Editor's Corner

Wave goodbye to the PDA
There's a great industry perspective piece over at Computerworld on why the Personal Digital Assistant (PDA, or aka Palm Pilot) will fall to being a niche mobile device as smart phones take charge in the enterprise. It's an amazing trend outlook, especially for anyone who was around in 1993 when Apples' Newton launched into orbit as the first PDA. The device let users manage tasks, appointments and contacts. Today's versions include great features such as email, phone calls and Web browsing. Then came the ubiquitous PalmPilot, and of course the BlackBerry, way back in 1999, which gave workers a virtual office environment to work from. But now it seems, due to price and the impact of cellular service providers, the future will be the smart phone. Find out why, and how this trend will hit home in your enterprise just as hard as the PDA revolution did. -Judy

Also: As you may have noticed, the IT-Wireless website now features a comment link for each article. To promote this new feature and increase reader participation we are holding a cell phone giveaway contest every week in November called Let Your Voice Be Heard. This week, one lucky participant will receive a Sony Ericsson W810i in a random drawing--and all you have to do is post a relevant comment on any of the stories on the site!