Next on the company's list are displays for handheld computers and other electronic devices.
They include mobile phones, MP3 players, computer chips, hard drives, handheld computers, games consoles and satellite navigation equipment.
Now vertical dis-integration is the order of the day in autos, handheld computers, pharmaceuticals, ink-jet printers, health foods, cameras, microchips.
Net, an integrated software package that links handheld computers as well as PCs.
The microdrive can be used for storage for digital cameras, handheld computers, personal digital assistants and notebook computers, IBM said.
It was a new technology right around the time when people were realizing they could make handheld computers with legible screen.
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Palm helped create and singlehandedly popularized the market for handheld computers, and Microsoft, as it has many times, was forced to play catch-up.
Some of his bombs: Crescenda Wireless, a developer of software for handheld computers, which dissolved, and Encryptics, a Stamps.com ticket-printing spinoff that went nowhere.
That's becoming the crucial element in these "handheld computers" -- you talk about Google and Microsoft and Apple... they make hardware, but they're software companies.
Mobile phones are evolving into conduits for e-mail and Web data, while handheld computers and laptops are starting to adapt to a new array of wireless technologies.
Sanyo and IBM face strong competition on fuel cells because many firms are working on ways to shrink the systems to fit laptops and even handheld computers.
Price points that low don't leave much room for profit, although HP has done a nice job of making outstandingly engineered and more profitable laptop and handheld computers.
And just a few years hence, wireless interactive access devices, such as smart mobile telephones and handheld computers, are expected to offer easy Internet access on the move.
Mobile phones and handheld computers are now the same device.
Fi is best suited to laptops: it uses up too much power for use in handheld computers or mobile phones and laptops are hardly ideal things to lug around the streets.
Users of the upcoming MSN Mobile for the first time will be given two-way functionality allowing them to send and receive information from Internet-enabled phones and handheld computers, and make purchases.
The communications processor business includes the IXP family of network and communications chips used in networking products and Intel's Xscale application chips are used in cell phones, handheld computers, and smart phones.
FedEx couriers in select markets now carry handheld computers and scanners called "PowerPads", which allow them to enter information about a package into the company's system as soon as it's picked up or dropped off.
Matsushita Communication, the world's fourth-biggest mobile-phone maker, announced that it was taking a 9% shareholding in Symbian, an 11-month-old software joint venture fostered by Psion, a small but pioneering British company that makes handheld computers.
As a result, the company has been looking past its longtime rival as it talks up fresh efforts to crack the market for everything from ultra-portable handheld computers to consumer electronics (see: "Intel Vows To Rise Again").
Mr Kusnetzky predicted that sales of information appliances - from stripped down terminals used primarily to access to the internet, to smart mobile phones and handheld computers such as the Palm Pilot - would outpace PC sales by 2004.
Along with Microsoft's new generation of Internet-oriented software, users will need other non-software technologies tailored for the Web, such as broadband access, wireless communications, smart cards, phones with large screens, handheld computers and PCs with integrated microphones and cameras, Gates said.
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Handheld computers and wireless net-phones would also benefit from a less chatty protocol, more efficient use of their limited battery power, the ability to cope in noisy environments, and an easier way to send files while on the move (from, say, digital cameras).
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The company has been looking past its longtime rival as it talks up fresh efforts to crack the market for everything from ultra-portable handheld computers to consumer electronics (see "Intel Vows To Rise Again") and shifts from reconquering its core markets to finding fresh opportunities.
As well as making it possible to scribble virtually anywhere, linking the real and virtual worlds through mobile devices could also change users' perception of their surroundings, says Jason Devitt of Vindigo, a company based in New York that provides location-based services on both handheld computers and mobile phones.
Besides doing away with the need to use fiddly controls on handheld computers, mobile phones and music players, a speech-recognition chip would have other uses too: it could form the basis of a powerful, portable interpreting device, for example, or allow car drivers to change radio stations or operate navigation systems by speech alone.
It talks with iChat and with Mail, Apple's new e-mail program, and will also work with Palm OS-based handheld computers, like those from Palm (nasdaq: PALM - news - people ), Handspring (nasdaq: HAND - news - people ) or Sony (nyse: SNE - news - people ).
Calculators were the original handheld computers, but unlike the whole PDA fad, they've had amazing staying power through their 40-year history -- to this day, buttoned-up dudes crunching numbers at wooden desks have HP 12Cs next to them not for the kitschy retro street cred, but because they're functional, familiar, and do exactly what they're expected to do.
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Its drivers now have handheld Dell computers with touch screens to record orders, price changes and payments.
The ultimate Bolofsky-killer, Stark says, will be the thousands of handheld Symbol Technologies computers the city is giving agents (only a fraction of tickets these days are issued by police officers) to replace old-fashioned citation books.
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