For the first time, PC Expo has been incorporated into Technology Expo New York (TechXNY), and over 100 000 visitors are expected to pass through the doors this week.
This year`s TechXNY has over 500 exhibitors and a flavour heavily oriented towards personal digital assistants (PDAs) and the associated wireless world.
Palm currently has over 50% of the PDA market followed by Compaq`s iPAQ with 21%, and Hewlett-Packard with 6%, followed by the others that are mainly Palm OS-based.
It is evident at the event that although Bluetooth is not as topical as it is in Southern Africa and Europe, wireless communication is key to many new developments currently underway within most organisations.
A completely new set of organisations has been spawned from the PDA industry, focusing on the periphery of the main providers in the PDA market. These new, and often start-up companies, are developing innovative attachments such as printers.
Many of the TechXNY exhibitors are new names within the SA context, but this will change once the South African mobile explosion starts to take off over the coming months.
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