Nov 29 PowerPoint projections - and only with a Bluetooth smartphone
Published by Vesselin Nerdeff in:Mobile News,

She's called IRMA - Irma Bluetooth. She costs £299.00 and she's a little box which you plug into a video projector, and drive from your Windows PDA or smartphone - and she does PowerPoint without needing a personal computer. The inventor is Infrablue - a specialist provider of handheld presentation solutions which is based in London. "IRMA Bluetooth combines compression software and a 110-gramme pocket-sized Bluetooth communications device," said the company in today's news release.
"The user converts and compresses their chosen PowerPoint documents using the software from their laptop or PC and then transfers them to the handheld device," said Mitchell Johnson, Infrablue managing director. "The handheld then sends the presentation slides direct to the projector using the IRMA device, which is connected directly to the chosen projector by a standard VGA cable connection – no laptop is needed."
The package works on most Windows mobile devices - Infrablue listing the latest iMate, HP, Qtek, and 02 branded units.
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Nov 25 Sony Ericsson reveals Symbian OS application statistics for January-October 2005
Published by Vesselin Nerdeff in:Mobile News, Symbian,

Sony Ericsson has release its latest update on application sales through the Handango network, which provides Sony Ericsson with its Application Shop. Although the P900 and P910 have not held onto top spot, they have taken second place despite the growth in competition.

Statistics from Handango's distribution networks show that Symbian OS smartphone customers during 2005 downloaded more applications per visit than other smartphone customers, i.e. for handhelds on other smartphone OS's. Statistics also illustrate that developing applications for Sony Ericsson smartphones make great business sense with maintained high consumer interest in the Handango powered Sony Ericsson Application Shop.

To date there are 6,050 applications available for Symbian OS phones through Handango and its more than 100 distribution partners, a 46.24% increase since January 2005. By Handango partners is meant any and all Handango mobile software partners that offer their content catalog to customers. Examples of Handango's Symbian OS partners include Sony Ericsson and its Application Shop, the My-Symbian.com Online Shop and the AllAboutSymbian online shop.

During the whole of 2004, the Sony Ericsson P900/P910 was the overall number one revenue generating device across all platforms and all Handango channels. For 2005, the Sony Ericsson P900/P910 has been the second most popular device adding software (based on units sold) across Handango's whole network of customers across platforms and handsets, despite increased numbers of devices and platforms being introduced.

From January to October 2005, the average sale per unique customer for the Sony Ericsson Application Shop was 45.30 USD, which was 11.64 USD higher than the average sale per unique customer for Symbian OS. This can to a large extent be explained by the large touch screen and the UIQ platform suitable for PDA type of applications, making Sony Ericsson smartphones very popular as business and productivity tools. The target audience for these smartphones mainly consists of less price sensitive business users.

Check out more statistics as well as the top 10 selling applications for the Sony Ericsson P910 smartphone during 2005, the top 15 most downloaded Symbian OS applications for any handset and which application categories/types generate the most download sales.
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Nov 20 UTStarcom Pocket PC 6700 from Telus
Published by Vesselin Nerdeff in:Devices,

Telus Mobility, UTStarcom Personal Communications and Microsoft Canada Co. today announced the Canadian availability of the UTStarcom Pocket PC 6700, the first Pocket PC in Canada with Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0.
The UTStarcom PPC6700 multifunction device offers high-speed mobile access to e-mail, the Internet, streaming video and operates in Canada on the Telus wireless high speed network.
In addition to Windows Mobile 5.0 software, was officially released by Microsoft on May 10, 2005, the UTStarcom PPC6700 has updated mobile versions of Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player. The device also supports Outlook Mobile and Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync for over-the-air synchronization of e-mail, calendar and task information with Microsoft Exchange Server 2003.
The high speed network is currently available to Telus subscribers in Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto and Montreal and offers download speeds of 400 to 700 kilobits per second. The UTStarcom PPC6700 is also backward compatible with TELUS Mobility's 1X network, which covers more than 90% of the Canadian population, and offers mobile data service where Wireless High Speed is not yet available.
Additional features include:

* Full sliding QWERTY keyboard that opens from the side;
* A 1.3 megapixel digital camera with video;
* Built-in WiFi capability;
* Bluetooth support;
* Automatically synchronization with Microsoft Exchange 2003;
* Built-in mini-SD slot for storing files.


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Dec 06 Wireless Users Stay Connected to Real Time Stock Quotes While On the Go
Published by Vesselin Nerdeff in:Mobile News,

Responding to the ever-increasing number of mobile professionals worldwide, Alpha Trade (APTD), a publicly traded company that provides real time stock quotes has introduced a new wireless product that enables professional, institutional, and individual investors to stay connected to their financial information when they’re on the go. Financial information can now be accessed via such wireless devices as BlackBerry, Nokia, Palm OS, Window CE devices, and Symbian OS (Sony Ericsson).

With more than 30 million mobile professionals roaming the planet, many of whom speak more than one language, AlphaTrade took on the task of creating the world’s first multi-lingual slate of wireless financial applications and analysis tools for those who want to stay connected to their investments.

The new product, called Jupiter, makes an enormous amount of financial and investment data available wirelessly---most of which was previously inaccessible to users on the road or on the go. Everything from streaming real time stock quotes, streaming portfolios totaling 600 symbols, investments, and high resolution stock charts to symbol-sensitive real-time news, real-time gain/loss positions in customizable fields, and NASDAQ’s “Total View”, is now accessible in English, Chinese, French, Spanish, German, Italian and Portuguese. And Jupiter’s multilingual capability allows for quick language change on-the-fly - users can switch their entire portfolios from one language to another in the matter of seconds with one click.

Jupiter is the only wireless provider of NASDAQ’s “TotalView” product. TotalView shows users every single quote and order at every price level in the NASDAQ Market Center, plus all displayed orders at every price level for each NASDAQ-listed security.

“As TotalView has emerged as the standard NASDAQ data feed for serious traders, demand has broadened,” commented NASDAQ’s Senior Vice President William O’Brien. “AlphaTrade’s multi-lingual, multi-device approach ensures customers can receive TotalView data where they need it, how they need it.”

AlphaTrade, which is ranked number 330 on the 2005 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 (a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology companies in North America), has a subscriber base from more than 40 different countries and provides real time stock quotes along with other financial data for both desktops and wireless devices.

Jupiter (the planet) is the biggest planet in our solar system, and though AlphaTrade’s Jupiter is just making its way onto cell phones and PDAs around the globe, the company has expectations that it will be the biggest multi-lingual financial product available for the mobile investor who wants to receive real time stock quotes and other financial information on a wireless device.
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Jul 06 .NET CF 2.0 SP1 comes with support for install to Storage Card
Published by Vesselin Nerdeff in:Mobile News, Pocket PC, Smartphone,

Microsoft have shipped .net Compact Framework 2.0 SP1 with install to Storage Card support!. This is great cause of the memory requirement of .net CF 2.0 placed upon an already limited resource (Smartphones for example) has always been off putting. Because of that most of the developers are still developing in .net CF 1.0.

NET Compact Framework 2.0 Service Pack 1 details:

Added Features:

* Added support for WindowsCE 4.2 in both the CAB installation and a Platform Builder Update (For more information on the Platform Builder Update, see Windows CE Download Center.)
* Added the option to install the global assemblycache to the storage card.
* Allow DataGrid cell drawing to be overridden
* Added support for headless Windows CE 5.0 devices by adding a Headless catalog item in Platform Builder. (For more information on the Platform Builder Update, see Windows CE Download Center.)
* Added System SR files to the Windows CE 5.0 Platform Builder catalog item. (For more information on the Platform Builder Update, see Windows CE Download Center)
* Enabled device debugging using mdbg.
* Included LogViewer tools to monitor network traffic.
* Included the .NET Compact Framework Remote Performance Monitor. (For more information, see Steven Pratschner’s BLOG.)
* Added the Serializable attribute.

Fixed Issues:

* Changing VT_BYREF Variants in managed code could lead to a memory leak.
* Inappropriate caching of current UI culture even after CultureInfo.ClearCachedData is called.
* For the HttpWebRequest method, an uncatchable ObjectDisposedException could occur when exiting an application with asynchronous requests.
* Visual Studio hangs on setting a Breakpoint in a function with an infinite loop when it is called from the Immediate Window.
* Breakpoints do not work if the cached, managed dlls in the bcl directory differ from the ones on the device.
* Environment.GetFolderPath returns an InvalidOperationException.
* An access violation occurs when accessing .theControls or .Controls.Count property of a control once it has begun the disposing process.
* The WebBrowser.DocumentCompleted event is fired in a loop when the DocumentText property contains an image inside of a table.
* Files should be extracted to the main storage as a workaround to avoid hardware issues on some storage cards.
* For the HttpWebRequest method, an ArgumentOutOfRangeException occurs when accessing some https:// URLs.
* Timer breaks after GetTickCount wraps around (49.7 days).
* Error occurs when loading the .NET Compact Framework version 2.0 on a device using an ActiveSync push.
* Memory leaks occur when using Com marshaling.
* Installer should check for ActiveSync version and disable deployment if version is older than ActiveSync 4.0 build 4343.
* For the SerialPort class, an IOException is thrown when opening a serial port on the IPAQ 4150.
* A call to HttpWebRequest over SSL with a payload greater than 32 KB hangs on the client when SendChunked returns false.
* For the SerialPort class,an uncatchable exception occurs when Bluetooth is turned off.
* A finalizer for the FileStream class will cause the application to crash if a previous IO operation failed.
* Installation of the .NET Compact Framework fails on low memory devices.
* PInvoke return types of UIntPtr throw a NotSupportedException.
* The Debug.WriteLine method in the .NET Compact framework version 2.0 is not working.
* For the SerialPort class, virtual serial ports are not reported by the SerialPort.GetPortNames method.
* When using COM Interop, a VARIANT_BOOL type is passed incorrectly on ARMV4I.
* The .NET Compact Framework incorrectly performs version comparison when loading assemblies.
* ARMV4I runtime should be removed from ARMV4 Pocket PC CAB to reduce the size of the CAB.
* Corrections needed for Http Abort semantics.
* The DateTime.Now method throws an ArgumentOutOfRangeException.
* Crash caused by using CurrentTimeZone.GetDaylightTime and CurrentTimeZone.GetStandardTime in certain rare stress conditions.

So have a more pleasant development guys

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May 15 .NET Micro Framework Platform introduced by Microsoft
Published by Baksanir in:Mobile News,

Few days ago at MEDC 2006 Microsoft has announced the release of Windows CE 6, and today they are announcing another major thing - Microsoft .NET Micro Framework!

Using only a few hundred kilobytes of RAM and an inexpensive processor, the Microsoft .NET Micro Framework platform allows developers to build applications for the smallest of devices. These devices are typically constrained by cost, memory, processor, and/or power consumption. This platform is currently used in Smart Watches for MSN Direct, and is planned for Windows Vista SideShow displays, as well as an upcoming version of Microsoft TV Foundation Edition.

Microsoft first publicly announced its Smart Personal Objects Technology (SPOT) initiative more than three years ago with the introduction of the MSN Direct Smart Watch, which uses the .NET Micro Framework Platform. This work required a reasonably rich graphical application support on a very inexpensive and power-efficient hardware, but did not require all the features of the existing Microsoft platforms like Microsoft Windows CE. The result is the .NET Micro Framework. The .NET Micro Framework is a natural extension of our embedded offerings and provides an easy-to-use solution for developers.

Though it is used on very small devices, the .NET Micro Framework is a managed code environment bringing the efficiency and reliability to the embedded space that managed code provides. In addition, the platform is fully integrated with the Microsoft Visual Studio, allowing for development using familiar tools even when debugging code running on the target device. In this way, the .NET Micro Framework extends the Microsoft embedded story to a new set of smaller devices.

If you want to know more information about Microsoft .NET Micro Framework fill out the form on this page.

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Apr 20 10% discount on ebooks at ereader.com
Published by GeorgeDimoff in:eBooks, Mobile News,

As one of the biggest ebook stores eReader's regular discount is back in the game !

Now you can purchase any ebook at the eReaders online ebook store with 10% discount through April 26, 2006, by using the following promo code: 1RE9APRAD.
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Feb 28 20% off for one book at the Palm eBook store
Published by root in:Mobile News, eBooks, Palm,

The Palm eBook store is offering 20% off for one book. If you've had your eye on a particular title in eReader format, this is your chance. They seem to offer this special every once in a while, and I may just take advantage myself.

To get your discount enter the code "BEST2005" until March 10."
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Mar 13 20% off your next order at PocketGear
Published by root in:Pocket PC, Software, Mobile News,

The leading Pocket PC software reseller PocketGear.com has announced their spring madness sale a 20% off coupon code for a limited time ! We suggest you to hurry up and check their top Windows Mobile applications. To take advantage of this promotion just enter this coupon code "MARCH20" at the software order page. Click here to browse PocketGear's ppc software.
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Jan 16 2006 Worldwide Newton Conference & the NewtonOS runs on Linux PDA
Published by Vesselin Nerdeff in:Mobile News, Linux,

The big news coming out of the 2006 Worldwide Newton Conference is that the NewtonOS runs on Linux PDA’s! You read that right, we’re one step closer to having a Newton running on non-Apple hardware.At the 2004 WWNC, Paul demoed Einstein, an emulator running on Mac OS X. He’s improved it over the past year, making the emulator seven times faster.

On my Quad PowerMac G5, it has a speed rating of 9400 iterations/second when running Frank Gruendel’s NewtTest. A stock 2100 has a rating of 11,000. An accelerated Newton clocks in at 13,000. So, we’re not there yet, but we’re getting closer to matching and breaking the speed barrier. The Linux version of the emulator is much, much slower. I don’t doubt, however, Paul’s ability to get the speed up to an acceptable number.



Apple has shown us that the soul of the Macintosh lies not in the choice of processor but in the software and user experience. At the 2006 Worldwide Newton Conference, we demonstrated that the soul of the Newton is not trapped within aging hardware. It’s ready to burst out and transfer its elegance and functionality into a new line of devices. The next year and a half are going to be exciting!



The Linux PDA port of Einstein has a ways to go before it is ready for primetime. Nevertheless, it’s available today! If you have a Linux-based PDA with X11 support, you can run NewtonOS!

The second day of the conference will be tomorrow. I’ll have more updates as they come!

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