PDAs Keep Losing Ground to Smart Phones

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Shipments of handheld computers declined for the fifth straight quarter amid growth of so-called smart phones and other devices combining organizer functions with cell phone capabilities, the research firm IDC said. Worldwide shipments of PDAs — which lack telephone capabilities — decreased to 1.9 million units in the January-March period. That's a 12.1 percent decline compared with last year's first quarter, and a 30.6 percent drop from last year's fourth quarter. In contrast, shipments of so-called converged mobile devices combining cell phone, organizer and other functions more than doubled year-over-year for the third straight quarter.
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Solaris 10, a new Sun or just another Unix?

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With the release of Solaris 10, Sun Microsystems is attempting to revive some of the strength that the Solaris name once carried in the world of unix workstations and servers. At one point, Sun was the dominant name in commercial unix hardware and software. Then came the crash of the dot-com marketplace, so many of whom had heavy investment into Sun in both the hardware & software market.
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Novell Loses Another Executive

  Submitted by Patrick Novell and Ximian 24 Comments
Richard Seibt, formerly CEO of Suse Linux before its acquisition by Novell in 2003, has left Novell. This follows the recent resignations of other top executives Chris Stone, Alan Nugent, and Deb Bergavin. The major portion of Novell’s management came from Novell’s acquisitions of Cambridge Technology Partners, Ximian and Silverstream.
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Security – The Best Laid Plans

  Submitted by Danny Privacy, Security 2 Comments
Security used to be as simple as a solid lock on a solid door, a safe in the back room and perhaps even a retired police officer out front (if you were really serious). But the modern business looks at security, and threats to security in a whole different light. Security of information, systems and networks are now just as important as, and often integrated with, shop-front security. read more
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SkyOS: Better than Dewey Decimal?

  Submitted by Kelly Rush SkyOS 23 Comments
This is a new video available on the SkyOS homepage, showing off the new indexing service. This service (which continuously runs in the background) will examine all new or updated files on a SkyFS volume. For each file, the plugin-based Index Feeder will try to extract as much information as possible from the file. This information will then be attached to the file in the form of attributes, which makes it possible to quickly search for it by using the SkyFS Index and Live Queries. It should be noted that what is seen in the video is only the back-end controls for the indexing service; for the final release of SkyOS, the controls will be implemented system-wide within the SkyOS GUI.
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Apple Before the Macintosh

  Submitted by Saad Apple 50 Comments
Apple's greatest hit was not the Macintosh, iMac or iPod, it was the Apple II. The machine helped bankroll Apple's big projects (LISA, Macintosh, Newton) well into the nineties. Read about Apple's history before the Macintosh at the Low End Mac.
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