I got a mail this morning from our DPE star down in Brazil Fernando Zandona telling me that he's switched his blog from his native Portuguese to English. Personally, I think having a Portuguese blog was pretty cool but I guess it cuts down your readership...

If you missed the webcast this morning, Bill Gates (Microsoft), Ed Colligan (Palm) and Denny Strigl (Verizon Wireless) announced a partnership to bring a Palm device running Windows Mobile software to the Verizon network. You can watch the webcast...

This seems like it says what it can before Monday ... http://www.microsoft.com/winme/0509/25267/SFO_Teaser.asx

My good friend Mike Hall is wondering what PDC attendees are doing with the i-mate JASJAR they purchased. http://blogs.msdn.com/mikehall/archive/2005/09/15/468020.aspx

The results are in! The panel consisted of : Jim Mann (HP) Jeff Samitt (Lenovo) Mike Booth (Motorola) Bert Keely (MSFT, Tablet Architect) Jeremy Jacobson (MSFT, Windows Mobile Hardware Engineer) Derek DiPerna (MSFT, Cellular Network...

It was my pleasure here at PDC to meet Dave Glover. Dave is one of Developer Evangelists from Down Under (Australia). Dave showed me this cool 5.0 Smartphone app he's written for collecting informal surveys during presentations, meetings etc. Participants...

Any PDC attendees who ordered a Plantronics headset with their promotional device yesterday and were given a voucher when they collected the device, should bring their voucher to the Mobile Planet booth to exchange it for the headset. Good ole FedEx!

I'm hosting a panel this coming Friday (9/16) at PDC about "Future Directions in Mobile Device Hardware". I have a panel of experts from both Microsoft and OEM partners including HP, Motorola and Lenovo. We'll be covering both Tablet PC and Windows Mobile...

It's good to be back in LA for the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC). When I was here 2 years ago for PDC 03 I remember Whidbey (Visual Studio 2005) and an early build of Longhorn (Windows Vista) were the talk of the show. We - the mobile...