Someone I know won one of those WiFi detecctor t-shirts as a door prize the other day. The plate on the front of the shirt (the detector itself is a little box connected via cables to the front plate) actually works. It went all blue (no WiFi) in a known dead-spot and lit up (four […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hmm… US-CERT has an advisory about a Windows CE Trojan. Here’s the list of things it is said to do on a Windows CE device: spreads via seemingly legitimate application installation files installs as an autorun program on the memory card installs itself to the device when an infected memory card is inserted protects itself […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Ubuntu announced their mobile version of Ubuntu Linux Ubuntu Mobile …targetted at the UMPC sized devices with flash storage (instead of spinning hard drives) that started to gain popularity with the release of Asus Eee PC and OLPC XO last year. Microsoft needs much lighter weight version of Windows Vista if they intend to stay […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yahoo!’s mobile sites are great. But, for some odd reason, its Yahoo! Go Mobile client for Windows Mobile is just awful. Its navigation is non-intuitive and it is unbelievably slow when it actually works. If Microsoft acquires Yahoo!, I sure hope they keep its mobile-friendly websites which are more content rich than Microsoft’s sites. But, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Linkedin is the latest big social network site to mobile enable itself. You can find the mobile friendly site at… mobile.linkedin.com It would have been nice if they adopted the “m.” prefix to reduce the amount of tapping on a small keyboard or screen. But, oh well… The real story here though is that once […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I really don’t like using phone headsets. I’ve bought a couple of and have used them sparingly. But, they are just plain uncomfortable in warm weather environments. And, I can’t hear my podcasts clearly when listening to them in the car with one ear blocked. So, I finally got around to buying the Motorola T305 […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Just found this in Business Week… The Secrets of Microsoft’s Sync Sync is is a Microsoft car product found in Ford cars that lets you control the stereo and your phone (via Bluetooth) using voice commands. Microsoft tried this several years ago with their Windows CE Automotive products that never really caught on. Given Ford’s […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If you’ve been looking some info about scmdm (System Center Mobile Device Manager) 2008, Microsoft TechNet has a 23 minute video interview about it at… Intro to System Center Mobile Device Manager (scmdm) 2008
While reading a PC World blog entry about Apple’s upcoming iPhone SDK, I learned about the Tiny-Code.com site for people interested in unofficial iPhone installers. When I tried to visit the site, I was redirected to Apple’s official Developer Connection… iPhone Dev Center It (the official site) only has information about Webkit (browser) development now. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I bought this little Vibez speaker from iFrogz on a whim during their post-holiday sale period. It listed for $34.99. I bought it for $19.99. And, it currently lists on their site for $24.95. This thing is not going to give your high-end or even decent portable speakers any competition. However, despite its relatively low-fidelity, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Engadget points out the limits of the new Verizon Wireless Unlimited Plans. It looks like the way to read the three offerings are: Somewhat unlimited, sort of unlimited, and unlimited but pricey. These plans can also have two-person and three-person family plans (Sprint and T-Mobile family plans include up to 5 phones if I recall […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Saw a reference to this on the AppleInsider site and followed the link to… Google homes in on revenue to phones …The key quote from the article that AppleInsider pointed out is: Google on Wednesday said it had seen 50 times more searches on Apple‘s iPhone than any other mobile handset, adding weight to the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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