Article: Industry Leaders Unite for Mobile PC Standards; Mobile Advisory Council Attracts Leading Mobile Computing Vendors to Jointly Address Mobile Specifications.

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 23, 1998--Leaders in the mobile industry today announced the formation of the Mobile Advisory Council, an open consortium of mobile computing and peripherals vendors that functions as an advocate for mobile design requirements to existing standards bodies.

The rapidly growing demand for notebook PCs requires vendors to build, and enterprise IT groups to support, more mobile products than ever before. However, portable PCs bring a unique set of technical and design challenges that are not always met by industry standards, which historically have been authored to target desktop PC design. The Mobile Advisory Council (MAC), ...

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