I've been over in Dublin today at a customer event on Exchange and Unified Communications. (straight back again this afternoon so not a chance to sample the wonderful Guinness). Sat in the Costa Coffee in Heathrow at silly o'clock this morning I looked...

I've been using ZoomIt for sometime now for customer presentations and events so that you can zoom in to a certain point in a slide or show configuration options on a server console. It's particular useful if you are presenting in long and thin meetings...

As well as our announcement around ZenZui - we also yesterday announced the Deepfish technology from our Live Labs team. This is an incredible new browser technology for Windows Mobile that allows you to browse real PC designed websites from your mobile...

Over the weekend I had to swap my Wife's very broken QTEK8500 (as she'd dropped it repeatedly) for a new one I'd got her. Normally I'd use Jeyo Mobile to copy contacts and all the other information off however this time I decided to try Sprite Backup...

Steve was gloating that he beat me to blogging about this (now if only my BT Broadband was working last night grrr...) but ... ZenZui is a new interface that Microsoft announced yesterday that allows you to zoom between 36 different tiles on a Mobile...

Symbol who historically have been most recognised for their industrial/rugged devices have announced their MC35 Windows Mobile device. It's part of Symbol's journey into the Enterprise grade devices and extends their portfolio from Rugged devices through...

One of the differences between Smartphone/Pocket PC or Standard/Professional devices is the lack of Cut/Paste functionality. Well Scissors Mobile have just updated their popular Scissors application to support Windows Mobile 6. This gives the following...

Palm have just literally announced that they will provide an upgrade to their Treo 750v to Windows Mobile 6! The update will also enable HSDPA too! You can read more details about the upgrade HERE

Even before CTIA really got started HTC was announcing new devices! The HTC Shift is a 'shift' (excuse the pun) from HTC into the Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC) market. Available later this year in the US the Shift is a Vista Ready device that has a 7-inch widescreen...

There is a whole host of rumours circulating the Internet and Blogosphere right now about a potential Google Phone emerging.... So what's going on? I've been following this with interest (like the iPhone from Apple) The rumours go from everything from...

Samsung have just released a ROM Update to their Blackjack device. The update is available here and before you get too excited - it's just an update to the existing Windows Mobile 5.0 OS not an upgrade to Windows Mobile 6. According to their support page...

Web Worker Daily has published an article about the different web-based Mobile Aggregators and their thoughts on each different solution from Google Reader, Bloglines, Newsgator and others... Personally I never ever use an online RSS Reader on my mobile...

At MEDC in May one of the other sessions I've got to present (apart from the security session I've already gathered your great feedback on) is a session around the Top 10 Features for Enterprise customers of Windows Mobile 6. Now I know many of you won...

Last week the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) announced a new release of the Bluetooth standard that will provide enhanced security and also ease the pain/challenge of pairing devices. The demonstrations showed that pairing took 2-3 steps rather...

I blogged a while back about the Anagram solution for creating meeting requests, calendar entries and contact details simply from email. It's very cool! The team responsible for it have just released a test version of Anagram that works with Vista and...

Well about £146... and our Marketing team sent a number of journalists that difference in Beer to welcome Sony to the next generation of gaming! I love this kind of Marketing - made me laugh out loud when I saw the article on C&VG's site

CNET's review team did a prizefight review of the Samsung Blackjack vs the RIM Blackberry 8800... As a spoiler - the Blackjack won! To quote CNET - Ouch. The RIM BlackBerry 8800 almost took out the Samsung BlackJack in the first two rounds, but it really...

According to this article 24 year old Zhang Yi has had 500 Mobile Phones in the past 9 years. I get a lot of mobile devices and I don't think I've had anywhere near that kind of churn of devices! Supposedly (like me) he's still searching for the perfect...

I blogged back in September last year about the Parrot Bluetooth kit that supported A2DP. Well it looks like they are releasing a new version of this that also has a wireless remote for controlling audio tracks for your device if you are streaming music...

This weekend saw the first race of the new Formula 1 season! I almost missed it as March seems to have come round very fast! I used to use www.calendar-updates.com for getting the race dates into my Outlook (and onto my device) however they don't seem...

About 75% of Microsoft employees have a Windows Mobile device. I think we are also the #1 user of Mobile email worldwide now. How do we deploy, manage and use Windows Mobile inside Microsoft... well Justin Emch and John Albertson have a webcast on...

The dates for the Mobile and Embedded Developer Conference (MEDC) for Europe have no been finalised as well as Early Bird Registration being opened up where you can save 200 Euros on the attendee price. (Which means its only 375 euros + vat to register...

Since we announced Windows Mobile 6 at 3GSM the most common question I get from customers and partners is how the product compares to Windows Mobile 5.0 and what the incremental capabilities are. The second most popular question is - what features...

In Windows Mobile 6 we added the ability to encrypt the storage card of a Windows Mobile device as well as wipe it remotely. The encryption can either be enabled by the user or enforced through an Exchange 2007 policy. The encryption of the storage card...

A study by Strategy Analytics benchmarked 4 email clients in terms of configuration for POP3 and found that 100% of users could setup the Windows Mobile device. Overall Ratings: Email Setup (Source: Strategy Analytics) In particular, users praised Pocket...