We've heard about how, when the planet is infested with Bluetooth chips, printers will do our bidding without cable-carried commands, how our PC calendar will update a PDA in our briefcase as we run past our desk on the way to a meeting.
But it could also take on some of the features of a PDA, like diary and contact management. Other short-range technologies like Bluetooth also have a potential role in making PCs genuinely wireless but they are not so much for connecting the PC to...
First, margins in the PC industry are now non-existent for most OEMs. Total cost of ownership (TCO) should be substantially less and there is an intriguing business model there for OEMs. And then there are the OEMs, the companies that will make...
The company currently ranks third in overall device shipments behind Research In Motion and Palm, according to the most recent PDA shipment report published by Gartner. The mobile-phone market has already started the transition to miniSD, which is...
Up to six handsets can be connected to the Fusion hub, although Bluetooth's limited capacity only allows three to communicate simultaneously. While Fusion is primarily targeted at home users, it is also of interest to very small businesses.
A key theme around this is mobility, with a project to roll out HTC PDA devices to officers in autumn this year, while the Met's executive users already have BlackBerry devices to keep them connected.