Microsoft president Steve Ballmer has stepped up pressure on mobile phone manufacturers to back Windows CE as their operating system (OS) of choice. Ballmer claims the manufacturers will rethink their strategy once they see Windows CE's next...
Christopher Fletcher, managing director of Enterprise Business Applications at research company, Aberdeen Group, said that this product is a significant step forward in Palm's ability to enable front-door deployment of handheld computers...
Sony is poised to announce its first foray into the handheld-appliance market at industry gathering PC Expo in New York tomorrow. The appliance - scheduled for a mid-July launch in Japan - will run on the Palm operating system.
Palm, like the others, realises the future lies in a converged market, but is itself adding communications functions through the sleds its handhelds slide into for recharging and synchronising, and wireless integration with other devices.
According to Palm, this deal will allow it to provide handhelds and enterprise class mobile infrastructure software and support for multiple operating systems, including EPOC, Palm OS, Pocket PC, RIM and Windows CE.
It said that shipments of handhelds fell to 1.7 million units in the second quarter. The study also found that Windows CE is the operating system of choice for business-minded road warriors. The rosy outlook for PDAs seems to contradict a similar...
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