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This morning Microsoft announced Windows Mobile 6.1 and an upgrade for Internet Explorer Mobile. Windows Mobile 6.1 will start showing up in devices very very soon, and the IEMobile update will be available later this year. Windows Mobile 6.1 includes
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I was having dinner with someone when she pointed out the huge amount of Microsoft phrases some of us tend to use outside of work. It was amusing, so I wrote down a list of phrases I catch myself using. For those of you who are friends with, or dating,
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The hallways and elevator entrances in most Microsoft buildings are always covered with posters announcing internal betas, promotions, new initiatives etc. Every once in a while I'll see a poster that's incredibly funny, witty or effective. I just noticed
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You thought txting coworkers is iffy. My good friend and popular Windows Mobile blogger Loke Uei Tan is starting a trend at Microsoft. He's making "Poke me" a mainstream, accepted means of corporate communications - at par with "call me", "email me",
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This video has been shown at internal Microsoft events a few times. It always draws a great response from the audience, followed by internal email aliases flooded for days with requests for a link or high bandwidth version. I finally found it on MSN Soapbox
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Scott Hanselman and I sat down last week to talk about writing Facebook applications. I share my experience developing Facebook apps such as OutSync and "I Love My Phone" . If you're new to Facebook or writing Facebook apps, take a listen. Our
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I heard someone say they wished it were possible to create a speed dial entry for text messaging in Windows Mobile. As most of you might know, text messaging is not a standalone app - it's just another account within the Messaging client, which also supports
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Are you on Facebook ? Do you use Outlook and Windows Mobile? If you answered yes and yes, get OutSync , a free app to sync your Facebook friends' photos with Outlook! It's written by me, and is free to use. Watch my 7 minute video with Laura Foy on Channel
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Windows Home Server hit RTM. Wow, I need this product today for my huge collection of photos, media and documents! Can't wait to see all the cool hardware coming from HP and others. Check out this Channel 10 video for more information. 2 reports out this
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Say you search the Web for "foobar". What if the first website in the search results redirects back to the search itself (e.g. http://www.google.com/search?q=foobar )? Would that send the search engine bots into some kind of crazy recursive loop?
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Someone just pointed out this feature I didn't know existed in Windows Mobile. When you have a contact highlighted you can press the d-pad Left and Right keys to change communication methods for the person (work, home, mobile, txt, email etc). Watch really
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Mobile Search v2 has just been released with improved navigation, caching, movie listings, restaurants, GPS, traffic reporting and more! This is one of my all time favorite apps, and not just because I work in the Windows Mobile team. It is extremely
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Someone from Recruiting recently interviewed me about what it's like to work at Microsoft. You can download the audio interview here (16 MB), and hear some of the ups and downs of working here. Speaking of work, here's some news for those of you that
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Thanks to everyone that attended Microsoft TechMela in Mumbai last week. It was great meeting all of you, hearing your development experiences and realizing just how much Windows Mobile has grown in India over the last year. The feedback I gathered from
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Here's yet another one of those "what's on your device?" posts. I'm on the road as part of the MEDC 2007 worldwide tour, and will have visited nearly half a dozen countries over the last 2 weeks. My Windows Mobile 6 device (currently an HTC Excalibur)
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