Friday, July 23, 2004
Shocker: Virtual Keyboard NOT Going to be Made!
Posted by Pat Logsdon in "HARDWARE" @ 05:00 PM
Coming as a surprise to virtually no one, iBiz has given up on their virtual keyboard "in its current form". But wait! Not content to let their virtual keyboard escape back into the vapor from whence it came, iBiz has signed an agreement with another company, called, and I am dead serious: Virtual Devices Inc. You may visit their site, but be warned - looking at their homepage wallpaper may lead to blindness or some sort of seizure.
Quality of the website aside, I am greatly comforted by the fact that their latest press release is from May of 2002, and that the PDA in the photo on their front page is a cutting edge Handspring Visor. But why should we trust Virtual Devices? In their own words (emphasis theirs): "VDI has the patent on this technology, giving us a sustainable competitive advantage," and even better: "VDI has a functioning prototype that demonstrates the concept." Somehow, I think there might be some argument over that whole patent thing. :rolleyes:
Quality of the website aside, I am greatly comforted by the fact that their latest press release is from May of 2002, and that the PDA in the photo on their front page is a cutting edge Handspring Visor. But why should we trust Virtual Devices? In their own words (emphasis theirs): "VDI has the patent on this technology, giving us a sustainable competitive advantage," and even better: "VDI has a functioning prototype that demonstrates the concept." Somehow, I think there might be some argument over that whole patent thing. :rolleyes:
