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2 unusual facts about Personal digital assistant


Highly accelerated life test

Individual components such as resistors, capacitors, diodes, printed circuit boards and whole electronic products such as cell phones, PDAs and televisions, eventually fail.

Slirp

Slirp is also useful for connecting PDAs and other mobile devices to the Internet: by connecting such a device to a computer running Slirp, via a serial cable or USB, the mobile device can connect to the Internet.


Apple Newton Connection Kit

The Newton Connection Kit (NCK) was a package sold by Apple Inc. in the early 1990s which included the Newton Connection Software, a serial cable and manuals for connectivity between Macintosh personal computers and a Newton personal digital assistant.

Coastline Community College

Coastline offers distance education in a variety of modalities, including telecourses and the use of Pocket PC and personal digital assistants.

Content adaptation

Advances in the capabilities of small, mobile devices such as mobile phones (cell phones) and Personal Digital Assistants has led to an explosion in the number of types of device that can now access the Web.

Enterprise digital assistant

An enterprise digital assistant (EDA) is a handheld computer, born of the personal digital assistant popularity which was adapted for extensive, more robust usage within the SME (Small to Medium Enterprise) and Enterprise business applications as a data capture mobile device.

Etiquette in technology

For example, Paris Hilton's Sidekick PDA was cracked in 2005, resulting in the publication of her private photos, SMS history, address book, etc.

General Council of the Pyrénées-Orientales

The GSE of defibrillators by GPS on Internet and car navigation systems, the mobile phones and the PDA also improves on Référencement and Digital coverage department.

Memory bound function

If a computation takes a few seconds on a new PC, it may take a minute on an old PC, and several minutes on a PDA, which might be a nuisance for users of old PCs, but probably unacceptable for users of PDAs.

OPIE user interface

OPIE (Open Palmtop Integrated Environment) is an open source graphical user interface for PDAs and other devices running Linux.

Page zooming

It is usually found in applications related to document layout and publishing, e.g. word processing and spreadsheet programs, but it can also be found in web browsers as it improves accessibility for people with visual impairment and people using mobile devices, such as PDAs and mobiles which have a relatively small screen.

Push-IMAP

The protocol was designed to provide for a secure way to automatically keep communicating new messages between a server and a mobile device like a PDA or Smartphone.

Web interoperability

Web interoperability means producing web pages viewable in standard compatible web browsers, various operating systems such as Windows, Macintosh and Linux and devices such as PC, PDA and mobile phone based on the latest web standards.


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