Thursday, June 30, 2005

Unbound Medicine Wins 2005 Handango Champion Award

Handango, the leading provider of mobile downloads, announced the winners of the annual Handango Champion Awards at an awards ceremony in Miami, Florida on June 23, 2005. Unbound Medicine, the leading provider of healthcare information for PDA, wireless, and Web delivery, won Best Industry Application 2005 for Davis's Drug Guide with Auto-Updates on Palm OS devices. Press Release

The Drawbacks of Cellular-Wireless Handhelds

Brighthand's Editor-in-Chief has realized there are more drawbacks to handhelds with built-in cellular-wireless functionality than he had first thought. Full Story

Palm Desktop for Macintosh Updated

palmOne support has posted an updated version of the Palm Desktop for Macintosh Computers. The update solves various installation issues on OS X 10.3 and 10.4. More
Palm Desktop 4.2.1

Survey: Mobility Rings up I.T. Plans

Increased access to clinical information systems via nationwide mobile phone networks will lead physicians and nurses to encourage greater consideration of mobile health I.T. during strategic planning, according to a recent Mobile Opinions survey conducted by Mobile Health Data. Full Story

Thursday, June 23, 2005

ACCESS Announces NetFront v3.2, the World’s Most Advanced Browser for Mobile and Home Internet Devices

Most PDA users haven't heard of NetFront, but it's the most widely used PDA / Smartphone / Device browser on the market. The most popular Palm wireless device, the Treo 650, uses Netfront as the base for the Blazer web browser.
NetFront supports a wider range of operating systems than any competing browser including solutions for Palm® OS, Symbian OS, Linux OS, Windows Mobile/PocketPC and mobile handset environments like BREW™.

Access recently announced a new version of the NetFront browser. While products like Harrison's, Taber's, and MerckMedicus are designed to work with the latest PDA browsers, any improvements to PDA browser technology are welcome.

Wednesday, June 08, 2005

SharkCache Eliminates LifeDrive Lag

SharkCache is a new application specifically designed for the palmOne LifeDrive, that allows you to eliminate the application launch delay for your most used apps. More

Settlement Over Defective Palm

Los Angeles Superior Court proposes palmOne to replace or upgrade defective Palm m100, m105 and m125 handhelds due to a known but undisclosed design flaw. Read More

Tuesday, June 07, 2005

Brighthand Reviews the palmOne LifeDrive Mobile Manager

A staff writer at Brighthand reviews the new LifeDrive, comparing it to devices ranging from the Apple iPod to the no longer produced Sony CLIE; covering everything from Multimedia to it's Wireless capabilities. Full Review

Thursday, June 02, 2005

Unbound Medicine Launches Medicine Central

Today, Unbound Medicine, a leader in information for healthcare providers, announced the release of Medicine Central™. Designed especially for internists, primary care providers and trainees, Unbound’s new resource combines premier reference content with powerful literature management tools—all easily accessible using a personal digital assistant (PDA), a wireless device, or the Web. Full Story