Veitch Speaks: Handhelds Up For Grabs
News In 1997, after a year using one of the best products in the category - the US Robotics Pilot - I swapped back to the redoubtable Ladbrokes Racing Diary. US Robotics' Pilot really exemplified that overused phrase, paradigm shift.
[October 24, 1998, 8:02]
Guy Kewney's Weekend Diary
News Off to Circuit City, where the plausible salesman talks me into buying a US Robotics Sportster PC Card for $200. And each time, I pat my shirt pocket reassuringly to check that I actually still have my US Robotics Pilot.
[February 15, 1997, 7:00]
Guy Kewney's Weekend Diary, From Chicago, Las Vegas
News The invite came from US Robotics. Pity US Robotics didn't invite someone from Pilot, too. They're licensing the US Robotics "times-two" or "X2" technology, they say; fascinating stuff on how to link videoconferencing from modem to LAN, LAN to ISDN...
[November 23, 1996, 7:00]
Psion Plans 32-bit Products, Reports Profits Up
News Palmtops based on the 32-bit EPOC32 operating system will lead the way as the UK firm tries to fend off the charge of the Windows CE posse and US Robotics' Pilot. Potter said that Psion "continued to experience difficult conditions in the US market...
[March 11, 1997, 13:44]
Five Years Ago: Psion Plans 32-bit Products, Reports Profits Up
News Palmtops based on the 32-bit EPOC32 operating system will lead the way as the UK firm tries to fend off the charge of the Windows CE posse and US Robotics' Pilot. Potter said that Psion "continued to experience difficult conditions in the US market...
[March 9, 2002, 6:01]
MS Plays Down PalmPilot Connection
News Reports from the US have suggested 3Com-US Robotics is less than happy with both Microsoft's design and nomenclature for the Palm PC, unveiled yesterday, saying the blueprint and moniker are too close for comfort to its own hugely successful...
[January 9, 1998, 15:10]
Say Goodbye To The Handheld PC
News Maeanwhile, Bajarin estimates some 1.6 million PalmPilots have been sold since US Robotics, a 3Com subsidiary, introduced the series two years ago. Instead, explained McGuire, users will either use a palm-sized PC, such as 3Com Corp's (COMS) Palm...
[April 29, 1998, 9:54]
SNI To Hop On Win CE Bandwagon
News Microsoft recently announced a series of firms including Philips and Casio will produce 'Palm PC' designs that closely resemble 3Com-US Robotics' PalmPilot pocket computer. Palm PCs will use a slimmer version of Windows CE 2.0.
[February 6, 1998, 16:17]
Q&A (2): Corel's Cowpland Wants Java Everywhere
News The handheld is attractive but we think it's a bit risky with all the Windows CE units now, and US Robotics having done a good job with the Pilot out there. The VNC is a [Motorola Power 821-based] 100MHz Pentium equivalent with 16Mb RAM.
[December 3, 1996, 15:39]
Everex To Show Palm PC At CeBIT
News Unsurprisingly, many observers view the Palm PC blueprint as being a direct challenge to 3Com-US Robotics' huge-selling PalmPilot design. At 150g (including the two AA batteries that power it) and measuring about the size of a half-full deck of...
[January 15, 1998, 9:38]
The Luncher In Las Vegas
News American Football, beer and burgers at US Robotics. Windows CE at the Gordon Biersch brewing company. While callow youths had wandered starry-eyed from stand to stand, The Luncher's greybeard nous had taken him backstage: "Parties and backstage.
[November 24, 1997, 14:22]
Photos: Microsoft's New Parallel Programming Toolkit review
Reviews One problem that they kept running into was that enterprise clients such as Tyco (security networks) and Siemens (sorting the US mail) would come back and say 'we love the product but can we have it without the robotics bit'; and so the toolkit...
[November 11, 2008, 9:11]
HP Plots Win CE Handheld With IE In ROM
News In the US, the devices are pencilled in for a spring shipment. The 300 series palmtops will offer 640 x 240 screens and feature send/receive fax functions. Both the vanilla 300 model and more advanced 320 will be able to send data to Flash memory...
[February 11, 1997, 15:02]
MS Details Palm PC Plan, Names OEMs
News Units will be based on a modified version of Windows CE 2.0 and sport a CompactFlash slot for attaching peripherals. The company today showed off its Palm PC (P/PC) plan and played an ace by naming seven OEMs who will support the blueprint: Philips...
[January 8, 1998, 10:54]
