Never get lost using your PDA

Navman has launched a clip-on GPS system that turns both PalmOS and Pocket PC-based machines into navigation aids. It's a European debut for the GPS receivers that come with Smartpath, GPS-enabled software covering 90,000 towns and cities in 12 different countries. You can simply set locations as destination points and then track your progress. ...more

Nokia, Palm still dominate PDA and mobile phone markets

Nokia and Palm managed to maintain their leads in the PDA and phone markets in 2002, despite pressure from competitors and the entry of Microsoft. Researh into mobile device market in the 2002 from analystsCanalys puts the total number of shipments in the EMEA market to over 1.6 million, up 25 per cent on 2001. ...more

Gates admits Longhorn delays and foresees a 'modelling' future

Bill Gates, Microsoft's Chairman and Chief Software Architect, has outlined his vision for his company's software along with tantalising glimpses of the roadmap for Longhorn - including a public beta this year - at the Gartner Symposium in San Diego, California. 'All we've said about "Longhorn" is that we'll have a kind of alpha release out this year that everybody can look at and then as we get through that, we'll give a precise date,' said Gates yesterday, when questioned on the subject. But quite what that date will be he hinted at later: 'People are speculating that we're out in '06 sometime and that's probably valid speculation, but this is not a date-driven release,' he said. ...more

Apple updates X11 implementation

Apple has released a new beta version of its software for running X11-base Unix applications within Mac OS X. The update comprises more than a dozen new features, enhancements and bug fixes. X11 0. ...more

Turn your Palm into a robot

If you own a Palm computer, you might be wondering what's coming next for this versatile little machine. Well, a project at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University in the US has resulted in the first Palm-powered robot. For around $260 (about ?180), you can turn your PDA into a basic wheeled robot - in other words, you will not be creating something as complex as R2D2, just a basic device that scuttles around. ...more