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Friday, June 11, 2010
Power your smart phone with sunlight on the go IT HERO: Ottawa-based Kiwi Choice has developed an eco-friendly charger for handheld devices that uses sunlight, a USB port or car charger. No more disposable batteries for your smart phone, iPod or Nintendo
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
What's in this year's crystal ball We may not be able to tell you who will win this year’s Stanley Cup, but we feel we’re on firmer ground in predicting the IT future for 2006. Here are seven important IT trends for the coming year, as divined by the editors and staff of IT World Canada. 
Thursday, June 23, 2005
Mortgage services firm invests in hosted CRM First National Financial Corp. has announced it has deployed a Web-based customer relationship management (CRM) application from Toronto-based Atum Corp. to streamline sales processes. Ben Kawa, national manager, sales and strategic relationships, First National, said the company was looking to improve service to their Canada-wide network of mortgage brokers and turned to Atum’s Luxor CRM online hosted offering. 
Thursday, February 17, 2005
Doctors do it wirelessly Doctors and nurses employed by IPC — The Hospitalist Company (IPC), now spend less time on paperwork and more time on patient care thanks to a combination of software from Oracle Corp. and handheld devices. 
Wednesday, November 24, 2004
IBM signs 100 partners for Workplace platform Workplace, from IBM's Lotus Software division, allows businesses to migrate from PC-centric workplaces to network-managed delivery of employee tools and applications in a roles-based environment.
Sunday, July 11, 2004
Wireless CRM takes to the field While many companies are still testing large-scale wireless CRM projects, Stamford, Conn.-based mailing systems vendor Pitney Bowes Inc. is an experienced practitioner. The US$4 billion company set up its first wireless system in the late '90s. Since then, it has deployed a second-generation system for 250 field service employees in its Document Messaging Technologies division, which sells high-end inserter mailing systems. 
Friday, October 31, 2003
New Palm handhelds boast Java support Palm Canada Inc. released a line-up of new products recently, including two handheld devices geared towards mobile professionals and corporate users ranging in price from $299 to $599.
Wednesday, October 01, 2003
Palm introduces new line of products Palm Canada Inc. released a line-up of new products on Wednesday including two handheld devices geared towards mobile professionals and corporate users ranging in price from $299 to $599.
Friday, June 27, 2003
Palm scoops up Handspring for hardware expansion With its recently announced acquisition, Palm Inc. says it plans to focus on its software platform licensing business and beef up its line of handhelds.
Tuesday, February 18, 2003
Intel shows mobile, wireless chips Demonstrations of wireless notebook and cell phone processors by Intel Corp. executives were the highlights of "Client Day" at the Spring Intel Developer Forum here Wednesday.
Tuesday, October 22, 2002
Desktop chips to hit 15GHz by 2010, says Intel Users can expect to see the processing speed of Intel Corp.'s desktop processors hit 15GHz and that of wireless device and PDA (personal digital assistant) processors hit 5GHz by 2010, the chip maker's chief technology officer said in Tokyo on Wednesday.
Wednesday, April 10, 2002
Microsoft highlights databases As the company looks ahead to the planned release of Yukon, the next major version of the SQL Server database due in late 2003, Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday at its TechEd conference in New Orleans announced beta offerings of two precursor products that focus on data management for handheld devices and information alerts.
Wednesday, March 13, 2002
Check Point, Novell secure corporate PDAs Check Point Software and Novell announced upgrades to their respective network management tools that now support personal digital assistants and other handheld devices.
Friday, October 05, 2001
Latest Pocket PC finds receptive audience In San Francisco yesterday, Microsoft Corp. officially launched Pocket PC 2002 — the second version of its operating system for handheld devices.
Thursday, August 09, 2001
Telecom and datacom analysis in one For field engineers in the carrier space, analyzing telecom and datacom optical networks typically used to mean lugging around several handheld devices.
Thursday, June 21, 2001
IDC: Handheld market sees slowed growth While the soft economy worldwide has put a damper on the handheld device market, shipments are still set to increase by 43 per cent this year. It's not quite the 88 per cent increase that vendors witnessed last year, but it's strong enough to be optimistic about the market, according to a new report from research group International Data Corp. (IDC).
Friday, April 20, 2001
Gartner: Beware of business spam Peek over your cube wall. That mild-mannered person sitting next you might actually be your e-mail nemesis: an insidious spammer who sends out mocking happy faces in response to office correspondence and who always selects "reply to all."
Thursday, April 12, 2001
NTT DoCoMo and SAP ink mobile deal NTT DoCoMo Inc., business software maker SAP AG and its Japanese unit, SAP Japan Co. Ltd., signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) Thursday to explore development of mobile business systems.
Monday, March 19, 2001
NCR sues Palm and Handspring NCR Corp. filed a lawsuit earlier this week that could send ripples through the handheld market, as the company alleges it possesses patents to the types of devices developed by Palm Inc. and Handspring Inc.
Wednesday, January 24, 2001
Palm M100 M100 is ideal for new users
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