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Welcome to our roundup of articles with technical and marketing
tips and techniques for handheld devices and other wireless
gadgets.
| CommWeb |
UC
Devices Coming Of Age: The Key Factors of Personalized
Wireless Communication (2/02) The Communicator, made
famous in the 1960's Star Trek series, is the ultimate unified
communications device. With the ability to easily locate
anyone, anytime, and anywhere, a person with a communicator
was very productive. Connected to the ship's log, the
communicator could store and retrieve vital information by
simply accepting voice commands. I suspect in the
not-to-distant future, we will see an incarnation of the
communicator in our pockets. Just as the leading cell phone
providers like Nokia, Motorola, and Ericsson, have added
screens and keyboards to accommodate text messaging and
information display, so too have the text pager and PDA folks
added voice. |
| DevX |
From
Palm OS to Symbian OS: Making the Switch (8/03) Thinking
about switching from Palm OS to Symbian OS? The proliferation
of smartphones has made it necessary to build many wireless
applications from the operating system on up and Symbian OS
seems to have this market cornered. This two part series
outlines the differences between developing for Palm OS and
for Symbian OS. So if you do decide to switch, you'll know
what to expect.
Developing
Pocket PC Applications In Visual Studio.NET (2/03)
Microsoft designed the ASP.NET Mobile Controls to help
developers build applications that run on devices with limited
processing power, such as mobile phones, where much of the
application logic resides on back-end Web servers. In
contrast, the .NET Compact Framework (.NET CF) is a
scaled-down version of the .NET Framework, which you use to
build applications that run on specific mobile devices with
sufficient processing power.
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| Equisys |
Making a Move
(PDF, 2/03) This paper offers a pragmatic approach to
developing a mobile strategy which focuses on the needs of the
enterprise.It considers the benefits of mobile applications
and provides guidance on how to evaluate your company ’s
specific mobile needs.The paper provides an outline of the key
issues to consider in developing a mobile strategy including
security,usability,data types,synchronization / access and
total cost of ownership. |
| JDJ |
Wireless
Devices - Java's Next Home (2/02) Software that leapfrogs
the intelligence and usability of wireless devices is quite a
captivating pitch, yet we shouldn't forget a similarly
proffered claim regarding Java on PCs when it became
mainstream in 1995. Ultimately, it never took off on the
client side, even though it enjoys tremendous success on the
server side, resulting in a dedicated and growing base of
developers. What could possibly make a mobile and Java
combination so much more compelling and captivating than its
somewhat failed union with the PC? Will Java truly occupy the
new breed of intelligent mobile devices as its new home? I
believe so - and a little bit of history can help explain why. |
| Microsoft |
Introduction
to MAPI in Pocket PC 2002 C++ Applications Because the
Pocket PC 2002 SDK removes the MsgStore APIs, applications
based on Pocket PC 2002 must now use MAPI to interact with the
user’s e-mail subsystem. This can be quite daunting at first
but don’t despair, help has arrived! This article deals with
the basic operation of MAPI (initializing the API and sending
mail). |
| Silicon.com |
Revealed:
PDA security risks - and what to do about them - part one
(3/02) Following silicon.com's revelation in January that
the BBC is clamping down on the use of PDAs among its
employees to help secure its network, the industry has been
trying to come up with best practice guidelines for such
mobile devices. ICL is the latest company to join the debate.
It has identified some key security risks posed by PDA usage,
and has recommended actions for companies to take to make
their PDA use more secure. The Risks... |
| Symbian |
Symbian
OS: supporting packet-switched networks The introduction
of packet-switched 2.5G and 3G networks, which bring with them
the promise of always-connected devices, has built up a great
deal of expectation. This paper examines the opportunities for
new revenue streams in packet-switched wireless networks and
the key role played by Symbian OS phones in driving this
market.
Symbian
OS phones Mobile phones are highly personal and varied.
Products available today, such as the Ericsson R380 Smartphone
and the Nokia 9210 Communicator show the diversity of mobile
phones that can be created with Symbian OS. Check out the full
list. |
| Techtv |
PDAs
on Patrol (1/02) Police officers around the world turn to
handheld devices to help fight crime. San Jose, California,
police officer Kenny Williams swears by his personal digital
assistant. The device, which he bought and enhanced himself,
allows him to file reports, take crime-scene photos, and
sketch accident diagrams while on the beat. But while Williams
may be the first officer in San Jose going digital, he isn't
the only cop turning to a PDA in the war on crime. |
| WBT |
Symbian
on the Rise (2/03) Symbian,
Ltd. was founded in 1998 by Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola, and
Psion, using Psion's EPOC OS as a starting point for its new
system. David Wood, Symbian's executive vice president,
explains that the aim of the founders was to create a standard
operating system for advanced mobile phones. "It was
getting harder and harder to use the existing proprietary
operating systems to quickly and inexpensively come out with
new technologies," he says. Key to the concept behind
Symbian was the idea of an open platform, of encouraging
developers to build software for Symbian phones in the same
way that had driven the sales of PCs. |
| ZDNet |
PDAs
increasingly vulnerable to hackers Handheld computers are
increasingly vulnerable to hacker attacks and should not be
trusted to store "any critical or confidential
information," security experts have warned. The growing
business use of personal digital assistants (PDAs) raises
concerns about security. Security firms have been making
similar warnings for some time.
What
will you find in the .NET Compact Framework? (1/03)
Microsoft recently announced the release of a scaled-down
version of the .NET runtime meant for mobile devices. This
.NET Compact Framework opens up an entirely new world of
devices for .NET developers, but is the environment at all
like its big brother? Obviously, in shrinking a 23-MB runtime
library into less than 1.5 MB for a mobile device, Microsoft
had to discard something. So what did they leave, and do the
changes preclude any compatibility between the two frameworks?
Let’s answer the last question first and then take a look at
the primary ways the Compact Framework differs from its
full-scale sibling.
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