Digital assistants continue to lose ground
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Shipments of personal digital assistants declined for the third consecutive quarter as large vendors continued ceding the depressed market to smaller electronics makers, the research firm IDC said Wednesday.
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Blog: Microsoft has screwed up yet another standards effort.  This is getting old.
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Analysis Won't reach it without industry and download-service support
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Internet telephony application balks on IPaq and Axim Pocket PC devices.
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By DOUG PAGE COMMENTARY  About every eight months or so, I am ordered to abandon my computer and take to the streets with only my pad and my pen.   With six questions in my notebook, I am to gather responses for the daily Page A3 Chatterbox feature.
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For the third consecutive quarter, shipments of handheld devices, including personal digital assistants (PDAs), have declined, according to a study by IDC.
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First person: What's a telecommuter to do when the Web telephony service vanishes?
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RFID is out there, but the onslaught has been slowed by practical and economic considerations.
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Partitioning an array and/or a storage network may not be enough to satisfy air-gap sensitive users.
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In this call center, all the PCs are configured identically. But one user's machine locks up several times a day, and new hardware and software don't help. ...
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Legal wrangling over competing hard drive technologies continues.
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Michael D. Gallagher and Larry Irving warn that emergency communications technology still dangerously lags behind.
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If a handheld device doesn't have voice capabilities, a growing number of users around the world aren't interested, according to IDC. For the third straight quarter, shipments of handheld devices such as personal digital assistants (PDAs) fell as some prominent vendors decided to pull back from the market, IDC said Wednesday.
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A new crop of companies say it's too soon to write off the digital pen.
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Here's a problem that some investment dollars help solve. Apparently, the TechCrunch 40 conference isn't streaming to the outside world because the Palace Hotel has incredibly lame networking, and they won't allow conference promoters to bring in more wires? This is what I hear, although it's not confirmed. Emails to the conference promoters yesterday were not responded to.  I've also received emails from a number of companies announcing products at the show who want coverage on Scripting News, so my interest is not entirely idle.  So what does it take to establish one hotel in SF as the default tech conference hotel? Networking! Geez, you'd think it's obvious by now. We do things that require networks. Look in any conference room around the world for a clue. And supposedly San Francisco is the central node in the network of technology bringing all this great stuff to the rest of the world. So where is the hotel that gives us the very most basic technology to wire up conferences so that the whole world can participate?  Do we need to move the tech industry to another city? Someone please ask the Mayor or Google or someone in charge when they're going to fix this problem. It should have been solved in 1997, and it's already 2007.  BTW, here's a clue: there are some great business opportunities, beyond conferences, for the first physical location in downtown SF to solve this problem. Just ask Loic.
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Underpromising in order to overdeliver can't make up for sluggish operating results.
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When I suggested in a recent column that a problematic 5 percent of employees account for 75 percent of the IT support burden, I expected a wave of âright on!â letters from IT support staffers. After the column was published, the letters did come â most of them disagreeing with my premise, with one reader suggesting that the real whiner was yours truly. I still think itâs outside the realm of overextended IT departments to provide training on basic computing skills (which I defined as âmanaging and finding files, and basic working knowledge of suites such as MS Officeâ). But my thinking was adjusted a bit by the thoughtful feedback.