Marcus Perryman's WebLog

Let’s Talk About Touch (Part2)

In part 1 I introduced several of the key pieces in Windows Mobile 6.5 gesture story, including the...

Author: marcpe Date: 08/14/2009

Windows Mobile 6.5 Touch Gesture docs go live

The doc team has just published our touch gesture docs for Windows Mobile 6.5 Check them out here:...

Author: marcpe Date: 07/09/2009

Let’s Talk About Touch (Part1)

Windows Mobile (and CE) has supported touch screen interfaces since the beginning but the release of...

Author: marcpe Date: 06/29/2009

Samsung i640v

Information about the new Samsung i640v device have started to appear on various blogs and news...

Author: marcpe Date: 10/02/2007

Default GPRS setting

Way back in the misty past - October 03, 2005 to be precise - I posted about configuring networks...

Author: marcpe Date: 09/19/2007

Palm Treo 500v Announced

Following the launch party last night (no, I didn't get an invite :( ), Palm now have online details...

Author: marcpe Date: 09/13/2007

Connection Manager

Connection Manager We’ve been working on a bunch of very tricky connection issues recently that came...

Author: marcpe Date: 07/05/2007

MEDC 2007 slides

Well, its all over for another year. So much prep and rushing about, then 2 days later its all done...

Author: marcpe Date: 06/27/2007

MEDC 2007 Europe - Bluetooth session APP304

June 26th and 27th will be MEDC Europe in Berlin, and one of the sessions I will be doing is all...

Author: marcpe Date: 06/14/2007

Vodafone and Microsoft

Check this out: Vodafone signs new terminal platform agreement with Microsoft:...

Author: marcpe Date: 11/06/2006

Windows Mobile 5.0 Role security

I've just submitted a new post to my security column...

Author: marcpe Date: 10/24/2006

MSDN Nuggets site updated

I noticed this morning that the UK developer group has finished their long anticipated overhaul of...

Author: marcpe Date: 06/26/2006

Secure Clock

I've recently been working on an interesting problem for detecting clock changes in Windows Mobile...

Author: marcpe Date: 06/15/2006

MEDC Session demos

The European MEDC is over! All the build-up, all the prep and its all over so fast (uh oh, starting...

Author: marcpe Date: 06/15/2006

Timed Camera Capture - Update

Regards the Timed Camera Capture sample I posted last month, lots of you came across a bug in my...

Author: marcpe Date: 05/23/2006

MEDC Europe: T - 2 weeks

If you are not registered for MEDC Europe yet, there is still time: Good reasons to register and...

Author: marcpe Date: 05/23/2006

Voda ships AKU2 update

Voda has released its AKU2 rom updates for the Universal, wizard and typhoon devices. This release...

Author: marcpe Date: 05/23/2006

New team

It’s been a while since I last blogged and I can now let on as to what’s going on in my life....

Author: marcpe Date: 05/08/2006

GPS Intermediate Driver

Keni Barwick of Conchango fame has been playing with the GPS Intermediate driver on Windows Mobile...

Author: marcpe Date: 03/20/2006

Timed Camera Capture

Jason Langrage asked if it’s possible to automatically capture an image from the camera of a WM 5.0...

Author: marcpe Date: 03/03/2006

MSFP hits the streets

i-Mate have started shipping an OS update to their K-JAM device that includes the extra bits needed...

Author: marcpe Date: 03/02/2006

Using EVC 4.0 to build code for WM 5.0

Picking up on a comment that Frankie Chow made on my LASS part 3 post: "... how can we develop [for...

Author: marcpe Date: 02/14/2006

VBUG Swindon presentation - "Essentials of Hack resistant apps"

As requested, here are the slides from last nights VBUG talk in Swindon. Marcus

Author: marcpe Date: 02/09/2006

Global Flyer

Round the world non stop in a hot air balloon certainly isn’t my idea of fun. However a smartphone...

Author: marcpe Date: 02/07/2006

Windows Mobile 5.0 upgrades available from HP

HP have just (finally!?) made WM 5.0 upgrades available for the 2100, 2400 and 2700. Each upgrade is...

Author: marcpe Date: 02/07/2006

Rory Blyth looses the plot

Life as an evangelist at Microsoft has finally tipped Rory over the edge. Check out just how far he...

Author: marcpe Date: 02/03/2006

Channel 9 Vid

Finally got the Alistair Baker interview released on C9. Let me know what you think....

Author: marcpe Date: 02/02/2006

MSMQ on Windows Mobile 5.0

Did you know there is a new version of MSMQ for Mobile 5.0? The distribution package is available as...

Author: marcpe Date: 02/01/2006

MEDC 2006 Europe

Details are now live on the website for this years Mobile Embedded Developers Conference. This year...

Author: marcpe Date: 01/12/2006

Installing Certificates on Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone

Certificate installation is controlled by the GRANT MANAGER security policy. To install certs...

Author: marcpe Date: 01/11/2006

London Girl Geek Dinner 3 Announced

Event descirption from Sarah Blow: "This is basically a networking event to get women in technology...

Author: marcpe Date: 01/10/2006

GetDeviceUniqueID

There is a new API available for retrieving a device id in Windows Mobile 5.0 for both Pocket PC and...

Author: marcpe Date: 01/09/2006

Palm Treo - MSFP?

Does the new Treo support MSFP? That seems to be the hot question at the moment and Jason Langridge...

Author: marcpe Date: 01/05/2006

Palm Treo 700w launches

In his CES keynote speech yesterday BillG announced the launch of Palm's Treo 700w, running Windows...

Author: marcpe Date: 01/05/2006

Catching up

A couple of things caught my eye while catching up on news over the break: Probably the most...

Author: marcpe Date: 01/03/2006

Ali B's Nugget

What would you do if your Managing Director said he was spending a day in your department to better...

Author: marcpe Date: 12/22/2005

Windows Mobile 5.0 Local Authentication Sub System (LASS) - Part 3

In Part1 I looked at the power-on-password replacement options for Windows Mobile 2003. Part 2...

Author: marcpe Date: 12/08/2005

Windows Mobile 5.0 Local Authentication Sub System (LASS) - Part 2

In Part 1 we looked at the power-on-password replacement options for Windows Mobile 2003. In this...

Author: marcpe Date: 12/06/2005

Active Sync 4.1 download available

At the VS launch event I was asked about the availability of 4.0 version of ActiveSync which felt...

Author: marcpe Date: 12/05/2005

My first 64bit machine

I built my first 64 bit machine this week with an ABIT KU8 motherboard and AMD Semperon 2800 chip....

Author: marcpe Date: 11/23/2005

Windows Mobile 5.0 Local Authentication Sub System (LASS) - Part 1

I came across another new feature of Windows Mobile 5.0 recently when trying to install an...

Author: marcpe Date: 11/22/2005

We Share Your Pain (WSYP)

I don’t really know what to say about this except you have to check it out!...

Author: marcpe Date: 10/20/2005

Orange Code Camp

Just got back from this years code camp organized by Orange - very different and interesting event!...

Author: marcpe Date: 10/18/2005

Installing CF 2.0

CF 2.0 is about to release on Nov 7th but obviously no device will have the bits in ROM for some...

Author: marcpe Date: 10/18/2005

Conchango visit

Thanks to Keni Barwick and the guys at Conchango for your hospitalities on Friday's community day....

Author: marcpe Date: 10/03/2005

MSDN Tech Talk: Windows Mobile 5.0

Here are the slides and demos from last Tuesday's MSDN Tech talk in Reading. It’s taken me a while...

Author: marcpe Date: 10/03/2005

Palm - officially a Windows Mobile platform

It’s been a long time in incubation but finally the announcement is out in the open: Palm is a...

Author: marcpe Date: 09/26/2005

MSDN Tech Talk: T-Sql, CLR and XML

Here are the slides and demo's from Wednesday 21st Sept SQL session I presented at the GPS London...

Author: marcpe Date: 09/22/2005

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