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April 2006 - Posts

So what's new in Activesync 4.2?

A number of you have contacted me with regards to what's new in Activesync 4.2 - well here are the key elements: (remember to link to this posting rather than just copy/paste the content) (you know who you are ;) ) Microsoft Outlook Improvements Resolves Read More...
Posted Friday, April 28, 2006 8:58 PM by jasonlan | 12 Comments

ActiveSync 4.2 Beta Preview

As part of our continued efforts to give customers early access to our technology - we have just made available the Activesync 4.2 Beta Preview. It supports devices from Pocket PC 2002 all the way through to the latest Windows Mobile 5.0 devices The Beta Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 27, 2006 6:19 AM by jasonlan | 3 Comments

Need to get a POC up and running quickly?

If it's going to take a while to get your infrastructure up and running or even migrated to Exchange 2003 - Dave at http://geekswithblogs.net/wallabyfan/archive/2006/04/25/76292.aspx and Gears at CoolSmartphone http://www.coolsmartphone.com/index.php?option=articles&task=viewarticle&artid=668&Itemid=3 Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 26, 2006 8:07 AM by jasonlan | 2 Comments

Want to go to MEDC Europe?

Our MEDC team has given me a special deal for customers who want to attend MEDC Europe which is being held June 6th to 8th in Nice. If you are interested in attending and want to get a discounted rate.... drop me an email using the contact/feedback form Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 25, 2006 9:46 PM by jasonlan | 7 Comments

IT's Showtime - Exchange Unplugged

As part of our recent Exchange Unplugged tour we video'd a number of sessions around migrating from Exchange 5.5 and also how to deploy Mobility with Exchange 2003 The video's are now available on-demand at the IT's Showtime site http://www.microsoft.com/emea/itsshowtime/sessionh.aspx?videoid=86 Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 25, 2006 12:18 PM by jasonlan | 0 Comments

.NET Compact Framework 2.0 SP1 Beta1 Announced

The .NET Compact Framework team have released Beta 1 of their SP1 for .NET Compact Framework v2.0 You can download from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=6548dd53-a418-42d9-a481-19ba3ceca1a6&displaylang=en%20 The Beta Read More...
Posted Monday, April 24, 2006 8:00 AM by jasonlan | 3 Comments

Direct Push Troubleshooting

My colleague Vanitha Prabhakaran has written a fantastic article on Troubleshooting Direct Push to resolve issues if you are having trouble getting it working. http://blogs.technet.com/exchange/archive/2006/04/03/424028.aspx The major issue I've seen Read More...
Posted Sunday, April 23, 2006 6:29 AM by jasonlan | 1 Comments

Microsoft Office Communicator Mobile released and now available for Download!

Office Communicator Mobile just released to web and is now available for download from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=BC89EC5E-5F3B-47D2-955B-B0C1DEAC94D8 . This is my absolute favorite application right now on Windows Mobile. Read More...
Posted Saturday, April 22, 2006 6:12 AM by jasonlan | 1 Comments

Make your Windows Mobile device appear as a USB Mass storage device

http://www.modaco.com/WM5torage-t238545.html This program will export the flash memory card as usual USB Mass Storage device (ordinary "usb disk") - effectively turning smartphone into flash reader. It works with many (not all) Smartphones and PDAs on Read More...
Posted Friday, April 21, 2006 4:48 PM by jasonlan | 8 Comments

Palm launch Treo 700w upgrade to support Direct Push Email/AKU2/MSFP

They are coming thick and fast! Palm yesterday announced it's upgrade to support Direct Push Email on their Windows Mobile device the Treo 700w. You can download the upgrade from: http://www.palm.com/us/support/downloads/treo700wupdater/verizon.html Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 20, 2006 6:31 AM by jasonlan | 1 Comments

O2 release AKU2 and Direct Push for the XDA Exec

O2 have released the update to the XDA Exec device which is available now here: http://xda.o2.co.uk/xdaExecSoftware.aspx Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 19, 2006 4:06 PM by jasonlan | 3 Comments

Latest Devices with MSFP (either in ROM or via updates)

I've been collating a list of devices that MSFP available for my presentation at MEDC in May. Below is my current list - let me know if you are aware of others I've missed..... Orange SPV M5000 SPV C600 SPV M600 – in ROM by default! O2 O2 XDA Mini S Sprint Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 18, 2006 9:00 AM by jasonlan | 7 Comments

Dopod sell the HTC Star Trek as S300

Well the HTC Star Trek has appeared first in Asia as the Dopod S300 ! On sale now! Read More...
Posted Friday, April 14, 2006 5:44 PM by jasonlan | 1 Comments

Vodafone devices appear on the Vodafone Business page!

The two Vodafone Windows Mobile devices can now be seen on the Vodafone UK Business Website now! The v1240 is the Windows Mobile Smartphone and the v1640 is Vodafone's variant of the HTC Universal The v1240 can be found here: The v1640 can be found here Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 13, 2006 10:02 PM by jasonlan | 0 Comments

Can you live without your Mobile?

O2 recently sponsored a report with the Centre for Economic and Business Research (CEBR) to investigate the impact of Mobile Phone's on Business. The report you can read it ... http://www.o2.com/media_files/CEBR4.pdf The report reveals that mobile workers Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 13, 2006 9:32 PM by jasonlan | 2 Comments

O2 release Direct Push and AKU2 for XDA Mini S

O2 have released the update which allows your XDA Mini S device to get Direct Push email from Exchange Server 2003 Sp2! The update is available for download from here: http://xda.o2.co.uk/xdaMiniSoftware.aspx It includes the following updates: New and Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 12, 2006 7:32 AM by jasonlan | 5 Comments

HTC March Sales Jump 82.65% Year on Year

HTC March Sales Jump 82.65% YoY http://www.htc.com.tw/news/press060410.html Taoyuan, Taiwan, R.O.C. April 10, 2006 - High Tech Computer Corp. (TAIEX: 2498) today announced that total revenues for March 2006 reached NT$ 9,007 million, up 82.65% YoY, while Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 11, 2006 7:43 AM by jasonlan | 0 Comments

MSMobiles have a detailed overview of HTC's StarTrek!

MSMobiles have released some great pictures of the HTC StarTrek device! For all those fashion victims who bought a Motorola RAZR you can now have the same form factor with a great OS like Windows Mobile :) I've been using one of these for the past week Read More...
Posted Monday, April 10, 2006 2:18 PM by jasonlan | 3 Comments

Macs Run Windows Too! - Bootcamp

I know my blog is dedicated to Windows Mobile however I was intrigued to see last week that Apple released Bootcamp http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/ to provide the ability for an Intel based Mac to run Windows XP! I've always liked the form of the Read More...
Posted Monday, April 10, 2006 2:15 PM by jasonlan | 4 Comments

Orange launch flat-rate pricing for Windows Mobile Direct Push!

Details of Orange's tarriffing for Direct push are now available on their website! http://www.orange.co.uk/business/corporate/office/accessoffice/mme_details.html There are a series of different tarriff's available with fair use policy on each of them! Read More...
Posted Sunday, April 09, 2006 9:36 AM by jasonlan | 6 Comments

MEDC Europe 2006 - Early bird discount expires in less than 2 weeks

Are you involved in Mobile Application Development or want to know more.. Then get along to our Mobile and Embedded Developer Conference in Europe which takes place June 6-8 in Nice. The event is a content packed 3 days of training focussed on developers Read More...
Posted Saturday, April 08, 2006 9:11 AM by jasonlan | 2 Comments

O2 relaunch the XDA site and release details of the XDA IQ - Windows Mobile 5 smartphone

It looks like O2 have relaunched their website for XDA devices! http://xda.o2.co.uk Details have also appeared of the XDA IQ which is a Windows Mobile 5 Smartphone built on the HTC Tornado platform. Read More...
Posted Saturday, April 08, 2006 7:45 AM by jasonlan | 0 Comments

Making Registry changes on the Orange C600 and other Windows Mobile devices

One of my customers needed to add a HOST to the HOSTS entry on their Smartphone to facilitate testing. The big challenge was that on the device they had (Orange C600) the PHM Registry Editor I typically use wouldn't install :( So to resolve this I MSN Read More...
Posted Friday, April 07, 2006 8:48 AM by jasonlan | 7 Comments

'Q' Style- TechFaith Wireless Device appears at CTIA

TechFaith Wireless have shown a device at CTIA that looks remarkably like the Q. The team over at engadget spotted this there : http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/keepin-it-real-fake-part-xxv-you-gotta-have-techfaith/ Read More...
Posted Friday, April 07, 2006 8:38 AM by jasonlan | 0 Comments

Free Windows Embedded Training in the UK next week!

Our embedded team has a final few places spare on our FREE Windows Embedded training course that's being run at our offices in Reading UK next week. Details for the course are at: https://ssl.kundenserver.de/ssl.emea-distributor.com/roadshow/london.ht Read More...
Posted Friday, April 07, 2006 8:06 AM by jasonlan | 0 Comments

Technet Event - Q&A all questions answered....

At our Technet Mobility event we asked the attendees to text questions to us for the Q&A session... We managed to cover many of them in the Q&A however we still had a lot left ! I committed to answer all the questions I could and post to my blog... Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 06, 2006 10:50 AM by jasonlan | 10 Comments

Technet Mobile Opportunity event - presentations now available!

I've had lots of emails from people asking for access to the presentations from the event. They have finally been uploaded to the Web at: http://www.microsoft.com/uk/technet/postevent/default.mspx?month=2006-03 For those that attended please fill in the Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 06, 2006 10:47 AM by jasonlan | 1 Comments

Are you ready for 320x240 screens? Landscape Smartphone Emulator!

The next exciting class of Windows Mobile 5.0 powered Smartphones are on their way! The upcoming Motorola Q and the Samsung i320 will be powered by Windows Mobile 5.0 software for Smartphone, and both will have landscape (320x240) screens. Are your apps Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 06, 2006 9:30 AM by jasonlan | 5 Comments

Step-by-Step Guide to Deploying Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 SP2 Mobile Messaging with Windows Mobile 5.0-based Devices is now live on Microsoft.com

The Step-by-Step Guide to Deploying Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 SP2 Mobile Messaging with Windows Mobile 5.0-based Devices is now LIVE at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/itsolutions/mobile/deploy/msfpdepguide.mspx Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 06, 2006 9:24 AM by jasonlan | 3 Comments

US Census to deploy 500,000 Windows Mobile devices!

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aI7yq3d0SdrY&refer=us The US Census will be using Windows Mobile devices for the Census that is planned in the next few years. To support this they have committed to deploy 500,000 devices! Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 05, 2006 8:41 AM by jasonlan | 0 Comments

Microsoft CRM Mobile released to the Web

Microsoft Dynamics CRM Mobile provides salespeople with up-to-date information about their accounts and contacts, and helps them manage sales opportunities and track sales-related activities. We've just released the Mobile client which allows Windows Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 05, 2006 8:29 AM by jasonlan | 0 Comments

TechFaith Wireless Device details

Over at myPdacafe.com they have some great pictures and specifications of the TechFaith Wireless device range. I've been trying the device above which is a tiny Pocket PC and has a 4 Megapixel camera! http://forum.mypdacafe.com/viewtopic.php?t=9100 Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 04, 2006 10:09 AM by jasonlan | 4 Comments

Text over IP

One of my colleagues just highlighted this interesting service which has just been launched. Text over IP provides SMS text messaging over IP through an online service. www.hotxt.co.uk The solution runs on Java at the moment :( The current serviceis £1 Read More...
Posted Monday, April 03, 2006 11:47 AM by jasonlan | 2 Comments

Gartner Wireless Conference - London

Microsoft is a Premier Sponsor at the Gartner Wireless Conference in London today and tomorrow. http://www.gartner.com/2_events/conferences/emob6i.jsp Anyone at the conference make sure you visit our stand and pickup the 512Mb Mini SD Card Giveaway we Read More...
Posted Monday, April 03, 2006 9:25 AM by jasonlan | 4 Comments
 
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