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February 2006 - Posts

NetMotion Wireless announce support for Windows Mobile 5.0

Netmotion wireless provide some innovative solutions for VPN from mobile devices. Their product Mobility XE allows organisations to provide seamless VPN access from mobile devices. Now it's available for Windows Mobile 5.0! Check out more details at: Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 28, 2006 12:01 PM by jasonlan | 0 Comments

FUD Part 2 - 3DES vs SSL

Nothing like the smell of FUD in the morning :) After my post about the Fear Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD) being spread by some competitors around incoming firewall ports - there is some new FUD to deal with. This is that some organisations are claiming Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 28, 2006 10:58 AM by jasonlan | 6 Comments

Orange announce the M600

Following on from the success of the Orange M500 (HTC Magician) - Orange have announced the Orange M600 which is their variant of the HTC Prophet device. I somehow missed this announcement but one of my colleagues pointed to it at CoolSmartphone. http://www.coolsmartphone.com/news2163.html Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 28, 2006 10:42 AM by jasonlan | 0 Comments

Do you have an SMS related injury?

A really interesting article has appeared citing the a Survey estimated that T9 Predicitive texting is causing up to 3.8 million UK citizens to be suffering from repetitive stress injury! The survey was done by Virgin Mobile and showed that in the UK Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 23, 2006 7:51 PM by jasonlan | 3 Comments

WindowsMobile.com gets completely overhauled!

If you haven't been to WindowsMobile.com ( www.windowsmobile.com ) lately you are missing out on the huge update that's taken place on the site! Check it out.... Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 22, 2006 11:25 PM by jasonlan | 4 Comments

T-Mobile USA now have the SDA and MDA Available!

T-Mobile USA has released the SDA and MDA devices! Both are Windows Mobile 5.0 devices! Check out more details at: http://www.t-mobile.com/products/default.asp?class=pda Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 22, 2006 10:13 PM by jasonlan | 4 Comments

You don't have to use ISA.....

I've had a number of questions regarding my previous post and questioning whether ISA is a requirement for our Push Email solution. Let me clarify - it is NOT.... However.... there are some benefits of using ISA in that: 1) It'll pre-authenticate any Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 22, 2006 9:56 PM by jasonlan | 0 Comments

Open Firewall ports - FUD - Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt

There seems to be some FUD (Fear Uncertainty and Doubt) being circulated by some of our competitors in the Mobile Email space. The FUD is really in two areas: 1) We require lots of firewall ports open 2) This is 'insecure' Both the areas are actually Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 21, 2006 11:44 AM by jasonlan | 10 Comments

Free Configuring Mobile E-Mail with Exchange 2003 sp2, Windows Mobile 5 & Messaging and Security Feature Pack Workshop

For Microsoft Partners we have the following FREE course which will give you the in-depth knowledge to setup, configure and support the Microsoft Direct Push Email solution! Courses are at Wokingham, Edinburgh, Wakefield and London run by our training Read More...
Posted Monday, February 20, 2006 1:01 PM by jasonlan | 4 Comments

Direct Push & Exchange Activesync & SecureID - Two factor Authentication!

Previously many customers had avoided using SecureID with Exchange Activeync because entering the credentials each push/sync would impact the users experience negatively. This has however recently become a much more viable alternative. SecureID will now Read More...
Posted Friday, February 17, 2006 12:51 PM by jasonlan | 0 Comments

Windows Mobile 5.0 Developer Resource Kit

I've been presenting at a few events over the past week and found a lot of customers who have been looking to get access to the Developer Kit for Windows Mobile so as a reminder I thought I'd post it on my blog. http://msdn.microsoft.com/mobility/windowsmobile/howto/resourcekit/default.aspx#order Read More...
Posted Friday, February 17, 2006 8:46 AM by jasonlan | 4 Comments

i-mate SmartFlip

It's amazing how many people have a Motorola RAZR... normally when asked why - they respond it's 'cool'... For those of you wanting as 'cool' a phone and something that's as small but still with the power of Windows Mobile - let me introduce your new Read More...
Posted Friday, February 17, 2006 8:43 AM by jasonlan | 1 Comments

Great comparison of Q, SGH-i320, HP Mobile Messenger and Treo over at Unwired.net

The unwired.net has assembled the the latest Windows Mobile QWERTY devices (except Wizard) and compared them side by side. I can't wait to get my hands on the i320!!! :) http://www.theunwired.net/?itemid=2907 Read More...
Posted Friday, February 17, 2006 8:33 AM by jasonlan | 0 Comments

SPB release SPB Backup

Spb Software House Releases Spb Backup - the Ultimate Tool for Saving Your Data Spb Backup creates a self-restoring image file that can be restored with or without installing the main Spb Backup application. The backup file can be compressed and password Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 16, 2006 5:31 AM by jasonlan | 2 Comments

Mobile Solution Helps Credit Hire Car Service Eliminate 120,000 Paper Forms a Month

I always love new Customer stories as they really show the power and breadth of Windows Mobile! This new customer case study is for Drive Assist that demonstrates the integration of Windows Mobile, our partners job scheduling solution (TBS) and ALK's Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 15, 2006 3:42 AM by jasonlan | 0 Comments

The most expensive wifi ever??

I was presenting at an event up in Leeds this week and I was demo'ing our MSFP solution live. I needed access to our test Exchange 2003 server for the demonstration however and the Hotel the event was in did not have a free Wifi or fixed line Internet Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 15, 2006 3:39 AM by jasonlan | 2 Comments

Where did 240 come from?

240x240, 320x240, 640x480, QVGA, VGA - confused? Well one of my colleagues Mike Calligaro has written an excellent article on where all these different screen sizes came from and why... Check it out at: http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2006/02/14/531972.asp Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 15, 2006 3:37 AM by jasonlan | 0 Comments

Exchange Activesync Reporting

One of the big requests we've had from large deployments of Exchange Activesync is the ability to generate reporting either based on usage or device type. Our Exchange team has released two scripts to provide this capability by parsing the IIS logs. The Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 15, 2006 2:49 AM by jasonlan | 1 Comments

Samsung announce SGH i320

Samsung have released details of the SGH-i320 - it's a Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone Edition, it offers tri-band GSM with EDGE support in a form factor a mere 11.5 mm thick, also incorporating a 2.2-inch, 262K colour screen with QVGA resolution and a Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 14, 2006 7:35 PM by jasonlan | 0 Comments

i-mate Smartflip

Steve Ballmer today showed the i-mate Smartflip at 3GSM - check out how thin/small this device is!! Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 14, 2006 7:32 PM by jasonlan | 0 Comments

Push Email - Email for Everyone - operators and OEMs announce their plans at 3GSM

Well the momentum around Windows Direct Push Email has started at 3GSM. I know it's been frustrating for customers waiting for OEMs and Operators to announce dates for availability but 3GSM has seen a large number of partners announce their commitments Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 14, 2006 7:19 PM by jasonlan | 14 Comments

LCS Mobile Client announced at 3GSM!

Today at 3GSM Steve Ballmer announced the upcoming availability of the Live Communication Server Mobile Client. This allows access to secure enterprise instant messaging. This is my killer application on my device! I've been running it for some time now Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 14, 2006 7:09 PM by jasonlan | 0 Comments

Virtual Earth not working today?

If you haven't already done so you will need to update your Virtual Earth application as the service that the application accesses has moved: http://blogs.msdn.com/virtualearth/archive/2006/01/19/515162.aspx You can download Virtual Earth from here: http://www.viavirtualearth.com/vve/Gallery/VEMobile.ash Read More...
Posted Sunday, February 12, 2006 9:20 AM by jasonlan | 1 Comments

Ultimate Flight!

Last year, Steve Fossett made the first solo non-stop flight around the world. This year, he tries to go one better by attempting the longest flight ever made - targetting 26,000 miles, 3000 miles more than last year. The plane carries 18,000 lbs of fuel Read More...
Posted Sunday, February 12, 2006 7:15 AM by jasonlan | 2 Comments

Going Ski-ing/Boarding....Skido

OK so my blog is about Enterprise but work/life balance is good :) I took some time off last week after visiting our Redmond HQ to go Snowboarding in Whistler. During that time I did take along a great application written by one of our UK partners called Read More...
Posted Saturday, February 11, 2006 9:09 AM by jasonlan | 0 Comments

3GSM next week!

Well it's that time of year again - 3GSM! This year it's being held in Barcelona as opposed to it's traditional venue in Cannes. Of course there are going to be lots of exciting announcements by Microsoft.... I'll post them as they happen :) Read More...
Posted Saturday, February 11, 2006 9:06 AM by jasonlan | 0 Comments

PDAGold reviews Acer N300

PDA Gold has done a great in-depth review of the AcerN300. This device's most interesting feature is that it supports USB Host mode! I haven't seen a device that supports this since one of my old Toshiba devices! http://www.pdagold.com/articles/detail.asp?a=26 Read More...
Posted Friday, February 10, 2006 12:58 PM by jasonlan | 1 Comments

Microsoft Exchange Server ActiveSync Certificate-Based Authentication Tool released

The Microsoft Exchange Server ActiveSync Certificate-Based authentication tool provides several utilities to assist an Exchange administrator in configuring and validating client certificate authentication for Exchange Server ActiveSync. You can download Read More...
Posted Friday, February 10, 2006 12:55 AM by jasonlan | 0 Comments

Information about Exchange 2003 SP2 and Windows Mobile 5.0

I get lots of emails asking for links to good sources of information on Exchange 2003 SP2 and Windows Mobile 5. Here are my favourites: Whitepaper on Mobile Messaging with Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 SP2 and Windows Mobile 5.0 http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/evaluation/features/mobility/e2k3sp2.mspx Read More...
Posted Friday, February 10, 2006 12:52 AM by jasonlan | 0 Comments

RIM announce details of their workaround....

Today RIM announced details of their workaround if the impending lawsuits go ahead. www.blackberry.com/go/workaround . The workaround moves RIM Devices to a Multi-Mode Edition. From reading their whitepapers. The major change is that when a device goes Read More...
Posted Friday, February 10, 2006 12:49 AM by jasonlan | 0 Comments

Microsoft Strengthens Global IP Protection for Device-Makers

Today we announced details of how Microsoft is extending it's financial and legal IP protection to Windows Mobile and Windows Embedded. This is great news for device manufacturers. Read more at: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/feb06/02-09IPDeviceMakersPR.msp Read More...
Posted Friday, February 10, 2006 12:38 AM by jasonlan | 0 Comments

Sprite Backup 5.0 released for Windows Mobile 5.0!

After my recent post about the beta for Sprite Backup 5.0 - today it has been released ! http://www.spritesoftware.com/pocketpc.php Ed over at Pocket PC thoughts has been checking it out: • Reliable backup and restore of Exchange synchronized mail messages. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 08, 2006 7:11 AM by jasonlan | 0 Comments

Cingular announce details of 8100 and 8125 devices

PocketPC thoughts covered some the announcement by Cingular of their 8100 and 8125 devices. These are effectively the HTC Wizard device - one with and one without a camera to meet the needs of corporates who have specific concerns/policy against Cameras Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 08, 2006 3:05 AM by jasonlan | 0 Comments

Microsoft and Fiat to provide Windows Mobile for Automotive

We've been working with Fiat since 2004 but at the Geneva Motorshow they will see Microsoft equipped Fiat Cars. It's a product called Blue&Me which is the Windows Mobile for Automotive Operating System and provides Fiat drivers to connect their devices, Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 07, 2006 10:37 PM by jasonlan | 0 Comments

PDANet allows you to use your Treo 700w or PPC 6700 as a Modem!

PDANet for Windows Mobile allows you to use your Treo 700w or PPC 6700 as a modem! http://www.junefabrics.com/pdanet/ Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 07, 2006 2:49 AM by jasonlan | 2 Comments

Mini-USB Chargeable GPS Receiver

After my post about USB - I had a number of people email to ask what the Mini-USB Chargeable Bluetooth GPS receiver was... Well it was the H olux GPSlim 236 Bluetooth GPS Receiver You can buy it online in the US here... http://www.buygpsnow.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=468 Read More...
Posted Monday, February 06, 2006 2:07 PM by jasonlan | 0 Comments

USB - is it the only industry standard?

A Bluetooth headset purchase today sparked a thought... is USB the only industry standard that every manufacturer has adopted. The reason I say that is that I can guarantee that any USB device I get will work and I just plug it in..similarly with Mini Read More...
Posted Sunday, February 05, 2006 1:48 PM by jasonlan | 6 Comments

HP 4700 Upgrade to Windows Mobile 5.0 available from 1st March!

HP have released details that their Windows Mobile 5.0 upgrade for the HP 4700 device will be available from 1st March! http://h71015.www7.hp.com/generic3.aspx?page=wm2005 It's priced at £26.00 excl VAT and Shipping Read More...
Posted Sunday, February 05, 2006 1:33 PM by jasonlan | 1 Comments

Mobile and Embedded Developer Conference - Europe registration now open!

If you are going to attend the European MEDC in Nice on June 6-8 this year registration is now open! There is also an 'early-bird' registration offer where you can save 300 Euros on registration! http://www.microsoft.com/europe/medc/registration/registernow.as Read More...
Posted Sunday, February 05, 2006 1:20 PM by jasonlan | 1 Comments

The Mobile Opportunity - Event on 29th March in London

We've just announced an event on 29th March in London. It's called the Mobile Opportunity - you can sign up for it now! https://msevents-eu.microsoft.com/cui/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-GB&eventid=118769020 It's at the Cavendish Conference Centre Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 02, 2006 6:50 PM by jasonlan | 0 Comments

How to add your own Root Cert with a Cab File

The Windows Mobile team blog have just posted a great article about how to add Root Certificates to devices via a CAB file. It contains a step by step guide to export your cert and then install it on the device using a CAB. Details are at: http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2006/01/28/making_a_root_cert_cab_file.asp Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 01, 2006 8:10 AM by jasonlan | 2 Comments

Adding Root Certs for Exchange Activesync

Prior to Windows Mobile 5.0 you used to be able to disable SSL Checking for Exchange Activesync synchronisation. With Windows Mobile 5.0 this is no longer possible. I get lots of questions about what to do now so here are your options: 1) Obtain a Certificate Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 01, 2006 7:30 AM by jasonlan | 5 Comments
 
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