Hiptop
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Hiptop comes to the UK
Reviews Following its success in the US as the T-Mobile Sidekick, Danger's Hiptop mobile phone/handheld is coming to the UK -- in a new colour-screen version. But will it fare any better than the ill-fated Pogo?
Mobile e-mail--get it right
Insight Mobile email shows plenty of promise but will be an expensive, messy failure unless organizations display joined-up thinking, says an industry observer.
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications, Personal applications
Will buyers write off new tablet PCs?
News Microsoft is aiming its new OS for pen-based, "tablet" computing at the mainstream corporate market, but the first buyers are likely to be businesses with specific requirements.
Microsoft's Sidekick data 'almost certainly lost'
News U.S. users of the T-Mobile Sidekick handset have been told their personal data, which was being hosted by Microsoft, is unlikely to be recovered after a server failure.
Tags: Cellular phones, VoIP/IP telephony, Smart phones, VoIP, Hiptop, Microsoft Corp., handset, Sidekick, Backup, Server
Start-up plans e-mail pager for the masses
News Danger Research, which plans to offer a BlackBerry-like device aimed at the consumer market, will demonstrate a prototype of its two-way e-mail pager Thursday.
StarHub brings Danger to Singapore
News in brief Singaporean mobile operator StarHub will be the first in Asia to offer Danger's Hiptop, a phone-handheld hybrid device.
Tags: Wireless e-mail devices
PalmOne serves up Java tools
News PalmOne has smoothed the way for developers to create Java applications for its Treo and Tungsten handheld computers, a move it hopes will help it win more corporate customers.
Palm V to get pager functions
News A wireless data network company plans to unveil a device that effectively allows a Palm handheld to act more like a BlackBerry pager.
Wireless Web resurrects "push"
News Much-hyped technology from the Web's early days makes a comeback as cell phones go surfing.
