James Alan Miller

Sharp’s Zaurus SL-6000L PDA is now available with English language support online. This device, as well as two additional SL-6000 models, have been available in Japan. Unlike other recent Zaurus models, the Zaurus SL-6000 series comes in a traditional tablet style rather than a clamshell. Like the earlier clamshell models, the SL-6000 series also has […]

Most Palm OS devices don’t integrate Wi-Fi. And there are very few solutions to add this capability to these devices. One such solution is the Enfora WP802b portfolio for palmOne handhelds, which has the benefits of its own battery, but is bulky. A more attractive solution would be a Wi-Fi-enabled SDIO card that would fit […]

The Handheld PC is the Pocket PC’s larger and more bulkier older cousin. While Pocket PCs have consistently gotten sleeker and more powerful, improvements to the Handheld PC haven’t comes as quickly. Samsung hopes to change this perception with the Nexio XP30, which it is showing off this week at the CeBIT tradeshow in Hanover, […]

T-Mobile announced this week that it will integrate Wi-Fi and 3G (GSM/GPRS, EDGE & WCDMA) mobile services this spring with the goal of creating a multi-speed network to carry data traffic. Speaking in a press conference at the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, France, T-Mobile Chief Executive Rene Obermann said, “we are creating one multi-speed, […]

Motorola on Monday announced the MPx, a smartphone that offers a unique take on the Pocket PC phone platform. Unlike most Pocket PC phones, the MPx is a dual-hinge device that opens both lengthways as a clamshell phone and in landscape mode with a wide screen and full QWERTY keyboard. By opening the device in […]

At the 3GSM World Conference in Cannes, France today, Nokia announced the 9500 Communicator series, the long-awaited successor to the 9200 series. The new smartphone is aimed at business users. The tri-band GSM/GPRS EDGE 9500 series, which will be available in 900/1800/1900 MHz and 850/1800/1900 MHz models, is one of the first handsets to integrate […]

The $499 Tungsten C is flat out the most powerful Palm OS device the Palm Solutions Group or any other Palm OS vendor has released. In so many ways it is a Palm devotee’s dream come true. However, there are a couple of areas that the device is lacking, perhaps limiting its appeal beyond Palm’s […]

Aberdeen Group, a market analysis and positioning services firm, announced today that storage spending will reach $21.2 billion by 2005. “Worldwide Storage Management: Forecast and Analysis 2002 – 2005”, an Aberdeen research report, examines storage management spending by geographic regions and storage management sub-segments, including data placement, data protection, storage resource management, and storage administration. […]

Brocade Communications Systems today announced what it claims is a comprehensive SAN education program as part of the companies initiative to support storage area network (SAN) expansion in the Chinese market. In China, Brocade said it will deliver SAN education to IT technical professionals through its new storage networking education initiative, SAN*Ed, and through its […]

Adaptec, Inc. and Cisco Systems, Inc. have developed an initiative to accelerate the deployment and adoption of IP Storage solutions. The two companies plan to test and market iSCSI solutions combining Adaptec’s ASIC-based iSCSI adapters and Cisco storage routers, and collaborate on end-user educational programs. “This broad-based Cisco and Adaptec initiative will contribute to wider […]

Emulex Corp., a supplier of storage networking host bus adapters (HBAs) announced that Storage Technology Corp. (StorageTek) has certified the Emulex LightPulse 2Gb/s LP9002L and LP8000 Fibre Channel HBAs for use with its 2Gb/s T9840B and T9840A tape drives, and L180 and L700 tape libraries running in Solaris, AIX, HP-UX and Windows operating environments. This […]

http://www.swapdrive.com SwapDrive, a provider of Web- based data storage, has added three solution providers to its XSP@SwapDrive Partner Program: PROMENET Inc., headquartered in New York City; Shea Network Solutions of Ridgewood, NJ; and Inet OnLine Services based in the Chicago Metropolitan area. The agreements call for each provider to resell SwapDrive Backup, online data backup […]