The new Handheld PC software is more aggressively targeted at corporate customers in specific industries, such as healthcare, financial services and manufacturing.
Hewlett-Packard's new Jornada 720 uses the Handheld PC 2000 software bundle and is the first of the new devices to include a card reader.
Krikorian served on the board of Amazon.com Inc. and also co-founded the Philips Mobile Computing Group where he co-led the team that created the award-winning Velo 1 handheld PC running Windows CE.
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Only with the introduction over the next six months of the more powerful class of products based on Windows CE Handheld PC Professional Edition, does Sanchez see a viable product with a readable, typeable keyboard.
Riding high on its previously-introduced sister products -- the Handheld PC and Palm PC platforms, now dead and transformed into Windows Mobile, respectively -- Microsoft's Auto PC initiative was promised to herald a revolution for in-car entertainment and productivity.
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More than 20 major makers of PC and handheld devices have already recognized the benefits of Gorilla glass by designing it into more than 225 devices, and more than 55 models will be released over the next six months.
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Currently, Vindigo users download information from the company's Web site while their handheld device is attached to a PC.
VirusScan Handheld can be downloaded to a PC from the Web and installs itself the next time the PDA and PC are synchronized.
Surging sales of these three videogame franchises have helped insulate Activision Blizzard (ATVI, 12) from the effects of the recession, and driven shares of this publisher of online, PC, console and handheld games 40% higher from lows hit in early January.
Project SHIELD gives us the cutting-edge ability to bring a huge free-to-play PC game like Hawken to the handheld gaming audience.
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You can also control the PC from across the room with a handheld remote control--and that comes in handy for things like playing music and movies.
Another product that could easily double-up as a handheld interactive games machine as well as small PC is the mobile telephone.
After charging up the handheld overnight, just plug the base station into your PC's USB port, plop the CD in the drive and you'll be up and messaging in a matter of minutes.
Mr Kusnetzky predicted that sales of information appliances - from stripped down terminals used primarily to access to the internet, to smart mobile phones and handheld computers such as the Palm Pilot - would outpace PC sales by 2004.
Beyond being a speedy handheld, the 5-inch LED makes high-def PC games look even more visually stunning.
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Also, this number leaves out handheld gaming, extremely popular among children and teens, and PC gaming, which boasts the massive timesucks of games like Team Fortress, Starcraft and Warcraft that surely would have skewed the average upward.
Early users of the close-range wireless technology already know it's useful for things like performing a HotSync operation from across a room--provided you have that PC outfitted for Bluetooth already--or printing documents from the handheld to a Bluetooth-ready printer.
The iGUGU InterneTV system consists of an innovative, compact handheld wireless remote control, wireless or cable-based options to connect the PC to the television, and an easy-to-use, powerful, software application that aggregates free and subscription-based content on the Internet, giving users the ability to search, catalog and play more content than any other solution on the market.
Dell predicted a growing shift from fixed to mobile computing, but said technology such as automotive and handheld devices and Web-enabled phones are a complement and not a replacement for the PC.
But the focus of this particular demo is to show Borderlands 2 running on the handheld (and likely to give a marketing nudge to Falcon Northwest, whose Tiki Gaming PC is featured prominently).
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