The Mobile Minute 122

In this edition of The Mobile Minute, we’ve got a bunch of dev items… 

Software / Hardware 

• Jason Langridge addresses some FUD about DirectPush  – Interesting; I addressed these very same points about a week ago (I suspect that Jason is addressing issues raised by the same competitor).  Jason has a lot of comments on this one – check ‘em out.
• Motorola’s TETRA device for emergency services personall will be running Windows Mobile 5.0 (via Engadget)

 Development

• David Kline has announced that the Group PM for .NET CF, Richard Greenburg is now blogging.  He gives us the skinny on why WinCE 4.2 support for .NET CF 2.0 was dropped only to return in .NET CF 2.0 SP1
• Steven Pratcher gives some excellent arguments for upgrading to .NET CF 2.0
• Barry Bond is thinking about implementing a virtual battery (yeah!) in the next DeviceEmulator release. oh yeah, subscribed.
• Robert Levy talks about diagnosing installation failures.
• More about memory usage in WM5
• Cool post from Barry Bond letting us know how to simulate GPS data on the WM5 emulator and how to detect if your app is running on the DeviceEmulator as well as some useful numbers with the phone edition emulators

In Other News . . .

• mobilepipeline has a piece on mobile anti-virus.

-Nino