Top 5 PDAs

Palm TX PDA
With built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth technology, this is the wireless device you've been waiting for. Browse the web and check email from your office, campus, or a home Wi-Fi network¿and places like airports, cafes, and hotels1. Carry your Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files2 and get more done anywhere. Web pages, presentations,...
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Palm Tungsten E2 PDA
Our most popular handheld is better than ever. Introducing the sleek, stylishly designed Tungsten E2 handheld from palmOne. With a brighter, richer color screen, it brings your calendar, contacts, documents and presentations, photos and videos to life. Plus, flash memory keeps information safe if you don't have time to recharge. There's even Bluetooth wireless...
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Sony Mylo COM-1 PDA
Instant Messaging. Web Browsing. Music. Pictures. Videos. Imagine all the fun things you do on your PC, concentrated in the palm of your hand. Introducing the Mylo personal communicator. It connects to open 802.11b WiFi networks anywhere in the world. So you can get away from your desk and roam your wireless network. Or step out to a coffee shop while staying in touch...
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HP iPAQ 111 Classic Handhel...
Designed to help keep your action-packed life in balance, iPAQ 110 Classic Handheld makes an excellent - and affordable - companion to your cell phone. This slim, stylish organizer also lets you go online with Wi-Fi to stay in touch and keep your calendar, contacts, and tasks up to date.
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ASUS MyPal A626 PDA
The ASUS A626 perfectly combines versatility and style. This palm-sized marvel matches high quality with an impeccable standard of design and caters to the user's expectations for personal handheld accessories.
Exceptionally slim at only 1.57 cm, the ASUS A626 really stands out from most of the other PDAs on the market. The casing is made of stainless steel and the...
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Palm took something of a risk by advertising

By Andrew Williams, itpro.com
Palm took something of a risk by advertising the Pre's ability to sync with rival Apple's iTunes software. Sure enough, Apple kicked it off the platform within weeks, issuing an iTunes update that denied the Pre access. Now Palm has come back with a webOS update that gets Pre back on board. How long will this cat and mouse game last?
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Just over a week after Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) Apple Store Discount on Office 2008 for Mac - Home and Student Edition . Click here. More about Apple cut off the Palm (Nasdaq: PALM) More about Palm Pre's ability to sync with iTunes, Palm has restored that capability with an update to its webOS operating system.
In announcing the update on the Palm blog, Palm vice president of business products John Traynor was somewhat circumspect, focusing first on the platform's enhanced support for the enterprise, then slipping in the news about restored iTunes synching.
Palm's announcement has triggered a mix of responses by readers of its blog.
Meanwhile, ChangeWave Research's figures show that the Pre is gaining some ground among consumers.
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Barnes and Noble Announces eBookstore

by Nathan Eddy, eweek.com
Barnes & Nobel jumps into the eReader market with eBookstore, which offers 700,000 digital books that can be viewed on a variety of mobile devices, computers and eReaders.
Book chain store Barnes & Nobel announced the launch of the Barnes & Noble eBookstore, which the company claims is the world’s largest, on the company’s Website. The service enables customers to buy eBooks and read them on a range of platforms, including the Apple iPhone and iPod touch, BlackBerry smartphones, as well as most Windows and Mac notebooks or desktops. In addition, Barnes & Noble announced that it would be the exclusive eBookstore provider on the forthcoming Plastic Logic eReader device, which is expected to debut next year.
Barnes & Noble’s launch encompasses more than 700,000 titles retailing for $9.99. The company expects that its selection will increase to more than one million titles within the next year, inclusive of every available eBook from every book publisher and every available eBook original. In addition, the eBookstore offers more than a half-million public domain books from Google, which can be downloaded for free. First-time users of the eReader will have the opportunity to download free eBooks, including helpful and tomes such as Merriam-Webster's Pocket Dictionary, and classics of literature including Sense and Sensibility, Little Women, Last of the Mohicans and Pride and Prejudice. Tissues are not included with free Jane Austin downloads.
The company is also offering an upgraded version of its eReader application, which was part of the company's Fictionwise (one of the largest electronic book sellers in North America) acquisition earlier this year. This eBook application supports both wireless and wired access to the new Barnes & Noble eBookstore, and is supported by a wide variety of Internet-enabled devices.
Barnes & Noble also announced a strategic partnership with Plastic Logic, a spin-off company from Cambridge University's Cavendish Laboratory. Their e-reader, seen as a competitor to Amazon’s widely publicized (and criticized) Kindle 2 e-reader, is scheduled to debut in early 2010 after a limited run for select partners later this year. It will reportedly have a thickness of less than seven millimeters, a form factor of 8.5-inch by 11-inches and a weight of less than 16 ounces. It will be capable of displaying Microsoft Office documents and PDF files as well as eBooks.
The Barnes & Noble eReader client software provides user-friendly interface to access the eBookstore and allows users to manage their personal eBook libraries. It features tools to optimize the reading experience, such as the ability to modify type size and font and annotate and bookmark text, as well as an auto-scroll feature enabling users hands-free reading. In addition, users, will be able to access their eBooks from any of their eBook software-equipped devices, so they can shift from reading their eBook from a smartphone to a notebook or eReader device.
William J. Lynch, president of BN.com, said the announcement marks the first phase of the company’s digital strategy, which is rooted in the belief that readers should have access to the books in their digital library from any device, from anywhere, at any time. “As America’s No. 1 bookstore and newsstand, our goal at Barnes & Noble is to build a service that revolves around the customer, enabling them to have access to hundreds of thousands of titles and read on their smartphone, PC, and many other existing and future devices,” he said. “We want to make eBooks simple, accessible, affordable and convenient for everyone.”

Oracle to buy software maker GoldenGate

by Staff Writers, reuters
Oracle, the world's No. 3 software maker, plans to buy privately held GoldenGate Software, beefing up its portfolio of technology that helps companies manipulate information in databases.
The companies did not disclose financial terms of the transaction, which Oracle announced on Thursday.
Oracle has spent more than US$34 billion buying about three dozen companies over the past five years, the bulk of then private companies like GoldenGate.
While Oracle does not release the terms of most small transactions, Oracle spent up to US$1.2 billion for such deals in its most recent fiscal year.
The software giant is getting ready to close its US$7.4 billion acquisition of hardware maker Sun Microsystems, pending antitrust approval by regulators in the United States and Europe.
San Francisco-based GoldenGate offers several products, including software that helps businesses analyse large quantities of information in databases and programs that help banks detect fraudulent activities.
GoldenGate has more than 500 customers, including Bank of America, Comcast, MGM Mirage and Visa.

Nintendo doubles the fun in Wii Sports Resort

How work out you create a sequel to a invention to misrepresented the way colonize think roughly speaking videotape games?
Stylish November 2006, "Wii Sports" — the software that's packaged with Nintendo's Wii — introduced the U.S. Audience to a novel way to participate. It served as a picture perfect demonstration of the novel console, putting the Wii's motion-sensing controls next to the service of familiar pastimes like golf and tennis. And it was so undemanding to pick up and participate to colonize who were previously nervy by videotape games happening Wii bowling leagues.
With more than 45 million copies in transmission, "Wii Sports" has probably been played by more colonize than in the least game in history. A ensuing minigame collection, "Wii Play," sold 23 million copies. So Nintendo has area of high pressure expectations on behalf of "Wii Sports Resort" ($49.99), and there's refusal infer to think the company will be disappointed.
If you're a fan, you won't be disappointed either. "Resort" is better, boosting the numeral of dealings from five to 12. The three sports to suffer returned (golf and bowling from "Wii Sports," put on the back burner tennis from "Wii Play") are sharper, appreciation to the novel Wii MotionPlus partner. And the intact package is as lighthearted, fast-paced and affable as the inventive.
The package comes with solitary MotionPlus device, which attaches to solitary purpose of the Wii remote and gives it more precise control. (It's vacant individually on behalf of $24.99.) When bowling, you can flick your wrist to give away the orb certain spin. Table tennis feels more like the real object. The updated version of golf is more demanding: You really need to focus on keeping your swing straight or you'll be digging a portion of balls impossible of the rough.
Frisbee may perhaps be the a good number challenging door. It takes a while to master the wrist-snap mandatory to meet accurate throws, but previously you acquire the talent of it, you can squander hours taking on the Frisbee golf courses. Swordplay, basketball and "air sports" (flying and skydiving) are easier to pick up but not quite as satisfying.
The a good number absorbing of the novel dealings is archery. The Wii remote is your bow, and you yank back your virtual arrow with the nunchuck. Nailing a pitiful bull's-eye from the top distance is a frank accomplishment.
I'm a lesser amount of in love with with a trio of boring irrigate dealings, canoeing, wakeboarding and "power cruising" (jet skiing). And cycling feels nothing like the real object, since you're using your arms to pedal.
Each sport has a decent solo mode, and achieving a selection of goals opens up novel game variations. But "Wii Sports Resort" is designed on behalf of more than solitary player. Like the inventive, it's affable to players of in the least age or skill level, so any person next to your people gathering can compete. Not all the games are keepers, but present honestly