The Mobile Minute 162

Republished...

Business

• Dean Takahashi blogs about Sirf jumping on the Android bandwagon.  Very interesting.  Also interesting will be how they integrate their GPS technology into this open platform.
• Microsoft has launched INNOVATE ON Windows Mobile

Hardware/Software

• Tracy and Matt are giving away a silver HTC Touch.  w00t!
• Ilium has just released eWallet 6.0 (now with 256-bit AES encryption, Flex Wallet support, and more!)  via SmartphoneThoughts.com

Development

• OpenNETCF has released an update to their Padarn web server for WinCE-based devices. via Chris Tacke's blog
• The .NET CF team has released Power Toys for .NET CF 3.5.
• The most recent issue (14) of the Microsoft Architecture Journal is all about mobile.  You can download the PDF.
• My friend Rabi has a post on developing beautiful UIs with .NET CF. The Census app was...challenging.. and now I"m leveraging alpha-blending on a customer demo I'm building.