energy requirements of modern portable devices without a corresponding increase in battery technology.µSleep is a new energy...
[November 3, 2004, 23:00]
Marimba Inventory Management Module: An Overview
White Papers The Marimba Inventory Management module makes it easy for IT administrators to discover, track and manage the current state of desktop, and portable computing resources within the enterprise. The Inventory Management module allows administrators to...
[May 10, 2005, 0:00]
Ultra-cheap Linux Portable Targets Developing Nations
News However, the Simputer will change all that by bringing portable computing and the information age to developing countries. The finished product will be slightly larger than a Palm handheld but will operate as a simple portable computer.
[January 11, 2002, 12:19]
Ad Hoc Composition Of User Tasks In Pervasive Computing Environments
White Papers Due to the large success of wireless networks and portable devices, the pervasive computing paradigm is becoming a reality. One of the most challenging objectives to be achieved in pervasive computing environments is to allow a user to perform a...
[July 26, 2005, 0:00]
