For the sake of my own sanity and reader comprehension I've decided to move to a single blog model. Digtal Dad is my original blog pre-Microsoft and I will contiunue to post only there. Please feel free to visit at www.digitaldad.com . pb

This is quite useful.... http://www.ufomaps.com/index.php?ve=1

Odd to have on a Microsoft blog, but a friend of mine just published his book on Plain Old Java Objects , or POJOs. So in case you're having trouble sleeping . . . :)

The CTIA panel went well (nice compliment from Sprint on our developer program!) and the show a was abuzz with the news of the Windows mobile based Treo. I had the opportunity to have one of these for a short time in my hands and it looks like a real...

I am off to CTIA in San Francisco in a few moments. I'll be on a panel entitled "Trends in mobile productivity beyond email" @ 1pm - be there or be square! Now that we are in the same division as XBox it's a bit ironic to be talking about productivity...

PDC is well underway and it looks like the $149 promotion for PDC attendees was a big success. We only had 1000 of them and they sold at a rate of about 8 per minute! Apologies to all of those who didn't get a chance to buy one at this great price. There...

http://product.samsung.com/cgi-bin/nabc/campaign/i730/b2c_optin_i730.jsp I've used this device a bit - a bit thick, but very pocketable and the EV-DO speeds are blazing. Ideal to use as a modem as well.

The New York Times has a good list here: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/30/national/hurricane-resources.html

I am digging the new PocketMSN implementation on Windows Mobile. Zero-setup, single sign-in for Messenger and offline Hotmail. You can pick it up here . Check out the great TV ad from Spain.

Good stuff . . . http://www.virtualearthinfo.com/video.asp

OK, I've been waiting for this for a while. You can now getting a kickin' good search service on your phone at http://mobile.msn.com and then select Beta Services. Mobile Local Search gives you results on basically anything in the white pages or yellow...

Yours truly and other mobile team members get the Scoble treament on channel9.

I am digging the audio/video capabilities on my Audiovox 5600, although as others have found, the video files seems to be converted down to 160x120 when I sync with my PC. The good news is that there is a fix (perhaps a hack is better term). Here...

OK - here it is.....http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/

I just flew in from the Australia/Malaysia MEDCs yesterday (and, yes, my arms are tired). I was catching up on my work, trying to stay awake in the late afternoon and enjoyed listening to the recent .NET Rocks radio show. Great stuff, and Russ Nemhauser...

Funny one from The Onion : Million Robot March Attended By Exactly 1,000,000 Robots DC - The Million Robot March, an orderly demonstration for increased rights for cyber-mechanical servants, was attended by exactly 1 million robots Sunday. "Statement...

I had a comment/question on here recently about the support for OMA device management standards in Windows Mobile 5.0.   The OMA-DM standard essentially enables a OMA-DM compliant server to remotely set a variety of parameters on a mobile device...

I've been at the Qualcomm BREW conference for a couple of days. Unfortunately, there is no WiFi access at the show so I have been somewhat off the grid (although my Audiovox phone kept the emails coming and going throughout). I have to escape back up...

When I moved up here in April everyone kept telling me how cool and rainy it was, and in fact it has been . . . pretty cool and rainy. That all changed this week when we reached a high of 93 F - criminy! How do I know the high was 93? I use...

Some good info, especially with unlimited data plans - this was found over at Smartphonethoughts.

I'm sure that current owners of Windows Mobile based devices are itching to get a Windows Mobile 5.0 upgrade. Clinton Finch is maintaining a list of devices that have announced upgrade plans. Check it out .

Ahh - I knew there was something else to talk about today other than marshmallows . The Windows Mobile Deviuce Emulator 1.0 Community Preview (why does Micorosft have such long names for everything?) is now available for download here . This is...

I'm a bit tapped for content today, so here's how to make your own marshmallows .

A new, substantial update is here .

Since the PalmSource devcon is underway I thought this might be a relevant item: " StyleTap ™ Platform is fast, compact and comes with everything you need to run most of the thousands of third-party applications written for Palm OS® 5.2 (and earlier...