Skyscape bundles PDAs with medical references

Skyscape,  which makes medical reference software for PDAs, recently announced a PDA bundle for nurses, as well as specialized content from the Special Operations Forces Medical Handbook.

The package costs $200 and includes a Palm m130 color handheld bundled with Skyscape content. The content includes one of two software offerings - DrugGuide, the handheld version of Davis' Drug Guide for Nurses; or RnNDH, the handheld version of Nursing 2003 Drug Handbook. Other reference software for nurses and nursing students is available from Skyscape, the company says.

Skyscape's emergency medicine reference book software ($65) includes 270 images and 50 tables, and provides content for doctors, nurses and emergency medical technicians for when they are away from a typical working environment, Skyscape says. The software is available for Palm OS and Pocket PC devices.

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Skyscape,  which makes medical reference software for PDAs, recently announced a PDA bundle for nurses, as well as specialized content from the Special Operations Forces Medical Handbook.

The package costs $200 and includes a Palm m130 color handheld bundled with Skyscape content. The content includes one of two software offerings - DrugGuide, the handheld version of Davis' Drug Guide for Nurses; or RnNDH, the handheld version of Nursing 2003 Drug Handbook. Other reference software for nurses and nursing students is available from Skyscape, the company says.

Skyscape's emergency medicine reference book software ($65) includes 270 images and 50 tables, and provides content for doctors, nurses and emergency medical technicians for when they are away from a typical working environment, Skyscape says. The software is available for Palm OS and Pocket PC devices.

NEC launches thin and light Tablet PC

NEC Solutions last week launched its Tablet PC by going thin and light and offering bundled business software. The NEC Versa LitePad starts at $2,400 and is aimed at the healthcare, field sales and professional services markets, the company says.

The LitePad measures 11.7 by 0.6 inches, weighs only 2.2 pounds, and has a 10.4-inch wide-angle display, NEC says. The tablet ships with an Intel Ultra-Low-Voltage Mobile Pentium III processor at 933 MHz. It has 256M bytes of RAM and a 20G-byte hard drive. The tablet also includes integrated 802.11a or 802.11b wireless connectivity, and an Ethernet port for connecting to wired networks.

Bundled software with the tablet includes Adobe Acrobat Reader Version 5.0, Alias/Wavefront's SketchBook Pro, Colligo Networks Personal Edition (peer-to-peer wireless LAN software), Corel's Grafico (annotation and design software), FranklinCovey TabletPlanner, Office XP Service Pack for Tablet PC and Zinio Reader (eBook software).

SMC gets into 802.11g

SMC last week announced new 802.11g (prestandard) wireless equipment. The new line includes a wireless cable/DSL broadband router, a Cardbus adapter (PC Card for notebooks, $80) and wireless PCI Card (for desktops, $90). Shipments will begin next month, SMC says.

The Barricade G 2.4-GHz 54M bit/sec Wireless Cable/DSL Broadband Router ($140) includes a four-port, dual-speed 10/100M bit/sec switch, and Stateful Packet Inspection, a firewall, network management features and VPN passthrough support. Wireless features include the ability to disable SSID broadcasting, Media Access Control address filtering, and support for 64- and 128-bit Wired Equivalent Privacy. Support for 802.1x authentication and Wi-Fi Protected Access will be included in the second quarter, SMC says. The 802.11g equipment is backward-compatible with 802.11b-based products, the company.

Toshiba ups the brightness on new digital projector

Toshiba's Computer Systems Group (www.csd.toshiba.com) last week announced a new portable projector with a brightness of 2,000 lumens, which is at the upper end of brightness for its weight and price. The TDP-D1 weighs 5.3 pounds, delivers an 800:1 contrast ratio and supports XGA (1,024-by-768-pixel) resolution. The projector costs $2,700.