Monday, April 26, 2004
New Gee-Whiz Apps For Wireless Devices
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "NEWS" @ 12:00 PM
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/yhoo/story.asp?source=blq/yhoo&siteid=yhoo&dist=yhoo&guid=%7BA5F91260%2DC485%2D4538%2DA65C%2D265E9D6F0251%7D
"Mike Smith believes everyone should have the latest weather information in the palm of his hand. Smith is chief executive of WeatherData, a company that develops weather-information systems and products. One of its newest applications is Storm Hawk, a mobile weather-tracking and navigation system that can run on Microsoft PocketPC-based personal digital assistants."
The key in the PDA market is not any one particular application as it was when the PDA came out. "Using a PDA purely as a digital dayplanner has become passé." In the early days, PIM was the killer application for the PDA. Actually, it was virtually the only application. For an ever increasing number of us each year, PIM is secondary to buying the device and wireless applications like Storm Hawk are going to keep the PDA market healthy and growing for years to come.
"Mike Smith believes everyone should have the latest weather information in the palm of his hand. Smith is chief executive of WeatherData, a company that develops weather-information systems and products. One of its newest applications is Storm Hawk, a mobile weather-tracking and navigation system that can run on Microsoft PocketPC-based personal digital assistants."
The key in the PDA market is not any one particular application as it was when the PDA came out. "Using a PDA purely as a digital dayplanner has become passé." In the early days, PIM was the killer application for the PDA. Actually, it was virtually the only application. For an ever increasing number of us each year, PIM is secondary to buying the device and wireless applications like Storm Hawk are going to keep the PDA market healthy and growing for years to come.
