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Security Solutions Give Mobility the Green Light 2005-10-10 17:38:09

While mobile computing devices can greatly enhance employee productivity, they present a variety of unique security risks you simply can't afford to ignore. For example, mobile devices are easily lost or stolen, and if the data that's accessible through a lost device falls into the wrong hands, the threat to your business is severe. The business risks associated with unsecured mobile data include identity theft, lost revenue, potential legal liabilities, and diminished consumer confidence in your brand. Check out this on-demand Webinar from Insight to learn more about trends in mobile computing, their ramifications for network security, and products and services that can help ensure the integrity of your mobile data.

Enabling Notebook Users With Wide-Area Broadband Access 2006-01-18 01:01:44

The benefits and convenience of having wireless broadband connectivity are so compelling that enterprises now desire to provide connectivity to their mobile workforces anytime and anywhere. The global introduction of 3G (third generation) wireless networks satisfies this desire by making it possible for notebook computer users to enjoy wireless broadband connectivity far beyond the coverage areas of WLAN (Wireless Local Area Networks). This paper discusses the market drivers for the embedded 3G notebook, the capabilities offered by today's 3G networks, 3G and WLAN interoperability, the performance advantages of embedding 3G into the notebook, and the benefits of 3G technologies to the enterprise.

Podcasting Hacks: Listen to Podcasts on Your PDA 2005-08-25 O'Reilly Media

Why restrict one's self to MP3 players or the PC when the user wants to listen to podcasts? The user's PDA makes for a very capable podcatcher. Web-enabled PDAs can grab podcasts for the user without having to sync to a computer. This paper covers podcatching clients for both Pocket PC and Palm-powered PDAs.

Tags: Streaming Media, Multimedia

Wireless Ad Hoc Discovery of Parking Meters 2005-08-16 Boston University

Locating a suitable parking spot is a common challenge faced by millions of city-dwellers every day. As common is the revenue generation by fee and fine collection in these municipalities. Wireless ad hoc networking technologies offer a new and efficient means to both simplify the process of parking and find collection as well as extending the convenience for drivers. This paper describes a multi-hop wireless Parking Meter Network (PMNET) that, when coupled with a GPS receiver, allows a user (driver) to quickly locate and navigate to an available parking space. The solution is achieved by equipping existing parking meters with wireless Radio Frequency (RF) transceivers and auxiliary hardware and software.

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XPod - A Human Activity and Emotion Aware Mobile Music Player 2006-02-24 01:01:25

This paper considers the notion of collecting human emotion and activity information from the user, and explores how this information could be used to improve the user experience with mobile music players. Although the device chosen is a mobile MP3 player, the results could also have significant implications in the mobile phone arena. In particular, this paper proposes a mobile MP3 player, XPod, which is able to automate the process of selecting the song best suited to the emotion and the current activity of the user.

Deploying Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 2005-08-12 03:00:02

Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 is a powerful, mobile, and versatile operating system that lets you take your PC many more places and use it in many new ways. This new version of the operating system is a superset of Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2, and takes advantage of new features provided by the Tablet PC hardware manufacturers. These new features not only enhance and improve the mobile computing experience, but offer many ways to increase productivity.

Experiments of Entertainment Applications of a Virtual World System for Mobile Phones 2006-02-24 01:01:25

Using a virtual world system for GPS-phones, the authors have developed a small RPG-like game to give information to tourists. Comparing with other virtual systems for mobile terminals, the cost of the system is much lower because only phones on the current market are required but no additional devices are needed. The game follows a Japanese famous tale and a player plays as the hero. Twenty subjects were recruited and they played it 35 minutes in average. Through evaluation sessions of the system, it was found that the system is highly evaluated as an entertainment system.

Microsoft University Relations Program: Tablet PC and Computing Curriculum 2005-08-30 03:00:03 Hewlett-Packard

The Tablet PC has the potential to dramatically alter the educational process. This new technology significantly changes the way students and teachers interact. It adds completely new dimensions to classroom interaction by providing digital ink and drawing tools for writing, sketching, and drawing; and for real-time collaboration. When integrating Tablet PC technologies with other advances in the computing sciences, undergraduate computing educators must re-think what one teaches students and how one enable students to learn.

Mobile Devices and Users - Keep mobile working safe, secure and under control 2005-08-15 08:11:07

Working with technology outside the office brings many challenges. Use of laptops has grown from limited user communities to widespread desktop replacement and broad deployment. The complexity of managing these devices outside the walls of the office is something IT departments have learned to address. Remote connection has extended from fixed location dial-in to wireless on the move, and smart handheld devices such as PDAs have become networked, converging with mobile phones. This larger and more diverse community of mobile users and their devices increases the demands on the IT function which has to secure the device, data and connection to the network, keeping control of corporate assets, while at the same time supporting mobile user productivity.

GPRS Wireless Internet Connectivity Using i.MX and Palm OS Based PDAs 2005-11-15 01:00:02

This paper describes and provides source code for a reference application, called GSM-GPRS, which provides mobile Internet access on a personal digital assistant (PDA) based on a i.MX processor and the Palm OS operating system, using a Motorola general packet radio service (GPRS) enabled phone, the Timeport 280. Guidelines for porting this application to other i.MX-based PDA platforms is also provided.

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Title	Date Added	Company
Security Solutions Give Mobility the Green Light	2005-10-10 17:38:09
While mobile computing devices can greatly enhance employee productivity, they present a variety of unique security risks you simply can't afford to ignore. For example, mobile devices are easily lost or stolen, and if the data that's accessible through a lost device falls into the wrong hands, the threat to your business is severe. The business risks associated with unsecured mobile data include identity theft, lost revenue, potential legal liabilities, and diminished consumer confidence in your brand. Check out this on-demand Webinar from Insight to learn more about trends in mobile computing, their ramifications for network security, and products and services that can help ensure the integrity of your mobile data.
Enabling Notebook Users With Wide-Area Broadband Access	2006-01-18 01:01:44
The benefits and convenience of having wireless broadband connectivity are so compelling that enterprises now desire to provide connectivity to their mobile workforces anytime and anywhere. The global introduction of 3G (third generation) wireless networks satisfies this desire by making it possible for notebook computer users to enjoy wireless broadband connectivity far beyond the coverage areas of WLAN (Wireless Local Area Networks). This paper discusses the market drivers for the embedded 3G notebook, the capabilities offered by today's 3G networks, 3G and WLAN interoperability, the performance advantages of embedding 3G into the notebook, and the benefits of 3G technologies to the enterprise.
Podcasting Hacks: Listen to Podcasts on Your PDA	2005-08-25	O'Reilly Media
Why restrict one's self to MP3 players or the PC when the user wants to listen to podcasts? The user's PDA makes for a very capable podcatcher. Web-enabled PDAs can grab podcasts for the user without having to sync to a computer. This paper covers podcatching clients for both Pocket PC and Palm-powered PDAs. Tags: Streaming Media, Multimedia
Wireless Ad Hoc Discovery of Parking Meters	2005-08-16	Boston University
Locating a suitable parking spot is a common challenge faced by millions of city-dwellers every day. As common is the revenue generation by fee and fine collection in these municipalities. Wireless ad hoc networking technologies offer a new and efficient means to both simplify the process of parking and find collection as well as extending the convenience for drivers. This paper describes a multi-hop wireless Parking Meter Network (PMNET) that, when coupled with a GPS receiver, allows a user (driver) to quickly locate and navigate to an available parking space. The solution is achieved by equipping existing parking meters with wireless Radio Frequency (RF) transceivers and auxiliary hardware and software. Tags:
XPod - A Human Activity and Emotion Aware Mobile Music Player	2006-02-24 01:01:25
This paper considers the notion of collecting human emotion and activity information from the user, and explores how this information could be used to improve the user experience with mobile music players. Although the device chosen is a mobile MP3 player, the results could also have significant implications in the mobile phone arena. In particular, this paper proposes a mobile MP3 player, XPod, which is able to automate the process of selecting the song best suited to the emotion and the current activity of the user.
Deploying Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005	2005-08-12 03:00:02
Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 is a powerful, mobile, and versatile operating system that lets you take your PC many more places and use it in many new ways. This new version of the operating system is a superset of Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2, and takes advantage of new features provided by the Tablet PC hardware manufacturers. These new features not only enhance and improve the mobile computing experience, but offer many ways to increase productivity.
Experiments of Entertainment Applications of a Virtual World System for Mobile Phones	2006-02-24 01:01:25
Using a virtual world system for GPS-phones, the authors have developed a small RPG-like game to give information to tourists. Comparing with other virtual systems for mobile terminals, the cost of the system is much lower because only phones on the current market are required but no additional devices are needed. The game follows a Japanese famous tale and a player plays as the hero. Twenty subjects were recruited and they played it 35 minutes in average. Through evaluation sessions of the system, it was found that the system is highly evaluated as an entertainment system.
Microsoft University Relations Program: Tablet PC and Computing Curriculum	2005-08-30 03:00:03	Hewlett-Packard
The Tablet PC has the potential to dramatically alter the educational process. This new technology significantly changes the way students and teachers interact. It adds completely new dimensions to classroom interaction by providing digital ink and drawing tools for writing, sketching, and drawing; and for real-time collaboration. When integrating Tablet PC technologies with other advances in the computing sciences, undergraduate computing educators must re-think what one teaches students and how one enable students to learn.
Mobile Devices and Users - Keep mobile working safe, secure and under control	2005-08-15 08:11:07
Working with technology outside the office brings many challenges. Use of laptops has grown from limited user communities to widespread desktop replacement and broad deployment. The complexity of managing these devices outside the walls of the office is something IT departments have learned to address. Remote connection has extended from fixed location dial-in to wireless on the move, and smart handheld devices such as PDAs have become networked, converging with mobile phones. This larger and more diverse community of mobile users and their devices increases the demands on the IT function which has to secure the device, data and connection to the network, keeping control of corporate assets, while at the same time supporting mobile user productivity.
GPRS Wireless Internet Connectivity Using i.MX and Palm OS Based PDAs	2005-11-15 01:00:02
This paper describes and provides source code for a reference application, called GSM-GPRS, which provides mobile Internet access on a personal digital assistant (PDA) based on a i.MX processor and the Palm OS operating system, using a Motorola general packet radio service (GPRS) enabled phone, the Timeport 280. Guidelines for porting this application to other i.MX-based PDA platforms is also provided.