AgileMobile.com. has announced the release of Agile Messenger for WindowsMobile5.0, an instant messaging client for mobile phones and handheld computers which communications with the popular instant messaging networks of MSN, AOL, Yahoo!, ICQ, Google Talk or any other...
According to the NY Times, Microsoft has won a huge order for their WindowsMobile software - 500,000 handsets to be precise. Is this another nail in the coffin for Blackberry? Certainly seems that way. According to the NY Times...
I was just on Microsoft BetaPlace downloading the Microsoft Device Emulator 1.0 Community Preview to test WindowsMobile5.0 with Exchange ActiveSync and the download timed-out at 98%. 2% remaining? Such a tease... I then tried accessing http://beta.microsoft.com from...
Both Microsoft and Skype made announcments at 3GSM demonstrating their commitment to Windowsmobile phone devices. First, Microsoft Office Communicator now has a mobile version that extends the reach of Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005's real-time collaboration features to...
Some Skype news from the first day of 3GSM in Barcelona that a Skype PR representative shared with me. First, HP is announcing that the new HP iPAQ hw6900 supports Skype Mobile for Pocket PC. The hw6900 looks just like...
ZyXEL has a dual-mode GSM/WiFi handset phone coming out soon running WindowsMobile5.0 and will feature a removable SIM card for use with any carrier that supports GSM. The real kicker is that it will also have Skype pre-installed...
I recently learned about a VoIP-capable PDA-like phone from IP Thinking that runs Skype on a WindowsMobile 2003 Second Edition "Pocket PC-like" device. Think of this as a phone handset slapped onto a PocketPC. Called the IP-Thinking VoIP phone,...
BREAKING! Symbol has two new ruggedized mobile devices coming out called the MC9094 and the MC9097, running WindowsMobile5.0 with cellular/mobile phone access, a touch-screen, and a full-sized keyboard + dialpad that aims to dethrone the Blackberry. (Update: See...
A new PDA product from Symbol Technologies called the MC70 (MC-70?) is launching that is a "ruggedized" Blackberry-like device running Microsoft's WindowsMobile5.0. Symbol told me, "This is going to be your 'extreme Blackberry' which targets workers that...
Skype has just released a new beta of Skype for Pocket PC. Click here to go get it. The last version of Skype for Pocket PC with any new features was released in April this year, making the Pocket PC...
DualCor Technologies in January will unveil the cPC, a full-fledged handheld Windows XP Tablet computer that also runs WindowsMobile5.0 operating system for its smart phone functionality. The cPC is 6.5 inches long, 3.3 inches wide, 1.2 inches thick...
Some news to share from one of my favorite VoIP companies - Global IP Sound.Global IP Sound (GIPS), the leading provider of embedded speech-processing solutions for the Voice over IP (VoIP) market, today announced that it is shipping two new...
Some news from PalmSource, about them joining a forum that is trying to "standardize" Linux components and APIs that run on mobile phone devices. The reason why Microsoft has been making such strong in-roads in the mobile phone market arena...
I don't own a BlueTooth GPS receiver, so I cannot attest to the complexity or issues involved with maintaining a good connection between the Bluetooth GPS receiver and an end-user device, but this bit of news below seems to suggest...