Samsung Telecommunications America, the third largest manufacturer of wireless handsets in the U.S., and MP2 Solutions, a premier provider of enterprise mobility solutions, today announced the first point of sale solution for a Windows Mobile(TM) device. Businesses are now able to completely manage field sales using Samsung’s Microsoft(R) Windows Mobile(TM)-based SPH-i700 Pocket PC Phone powered by MP2 Solutions.

This collaboration makes the i700 a powerful all-in-one business solution for mobile sales forces, enabling sales professionals to perform secure credit card transactions, capture digital signatures and print receipts from the field. The MP2 application platform also offers asset tracking, field surveys, inventory management and delivery confirmation, all of which are integrated with robust reporting engines and tools. MP2 will seamlessly aggregate all handheld transaction information and combine it with existing back office system data to produce end-to-end company reports. The entire MP2 product suite accomplishes all of this while maintaining the full functionality of a wireless phone and PDA.

Exideas has released a video showcasing its MessagEase text entry technology for small devices. The video demonstrates how MessagEase provides full text and complete keyboard replacement using a very small area or few buttons. You can access this video from [url=http://www.exideas.com]http://www.exideas.com[/url] or by following one of these links: Windows Media: http://www.exideas.com/ME/videos/MEintro.wmv

3amlabs, provider of a secure service that enables customers to access and manage their IT anytime, anywhere, announced today the release of improved remote capabilities for personal digital assistants (PDAs)—providing users with easier, more powerful access to their home or office-based computer from anywhere in the world using only an Internet-connected PDA.

LogMeIn for PDAs provides access to documents from any Internet-enabled PDA or smartphone. PDAs using the Windows PocketPC 2003 operating system can use LogMeIn to securely transfer files and take full desktop control of the target computer’s desktop. 3amlabs also plans to extend this feature to PDAs running PalmOS or Symbian operating systems by late summer.

Updates of the popular
miniMusic NotePad and BeatPad music applications were made available
today.  Both are now enhanced for the TapWave Zodiac Palm Powered
handheld computer.  The new versions of the software can access the
Yamaha sound card built into all Zodiac models to produce rich
polyphonic sound (meaning many different tones can be played
simultaneously).  With NotePad, users can quickly write songs (using
music notation or a graphical notation, or by playing an on-screen
piano keyboard), edit the songs, play them back or export the songs
to a desktop computer.  BeatPad is pattern based, letting a user
quickly design looping patterns for drums and other instruments and
change everything about the patterns while they play.

Naked News(TM) (http://www.NakedNews.com) (Naked News TV!) (“The Program with Nothing to Hide”), announced today that it had have entered into a distribution partnership with Australian ASX listed online media and communications company, GoConnect Ltd. for world wide mobile phone distribution of the Naked News program.

While millions of people are watching Naked News online and on specialty cable and pay-per-view television, now via GoConnect’s unique mobile video distribution platform, m-Vision, mobile phone users from anywhere in the world will also be able to watch Naked News on their Windows Mobile Pocket PC, or Smartphone. m-Vision subscribers of the Naked News channel will be provided with over 200 minutes a month of high quality video News and Entertainment delivered to users in clean naked fun, in both daily and weekly segments.

Palm created the handheld computer market, and then sank into a haze of infighting and errors.  But a little smartphone gadget called the Treo has given it a lifeline. With the device becoming a must-have for tech-fiends and business players, Palm may have its cool back, but for how long?  Business 2.0 takes a look at the challenges facing the firm from its frantic dash for cover and deeper pockets to its production line woes:

http://www.business2.com/b2/web/articles/0,17863,633243,00.html

Source: http://www.tryloncommunications.com/

On time before the start of the European soccer championship, PocketPC-Ennovation has developed the program EURO 2004. With EURO 2004 you have all information about the European soccer championship in Portugal on your PocketPC. You only have to input manually the results of the matches. The program automatically calculates the rankings according to the FIFA rules as well as the matches of the quarter final, the semi final and the final. The program contains information about the time and place of each match and shows even the location of the stadiums in a map. You can also use the program to simulate fictive scenarios. All results are stored automatically in a database. You can select between English, French and German language in EURO 2004. The program is written very compact and needs only about 280 Kbytes memory on your PocketPC. The program is available at [url=http://www.handango.com]http://www.handango.com[/url] and cost approximately 3. The direct link to the program is

http://www.handango.com/PlatformProductDetail.jsp?productId=122070

Introducing Battle Dwarves for the Smartphone and Version 1.1 for Pocket PC at Special Price for May! Free Upgrade for Current Pocket PC Owners

Battle Dwarves is a wild game of modern, tactical warfare.

What’s cooler than an army of medieval dwarves with modern-day weapons? How about 8 different armies? That’s right, choose from 8 different armies of Dwarven fighters and blow each other to Kingdom come! Arm your team with 20 different weapons ranging from bazooookas and frag grenades to railguns and napalm! If you want destruction on a grand level, Battle Dwarves is for you!

Since USB 2.0 has given us alot more bandwidth, Chad has sat down and played with the Transcend TV-Box USB2.0.  Lets see what he thinks.

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If you’re thinking about adding TV viewing capabilities to your PC, you have probably noticed there are a lot of options out there. The easiest devices to set up are external TV tuners that use the USB interface to transfer data to and from the PC. Transcend’s TV-Box USB2.0 is one such device vying to meet your TV viewing needs. Read this review to find out if it can.

http://www.bjorn3d.com/_preview.php?articleID=467

After the successful introduction of its Wireless LAN products, TORNADO, supplier of computer peripherals, expands its product range in the field of wireless network with a compact Bluetooth Class 1 USB dongle, the Tornado 201, and a Bluetooth Printer Adapter for both USB- and Parallel printers called the Tornado 206.

Following its success producing mobile and interactive content for brands such as Love Hearts, Basil Brush, and Mr Bean, innovations and publishing company Cascata Limited has signed a non-exclusive two-year deal with EMAP’s 34 top-selling active (outdoor) and automotive titles to produce and deliver its branded mobile phone content.

The deal, worth in excess of £0.5m, will see Cascata produce and deliver a variety of mobile content such as screensavers, wallpaper, audio tones, 3G video clips and branded games, individually tailored to promote and accompany each of the EMAP magazine brands, which include Max Power, Classic Car, What Bike, Golf World, Angling Times, Your Horse and Practical Photography. 

Comcast and T-Mobile USA, Inc. today announced the planned June launch of Philadelphia’s first-ever outdoor Wi-Fi wireless Internet service located at Philadelphia’s historic Headhouse Square Plaza. The T-Mobile HotSpot network, supported at Headhouse Square by the Comcast high-speed data network, will give residents and visitors the ability to get online at wireless broadband speeds with a Wi- Fi enabled laptop computer or personal data assistant (PDA). The launch will create one of the nation’s largest Wi-Fi “hotspots,” available in most indoor and outdoor areas of the plaza, covering Second Street between South and Pine Streets.

With Creative MuVo 2 shells going on the cheap on eBay, they picked one up and show you how get a full fledged MP3 player again.

“A quick look shows us that 256MB MP3 players run from $120 to $200. The quality will be a crapshoot, but several reviews of the MuVo 2 have been quite positive regarding sound quality. Considering I picked up the kit for $40, and added a 50$ 256MB CF card, this was quite a bargain. If you have access to a larger CF card, even better.”

http://www.viperlair.com/articles/howto/mods/muvo2/

In an effort further develop leading-edge system on glass (SOG) display solutions, Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC)* today announced it is demonstrating a full-color version of its “system on glass” (SOG) input display technology, developed by Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology Co., Ltd. (TMD)**, at the Society for Information Display International Exhibition (SID) 2004, May 25 to 27, in Seattle, Washington, in booth #342. TMD has developed a working color prototype of the display which can directly capture images and/or text via sensors within a thin film transistor (TFT) liquid crystal display (LCD).

The color prototype, a 3.5-inch diagonal, low-temperature polysilicon (LTPS) TFT LCD with QVGA (320 x 240) resolution format, displays color images with an enhanced data input function that captures color images, such as photos or printed text, for redisplay purposes. The input functionality is achieved through sensor devices embedded in the LCD panel, and input resolution at which the image is captured and redisplayed is up to 320 (xRGB) x 240. A monochrome version of the input display was first shown at SID 2003.

palmOne, Inc. (NASDAQ:PLMO) is turning handhelds into personal and vehicle navigation solutions. The world’s leading maker of handheld computers and maker of highly acclaimed smartphones today announced GPS Navigator by palmOne. The Bluetooth(R) technology-enabled navigator is paired easily with Tungsten(TM) T3 and Zire(TM) 72 handhelds. It provides users with reliable and easy-to-follow maps and directions based on the latest global satellite technology. With voice-guided turn-by-turn instructions, drivers using the GPS Navigator by palmOne can now focus on driving to their destinations and not worry about getting lost or stopping to look at a map.