The Mobile Minute 155

Happy Pi Day!

Software / Hardware

• Outlook Mobile team blog. Subscribed.
• Loke notes that Newsbreak 2.0 is out. He talks about his experiences after two days. Hanselman digs it, too. Stay tuned for my forthcoming mobile RSS reader review.
• Check out the AT&T WS SMT5700 over at Engadget Mobile.  Looks like someone cross-bred a Treo, a BlackJack, and a N62.

Development

• SQL CE 2005 BOL has been updated; get the March 2007 .chm.
• The February 2007 monthly updates are now available for Windows Embedded CE 6.0, Windows CE 5.0, Windows CE 5.0 Network Media Device Feature Pack, and Windows CE.NET 4.2
• Neil C. shows us RPM running under Vista and how to interact with interactive phone services in 3 lines of code.
• I got an e-mail last week that the Red FIVE Labs team has released a CTP of their .NET CF 1.0 port to Symbian.   Write once, run everywhere? Um, no. Read their FAQ.
• Mike Lipp from the CF team talks about app compat with NETCF v2 SP2.  As you know already, .NET CF 2.0 SP2 has been released; keep an eye on this post from the .NET CF team. They will be updating it as the releases (QFEs, etc) become available.
• Anand talks more about networking support on Vista for Device Emulator v2.   And Richard shows how to send your GPS location.

Community

• Cincinnati/Dayton Code Camp: March 24, 2007 Are you registered? Check out the sessions.
• Next CINNUG meeting: March 20, 2007 on Guidance Automation Toolkit

In Other News

• Check out Julie's LapDawg Laptop stand review.
• Omar links to a YouTube video of a demonstration of Vista speech recognition. I, too, laughed heartily.