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May 2007 - Posts

Over at the Two Inch View - Jason Dunn has written a great article about Windows Mobile Personalisation and how you can make your device - yours! There are some good tips here on how to personalise your device from ringtone to today screens. You can read Read More...
My colleague Dan forwarded me this which is a great video we've created to showcase Mobile Solutions in UK Public Sector. http://www.egovtv.tv/content.asp?programmedetail=1326 The video contains contributions from: Jacky Scobell Kent County Council Gary Read More...
This article caught my eye as it's not about the Vertu range (which it seems few people realise are owned by Nokia) but actually about the problem of execs wanting a 'Blackberry' I liked the breakdown of costs which call out all the necessary components Read More...
I uploaded one my presentations from our Mobile and Embedded Developer Conference 2007 (MEDC) last week and the feedback was very positive about sharing the content. I've also uploaded my How to Deploy Windows Mobile to 40,000 users presentation for you. Read More...
The HP Ipaq 514 Messenger is now available for pre-order and you can get your hands on this Windows Mobile 6 device for just short of 190 UK Pounds! Check it out HERE Read More...
If you are a fan of the HTC Hermes device then this could be your next device.... The HTC Kaiser! I was playing with one of these the other day and the screen tilting is really quite innovative in terms of allowing you to use the keyboard and read the Read More...
From May 29th, Symantec Corp. will broaden its mobile security product line by shipping new products designed for Windows Mobile devices. There are two versions called Norton Mobile Security for Smartphones and Symantec Mobile Security 5.0. The new Windows Read More...
There is good article comparing the Nokia E70 vs HTC S710 over at allofsymbian.com The E70 has been around for a little while now but there isn't really another QWERTY keyboarded 'candy bar' device in the Nokia portfolio so it's an interesting comparison Read More...
The HTC Vox (S710) which has been available on Orange as the E650 is now available on Vodafone as the v1415 device! You can get much more details HERE Read More...
There was a fascinating article on the Register yesterday about BT and Sony turning the PSP into a 'an advanced communications tool' Let's just hope that they make a headset or add bluetooth... why is this guy smiling? (or is he grimacing trying to hold Read More...
At our Mobile and Embedded Developer Conference I presented a session on the Top 10 Security Concerns that I typically see for customers looking to deploy Windows Mobile. Rather than just highlighting these I also shared some solutions and approaches Read More...
Whilst T-Mobile has been offering the upgrade to the very popular Dash. They are now the first US operator to provide an out of the box Windows Mobile 6 device! Launching in T-Mobile retail stores tomorrow and available online now, the Wing is 30% smaller Read More...
Woo-Hoo! If you have an Asus device they are providing free upgrades to Windows Mobile 6 Classic and Professional for the ASUS A639/A626/A686/A696 and ASUS P535/P735: Asus have also announced the new M530w device . The device is a Windows Mobile 6 standard Read More...
After my moaning about the Samsung i600 not having a Windows Mobile 6 ..... M SMobiles.com and Smartphone-Web are citing articles that claim there will be an upgrade made available! This article comes from Samsung Germany so I'm hoping it is true as I Read More...
Although this isn't mobile... OneNote is one of my favorite applications for my PC and my Windows Mobile device! If you are using OneNote 2007 I've found this great utility. OneNote Calendar gives you a calendar view of all of your notes, allowing you Read More...
I'm just in the process of writing an internal report as part of our Web 2.0 strategy for our Mobile division about the impact of my blog. I started the blog over 18 months ago and I'm trying to measure the impact of my blog. Now the normal metrics such Read More...
Our Partners TBS, Basilica and HP are hosting two Mobility Briefings at our Offices in Reading on the 30th May and 26th June 2007. The events have always been very well received by customers as it combines industry expertise along with our partners and Read More...
I often get asked by customers who have Lotus Notes 'How can I use Windows Mobile devices' Well for some time now Commontime have been providing their mSuite solution that provides Lotus Notes customers the opportunity to utilise Windows Mobile devices. Read More...
Today is the UK Workwise National Work from Home Day today... http://www.workwiseuk.org/events/index.html Are you working from home today? It's ironic that despite being Mr Mobile - I'm not... I'm actually enroute to North Wales (Colwyn Bay) to see one Read More...
Samsung yesterday announced that they have developed an 8GB MicroSD card! The dissapointing news is that it won't be available till mid 2008 though :( It never ceases to amaze me how these cards and getting smaller and smaller and capacity getting bigger Read More...
Yesterday Motorola officially announced the Q9 and Q8 devices. The Motorola Q9 has been seen out in the wild quite frequently however the Q8 is a suprise for most! THe Q9 is a HSDPA Windows Mobile 6 device supporting HSDPA speed up to 3.6Mbps. The Q8 Read More...
Our Microsoft Research team has released details of a new navigation method for Pen or Stylus based devices using Finger navigation. The method if called 'Shift' and you can get more details of it HERE There is a Video which takes you through this as Read More...
With the release of the T-Mobile Dash Upgrade and the Orange SPV E650 and HTC S710 as well as the E-Ten upgrades a number of you should now be experiencing Windows Mobile 6. I've been running it since very early betas as 'Crossbow' so I've become very Read More...
Not sure how I missed this one (probably because it happened during MEDC craziness) however we have released Windows Mobile 6 localised emulator images that you can use for both Visual Studio and Standalone. You can download all the images from HERE Read More...
Our Windows Mobile team has just created an on-line tool to provide you help in building a business case around deploying Windows Mobile for all types of applications. It's called the Windows Mobile Business Value Calculator. It gives you immediate visibility Read More...
It looks like Washington is the first US state to outlaw texting whilst driving ... it makes sense to me as for many the temptation of doing this is too great! I think it's much more dangerous than talking whilst driving as you have to concentrate to Read More...
E-Ten have released upgrades for their Glofish X500 and M700 devices. If you have one of these devices head over to HERE where you can download the update to your device! Let me know what you think of Windows Mobile 6! Read More...
Whilst browsing the Expansys site I noticed this great offer on the Palm Treo 750! If you buy a Palm Treo you will get a Free TomTom Navigator 6 GPS Car Kit with UK Maps, in-car Cradle, Car Charger and GPS receiver! The kit is a mail-in rebate but looks Read More...
Next week the UK Work Wise Summit takes place in London at the QE II Conference Centre . The Summit will review the progress of Work Wise UK during its first year, and set out the objectives for the second year of the five-year initiative Discussion will Read More...
If you are using the HTC TyTn/Hermes or HTC Meteor/Breeze devices as a data modem then HTC have just released drivers for Vista. You can get the drivers from the two locations below: Hermes/TyTn Breeze Read More...
Psion Teklogix has introduced its new Workabout Pro line of rugged industrial handheld computers. They devices are available now! The new devices are available with either Windows CE 5.0 or Windows Mobile 6 Classic or Professional. The new Workabouts Read More...
Last week was the kickoff of the Worldwide roadshow which is the Mobile and Embedded Developer Conference (MEDC) 2007. As you may be aware MEDC 2007 Europe will be held in Berlin, Germany this year on 25th/26th June. MEDC 2007 Europe is THE place to provide Read More...
It looks like the Ofone video from MEDC made it to YouTube... Before anyone gets too excited or concerned... this is a joke video...... Read More...
Last week we launched our Moof.mobi blog ... moof is a term which we are using to promote next generation and flexible working... it stands for Mobile Out Of Facility which is a play on the traditional OOF. Out Of Facility is actually a very old term Read More...
Although my blog is dedicated primarily to Enterprise Mobility obviously I don't want to exclude our Small Business customers as many have very mobile employees and workforces. Within Microsoft we've just released a number of brochures available online Read More...
At MEDC 2007 Rob Tiffany and crew were showcasing Enterprise Mobility in Action by building a test environment showing 720 concurrent SQL subscribers on their twelve 2-way servers! The guys had built a 42U Rack full of servers to run scalability tests Read More...
O2 last week announced the XDA Trion and the XDA Argon devices. The Trion is effectively the HTC Hermes device but dissapointingly comes with Windows Mobile 5.0 still :( The Argon device is interesting only because it's actually more like the original Read More...
Well last week flew by and I didn't get much chance to update my blog as I was locked in sessions at our Mobile and Embedded Developer Conference in Las Vegas During that week it looks like everyone went HTC Vox crazy! ZDNet published a review of the Read More...
I love the SportsDo application as when I'm snowboarding it allows me to track my whole day boarding and upload it to their portal and then see where I boarded on the mountain using Virtual Earth. It also helps resolve those apres-ski discussions about Read More...
The T-Mobile Dash Windows Mobile 6 upgrade is now available for free at www.t-mobile.com/wmupgrade This is great news for US T-Mobile users as the upgrade to Windows Mobile 6 will provide HTML mail and great Exchange functionality, such as access to SharePoint Read More...
Yesterday my colleague James McCarthy appeared on BBC News 24 (not Crimewatch much to my suprise) talking about the People Moving Business Awards that we are sponsoring. The People Moving Business Awards are championing best practices in flexible and Read More...
MEDC Day One was fun today! The Keynote this morning by Robbie Bach was absolutely packed (as you can probably see from the picture above!) During the Keynote Derek Snyder did some very cool demos showing some of the work we are doing in the next release Read More...
It looks like the SlingCommunity have come up with a workaround to get the Slingplayer Mobile client working with Windows Mobile 6. Not sure if it is supported by SlingMedia (I'm checking with them) but it seems to work... You can get more details HER Read More...
 
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