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Club Pocket PC - Boston Meeting: Wednesday, Oct. 18th, 2006

FYI - The next meeting of Club Pocket PC - Boston will be held on Wednesday, October 18th at 6:30 PM at the Microsoft office in Waltham, MA. Presentations include: FIRST LOOK: Windows Mobile Device Center for Windows Vista . If you are wondering about...

Talk About Your Windows Mobile "Wins": Census Bureau Signs $600 Million Contract for Data Collection

Talk about a nice deal! AP is reporting that the U.S. Census Bureau has signed a 5-year, $600 million contract with Harris Corporation for data collection for the 2010 census that includes the deployment of Windows Mobile devices in the field by census...

New Emulator Image for 320x240 Smartphone (with Landscape)

Some of you may or may not already know that the upcoming Motorola Q and Samsung i320 Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphones have a couple of unique properties. First, they provide 320x240 screens. Second, they can function in landscape mode. Both of these capabilities...

WOW - New T-Mobile SDA Smartphone For Only $29.99

I don't normally post on this kind of stuff, but this is just too good to let slide by... Amazon.com has the new T-Mobile USA SDA Smartphone (for those who follow this, the SDA is code-named by HTC as "Tornado") with Windows Mobile 5.0, EDGE, WiFi and...
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Club Pocket PC - Boston Meeting Wednesday, Feb. 15th

While not a developer topic this month, I thought this might be of interest to those Windows Mobile device owners who want to flex their "device multimedia muscles" a bit more... ;-) The next Club Pocket PC - Boston meeting will be held Wednesday, February...
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Musing on the Windows-Powered Treo and the Palm OS...

As I write this, the countdown has long since begun for the press conference announcing the Windows Mobile 5.0–powered Palm Treo 700w device. For some, this day serves as a sort of “VP Day” (“Victory Over Palm”) in the Windows...

ActiveSync 4.0, WiFi Sync and Some Clarification

If you have not heard, Windows Mobile 5.0 (the OS formerly known as “Magneto”) was announced today at MEDC (Mobile Embedded and Developers Conference). Lots of great stuff for end users and developers. If you are looking for information, we’ve...

Microsoft Executive Circle Webcast: Extending Applications to the Edge with the Windows Mobile Platform

I must admit that I was a bit surprised to open my latest Microsoft Windows Mobile News e-mail o­n Friday and discover my next Microsoft Executive Circle Webcast marketed amongst the content. Heck - I hadn't even had a chance to mention it here yet...

Why I Believe The PDA Won't Die

Last week, fellow BostonPocketPC.com’er and friend Steve Hughes posted his thoughts on a c|net article by Molly Wood entitled “Molly to handhelds: just die, already”. Steve and I have had this conversation for about as long as I’ve...

My Executive Circle Webcasts Now Available On Demand

I just checked to confirm that my two Executive Circle webcasts (delivered on November 16th) are listed on the Microsoft "On-Demand" webcasts page . They are - Increasing Competitive Advantage with Windows Mobile Solutions (30 minutes) Effectively Deploying...
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Samsung Mobile Intelligent Terminal Developer Community (and More)

At our Boston-area Cabana event, one of the more common types of questions tended to boil down to programmatically accessing device-specific features. Interacting with WiFi, Bluetooth and cellular radio stacks seems to be quite a popular area of curiosity...
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FINALLY - A Windows Mobile Smartphone 2003 Device Makes It To The US

You know, it is incredibly difficult to espouse the benefits of the .NET Compact Framework to enterprises when they ask "Where are the devices capable of running the .NET CF?" . Thankfully, the first of what will definitely be more, and hopefully many...

"Why No Windows Mobile Upgrade?": A Complex Answer to a Simple Question

Lately, it seems like the most frequently-asked question I receive around Windows Mobile devices revolves around OS updates for the Pocket PC, Phone Edition, and Smartphone. The question always boils down to something like - "Why does Microsoft not make...

Secure Mobile Development and Deployment White Paper at MSDN

There has been a new (and large, at 44 pages) white paper addressing various aspects of secure development and deployment of Windows Mobile applications for the Pocket PC and Smartphone. Issues addressed in the article include - Public Key Infrastructure...

New Mobile Device Developer Web Site - Mobidogs.com

There is a new resource for Mobile device developers on the Internet today - Mobidogs . The press release announcing the web site launch pretty much sums it up well - Developers working on Windows Mobile, Embedded, or location-based solutions have a new...