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August 21, 2003 INSIDE THIS ISSUE You want me to carry what??? Lots and lots of news

NEW NAME. SAME GREAT HANDHELDS. The name palmOne was chosen following interviews with a broad spectrum of Palm customers, partners, employees, naming consultants and industry influencers. When people inside and outside the company reflect on Palm's essence, three ideas emerged consistently: the company's heritage as a pioneer in handheld computing, Palm's worldwide leadership, which it has retained despite an influx of competitors; and the conviction that Palm always would place customers first, thereby delivering what matters most to them. Continue to palmOne.com

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ROAD WARRIORS
You want me to carry what???
By Ray Sheehan

Every salesperson faces the same challenge on each sales call. "How can I set myself and my company apart from the other guy?" The shear volume of data we may need forces us to pack our vehicles with tons of paper, such as binders and brochures. I have eighteen binders of technical data to carry. That's great to have in the car, but not many prospects let you move your office into theirs for a twenty-minute presentation.

The company also wants lots of input from us, called "sales reports." I'm not sure anybody reads them (let's just say nobody seemed to notice when I bought a language translator program and sent in some reports in Russian), but they sure get upset if they aren't sent in!

Practicality demands that we compromise between what we need and what we can physically carry.

What I've been trying to do in the technical age is find a solution that both makes it easy to make attention-grabbing presentations with plenty of technical information available for prospect and is also a method of entering important data that the company and I will need.

"Some prospects thought I was there to repair the coke machine."

I wanted to enhance my sales presentations, so my first attempt at mobile electronic media was a combo TV/VCR and videos, at a cost of about $199. Trying to lug a brochure "buffalo bag," samples, briefcase, and the paraphernalia for the TV/VCR presentation into a sales call, I had to use a hand truck to get it all in the door, as you can see in Figure A.

FIGURE A

On my way into a sales call... before. Click picture for a larger image.

Some prospects thought I was there to repair the coke machine.

Stepping into the computer age, I purchased a Packard-Bell desktop, which immediately disqualified me as a hardware purchase consultant for the rest of my life. I shelled out $2,300 for the package with printer, then another $399 for MS Office. At least I had a 2x CD player and 14-inch monitor!

Six months later, I could type and print a respectable letter. Twice I learned the real meaning of the word "crash."

Can handhelds save the day? Read on.

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COMPUTING UNPLUGGED NEWS CENTER
This week's news
Want to get the very latest mobile and wireless news? The Computing Unplugged News Center is updated every day with news of product releases, industry info, tips, techniques, and pointers to great mobile and wireless resources on the Web. Here's this week's news:

TipTop released for handhelds
Astraware announces the release of TipTop, their newest game title for Palm and Pocket PC handhelds. Based on the popular Web game by PopCap and ASAP games, TipTop is filled with Fifties style and Vegas pizzazz.

TealPrint 2.0 released
TealPoint Software announced the release of TealPrint version 2.00 for Palm OS handhelds. The all-in-one text and graphic printing solution is now PalmOS 5 and high-resolution graphics compatible. TealPrint features include support of printing native text and graphics to infrared (IR printing), serial, and parallel printers with appropriate cabling and/or adapters.

Remote management utility gets upgrade
ENT News reports that Sonic Mobility upgraded its utility for remote management of Windows servers and networks from handheld wireless devices to add support for managing Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory Organizational Units.

SureWave targets mobile applications
JP Mobile announced availability of SureWave Enterprise Server 4.0. This software gives enterprises the ability to extend applications to their mobile workers on Palm, Pocket PC, RIM and Symbian handheld devices. The solution provides access to Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Domino groupware, as well as the ability to deploy field applications needed by mobile workers.

Sobig.F becomes fastest outbreak ever
Information Week reports that the Sobig.F virus has become the is the fastest email outbreak ever. MessageLabs, which scans email for viruses, said that within 24 hours it had scanned more than one million copies of the virus.

Paragon Software goes local
Paragon Software announces the release of PiLoc localization technology, which creates an environment to operate with Palm Tungsten T2 in national language. PiLoc provides full translation of Palm Tungsten T2 interface to national languages (desktop icons, menu, dialogs of built-in Palm OS applications are translated). PiLoc also includes national fonts, national keyboard layout and national Graffiti 2 support.

IntelliGolf for P800 smartphone
Karrier Communications announced the shipment of its IntelliGolf software for the Sony Ericsson P800 smartphone. With IntelliGolf, P800 users have wireless access to the largest international golf course database in the world. Round set-up is simplified by downloading hole yardages, par ratings, and handicaps values directly into the P800.

Yahtzee on your handheld
Handmark announced the new Yahtzee game for Palm Powered and Pocket PC handheld devices. The new Yahtzee game for the Palm OS and Pocket PC platforms plays and sounds just like the dice game, with hi-resolution graphics and 3D animated dice rolling.

iGo Quickoffice 7.1 released
Mobility Electronics announced the introduction of version 7.1 of iGo Quickoffice, iGo Quickoffice Pro, and iGo Quickoffice Premier. The entire Quickoffice product line now supports inline images and tables in Microsoft Word files synchronized to Quickword word processor on the handheld. Quickword also includes an enhanced spell-check module and dictionary for faster processing of suggested words from a more comprehensive word list. The new user interface for Quicksheet spreadsheet, first launched with Quickoffice Premier version 7.0, is now common across all the Quickoffice suites.

DatePak review
Handhelds for Doctors has a review of DatePak. DatePak allows you to share your calendar with the rest of your team.

Palm takes on new name
Palm announced the new name it will adopt following the proposed spin-off this fall of PalmSource, Inc., makers of Palm OS platform software. The name palmOne, Inc. will reflect the company's handheld computer hardware and software solutions business and encompass the subbrands Zire and Tungsten, as well as Treo, upon the completion of the planned acquisition of Handspring, Inc., also expected this fall.

Airgo announces new chip sets
Airgo Networks' announced new wireless chip sets. InfoWorld says that Airgo chips for 802.11a could reach 300 feet or more and support a minimum throughput of about 34Mbps. The maximum 802.11a data rate is 54Mbps, with a range at that rate of about 100 feet. (It can reach further but the rate drops.) Actual 802.11a throughput typically is in the 17Mbps to 22Mbps range.

Vuico establishes Asia-Pacific headquarters
Vuico is expanding its global presence by establishing Vuico KK as its Asia-Pacific headquarters. Based in Tokyo, Japan, Vuico KK was created to support the increasing demand for its GoWireless solutions in the Asia-Pacific market. Vuico's GoWireless Mobile Messaging offers solutions for providing access to Cybozu Office 4, Cybozu AG, Cybozu Garoon, Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino and SMTP/POP3 messaging environments to the mobile professional.

StorageTools 1.7 for Pocket PC
SoftWinter released orageTools version 1.7 for Pocket PCa storage card management solution that offers verify, repair, format and defragment functionality for Pocket PC devices. This new version offers full support for devices running Microsoft Windows Mobile 2003 for Pocket PC.

Patience, persistence pays off in power outage
MSNBC reports that most people were able to get their message out despite yesterday's massive power outage in the U.S. and Canada. Folks just had to be persistent and patient. cell phones worked, sort of, as long as you kept redialing. Email went through, if your computer had power or you had a BlackBerry.

MSBlast can't affect mobile devices
Microsoft said that the MSBlast worm that attacked enterprise and home computers this week, exploiting a flaw in Microsoft's Windows operating system, cannot affect mobile and wireless devices.

Dean reaches wireless users
SFGate.com takes a look at the Web sites of a few presidential candidates. Howard Dean's Web site allows cell phone subscribers to sign up for text alerts of upcoming appearances and national and regional events. One recent message encouraged recipients to call in during Dean's appearance on CNN's Larry King Live.

WorldMate bundled with iQue 3600
MobiMate announced an agreement with Garmin International for bundling a trial version of MobiMate's WorldMate with Garmin's iQue 3600 PDA. WorldMate is a travel application for PDAs and smartphones, with key features that include world clocks with automatic DST calculation, a world map with day/night display, 5-day worldwide weather forecasts from The Weather Channel updated on-line, and a currency converter with daily exchange rate updates.

WorldMate bundled with iQue 3600
MobiMate announced an agreement with Garmin International for bundling a trial version of MobiMate's WorldMate with Garmin's iQue 3600 PDA. WorldMate is a travel application for PDAs and smartphones, with key features that include world clocks with automatic DST calculation, a world map with day/night display, 5-day worldwide weather forecasts from The Weather Channel updated on-line, and a currency converter with daily exchange rate updates.

Mobility joins Symbian Affiliates
Mobility Electronics announced it has joined the Symbian Affiliate Partner Program. For Mobility Electronics' handheld software group, the inclusion in the Symbian Affiliate Partner Program will enable the Company to position its software product, iGo (Quickoffice Premier Office Suite (Quickpoint, Quicksheet, and Quickword applications), for increased sales opportunities in conjunction with advanced, open Symbian OS mobile phones.

Detroit doctors get Tungsten C
Detroit Medical Center and Wayne State University Department of Emergency Medicine recently purchased 150 Palm handhelds for emergency room attending physicians and residents, Palm announced. Traditionally, emergency rooms are stocked with bookshelves full of heavy reference books for physicians to review. The Palm Tungsten C handheld, with integrated 802.11b (also known as Wi-Fi), provides these physicians with ready access, over the hospitals' Wi-Fi network, to not only medical reference information, but also, patient records, lab results, departmental memos and email.

SafeWeb allows remote access
SafeWeb released version 4.0 of its Secure Extranet Appliance (SEA Tsunami), allowing remote users to access network resources using a Web browser. Version 4.0 of the SEA Tsunami extends SSL VPN functionality by enabling access to most applications and network devices visible above the Ethernet layer 2 with a small browser applet. Layer 2 VPN access extends SafeWeb traditional support for remote access to Web, email, file, terminal and static TCP applications such as Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes.

Intermec, IBM team up
NEC America and Motorola are joining forces on an effort to provide wireless roaming between corporate and cellular networks. eWeek also reports that Intermec Technologies announced that customers can roam between WANs and WLANs on its 700 Series of handheld computers through a partnership with IBM. IBM's WebSphere Everyplace Connection Manager software now supports Intermec's dual-radio computers to provide seamless roaming between LANs and WANs.

IntelliGolf 6.6 released
IntelliGolf v6.6 was announced for Palm handhelds and Pocket PCs. Version 6.6 adds wireless and Internet access to the largest international golf course database in the world (18,000+ courses) including their digital scorecards, a new section on putting, more sidegames and game-improving statistics.

MedicineNet Pocket Drug Guide released
Beiks LLC has released the MedicineNet Pocket Drug Guide, a new handheld version of MedicineNet, Inc.'s informational database informational database of the most popular U.S. medications. The Pocket Drug Guide is available for immediate download in two versions for $9.95 and $17.95, with the latter version including a copy of BDicty Dictionary Reader Pro with the ability to add and edit articles.

AccuWeather.com wins Mobile GamesFest award
The AccuWeather.com Wireless Application was recently named the winner at the Mobile GamesFest. Built with Qualcomm's BREW technology, the AccuWeather.com Wireless Application allows wireless users with color handsets to download AccuWeather's up-to-the-minute weather from their wireless provider.

PalmWars2 available
PalmWars2 is now available for download. PalmWars is a real-time strategy game for PalmOS handhelds. There is a war going on between three clans and the object of this game is to win this war.

Astraware celebrates award
Astraware announces that Bejeweled has been named as Best Game Application 2003 in the Handango Champion Awards. In celebration of this honor, Astraware is releasing the Bejeweled Game of the Year Edition, which premieres the company's new Aurora sound technology.

Treo 300 for $99
Beginning today, Sprint will offer customers the opportunity to save $300 on the purchase of a Treo 300 with service activation. Customers who buy a Treo 300 for $399 will receive a $300 credit on their first bill when they sign up for a two-year service contract with Sprint. The promotion applies specifically to the Treo 300 by Handspring and will run through October 10, 2003.

McDonald's goes Wi-Fi in Chicago
McDonald's announced the launch of high-speed wireless Internet access for customers in an anticipated 100 restaurants throughout the Chicagoland and Milwaukee areas, with more than 60 of those restaurants offering wireless services immediately. Additional locations will be completed by the end of September.

Metrowerks launches new product for Linux
Metrowerks has added kernel-level debugging capabilities to its line of development tools for Linux environments with the launch of the CodeWarrior Development Studio, ARM ISA Edition for Linux Platform Development, Version 2.0. In addition to its support for ARM processors, Metrowerks expects to soon extend Linux kernel-level debug capabilities to other architectures, including Motorola's PowerQUICC and ColdFire product families.

Sprint gets Real
Sprint PCS announced a content delivery deal with RealNetworks. Under the RealNetworks deal, Sprint wireless users will be able to access news, stock market performance, sports highlights, weather forecasts and movie reviews via the multimedia software maker's RealOne player on handsets equipped with Sprint's PCS Vision service. The multimedia service will be available to Sprint PCS customers for $4.95 per month and will include four hours of new content each day.

BlackBerry 7230 available
Research In Motion brought the BlackBerry 7230 device to the U.S. in partnership with T-Mobile USA. The BlackBerry 7230 lets users access email along with the Internet and voice networks around the world. It is now available in the U.S. for $399.99. Computerworld reports that T-Mobile will charge $29.99 per month for unlimited email and other mobile content, while the voice service fee is separate.

TealDoc wins shareware award
TealPoint Software's TealDoc recently won the People's Choice Best PDA Software award at the 2003 Shareware Industry Awards. The Shareware Industry Awards were presented on July 19, 2003 at the thirteenth annual Shareware Industry Conference.

SplashPhoto 4.0 available
SplashData announced the launch of SplashPhoto 4.0 for Palm Powered handhelds. The new version includes a host of new features and functionality to view, manage and share pictures on handhelds.

Palm one step closer to acquisition
Palm and Handspring announced that the waiting period required by the Hart-Scott-Rodino Anti-Trust Improvements Act for Palm's proposed acquisition of Handspring has expired. The acquisition is expected to close in the fall, subject to certain conditions, including approval from both companies' stockholders.

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