Jason Langridge's WebLog - MR Mobile!

Well it's that time of year again - 3GSM! This year it's being held in Barcelona as opposed to it's traditional venue in Cannes. Of course there are going to be lots of exciting announcements by Microsoft.... I'll post them as they happen :)

PDA Gold has done a great in-depth review of the AcerN300. This device's most interesting feature is that it supports USB Host mode! I haven't seen a device that supports this since one of my old Toshiba devices! http://www.pdagold.com/articles/detail...

The Microsoft Exchange Server ActiveSync Certificate-Based authentication tool provides several utilities to assist an Exchange administrator in configuring and validating client certificate authentication for Exchange Server ActiveSync. You can download...

I get lots of emails asking for links to good sources of information on Exchange 2003 SP2 and Windows Mobile 5. Here are my favourites: Whitepaper on Mobile Messaging with Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 SP2 and Windows Mobile 5.0 http://www.microsoft...

Today RIM announced details of their workaround if the impending lawsuits go ahead. www.blackberry.com/go/workaround . The workaround moves RIM Devices to a Multi-Mode Edition. From reading their whitepapers. The major change is that when a device...

Today we announced details of how Microsoft is extending it's financial and legal IP protection to Windows Mobile and Windows Embedded. This is great news for device manufacturers. Read more at: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/feb06...

After my recent post about the beta for Sprite Backup 5.0 - today it has been released ! http://www.spritesoftware.com/pocketpc.php Ed over at Pocket PC thoughts has been checking it out: • Reliable backup and restore of Exchange synchronized...

PocketPC thoughts covered some the announcement by Cingular of their 8100 and 8125 devices. These are effectively the HTC Wizard device - one with and one without a camera to meet the needs of corporates who have specific concerns/policy against Cameras...

We've been working with Fiat since 2004 but at the Geneva Motorshow they will see Microsoft equipped Fiat Cars. It's a product called Blue&Me which is the Windows Mobile for Automotive Operating System and provides Fiat drivers to connect their devices...

PDANet for Windows Mobile allows you to use your Treo 700w or PPC 6700 as a modem! http://www.junefabrics.com/pdanet/

After my post about USB - I had a number of people email to ask what the Mini-USB Chargeable Bluetooth GPS receiver was... Well it was the H olux GPSlim 236 Bluetooth GPS Receiver You can buy it online in the US here... http://www.buygpsnow.com...

A Bluetooth headset purchase today sparked a thought... is USB the only industry standard that every manufacturer has adopted. The reason I say that is that I can guarantee that any USB device I get will work and I just plug it in..similarly with Mini...

HP have released details that their Windows Mobile 5.0 upgrade for the HP 4700 device will be available from 1st March! http://h71015.www7.hp.com/generic3.aspx?page=wm2005 It's priced at £26.00 excl VAT and Shipping

If you are going to attend the European MEDC in Nice on June 6-8 this year registration is now open! There is also an 'early-bird' registration offer where you can save 300 Euros on registration! http://www.microsoft.com/europe/medc/registration...

We've just announced an event on 29th March in London. It's called the Mobile Opportunity - you can sign up for it now! https://msevents-eu.microsoft.com/cui/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-GB&eventid=118769020 It's at the Cavendish Conference Centre...

The Windows Mobile team blog have just posted a great article about how to add Root Certificates to devices via a CAB file. It contains a step by step guide to export your cert and then install it on the device using a CAB. Details are at: http...

Prior to Windows Mobile 5.0 you used to be able to disable SSL Checking for Exchange Activesync synchronisation. With Windows Mobile 5.0 this is no longer possible. I get lots of questions about what to do now so here are your options: 1) Obtain...