Digisoft - Products: reViewMD: With DigiSoft's medical viewer, reViewMD, the physician can access and review DICOM 3 image files anytime, anywhere — eliminating the delays associated with current methods of data review.
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Smartsoft PocketCHAT I have downloaded and installed this program on a storage card that is in my HP Jornada 540. This appears to be a VB application and the total file space that it requires is nearly 1 MB. A good chunk of that are DLL files that are put in the Windows folder, and you are prompted on whether you want to replace those files. So now my HP 540 is down to 1.39 MB of free internal storage space, which is not good. Another problem is that Pocket CHAT has an executable that points to PocketCHAT.vb and the executable is hardcoded to find that file in \Program Files\Smartsoft Pocket CHAT. I put the program in \Storage Card\Smartsoft Pocket CHAT so the executable does not work. However, if you use File Explorer, browse to the directory on the storage card, you can execute the program directly by tapping on PocketCHAT.vb. If you use Snoopsoft's Dashboard you can add PocketCHAT.vb directoy the the launcher to get around this problem.
posted by Frank McPherson 3:20 PM |
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The Standard: Lots of Handshaking in Microsoft's Handheld Division "Compaq's iPaq handheld, powered by the Pocket PC operating system, is showing signs of strong growth. Sales of iPaq were up 89 percent in March, compared with a 16 percent growth for Handspring and 40 percent growth for Palm, according to NPD Intellect."
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Microsoft’s forecast looks brighter as CEOs converge for conference "The CEOs, who come from all over the world to hear about Microsoft’s new initiatives and discuss more general business topics, will be treated to free goodies to take home. This year, the booty includes a fully loaded PocketPC hand-held computer. The machines will deliver streaming video of Mr. Gates’s speech as he is delivering it. They also will be served dinner at Mr. Gates’s high-tech home."
posted by Frank McPherson 10:34 PM |
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InternetNews - Streaming Media News -- Windows Media Joins the Wireless World Several items of note in this article. First, Microsoft is working with Intel to optimize Windows Media Player for the X-scale processor. X-scale will most likely be the next generation of processors in Pocket PCs after the StrongARM. Also, Microsoft has released Windows Media Player 7.1 for Pocket PC, which officially supports video and streaming audio on Pocket PCs. (Note that this does not over-write the media player that is in ROM on your Pocket PC, so installing this player will occupy internal storage space.) Finally, Microsoft announced a preview of WindowsMedia.com Mobile, which should display in Internet Explorer on the Pocket PC, but when I load it on my HP Jornada 540 it looks horrible. You can also order the WindowsMedia Play Pack for Pocket PC, which contains full length movies, music and games.
posted by Frank McPherson 4:26 PM |
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Pocket PC sales pass 1 million - Tech News - CNET.com The analyst quoted in this article suggests that enterprise sales are a big reason why the Pocket PC has reached this mark. If that is true, then Palm's decision to drop the aquisition of Extended Systems looks to be very painful for them.
posted by Frank McPherson 3:11 PM |
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Jason found David Haskin's recent article on AllNetDevices, where Haskin writes that he thinks the recent price drop of the Palm VII may make it the wirless savior. Jason think's Haskin misses the mark. I have disagreed with every column that Haskin has written, and this one is no different.
posted by Frank McPherson 12:18 PM |
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I've found out that Fallen Angels by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Michael Flynn, is now Bean's Free Library of e-books. Niven & Pournelle are one of my favorite sci-fi writing duos.
posted by Frank McPherson 11:37 AM |
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Staples is running a special where you are supposed to be able to get $100 off on select Pocket PCs. With this discount you can get the HP Jornada 525 for $259.98, and the Compaq iPAQ 3635 for $499.98. BUT, something doesn't seem to be working correctly. When I try to enter the coupon code at checkout I keep being told that I haven't fullfilled the requirements for the coupon. For the life of me I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.
posted by Frank McPherson 5:40 PM |
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There may be some more turbulence in my blogging world. I was not able to publish to this site all day yesterday and Ev is out of the country for a week. It looks like Ev has someone to man the store, but will he understand everything that Ev did? And, my Weblogger site is down for some maintenance. They are installing some redundant hardware to prevent the problem that corrupted my database last week. Right now I can publish from Blogger, but I don't know how reliable that will be.
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The box for returning my iPAQ arrived on Friday, so today the iPAQ will be shipped back to Compaq to get its mind straightened out. Over the weekend I installed what I consider my critical applications on my HP 540. You may recall that on last Friday I wrote that I had 2.70 MB of internal storage space available, and the goal was to keep it as close to that as possible. To meet that goal all the applications I installed this weekend went on the storage card. The result is 2341K of storage space remaining. I now have 14 applications installed on the 540.
posted by Frank McPherson 9:49 AM |
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Amazon.com: buying info: Viking CF128M 128 MB CompactFlash Card Murphy's law of technology purchasing strikes again. Amazon has dropped the price of Viking's 128 MB CompactFlash card to $109.99, meaning that you can get this card for $84.99 after a $25 rebate. I think the first 128 MB card I bought cost me over $200. With this Viking card being so low, there is no reason for you go get anyting but a 128 MB card.
posted by Frank McPherson 2:23 PM |
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This Register article on Palm's recent woes is rich with insights. Such as one of the reasons given by Palm CEO Yankowski for why the ramp up of the m500 and m505 is so slow is "electro-static discharge testing and fine tuning." Also noted is the fact that the Motorola/Palm OS smartphone is dead according to Motorola, but that hasn't been publiclly acknowledged by Palm. The Register points out that Nokia cranks out more cell phones in one night than Palm has managed to ship in five years. As I have said before, the size of the cell phone market is why Stinger is so important to Microsoft.
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