Ephraim Schwartz

Because the auto industry makes up 25 per cent of all revenue generated in the U.S. economy, it is worth watching as it transforms from a traditional brick-and-mortar operation to a New Economy player.

IBM Corp. will officially launch the ThinkPad TransNote, a digital ink and notebook PC hybrid device, at the Mobile Insights conference in Phoenix this week.

There was good news and bad news for USB (Universal Serial Bus) users coming out of the Mobile Insights conference this week.

Fill 'er up may take on a new meaning at the gas pump after Ten Square officially rolls out its point-of-sale network this week.

With the rollout next month of anti-theft devices that will phone home as well as use global positioning technology to follow a stolen car, the eternal struggle between car thieves and the police will take on a new dimension.

As surely as night follows day, to use a phrase of Shakespeare's, 3G (third-generation) broadband wireless connectivity is on the way.

Eyeing the installed base of more than 200 million cars currently on the road, Santa Clara, Calif.-based handheld maker Palm Inc., after-market auto supplier Delphi Automotive Systems Corp. and software tool vendor MobileAria Inc. agreed to develop services and content around the Delphi Communiport Mobile Productivity Center (MPC) that will ship later this year.

Entering a market for PDAs (personal digital assistants) that has been primarily a three-horse race between Palm...