It was what the old nomenclature promised it would be: my Personal Digital Assistant.
But skeptics wonder if these increasingly personal digital experiences come at the expense of face-to-face interactions.
It may be hard to believe, but there is yet another interesting personal digital assistant coming soon.
The old rumors surrounding Apple-branded personal digital assistants and mobile phones have resurfaced, with little new variation.
In 2000 it produced the iPAQ, a personal digital assistant, for Compaq, a firm bought by Hewlett-Packard in 2002.
That's what appears to be happening in the mobile-phone business, as companies combine phones with personal digital assistants (PDA).
Could the iPod be Apple's doorway into the crowded personal digital assistant market?
The microdrive can be used for storage for digital cameras, handheld computers, personal digital assistants and notebook computers, IBM said.
It also means offering broadband Internet service accessible via a personal digital assistant, game console, cell phone or set-top box.
And, unlike today's personal digital assistants, Intel boasts such devices will be able to run PC-class operating systems, such as Windows Vista.
's iPaq Pocket PC, but it has the best and brightest color screen I've yet seen on a personal digital assistant (PDA).
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Handspring, the company behind the Visor personal digital assistant, followed the Cisco model from the start: It has no factories of its own.
When laptops, personal digital assistants (PDAs) and cell phones are close by, attendees at workplace meetings struggle to keep their focus on the speaker.
Manufacturers of personal digital assistants like Palm and Handspring will eventually vie for a piece of that action, perhaps in collaboration with some phone makers.
Also, even if the Siri data is not linked directly to users, people should be careful about what they say to their personal digital assistant.
The researchers have developed ways to control gadgets, such as personal digital assistants (PDAs) and music players, using 3D sound for output and gestures for input.
One fringe benefit: Security guards who open laptops for inspection for every passenger now waive the tiny OQOs right through--since they consider them personal digital assistants.
Originally founded in 1994 as 3DLABS, the company re-branded and joined with the Personal Digital Entertainment group of Creative Technology to form ZiiLABS in January 2009.
UltraViolet enables consumers to create personal digital entertainment collections, with the freedom to access their content both at home and on the go across multiple devices.
So it was with a decided lack of enthusiasm that I greeted a sudden flood of PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants--1990s speak for electronic daybooks) across my transom.
The two companies are pushing for a new class of machines that combine the power of a personal computer and the portability of a personal digital assistant.
This might be relevant for an application for a specific device, such as a personal digital assistant, on which the BBC could not justify spending licence fee money.
So when a phone clerk said the "World Edition" BlackBerry could keep him connected--even in Japan, a notorious dead zone for Western phones and personal digital assistants--Kozarsky was sold.
Currently, the tool can only pull your 3, 200 most recent tweets, but Recollect is well-positioned to be the go-to source for storing our all of our personal digital chronicles.
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Indeed, it may be that the whole idea of a telephone comes to be seen as an anachronism, as personal digital devices take on a bewildering range of new functions.
The device is described as slightly larger than an iPaq-- Hewlett-Packard 's (nyse: HPQ - news - people ) flagship personal digital assistant--and easy to carry around.
Handling data streams in a dozen divergent formats from web pages to Java commands to wireless application protocol (WAP) overwhelms the cheap, simpleminded chips in most cell phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs).
Included: a palmtop computer (touted as the smallest Windows-based PC), a DVD player and a personal digital assistant that is phone, fax, modem, pager and electronic organizer all in one.
The universal communicator is a mobile phone that also has onboard personal digital assistant functions, a video camera, several different wireless technologies and can stream audio and video to other devices.
The personal digital assistants (PDAs) will also allow road policing officers to issue fixed penalty tickets at the roadside and for this information to be sent electronically to the Central Ticket Office.
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