AOL last week published an article on a survey they recently concluded looking at how Americans are using Portable Devices to check email from virtually anywhere.... in the Bathroom, While Driving and Even in Church! From the somewhat scary results it...

Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 is available for download now and introduces several new features for mobile developers. New Features for Mobile Developers Unit testing is now available to mobile developers Developers have told us that testing mobile applications...

Samsung have delighted their Netherlands and Russian customers by releasing the i600 upgrade to Windows Mobile 6! You can download the upgrade from HERE

Like the HTC Panda/XDA Argon, the HP Ipaq 514 is getting some tough press due to it's unimaginative specification and it's bland nature. The reality is that both devices aren't targeting the early adopter/techies but more the majority of business users...

Sprite Software just released their Beta 2 of their Backup solution for Windows Mobile devices. What’s new in Version 6? Support for backup to FTP servers for additional off-device data protection Support for WM 6 storage card encryption – recover after...

Ludovic posted a comment on my blog after the T-Mobile article I published highlighting that T-Mobile Germany had launched the HTC Touch. It seems Orange France have also now launched the device as the Orange P4350 You can get more details (translated...

If you haven't already signed up to the Windows Mobile Owners Circle then you should definitely take a look today! It's free to join and you get immediate access to an extensive (and ever-growing, ever-changing) selection of benefits including free ringtones...

T-Mobile Germany have just made the HTC Touch Available on their website to purchase! This device is proving very popular due to its minute size and touch screen interface. T-Mobile (like HTC) are also including a 1GB MicroSD card. You can get more details...

This is what I love about the Blogosphere! I wrote a blog article about how cool it is that people are uploading their profile pictures on Facebook meaning that you can then use them in your Outlook Contacts. Well - literally the same day Ross Dargan...

Today is the 15th Birthday of the Short Message Service Centre (SMSC) the principle component behind the application of SMS Texting. The first SMS Centre was conceived in 1992 and could cope with 10 messages per second, the latest solutions can cope with...

On Silicon.com in the past week there was an interesting article about the impact of Blackberry and PDA devices on Work/Life Balance. All of silicon.com's 12-strong CIO Jury IT user panel agreed BlackBerrys and smart phones have improved their productivity...

Tech-Ed IT Forum EMEA takes place this year in November and the Tech-Ed team have just published details of a Super Early Bird discount if you register for the event before 31st July! Save €300 and qualify for exclusive value adds by registering before...

The Sprint Mogul - is a slim QWERTY slider with a 416Mhz processor, 256Mb ROM/64MB RAM, CDMA EVDO (upgradeable to Rev A), and comes with Windows Mobile 6, .NET Compact Framework 2.0 and SQL Server Compact Edition preloaded in ROM. Our Microsoft Sprint...

SOTI Pocket Controller Professional is a great tool for controlling Pocket PC and Smartphone devices as well as using it to present/demonstrate mobile devices. I tend to use it a lot for the latter reason mainly due to it's great skin support so it shows...

If you use Del.icio.us then this plugin could be useful as it allows you to post directly to Del.icio.us from Internet Explorer Mobile. You can read more HERE

I really want one of these devices as I loved the i600 and having had a chance to play with one of these a couple of weeks ago I want one even more.... The Samsung i620 is a tiny Windows Mobile 6 device with a very neat QWERTY keyboard that slides out...

Over the weekend I was playing with one of the i-mate Momento picture frames. I-mate is known primarily for their Windows Mobile devices but this picture frame is a very cool piece of consumer electronics. The picture frame does not use Windows Mobile...

The UK Microsoft Messaging and Mobility User Group Meeting for August is taking place at Microsoft's new London offices in Victoria! On the Agenda is Richard Jones talking about Line of Business applications on Windows Mobile as well as a session about...

Last week was our World Wide Partner Conference in Denver. Steve blogged a whole set of links to the demos that were shown there including the Windows Mobile demos delivered by my colleague Dave Karle (Great Demos - Bad Shirt!)

We just released Windows Live Mobile Search v2 at http://wls.live.com v1 provided the ability to find locations and view standard and also aerial map views on your device. It also had the ability to search for addresses, restaurants, cinemas and many...

The latest edition of Technet Online has a great article on Windows Mobile 6 Security. You can check it out HERE

I've been using Facebook for a while now and I've just noticed an interesting by-product of using Facebook that can benefit Windows Mobile 6 users. That is that it's a really easy way of collecting pictures for your contacts in your phone! I simply save...

The E-Ten X500+ device is the first Windows Mobile 6 Professional device to have 640x480 and also have GPS! Check out the review over at Trusted Reviews!

I've blogged on this topic before but Mark Deakin has just blogged on the subject of communications etiquette . The basis of his blog was a guide that The Finishing Academy and Microsoft have produced to outline business communications in today’s technologically...

There have been quite a few iPhone Lookalikes being sold on Ebay and rumoured by various device manufacturers. Engadget is carrying some spy shots of the Nokia N800 Internet Tablet.... Now is just me or does this distinctly look like the HTC Hermes...