Great News from URTHERE!!! - Brighthand's Discussion Board This discussion suggests that the new Palmax @migos will ship next week. We might actually get so see some real, live products very soon.
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Arne describes Tegaron's Scout navigation system, which he descibes as today's best convergence product of Pocket PC and GSM. The system integrates a Pocket PC, GPS and GSM. Check out Arne's site to see how it would work. I particularly like the integration with contacts, which I think is so logical for a GPS system. And the use of SMS to calculate the best route based on actual traffic conditions sounds like a very good idea as well.
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John Rappold proposes the compilation of a Pocket PC Anthology in MS Reader format to celebrate the one year anniversary of the Pocket PC in April. This sounds like a good idea to me. If you agree why not post a reponse to this thread. Thanks for the idea John.
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Gary Krakow: "Let me recap this for you: I was connected to my office via modem, from a Paris hotel room, and I was downloading my e-mail, surfing the Web and streaming live audio from MSNBC Cable. All at the same time. All on a PDA. And computer manufacturers are wondering why desktop sales are beginning to slow down?" BTW, the PDA being used is a Compaq iPaq Pocket PC.
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Cool, my book is number 4 on Amazon's Best Books about Handhelds list.
posted by Frank McPherson 11:30 AM |
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iPAQ Wireless RG-1000 Setup I am forming a plan in my mind to add 802.11b wireless communications to my home network.
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Pocket PC Thoughts Jason has a posted a great Pocket PC experience story.
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PDA banking arrives Nationwide "Mobile banking takes a step closer, as long as you've got a Pocket PC PDA, not a Palm"
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For Palm, what a difference a year makes "Palm's success is due in large part to the incredible number of developers writing applications for the Palm OS."
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Windows Media Player 7 Unveiled Jason Dunn has written a good review of the new Media Player 7 for Pocket PCs, including a good overview of the problems with the player.
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Palm Inc. trying to keep Microsoft at arm's length There are some nuggets of information in this article, that tends to move about aimlessly.
posted by Frank McPherson 9:37 PM |
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WRQ NetMotion Press Release NetMotion is a wireless security product that works with Pocket PCs.
posted by Frank McPherson 7:54 PM |
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Jason reminded me about Foxpop's very complete Pocket PC site.
posted by Frank McPherson 7:35 PM |
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Unwired-I.Net - Arne's Unwired Internet Diary Fellow PocketPC.com writer Arne Hess has created a web log that is Pocket PC friendly.
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CNET.com - News - Personal Technology - Palm has music on its mind "The cool thing (about the Palm platform) is that it's still incomplete," Mace said
When it is complete it will be a Pocket PC.
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Jimmy Software has released a utility that switches the display of the Casio Pocket PCs to landscape. Brighthand has written a review of the program showing how well some of the Pocket PC applications work in landscape. It also shows how some programs that don't work in landscape look.
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CNET.com - News - Personal Technology - Casio aims for corporate niche with wireless handheld Casio has another Pocket PC with integrated wireless that they are targetting to the Japanese IT market. What I find interesting about this is the wireless security features.
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pocketPCpassion has added a Discussion Board to the site. There certainly are plenty of forum sites for Pocket PCs.
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PocketPCHow2: How Page 5 A new question has been added: How do I connect to secure web sites?
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Since I can't find any Windows Media Video files to download to a CompactFlash card, I am hard pressed to find a good reason for installing Windows Media Player V7 for Pocket PC. You do gain the ability of Media Player releasing buttons when it is in the background, and to unmap buttons, but is that worth the 1 MB hit in storage space?
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Proceed with Media Player V7 with caution. I don't know if it is related or not, but for some reason I can't move CD tracks ripped using Windows Meda Player V7 on my desktop, to my Pocket PC, if the desktop has Personal Rights Management enabled. Personal Rights Management is turned on by default, so chances are you have it enabled. I discovered this when I used Media Player V7 to move some old tracks to a CompactFlash card to test playing using the new player, and found that they wouldn't even load.
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Microsoft has released Windows Media Player Version 7 for Pocket PCs. I have downloaded and installed this program on a Compaq iPaq, and here are a couple of very quick notes. First, the program occupies 1 MB of storage space. You can probably put this on a storage card, or a microdrive, but obviously if you do then that is where the media will have to be. It appears to play Windows Media Video files, but I don't know where to download such files to test on the iPaq, so I don't know if it works. The original media player stays on the device, and a second shortcut for the Version 7 player is added to the start menu. One good thing is that you can now configure the player to release buttons when it is in the background. So, if you have the action button programmed to change the volume, you can then switch to Reader and use the action button to scroll pages.
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Pocket PC gains set stage for enterprise battle "New research sees Microsoft clawing back marketshare from Palm in the handheld computer market, and analysts say the biggest battle could be about to begin in the corporate playing field."
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Today was to be a travel day to Dallas. Except, Mother Nature intervened by sending a blizzard to Detroit. Tomorrow I will be travelling again, and over the next couple of days I may not have much time to update this site. It all depends on how the flight goes tomorrow.
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