Reading an article like this in Wired Magazine in the Cult of Macintosh column by Leander Kahney. Here's an excerpt: Gates is the cutthroat capitalist. A genius maybe, but one more interested in maximizing profits than perfecting technology. He's the...

I'm a little late with this news but this is very cool. Finally we get to see all these different technologies put into good use and into a product. The hardest part about Research Technology is trying to commercialize it. I think this team did a good...

Finally, a grueling 10 hours and 3 sessions back to back completed. I'm relieved. I'll never do 3 sessions in a day again :P really stressful. Here are some pictures from the event, Panoramic shot of the keynote: Keynote Attendees: Mel and Derek co-Presenting...

This is Intel's vision of what their new notebook would look like, codenamed "Metro". It seems that this notebook is no thicker than the Motorola's Razr. Check it out. Read the full article on Business Week here : http://www.businessweek.com...

We just arrived in Taipei, Taiwan for MEDC 2007 day after tomorrow. This time round we're staying at the Hyatt which is much closer to the convention center and right next to the Taipei 101 building. Time to do some work, I have three sessions to deliver...

If you have any doubt as to the power of waterspouts, checkout this really nice video done by someone in Singapore. Look at how the powerful winds (est. 150mph) turn the big boat around. If you were standing on the deck of that boat, you would have been...

Unbelievable. We just witness a very rare occurrence of a tornado just off the southern coast of Singapore. It ripped right through some vessels and tankers off the harbor. Here are some pics we took from Microsoft Singapore's office of this Waterspout...

Just got word that PDC 2007 will be rescheduled. BOO HOOO. I was really looking forward to attending this year's PDC since we didn't have one last year. The reason for rescheduling it is because PDC, as most of you would know, is focused on FUTURE technologies...

Ronald Armas , Leandro and Jose from Q4Tech began their Mobility Touchdown workshop today in Lima, Peru as part of their three country Mobility Touchdown Tour in Latin America (LATAM). Next stop, Bogota, Colombia.

Thanks to James Pratt, here's a list of case studies that might be pertinent to developers on the successful use of Windows Mobile for Line of Business (LOB) use. Amway Deployed mobile LOB application, productivity and error reduction. http://www.microsoft...

Since Microsoft PopFly was announced at MakerFaire recently, there has been a ton of posts and interest in PopFly. Even Chris Pirillo is all over it , which is pretty rare I must say. Head over to John Montgomery's blog to read the history behind how...

This week we're running another 3 day workshop for those customers and partners that we couldn't reach the last time round. Andre Ngo will be the trainer and the workshop will be in the Microsoft Singapore's Innovation Center. Just got into Singapore...

We're in Day 2 of the Mobility Touchdown workshop in Sydney Australia. It's a very beautiful day today as you can see from the scene outside the window. Maybe one day we should have a workshop el fresco. James McCutcheon is our trainer this time round...

Was asked this question recently and found a great tweaking guide for Windows Mobile phones. All you have to do to Change Start Menu to List View Instead of Large Icon View: Navigate to \HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Shell\StartMenu 2a: Change...

We just wrapped up MEDC 2007 in Sydney Australia today. What a great event. Personally I think this year was much better and we had a better set of attendees who thought that we had better content this time round. Thanks to every one who took their time...

Someone needs to get this right. The OFONE gag video was first shown at the Mobile and Embedded Conference (MEDC2007) in Las Vegas. Most of you readers know this but many on youtube and readers of Businessweek will not. Derek Snyder , who was the creator...

We have 3 more Mobility Touchdown workshops that we've been doing the past few months and they're in: Date / Time City / State May 30 - June 1, 2007 9:00am - 6:00pm Washington DC, D.C. May 31 - June 1, 2007 9:00am - 6:00pm Irving, Texas June 18 - 20,...

Reed Robison, Architect and Window Mobile tech extraordinaire and Steve Hegenderfer, Hulk Hogan impersonator, are two colleagues in the Windows Mobile division who's been trying to start up their blog for a while now and finally got the time to put one...

Paul Mooney carried a laptop and video camera and recorded as many sessions as he could at MEDC Las Vegas last week. I applaud his tenacity and passion for doing this and we are very thankful to him. Checkout his videos on his blog : http://dotnetjunkies...

Have to keep on trudging along..

During our work on Signpost 2007 for MEDC , Daniel Wagner, the developer, has encountered numerous compatibility issues when using DirectShow to enable the camera to stream live video modes. He's created a chart with over 18 devices that we've tested...

Check it out! Someone is not gonna have a good day today.. but for the rest of you, enjoy :) Please bear in mind, this is a SPOOF .

Heard from the grapevine that the O2 XDA Flame will be launched in about a week or two. here's a summary of the features: The first dual processor PDA-phone, the XDA Flame incorporates the powerful NVIDIA(R) GoForce(R) GPU for unrivalled screen graphics...

Q4Tech and Ronald Armas (Architect Evangelist) in Latin America kicked off the first in the series of 3 mobility touchdown workshops to be held in Argentina, Peru and Colombia. Head on over to the Mobility Touchdown blog for questions and answers...

Thanks Rob for sending this list over. here are some new books that you can already order that covers Windows Mobile development, .NET Compact Framework 2.0 and SQL Server Compact Edition. Cool Stuff! Professional Microsoft Smartphone Programming – Covers...