Hp Cool Town

Here is some information on HP's Cool Town. It was a great idea, just a little ahead of its time. The vision was based on PDA's and a WiFi-like connectivity solution. Now, PDA's and cell phones have partially merged and both typically have direct Internet connectivity.

• Keynote Highlights at Comdex 99 Carly Fiorina, November 15, 1999
• HP Computer Museum See History and Vision Videos, Year 2000
• Fiorina speech at the National Govenors Association Feb. 27. 2000
• At Hewlett-Packard, Carly Fiorina Combines Discipline, New-Age Talk: HP Labs Rebound August 22, 2000
• A Web-Based Nomadic Computing System Aug. 24, 2000
• Compusir Club, PC Meeting Nov. 8, 2000
• The Cooltown User Experience Feb. 1, 2001, abstract Feb. 12, 2001
• Digital World – Digital City April 3, 2001
• Tomorrow Never Looked So Cool June 23, 2001
• HP Opens Cooltown Experience Centre in Canada: Enables Canadian Companies to Experience HP's Vision of Mobility June 24, 2001
• Living Could Be Easy in HP's Cool Town August, 2001
• Digital lifestyle on display 29 January, 2002
• Cool town June 23, 2002
• Integrating the Physical World with the Web to Enable Context-Enhanced Services Sept. 8, 2003, abstract Sept. 12, 2003

The URL http://www.cooltown.com/ (leads to the same IP as http://cooltown.hp.com/) goes to a server which is no longer available to the public.