2006 News
Gottabemobile.com's "Make Me Mobile with Motion" Contest Winners
10-30-06
To promote it's new forum functionality, Gottabemobile created a contest to give away a Motion LS800 Tablet PC for the best creative 800-1000 word essay on how adding a LS800 to your life would make you more mobile and enhance your personal and/or professional life.
Read the winning entries from the forum!
Intel's IDF Digital Health Keynote
(
video webcast) - 9-27-06
Scott Eckert, Motion CEO, joins Louis Burns, vice president and general manager of Intel’s Digital Health Group, in discussion of how technology innovation is poised to help the healthcare industry deliver better healthcare at lower cost, ultimately making people’s lives better around the world.
ZDNet Australia
(Renai LeMay) - 9-12-06
Sydney hospital plans unusual wireless network: Sydney Adventist Hospital (SAH), the largest non-profit private hospital in New-South-Wales, will rollout a new wireless network for remote access of medical data utilizing the 802.11a standard to reduce Wi-Fi blackspots. In the first step, slates from Motion Computing will link the hospital’s pharmacists back to their existing medication dispensing system.
The Journal Light Construction (JLConline.com)
(Ron Paulk) - September '06
Using a Tablet Computer in the process of custom home building: The problem was that with so many sheets of paper floating around in my truck, it was hard to find information when I needed it. And I still had to transfer everything to the computer back at my office.
Microsoft - Healthcare Providers
(online audio broadcast) - September '06
Tablet PCs in Healthcare, Today and Tomorrow: Audio broadcast explores how Tablet PCs are used in medical practice and how solutions may evolve in the future.
PC World
(James A. Martin) - 6-15-06
Ultra Mobile PC Update: PC World's James A. Martin recommends Motion's LS800 Tablet PC as an “ultracompact” PC that is “geared toward medical professionals and others who need a highly portable computer.”
CBS Local News, Dallas-Fort Worth
(Tiana Jones) - 6-13-06
CPS Case Workers Go Wireless With Motion Tablets - Texas Child Protective Services is changing the way it operates. Soon every case worker in the state will be equipped with a mobile office.
Government Health IT
(John Moore) - 6-12-06
Physicians go mobile: PDAs have led the way, but smart phones and tablets are gaining ground. References Motion and customer Hackensack University Medical Center’s use of more than 300 tablet PCs. The medical center's CIO describes the hospital’s tablets as "one more way of bringing the patient into the team.
Austin American Statesman
(Dan Zehr) - 4-23-06
WCIT 2006 Preview: Motion Computing is a Gold Sponsor at this year's World Congress on IT in Austin, TX. Senior vice president of marketing, Valerie Walden, talks about Motion's plans for expansion this year: "We're expanding globally, so from that perspective we'll be able to tell people we are in 24 countries....This year, we plan to expand into Hong Kong and Singapore, so we'll look for some alliances in those countries."
Health Data Management
(Beckie Kelly Schuerenberg) - 4-06
Tablet PCs in the Spotlight: The author discusses the use of Motion Tablet PCs at Susquehanna Health System, highlighting the biometric security features, and mentions that Susquehanna officials are moving to LE1600s and LS800s in the near future.
Arnnet.com.au
(Julia Talevski) - 4-10-06
Motion draws up local channel strategy: Mobile computing and wireless communications vendor, Motion Computing, has recruited Brett Gross as its new regional manager as part of plans to establish a local foothold.
TechNewsWorld.com
John P. Mello Jr.) - 3-15-06
A Tablet PC Worth Touting: "...a bit of attitude that isn't found in the PC industry these days outside of Apple. ...the LS800 is a tiny gem worth eyeballing."
Personal Computer World [UK]
(Leo Waldock) - 3-09-06
Motion Computing LS800: This slate-style tablet is a great success. Motion’s LS800 receives high ratings for its innovative features, ease of use and overall value.
Gottabemobile.com
(Rob Bushway) - 3-02-06
Interview with Scott Eckert, Motion CEO: Blogger Rob Bushway talks with Scott Eckert about the upcoming challenges for Motion and the tablet PC space; future of slate tablet PCs; Motion’s vertical market focus and how it lines up with Motion’s products: the LE1600 and LS800.
Houston Chronicle
(Dwight Silverman) - 1-24-06
Review of Motion's LS800: I'd heard raves about the Tablet PCs made by Austin-based Motion Computing, and after seeing one at a conference last year, I was eager to get my hands on one...The goodies that have been packed into a space about the size of a trade paperback book are impressive.
Toronto Star
(Nicholas Keung) - 1-19-06
Motion tablets used to help immigrant patients: I've often thought what a relief it would be, for all concerned, to have an instant talking machine to interpret for Canada's increasingly diverse patient population. Such a device has finally arrived in Toronto.
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