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Energy-Efficient Platforms: Designing Devices Using the New Power Management Extensions for Interconnects

Ever since the Personal Computing PC platforms were launched in the 1980s, there has been a constant demand for increased performance. Computing performance has followed Moore's Law during the last three decades, allowing consumers to have the performance, capability and connectivity undreamt of just a few years ago. But these...

Tags: Power Management, Performance, Mobile, Platform, Mobile Computing, Computing Performance, Performance Management, Advertising & Promotion, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Marketing

White papers 2009-07-01

$599 Viliv S5 ultra portable PC is looking good

I owned a couple UMPC devices in the past (Samsung Q1 and Fujitsu U810), but then decided to stick with a MSI Wind netbook for my mobile computing needs. James has me actually considering a new slate ultra-portable computer though with his extensive posts on the upcoming Viliv S5 device....

Tags: Mobile, PC, Mobile Computing, James, GPS, Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Handhelds, Keyboards, Productivity, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Wireless And Mobility, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Emerging Technologies, Peripherals, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2009-04-21

Palm announces WebOS platform, Mojo messaging service

At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Palm Senior Vice President of Applications and Services Michael Abbott announced an early access program of the company's new developing platform, WebOS. The new platform will run apps natively on the device and enables greater integration with cloud applications like Google and...

Tags: Palm Inc., Messaging, Messaging Service, Web 2.0, Instant Messaging, Groupware, Internet, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Palm, WebOS, Mojo, applications, platform, mobile computing, developers, Facebook, Google, Web 2.0 Expo

Videos 2009-04-02

The XO-2 is going Embedded RISC? So will everyone else!

Yesterday,  OLPC project founder Nicholas Negroponte indicated that their next generation XO-2 will almost certainly eschew it's current x86-based design and move towards one that is based on the ARM, the most common embedded RISC architecture in the world. It's used in over a billion cell...

Tags: RISC, Mobile, Intel X86, Mobile Computing, CPU, One Laptop Per Child Project, Chip, XO-2, Diamondville, Chipsets, Advertising & Promotion, Processors, Semiconductors, Wireless And Mobility, Hardware, Components, Marketing, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-03-13

The darker side of Windows Mobile

Why Windows Mobile isn't for me, and shouldn't for students at all by Zack Whittaker

Tags: Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Handhelds, Advertising & Promotion, Wireless And Mobility, Software, Hardware, Marketing, Windows Mobile, Zack Whittaker, iGeneration, Microsoft, Productivity, God Awful, Mobile Computing

Image galleries 2009-01-26

The Benefits of Remote IT Management

There have been a number of reports recently about the death of the desktop PC, which sits in a fixed office and is deserted every day by the average user at around 5:30pm. Some reports say that laptop PC sales now exceed those of desktops, and a result of this...

Tags: Quocirca, IT Administration, Information Technology, Mobile Computing, Benefit, Laptop Computer, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Desktops, Notebooks, Wireless And Mobility, Sales, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

White papers 2009-01-17

Love or hate this post? Sound off for the eavesdroppers

It seems that those comments you leave on blogs like this one may, in fact, be reaching the intended parties - the companies behind the products, services and technologies that you love or hate. Just don't be offended or creeped-out if the messages reach them via cyber-eavesdropping technology. ...

Tags: Web, Mobile, Mobile Computing, Blog, Technology, Blogging, Handhelds, Wireless, Internet, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-01-05

Time Synchronization in Ad Hoc Networks

Ubiquitous computing environments are typically based upon ad hoc networks of mobile computing devices. These devices may be equipped with sensor hardware to sense the physical environment and may be attached to real world artifacts to form so-called smart things. The data sensed by various smart things can then be...

Tags: ETH Zurich, Advertisement, Environment, Mobile Computing, Ubiquitous Computing Environment

White papers 2009-01-01

Gallery: Is this the next generation of mini laptops?

Chipmaker Qualcomm has been showing off a prototype touchscreen laptop-to-tablet powered by its 3G Snapdragon chipset, which it claims will enable a new generation of always-on, low-power mobile computing devices ready to rock the mobile data world. by ZDNet

Tags: Mobile, Mobile Computing, Laptop Computer, Advertising & Promotion, Wireless, Handhelds, Marketing, Hardware, Qualcom, touchscreen, Snapdragon, mobile devices, ZDNet

Image galleries 2008-12-05

Image Gallery: MSI Wind netbook

ASUS just celebrated the first year of the "netbook" category of mobile computing devices and since they started it last year, the market has taken off with a wide choice of netbooks today. I had the chance to try out the MSI Wind for a couple of weeks and was...

Tags: Mobile, Mobile Computing, Handhelds, Wireless, Advertising & Promotion, Hardware, Marketing, Matthew Miller, product photos, MSI Wind, netbook, Windows

Image galleries 2008-10-22

Virtualisation and mobilisation (Setting up mixed cloud and mobile computing)

Virtualisation and mobilisation Setting up mixed cloud and mobile computingYour English bias tells me I'm in ZDNet UK. ;)Sorry, can't resist! ]:) :) ]:)But anyway, Live Mesh is quite interesting! :)

Tags: cloud computing, Storage management, Handhelds, Utility computing, Setting Up, mobile computing, virtualization, mobile

Discussion threads 2008-06-13

Virtualise your life - mixing mobility and cloudivity

OK, so maybe "cloudivity" isn't really a word, but it sounds good, doesn't it? I've covered how you can work anywhere using online office suites, and weighing the benefits between cloud and mobile computing. Last night I had a dream; to cut a long story short, whilst...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Mobile, Mobile Computing, Mobility, Virtual Machine, Computer, Productivity, Microsoft Windows, Desktop Virtualization, Handhelds, Wireless, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-06-13

Setting up mixed cloud and mobile computing

By utilising the power of mobile computing with a cloud storage provider, you can in theory take your hard drive anywhere with you, with nothing more than a username and password. by Zack Whittaker

Tags: Mobile Computing, Handhelds, Wireless, Advertising & Promotion, Hardware, Marketing, Zack Whittaker, mesh, virtual pc, cloud, mobile, anywhere, everywhere, virtualization, vmware

Image galleries 2008-06-13

Mobile computing vs. cloud computing

Mobile computing vs. cloud computingStill confused as to Clouding ComputingFrom you explanation it would appear i could store files on my home computer, access them from a laptop and this would be "cloud computing"My understanding was: you could store your files anywhere on a companies and affiliates web applications and...

Tags: cloud computing, mobile computing, mobile

Discussion threads 2008-06-07

Mobile computing vs. cloud computing

There has been for some while “heated debates” amongst fellow blogospherians (probably not a word, don’t comment and bitch about it please) about all these cloud services we’re hearing about. First we had Windows Live SkyDrive which now offers 5GB of storage space, and rumours of GDrive keep hitting the...

Tags: Device, Mobile, Mobile Computing, Cloud Computing, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Wireless, Marketing, Hardware, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-06-07

Moblin.org provides a glimpse into MID/netbook development

Moblin.org is Intel's Linux-based initiative to develop a software stack for a new range of highly mobile computing devices, including MIDs mobile Internet Devices and netbooks like the Classmate. This site was highlighted during a keynote at IDF last week and, while the focus is clearly on MIDs, it...

Tags: Developer, Mobile, Mobile Computing, Intel Corp., Moblin.org, Netbooks, Advertising & Promotion, Wireless, Handhelds, Marketing, Hardware, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-04-06

JVM adds to iPhone's seduction of enterprise IT buyers for mobile computing

JVM adds to iPhone's seduction of enterprise IT buyers for mobile computingHot to trotSomeone thinks that we computer users are just a bunch of salivating glands ready to slobber all over anything new. I've run Macs since 1984 and I'm getting used to upgrades. Same thing on the PC side....

Tags: Java, haha, Apple iPhone, JVM, seduction, IT buyer, mobile computing, information technology, mobile

Discussion threads 2008-03-10

JVM adds to iPhone's seduction of enterprise IT buyers for mobile computing

Sun Microsystems' plans to tune the micro Java Virtual Machine to the iPhone -- leveraging the new SDK to characterize the JVM as an "application" -- could quickly turn the iPhone into a powerful business tool that IT executives can love too. The iPhone may have hit...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Information Technology, Mobile Computing, Internet Device, JVM, Mobile Internet Device, Advertising & Promotion, Java, Marketing, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-03-08

7 Steps to Information Protection

Every organization is at risk of confidential information loss. Billions of dollars worth of profits, competitive advantage, reputation, and market share are at stake. Today's highly competitive business environment intensifies the vulnerability and risk. Global operations, with outsourced and off-shored business functions, spread the vulnerability. Tools for accessing and distributing...

Tags: Risk, Vulnerability, Mobile Computing, Pro-Tec Data, Strategy, Security, Mobile Applications, Handhelds, Wireless And Mobility, Networking, Management, Hardware

White papers 2008-02-23

The Role of Rugged Mobile Computing in Overhaul, Service & Maintenance Operations

This paper explores the strategic, operational, and technological issues that are addressed by rugged mobile solutions for maintenance and service managers. The overhaul, maintenance, and service environment is in the process of adapting to a barrage of new forces. Those forces include increasing sophistication and computerization of the equipment that...

Tags: Mobile, Mobile Computing, Equipment, Larstan Business Reports, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

White papers 2008-02-08