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• CTIA 2006 Wrap-up: Phones, laptops and even some skateboarders
  Tuesday 19 September 2006 – 08:28
  Last week's CTIA Wireless convention at the Los Angeles Convention center drew thousands of attendees and exhibitors. Companies showed off their latest phones, laptops and other electronics in a setting that seemed eerily like the Consumer Electronics Show or the now defunct COMDEX convention. If you couldn't attend CTIA, the following picture gallery and links will help fill you in on the major product news.
• Track people and valuables within 1 inch accuracy - video
  Monday 18 September 2006 – 04:51
  Lost and stolen electronics are a fact of life for many businesses, but UK-based (and aptly named) Covert Asset Tracking Systems Ltd (CATSeye) promises to help recover items with their line of electronic tracking devices. The company makes matchbook-sized transmitters that can be tracked with GPS, GSM phone towers or even radio frequency.
• Throw away your pens, OCR hits mobiles phones - video
  Saturday 16 September 2006 – 04:39
  Optical character recognition, the automatic conversion of typed or written text into digital format, has grown up - or more accurately shrunk down to mobile phones. ABBYY (yes it's spelled that way) has developed an SDK that converts mobile phone pictures into digital text that can then be automatically entered into the phone's address book. Company officials show off the technology in the following video.
• Wilson Cellular shows of cellphone signal booster in a box - video
  Monday 18 September 2006 – 05:49
  At the CTIA Wireless convention in Los Angeles, Wilson Cellular showed us its mobile phone repeater kit that can add up to 3 watts of power to a phone signal. The kits contain amplifiers, antennas and enough battery power to give 12 hours of talk time.
• TG Video: Panasonic's Toughbook 18 dropped, shaken and soaked
  Wednesday 13 September 2006 – 04:28
  Can your laptop take a beating and keep on ticking? Panasonic believes their line of rugged 'Toughbook' notebooks can take almost any type of abuse and company representatives happily demonstrated this fact on video. Watch as a Toughbook CF-18 is dropped multiple times, shaken and soaked in water.