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The Mobile Minute 175
Wednesday, June 18, 2008 1:44 PM

  Free ‘control your device from your desktop’ software MyMobileR has released v1.23 with several new goodies and fixes. PocketController is getting some competition!  (although you can’t [yet] skin the MyMobileR window) Dash has opened the API to their GPS receivers.   (via BGR ) Now you can send a tweet with your actual location..and the GPS... Read More...

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The Mobile Minute 174
Tuesday, May 20, 2008 1:31 PM

Capacitive or Resistive (which are you?) Brandon Miniman at PocketNow discusses the different approaches to touch screens on Windows Mobile and iPhone. Engadget Mobile has the ever-popular HTC Touch Diamond vs iPhone comparison . Also, an unboxing of the HTC Touch Diamond from SlashPhone. Steve Lasker gives an overview of the now public SQL Server Compact 3.5... Read More...

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The Mobile Minute 173
Monday, May 19, 2008 1:10 PM

Mobile Developer Group team blog , launched by Amit Chopra. The VSD team has grown to include Silverlight for mobile and .NET CF. SQL Server Compact query performance - Pragya has a good post on basic query tuning. The VSD Team lists the excellent line up of mobile dev sessions at Tech-Ed Developers in two weeks. Raffael posts on languages natively supported... Read More...

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The Mobile Minute 172
Tuesday, May 06, 2008 11:23 PM

Today's big news: HTC's announcement of the HTC Diamond Eqatec .NET CF Code Profiler Free, and works with .NET CF 2.0. Engadget Mobile brings us a T-Mobile USA press release about their 3G (UMTS/HSPDA) service . Mobile Flash to be free . Michael Mace at Mobile Opportunity brings us the news about Adobe's future direction. Share this post: email it! | bookmark... Read More...

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The Mobile Minute 171
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 1:02 AM

Strong rumors abound on the news of T-Mobile USA finally rolling out 3G (UMTS) on May 1 in NYC. Here's the scoop at TmoNews and BGR . Of course, Cincinnati is not in the top 25 markets (Birmingham ranks higher - really?) , so I'll have to wait, but hopefully not too much longer. Follow up questions: How much and will you screw us for tethering? Richard gives... Read More...

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The Mobile Minute 170
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 12:42 AM

Dropped the ball on posting last week; back on the wagon now. Is RIM gunning for Apple? This post from Engadget gives the scoop. mocoNews notes that Skype has launched the beta of a mobile client . Lifehacker enlightens us to a SMS-based service from diet.com that delivers nutritional values at your request . Luca (the WURFL guy) is taking no prisoners in the... Read More...

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The Mobile Minute 169
Wednesday, April 23, 2008 1:56 AM

Roshan Khan on the Windows Mobile team blogs about Faster C# and gives an example of fast bitmap manipulation The Mobile Messaging 2.0 blog links to MSNBC about the nationwide (U.S.A.) text messaging alert system that should be operational in 2010 . Jason Langridge brings us news of the Best Practices Analyzer for [System Center] Mobile Device Manager Kevin from... Read More...

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The Mobile Minute 168
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 12:11 AM

No blogging last week on account of the MVP Summit, but we're back at it this week... Jon Box lists reasons for running WM 6 and WM 6.1 Carlo Longino's well-written piece about the mobile web , in response to the Mowser situation . Dan blogs about an issue with CF 3.5 Erik EJ gives us a sample of importing SQL Compact data into Excel Raffael gives us four gems... Read More...

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The Mobile Minute 167
Sunday, April 13, 2008 7:49 AM

jiggy Create native iPhone apps in your browser. Force Sensing/Mobile Device Interaction ..and you thought twisting and bending a mobile device was a bad thing. Got a TyTN II? Got Android? Get some Android on your TyTN II. (running as an app, no less, not replacing WM). Cool stuff from the crazy and inventive XDA-Dev crowd. Although I'd prefer to get some peanut... Read More...

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The Mobile Minute 166
Thursday, April 10, 2008 10:55 AM

The U.S. military has a controversial hand-held lie detector, PCASS . that is Windows Mobile-based. Check the PDF/PPT that is available. The concerns lie with the software (and algorithms it uses) not with WM. Mobility Metro is coming to a town near you. (thanks, Loke!) A three day hands-on lab about building apps for Windows Mobile. MM comes to the Queen City... Read More...

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The Mobile Minute 165
Tuesday, April 08, 2008 11:59 PM

Still tweaking my presentations for CODoDN (hey, did you register?) Tablet PC Talk gives a thumbs down to the HTC Shift. iPhone user trivia, anyone? Courtesy of the fine folks at Mobile Opportunity . Jason Langridge blogs about the very spiffy System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 (SCMDM). Don't like threaded SMS in WM6.1? Disable it. Fellow MVP Peter Foot... Read More...

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The Mobile Minute 164
Monday, April 07, 2008 11:48 PM

Just squeaked this one in before the stroke of midnight. It feels good to be TMM'ing again. SMSOfficer , a new Outlook Mobile Service hosting provider. OMS allows you to send/receive text messages in Outlook 2007. But it ain't free. You get 10 credits to start with (credit==text message), and can buy more. Starting price is US$0.08/message. Give it a whirl, at... Read More...

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The Mobile Minute 162
Tuesday, January 15, 2008 9:15 AM

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 ... Read More...

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The Mobile Minute 161
Thursday, December 13, 2007 12:17 AM

Decided to start the link series up again.. five months(!) into parenthood and I'm still trying to get my head on straight. Business NAVTEQ announced today that its stockholders have approved the merger agreement with Nokia announced in October. Now we can expect new drama in the Garmin, Tele Atlas, TomTom love triangle. And speaking of mapping.. Microsoft buys... Read More...

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The Mobile Minute 158
Tuesday, September 11, 2007 12:02 AM

Hardware infoSync has a quick article on the OQO 02 Software TeaShark " a new way to use the web when mobile". (via RussellBeattie.com ) - seems a bit DeepFish-y to me. Watch the video on YouTube . MobHappy informs us that Orbitz is now mobile . CoolSmartPhone.com introduces Viigo , a free (as in beer) Windows Mobile RSS reader. Development Andrew Arnott... Read More...

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