Mobile Computing


What’s Really New in Wireless?. The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association tradeshow offered some surprises, like a Bluetooth-enabled headset for cell phones. Also: Christina Aguilera faceplates and Worldwide GPRS roaming with Deutsche Telekom. Elisa Batista reports from Las Vegas. [Wired News]

Mira is delayed.  Drat!  And, yet, by the time the technology is affordable for me, it will likely have faded into the backdrop of non-events (Ah, the sad story of economically-challenged technophile.  :-)   Not really economically-challenged, but my technology budget is indeed finite.)

Bluetooth is also incredibly exciting: the wireless cell phone headset, the wireless modem capability for a PDA or laptop–killer dude!

Microsoft Hypes XP Tablets [Slashdot]

NY Times: Tablets Mightier Than the Keyboard? It’s the latest expression of a long-running Microsoft fantasy: a future world in which you’ll write directly on the screen of your PC with a plastic-tipped pen. You’ll take handwritten notes, mark up documents right on the screen and capture doodles on the digital equivalent of cocktail napkins. [Tomalak's Realm]

Sendo Can’t Get Microsoft Source; Ditches Windows [Slashdot] Whoa!

Embedding Data Signals In White Noise [Slashdot] Cool!

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