Sprite offer DM with mobile wipe

Currently under beta testing, Sprite Mobile Swipe works on any Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC or Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone, and once installed, hides away in the background until activated by the device's owner.

The software cannot be uninstalled without a user selected password. If the device is ever lost, simply send a SMS from a previously specified “partner” phone and you can have the device locked. You can also go one step further, and send a “wipe” text message that will erase the entire contents of the phone, including everything on the memory card.

If, on the other hand, your phone is stolen, and the thief changes the SIM card, you will automatically get a SMS on the designated partner phone so the user will know the new number. You can also find out the recent call activity to help track your phone down.

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HTC Shift.. nice laptop or phone

It's been a long time in coming, but after HTC's long, gradual feature buildup all the way from the very first Pocket PC phone in 2002, they're finally putting the "computer" in High Tech Computer by making the jump to ultraportable PC-maker. That's right, HTC's first foray into the UMPC market, the Shift (codename Shangri-La), is officially announced today. We don't yet have hard details on release date or price, but we do know it should be available in Q3 (we'd estimate for under $2,000). As for features, we know not to expect anything out of the ordinary (except lots of 3G), although the form factor is pretty notable: not too many UMPCs have a sliding keyboard, and none that we can recall have a tilting display in this orientation. Some specs:

* VIA CPU (the one we tried had a 1.2GHz chip)
* Vista business (yes, it was running Aero)
* 7-inch sliding, tiling wide-touchscreen
* 30GB drive
* Tri-band UMTS / HSDPA, quad-band GSM / GPRS / EDGE
* WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0
* Biometric reader, front-facing camera

Watch your TV from anywhere

MY-IPTV Anywhere Mobile(TM) includes Honestech's original MY-IPTV Anywhere PC server and player software and new mobile player software for mobile and handheld devices. It also includes MY-IPBOX, an external USB 2.0TV tuner device. MY-IPTV Anywhere server software has to be set up on their home computer to host content via Internet Protocol (IP) to their mobile phone or Wi-Fi enabled mobile devices and any computer via a peer-to-peer connection. The product allows users to watch and control their TV from anywhere, and includes features such as channel surfing & changing, a personal video recorder, and scheduled recording from any computer. MY-IPTV Anywhere supports the latest H.264/MPEG-4 video compression technology standard for mobile phone,handheld devices, and any computer, from anywhere in the world. Now, with MY-IPTV Anywhere Mobile and a broadband internet connection, users can transmit their favorite programming from their home based broadcast network, from anywhere in the world as long as they have their enabled mobile device.

X-series with Orb

This week I purchased the Dopod 810 from 3 and signed up for X-series, one word WOW. Thank you 3 for giving us what we want, thats right mobile data and something useful like Orb. So easy to use and spot on as to what is needed. So watch this space.

Oh as for Orb fantastic you setup the cient on your PC at home point it to which ever folders you want to share and login from any where, on your it will steam the media so you don't need to wait for it to download. You can get all types of data from your home network where ever you have internet conection, with X-seires that means everywhere.

MS finaly gets it. Deepfish

Thats right it is all about browsing. Nokia fixed it in the s60v3, for WM5 some of us use opera. The only problem is you can not down load it. Read about it in the ink bellow.

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Sync your calendar to gmail

I just downloaded and tested this cool application that will synchronizes your email calendar to your gmail calender. You can read about their software at http://www.companionlink.com/ I am using the free gMigrate and it works well.

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Mobile or is it a Laptop

Your mobile phone can be a personal computer in the near future. And that is not going to be a big surprise. Just take a look at the features that mobile phones have now and compare these mobile phones to the versions of yesteryears. You would see just how fast things are developing.

At present, many mobile phone manufacturers are already into that challenge. If you know about the HTC mobile phone from Advantage, it looks like a small laptop but you can fold it up and use it as a phone. And at Cebit T-Mobile from Germany showed off its Ameo which is a mobile phone with a screen measuring 13 centimeters and comes with a drive with 8 gigabytes. The time has come that mobile phones have turned into PCs, I do not mind it at all.

WM to support USB host

Seiko Epson Corp. (Epson) is developing sample Windows CE 6.0 drivers for its S1R72V family of high-speed USB2.0-compatible controller chips. The first such driver, for the S1R72V17 controller chip, is now available, the company says.The S1R72V17 is a low-power USB2.0 interface controller that implements both host and device functions. The device supports USB2.0 data transfer rates of "HS" (480 Mbps), "FS" (12 Mbps), and "LS" (1.5 Mbps), for both host and device function operation, according to Epson.This sample driver is unique in that it can be connected to a mouse, keyboard, hub, and to storage equipment in order to effortlessly set up a development environment on a CEPC device, eliminating the need to establish a specialized development platform environment. By launching this new sample driver for Windows(R) Embedded CE 6.0, Epson has further expanded its lineup of sample drivers for USB controller LSI products in an effort to support customers in their development activities.

Key features of the driver, as listed by Epson, include:
1) USB2.0 host functions

• Supports HS (480 Mbps), FS (12 Mbps), and LS (1.5 Mbps) transfer rates
• Supports control, bulk, and interrupt transfer
• Compatible with CEPC PCI bus
• Compatible with test mode
• Supports multichannel
• Supports mass storage class
• Supports hubs (compatible with multistage connection)
• Supports HID
• Supports CDC

2) USB2.0 device functions

• Supports HS (480 Mbps), FS (12 Mbps), and LS (1.5 Mbps) transfer rates
• Supports control, bulk, interrupt, and isochronous transfer
• Supports Endpoint 0 in addition to five general Endpoints (for bulk/interrupt/isochronous transfer)
• Compatible with CEPC PCI bus
• Compatible with test mode
• Supports serial class (ActiveSync can be used)
• Supports mass storage class

TiVo Launches Remote Scheduling With Verizon Wireless

TiVo and Verizon Wireless today announced the availability of TiVo Mobile scheduling, a downloadable application available only through Verizon Wireless.TiVo Mobile scheduling allows subscribers to purchase the mobile service through select Verizon Wireless handsets and schedule recordings on their TiVo Series2 or Series3 TiVo boxes.
TiVo and Verizon Wireless bring consumers the convenience of scheduling television recordings while away from the living room. Whether you are away from home or discussing TV at the water cooler, all that is needed is a select Verizon Wireless Get It Now-enabled handset to schedule recordings on your TiVo box.
TiVo Mobile scheduling uses the award-winning TiVo interface to give subscribers the ability to easily search for and browse through listings to find shows that they want to record. Subscribers to the TiVo Mobile scheduling service will also have access to premium entertainment content that is updated daily, including a customizable channel lineup, the most popular and most recorded shows and a current list of recommendations from TiVo.

Nokia steps closer to to WIMAX network in the USA

Since the announcement in January, things look to be moving fast as they have announced that "Sprint Nextel has awarded it the four Texas markets of Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio and Austin for the initial build-out of Sprint Nextel's mobile WiMAX network."

"Nokia will deploy WiMAX infrastructure, including the Nokia Flexi WiMAX Base Station, at sites throughout the four Texas markets, enabling Sprint Nextel to deliver wireless Internet broadband access to consumers, businesses and governments. Service is expected to commence in the Texas markets during the first half of 2008. Sprint Nextel's mobile WiMAX network intends to cover 100 million people nationwide by the end of 2008."

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gSyncit for Microsoft Outlook

gSyncit works by updating your Microsoft Outlook calendar with your Google calendar entries and then updating your Google calendar with your Microsoft Outlook entries. All appointments that occurred in the past 365 days and those that will occur in the next 365 days will be synchronized

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Windows Mobile 6 SDK Now Available for Download

"The Windows Mobile 6 SDKs add documentation, sample code, header and library files, emulator images and tools to Visual Studio that let you build applications for Windows Mobile 6. With Windows Mobile 6, we are revising our SKU taxonomy and naming to better align our brand and products with the realities of today’s mobile device marketplace. The historical form-factor based distinction between Windows Mobile powered Smartphone and Windows Mobile powered Pocket PC Phone Edition is blurring dramatically. We want our taxonomies and terminology to evolve to better reflect the evolution of the mobile device industry."

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Google released a Google Maps client for Windows Mobile

Google released a Google Maps client for Windows Mobile that installs from a CAB file that can be downloaded and installed directly from Google (no need to sync with a PC). It is also a native application. No Java Midlet needed. This means it is fast and looks good on a Windows Mobile device. I tested it and the satellite image view looks nice and clear on its screen and the menu looks like most other native applications.

You can download it directly to your device from: http://google.com/gmm/

The application can also show a traditional looking street map, locations of businesses, real-time traffic for certain cities, and driving directions. I’m very impressed by what I’ve seen. I hope we see more native Windows Mobile apps from Google in the future.