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PDA Prizefight: Palm OS 5 V Windows Mobile 2003
Talkback The core applicaitons of the Windows CE OS are much better than the corresponding PalmOS applicaitons. The Pocket PC seemesly connects to my Windows desktops. If you want a paper weight, or at least to blow some money, there are better items to get...
[March 15, 2004, 2:34]
IBM Shrinks DB2 For Handhelds
News Windows CE is offered in several iterations for both handheld PCs and mini notebooks, and the Palm OS is geared toward handhelds. Sybase is beta testing its UltraLite database engine for Windows CE and the Palm OS and is planning general...
[February 16, 1999, 14:06]
Microsoft Smartphone Connects Down Under
News The Qtek7070 handset uses the Windows CE-based Smartphone operating system to bring Internet Explorer, Outlook and Instant Messenger to the mobile, in an attempt to replicate the desktop user experience as closely as possible.
[June 3, 2003, 8:17]
Linux Everywhere: The Penguin Goes Mobile
News The hand held devices that are targeted [by the Linux community] are the ones that natively run Windows CE, not Palm OS or [Symbian's] EPOC. Today, most of the attention in the handheld world is trained on the battle between Palm -- which makes the...
[June 29, 2000, 14:07]
CE Losing Palm Arm Wrestle
News As the Palm OS continues to grow in popularity, some handheld hardware makers are abandoning rival Microsoft's Windows CE. They've still screwed it up," said a software developer who designs products that run on both the Palm OS and CE.
[November 1, 1999, 8:34]
Smartphone Market Picks Up In Europe
News While Palm is still the leading handheld vendor, and Sony continues to post good growth rates, the sheer number of vendors using Windows CE in their devices means that Palm OS is now in third place in EMEA," said analyst Andy Buss in a statement.
[April 23, 2003, 12:58]
IBM Announces Win CE-based WorkPad
News The WorkPad z50, available now for $999 (£610) comes with Mobile Connect, IBM's software for synchronising both the Windows CE and Palm OS WorkPads with Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange. According to Tsang, partner 3Com's Palm Computing division...
[May 6, 1999, 8:38]
Microsoft Builds Silicon Foundation For Windows CE
News Windows CE is the blanket name for Microsoft's OS for consumer electronic devices. Motorola, one of the world's largest manufacturers of mobile phone chips, along with STMicroelectronics and NeoMagic, for instance, have pledged to develop...
[September 18, 2002, 13:42]
The Case For Local Database And Synchronization
White Papers This seminar covers the options available for persistent data storage in mobile applications, including the data storage mechanisms provided with the Palm OS and Windows CE, commercial mobile database offerings and homegrown solutions.
[September 26, 2003, 0:00]
Be Launches Mobile Operating System
News The new operating system enters a fiercely competitive market with Symbian's Epoc, Microsoft's Windows CE and the Palm OS all battling to be the standard for mobile Internet access devices. Compaq is expected to unveil a working device based on the...
[February 8, 2000, 10:08]
Developers Squeeze Palm Inside PocketPC
News Fans of Microsoft's Windows CE handheld computers who have long dreamt of being able to run Palm Computing applications on a Windows CE PocketPC device may soon find that their dream is moving closer to reality.
[July 25, 2001, 16:42]
Win CE Losing Wind?
News Vertical device makers "view the natural evolution of DOS and Windows 95-based handhelds to Windows CE," said Tom Hunt, vice president of marketing at Puma Technologies Puma develops synchronisation software for Palm OS and Windows CE devices.
[September 21, 1999, 15:26]
Siemens: Why The Smartphone World Doesn't Need Microsoft
News Several big players are currently competing to establish themselves in the fuzzy area where computing and wireless devices come together: Microsoft with its Windows CE-based devices, PalmSource with Palm OS-based wireless handhelds and smartphones...
[May 1, 2003, 15:06]
What's Next For Palm Computing?
News The Workpad folks and the Palm folks work together to form enterprise deals," said Steve Nicol, vice president of sales at Puma Technology, which makes synchronisation software for both the Palm platform and for Microsoft Windows CE.
[September 20, 1999, 11:13]
Microsoft Releases New Handheld OS
News Microsoft has moved the operating system to a new underlying core, using Microsoft's Windows CE.Net 4.2 code base, as opposed to Windows CE 3.0, which powered prior versions of Pocket PC. Such cameras have become popular add-ons for mobile phones...
[June 23, 2003, 8:03]
Mobiles To Get PowerVR 3D This Year
News Imagination on Thursday will announce OpenGL ES support in PowerVR MBX and MBX Lite for any Symbian OS or Linux device, and Imagination is also supporting OpenGL on Windows CE for a specific, unnamed customer.
[January 8, 2004, 16:35]
Bluetooth Shifts To The Enterprise
News Though the company decided not to provide native support in Windows XP, sources said Microsoft will add native Bluetooth support to the next version of Windows CE, which is due by year's end. Extended Systems has plans for a CE developers tool kit.
[June 12, 2001, 11:08]
Handspring Buy May Boost Palm Wireless Plans
News Microsoft has been busy signing up licensees for its Windows CE-based mobile operating systems, such as Windows for Smartphones and Pocket PC, while most major mobile phone makers have now signed on to make smartphones based on the Symbian OS.
[June 4, 2003, 16:24]
ARM Plans Fast Java Chips
News The ARM926EJ-S will support EPOC, Linux, Palm OS and Windows CE. For example, a significant proportion of its revenues come from mobile phone makers like market leader Nokia, Psion and Windows CE devices commonly run on ARM processors, and Palm...
[May 10, 2001, 8:24]
PalmSource Teams With Nvidia On Graphics
News PalmSource is competing with increasingly powerful mobile phones running on operating systems such as Linux, the Symbian OS and Windows CE, and which are increasingly likely to include graphics acceleration for games and media applications.
[February 12, 2004, 11:10]
