Mobility

Microsoft Corp. this week will host 15 university students from around the world at its Redmond, Wash., headquarters to pick their brains on what the Office productivity suite should look like 10 years from now.

Two new PC chipsets will be the centrepiece of one of Intel Corp.'s most significant product launches of the year this weekend.

Each year, more than US$100 billion dollars go towards document management, according to a recent International Data Corp. (IDC) report. This includes managing, filing, storing and retrieving huge amounts of paper documents.

In response to a lingering market, Sony of Canada Ltd. has announced it will hold off on launching its next generation of PDAs in Canada until the end of the year.

Nvidia Corp., a leading designer of graphics chips, announced Monday that it has widespread support from the major manufacturers of notebooks for its proposed MXM graphics standard for add-on modules that will be using Intel's new PCI Express bus.

Salt Lake City - Montreal-based software vendor Gwava announced at this year's Novell BrainShare user conference that it is porting its e-mail surveillance solution for Novell's GroupWise collaboration platform over to Linux.

If you avoid using text-messaging and mobile e-mail functions on your cell phone because the keypad doesn't lend itself to those tasks, Telus Mobility might have a solution in the offing.

Motion Computing Inc. unveiled the third generation of its slate Tablet PC product at an event in San Francisco last week, complete with a new processor from Intel Corp. and improved display and microphone technologies.