Computing Unplugged Magazine

COMPUTING UNPLUGGED MAGAZINE - FEBRUARY 2006

The future of the Palm platform: rosy or uncertain?
Recently, ACCESS briefed Computing Unplugged on its new strategy to bring the Palm OS to embedded Linux. We also discussed how it intends to transition its traditional Palm OS developer community over to its new ALP, the ACCESS Linux Platform, which is now confirmed to be based on Wind River's Platform For Consumer Devices, Linux Edition. In this article, we take a close look at the details of the ACCESS plan.

The future of the Palm platform: lessons learned from the Sharp Zaurus
From December of 2002 through February of 2003, Computing Unplugged Senior Technical Editor Jason Perlow was Software Developer Liaison for Sharp Electronics' Zaurus. As some of you may recall, the Zaurus was also a Linux PDA, which shared many similarities with the ALP platform, and like ACCESS and PalmSource, the Zaurus was also the product of a Japanese company. The Zaurus had many things going for it, but it failed miserably in the US and European consumer market. In this important article, Jason shares his insights into what went wrong and what ACCESS has to do to get it right.

Should you replace a perfectly good laptop?
According to Wikipedia, "Planned obsolescence is the conscious decision on the part of an agency to produce a consumer product that will become obsolete and/or non-functional in a defined time frame." In theory, planned obsolescence is bad, because the devices we paid a lot for are no longer functional. But, especially in the world of mobile technology, sometimes the devices we use work for a lot longer than might be practical. That's the subject of this article. In it, we ask the tough question: should you replace a perfectly good laptop?

ID theft, data recovery, HDTV, Socom, megapixels, and more. It's letters time!
It's been a while since we've published some of the many letters we get each week from Computing Unplugged readers. So, this week, we've decided to catch up and publish a few.

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