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November 2006 - Posts

Thursday, November 30, 2006 7:20 PM

Install Windows Mobile 5.0 on Vista

Windows Mobile 5.0 requires .Net Framework 1.1. Windows Vista comes with .Net Framework 3.0. When I tried to install WM5 Adaptation Kit (which includes Platform Builder 5.0) on Vista, the installation program asked me to install .Net Framework 1.1. Otherwise,
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Wednesday, November 22, 2006 6:59 PM

Richard Rosenblatt and his Demand Media

The December issue of Business 2.0 runs a story on Richard Rosenblatt and his company Demand Media . Rosenblatt helped broker the $580 million sale of MySpace (online version not available yet). From the story, "... He (Rosenblatt) informed me that his
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Wednesday, November 22, 2006 5:41 PM

For every $1 Vista earns for Microsoft, it will generte at least $12 into the global economy

IDC analyst Marcel Warmerdam predicts that for every $1 Windows Vista earns for Microsoft, it will pump at least $12 into global economy. This is stated in the article "How Microsoft is Finally Taking the Living Room". The point here is that Vista's much
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Thursday, November 16, 2006 1:41 AM

iPhone Next Year

As many pundits have been speculating for a while, Apple is planning to release its cell phone - iPhone (I also speculated this plan in my book "Smart Phone and Next Generation Mobile Computing" , p.g. 48). In 2005, Apple teamed up with Motorola to launch
Posted by zhengpei | 1 Comments
Monday, November 13, 2006 7:53 PM

Web 2.0 in a nutshell

What is Web 2.0? To the end-user, Web 2.0 allows to interact with a web site just like using a desktop application; For tech-savvy folks, Web 2.0 means AJAX, XMLHTTPRequest, and so on. For VCs, Web 2.0 means new opportunities that can create and package
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Wednesday, November 08, 2006 8:18 PM

Connect your Smartphone with Windows Vista

To celebrate Windows Vista RTM (which was Nov 8, 2006), I tried to connect my Smartphone to a Vista box. At first I thought I should install the latest ActiveSync then I was told in Vista you need to install Windows Mobile Device Center , which is currently
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Tuesday, November 07, 2006 12:32 AM

Default TCP window size of Windows Mobile devices

Using remote registry tool, I can verify that the default maximum TCP window size (buffer size) of a Microsoft Smartphone 2003 emulator or a Windows Mobile 5 Smartphone emulator is 32768 (the registry key is HKLM\Comm\Tcpip\Parms\TcpWindowSize). This
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Monday, November 06, 2006 4:52 AM

What is holding back mobile access to enterprise applications?

This week's InformationWeek (published Oct 30th) has an in-depth analysis on the factors that hold back mobile access to enterprise applications. A survey was conducted with more than 500 business technology professionals. Here are the results: 1. High
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