Choosing the operating system (OS) on which to build the application is the first step to building a PDA-based measurement device. Engineers almost always select between Palm OS or Pocket PC since ...

STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 12, 2004--Worldwide personal digital assistant (PDA) shipments exceeded 2.8 million units, as Microsoft Windows CE operating system licensees surpassed the Palm ...

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — Unit shipments of personal digital assistants (PDAs), also known handheld computers, are expected to grow from 12.1 million systems in 2001 to about 50 million units in 2006, ...

Apple has reached an agreement to license intellectual property from a Japanese company that owns patents originally created by Palm and PalmSource, creator of the Palm OS PDA operating system. The ...

Microsoft has delivered a massive boost to ARM’s ambitions in the mobile computing market by deciding that Pocket PC 2002, a new version of its Windows CE operating system targeted at PDAs, will only ...

Palm hopes to expand the potential base of PDA phone users by teaming with carrier Cingular to launch the industry’s lowest-priced PDA phone at $199. The quad-band GSM/EDGE Treo 680 is designed to ...

IBM's Microelectronics division announced on Tuesday it will offer a PDA blueprint aimed at fostering the development of new versions of handhelds based on its PowerPC 405LP chip and MontaVista ...

According to the latest numbers from Gartner, PalmSource (the software side of Palm that produces PalmOS) and Microsoft are in a “dead heat” in the PDA operating system race, with Palm taking a huge ...

The first three months of 2005 were kind to companies that sell PDAs (personal digital assistants), with demand for wireless e-mail leading to a sharp increase in unit shipments during the period, ...

Microsoft released Windows Mobile 6.0 for all your PDA needs. But it's competition isn't really other PDA operating systems. It's the smartphone market it's got to fight for market share with. Ars ...