A number of you have contacted me with regards to what's new in Activesync 4.2 - well here are the key elements: (remember to link to this posting rather than just copy/paste the content) (you know who you are ;) ) Microsoft Outlook Improvements ...

As part of our continued efforts to give customers early access to our technology - we have just made available the Activesync 4.2 Beta Preview. It supports devices from Pocket PC 2002 all the way through to the latest Windows Mobile 5.0 devices ...

If it's going to take a while to get your infrastructure up and running or even migrated to Exchange 2003 - Dave at http://geekswithblogs.net/wallabyfan/archive/2006/04/25/76292.aspx and Gears at CoolSmartphone http://www.coolsmartphone.com/index.php...

Our MEDC team has given me a special deal for customers who want to attend MEDC Europe which is being held June 6th to 8th in Nice. If you are interested in attending and want to get a discounted rate.... drop me an email using the contact/feedback...

As part of our recent Exchange Unplugged tour we video'd a number of sessions around migrating from Exchange 5.5 and also how to deploy Mobility with Exchange 2003 The video's are now available on-demand at the IT's Showtime site http://www.microsoft...

The .NET Compact Framework team have released Beta 1 of their SP1 for .NET Compact Framework v2.0 You can download from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=6548dd53-a418-42d9-a481-19ba3ceca1a6&displaylang=en%20 ...

My colleague Vanitha Prabhakaran has written a fantastic article on Troubleshooting Direct Push to resolve issues if you are having trouble getting it working. http://blogs.technet.com/exchange/archive/2006/04/03/424028.aspx The major issue I've...

Office Communicator Mobile just released to web and is now available for download from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=BC89EC5E-5F3B-47D2-955B-B0C1DEAC94D8 . This is my absolute favorite application right now on Windows Mobile...

http://www.modaco.com/WM5torage-t238545.html This program will export the flash memory card as usual USB Mass Storage device (ordinary "usb disk") - effectively turning smartphone into flash reader. It works with many (not all) Smartphones and PDAs...

They are coming thick and fast! Palm yesterday announced it's upgrade to support Direct Push Email on their Windows Mobile device the Treo 700w. You can download the upgrade from: http://www.palm.com/us/support/downloads/treo700wupdater/verizon...

O2 have released the update to the XDA Exec device which is available now here: http://xda.o2.co.uk/xdaExecSoftware.aspx

I've been collating a list of devices that MSFP available for my presentation at MEDC in May. Below is my current list - let me know if you are aware of others I've missed..... Orange SPV M5000 SPV C600 SPV M600 – in ROM by default! O2 O2 XDA Mini...

Well the HTC Star Trek has appeared first in Asia as the Dopod S300 ! On sale now!

The two Vodafone Windows Mobile devices can now be seen on the Vodafone UK Business Website now! The v1240 is the Windows Mobile Smartphone and the v1640 is Vodafone's variant of the HTC Universal The v1240 can be found here: The v1640 can be...

O2 recently sponsored a report with the Centre for Economic and Business Research (CEBR) to investigate the impact of Mobile Phone's on Business. The report you can read it ... http://www.o2.com/media_files/CEBR4.pdf The report reveals that mobile...

O2 have released the update which allows your XDA Mini S device to get Direct Push email from Exchange Server 2003 Sp2! The update is available for download from here: http://xda.o2.co.uk/xdaMiniSoftware.aspx It includes the following updates...

HTC March Sales Jump 82.65% YoY http://www.htc.com.tw/news/press060410.html Taoyuan, Taiwan, R.O.C. April 10, 2006 - High Tech Computer Corp. (TAIEX: 2498) today announced that total revenues for March 2006 reached NT$ 9,007 million, up 82.65% YoY...

MSMobiles have released some great pictures of the HTC StarTrek device! For all those fashion victims who bought a Motorola RAZR you can now have the same form factor with a great OS like Windows Mobile :) I've been using one of these for the past...

I know my blog is dedicated to Windows Mobile however I was intrigued to see last week that Apple released Bootcamp http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/ to provide the ability for an Intel based Mac to run Windows XP! I've always liked the form of...

Details of Orange's tarriffing for Direct push are now available on their website! http://www.orange.co.uk/business/corporate/office/accessoffice/mme_details.html There are a series of different tarriff's available with fair use policy on each of...

Are you involved in Mobile Application Development or want to know more.. Then get along to our Mobile and Embedded Developer Conference in Europe which takes place June 6-8 in Nice. The event is a content packed 3 days of training focussed on developers...

It looks like O2 have relaunched their website for XDA devices! http://xda.o2.co.uk Details have also appeared of the XDA IQ which is a Windows Mobile 5 Smartphone built on the HTC Tornado platform.

One of my customers needed to add a HOST to the HOSTS entry on their Smartphone to facilitate testing. The big challenge was that on the device they had (Orange C600) the PHM Registry Editor I typically use wouldn't install :( So to resolve this...

TechFaith Wireless have shown a device at CTIA that looks remarkably like the Q. The team over at engadget spotted this there : http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/keepin-it-real-fake-part-xxv-you-gotta-have-techfaith/

Our embedded team has a final few places spare on our FREE Windows Embedded training course that's being run at our offices in Reading UK next week. Details for the course are at: https://ssl.kundenserver.de/ssl.emea-distributor.com/roadshow/london...