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  • Download Origami Experience and passing of the torch

    Hi all, I'm happy to announce that Origami Experience has been published to the download center for UMPC users who install or upgrade to Windows Vista. If you don't know what Origami Experience is, read some of the previous blogs and check out the video demo we have. So, when you are all ready, click on the link below to download the Origami Experience Pack. It includes Origami Experience, Sudoku, and Windows Vista Touch Settings. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=AC349E84-C109-4AE7-A973-411C1DE2457F&displaylang=en Note that DialKeys is not included in the download version. DialKeys is only available pre-installed on new UMPCs so if you wipe your UMPC or upgrade to Windows Vista, DialKeys will be unavailable. Keep an eye out on the Download Center ( http://microsoft.com/downloads ) for the international versions of the Origami Experience Pack later this week. Ink Desktop and Experience Pack for Windows Vista will be published this week as well. Finally, MS Reader - Optimized for Origami will go live later in February. I was personally amazed at how great of a reading device UMPCs really became once a good software implementation was created. On a completely seperate note, I wanted to formally announce that my entire team and I (with the exception of Jeremy) have been asked to move off of UMPC and go to work on a new secret project. The new Product Unit Manager (PUM) for UMPC at Microsoft will be Oscar Koenders. Moving forward you can expect to see some new faces from Microsoft blogging and responding to forum posts, but I'm sure Sears, Emily, myself and the rest of the team will still be checking in from time to time. Launching this site has been a lot of fun for me. I had the vision to create a community site for UMPC enthusiasts and new users alike to meet other people and to have a direct communication with the software engineering team as Microsoft. The team and I have learned a ton from running this site and have really enjoyed...

  • .Net Compact Framework Application and Library Catalog Updated

    I've posted an updated .NET Compact Framework catalog to the internet. The catalog has outgrown the capabilities of our blog editor so it's now posted as a stand alone web page that will be updated periodically. When it's updated, I'll post another entry here, to the team blog. This update includes a number of applications that we learned about thanks to a paragraph included in a recent http://www.Handango.com developer newsletter. Click on this link to see our application catalog . The catalog contains applications that I find out about through web searches and emails from developers. We're always looking for applications and libraries to add to our catalog. Applications and libraries we discover are used for posting updates to our team blog (you are here!) to show what types of applications are being built with .NET Compact Framework. This page gets thousands of visits monthly, so having your app listed here can be an effective supplemental means of publicizing your application and company. candidates for basic compatibility testing with new versions of the .NET Compact Framework under development. This helps us do our best to ensure that existing applications – like yours – continue to work well with new versions of the .NET Compact Framework. If your application isn't on the list, I'd love to include it if you send an email to cfapp@microsoft.com (include name of application, which platforms it targets, required version of NETCF and URL). If you need product support, please use the MSDN Feedback Center as this will ensure your issue gets into our databases where we can respond to it and track it. Michael Lipp SDET Tech Lead .Net Compact Framework Disclaimers: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

  • Apple Announces iPhone

    http://www.apple.com/iphone/ Available in 2007 via AT&T in the United States, later to Asia.
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  • Samsung SGH-A437

    Samsung SGH-A437 is a quad-band GSM clamshell and features 65k color TFT display, VGA camera, Bluetooth 2.0, MMS messaging, Organizer and speakerphone.
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  • Yahoo!-keitai replaces Vodafone-Live!

    SoftBank replaced Vodafone-Live! by Yahoo!-Keitai. SoftBank phones have a "Y!"-button which links to Yahoo!-keitai. Yahoo-Keitai! offers a list of official sites, new services (e.g. a new communicator service), and also access to free mobile internet sites through the YAHOO directory, as well as access to YAHOO services, such as YAHOO-auctions. YAHOO!-keitai is a fresh start to revive the mobile internet service, previously known as Vodafone-Live!, and which had been losing market share to competitors i-Mode and EZweb for about 4 years. Previous to the Vodafone-Live! period, Jsky had been successful in gaining market share both from i-Mode and EZweb. Read more in our "Softbank-Report"

  • Webby Event at NYC

    On Tuesday January 23rd, dotMobi sponsored a happy hour with the Webby's at the W Hotel in Union Square, NYC. I was there with both Neil Edwards, CEO and Vance Hedderel, Dir. of PR and Communications and members of the...

  • Human vending machine in Tokyo

    While Coca-Cola promotes Cmode vending machines with mixed success (see our C-Mode report ) for wallet-phones and mobile payments , a promoter used the opposite extreme at the most visible spot on Shibuya's Hachiko square recently: a human vending machine with a built-in charming human operator for the human touch (there is an upper window to serve adults and a special lower window to serve children):

  • .NET Compact Framework 3.5 included in Orcas January CTP

    The .NET Compact Framework team has spent the last year planning and developing the next version of the .NET Compact Framework 3.5, which will align with the .NET Framework 3.5 shipping in next version of Visual Studio code named “Orcas”. The team has focused its efforts in 4 areas including, addressing core problems of creating distributed mobile applications by enabling mobile devices to interoperate with Windows Communication Foundation services, Implementing device specific features from LINQ, continuing to implement highly requested features and refining NETCF’s ability to diagnose and solve reliability and supportability issues. The first release of NETCF 3.5 went public a few weeks ago in the Orcas January CTP. This release of NETCF does not include the complete list of features but is a step toward the final feature set. New builds of NETCF will be included in each new public drop of Orcas with the majority of features being included by Orcas Beta1. Below is a list of features included in the January CTP. If you’re interested in these new features start by downloading the Orcas January CTP using either the VPC image at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=1FF0B35D-0C4A-40B4-915A-5331E11C39E6&displaylang=en or try installing it to your test PC at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=69055927-458B-4129-9047-FCC4FACAE96C&displaylang=en New Features Included in the Orcas January CTP: • System.IO.Compression support, including support for HTTP compression. • Support for a subset of Linq’s Standard Query Operators. • SoundPlayer support using WaveOut allowing for multiple sounds to play at once. • New API in Microsoft.WindowsCE.Forms for easily distinguishing Smartphone and Pocket PC. • Allow Nested FuncEval's. • Enhanced logging for interop functionality with native code. • Stack Trace Enhancements. • GAC Improvements. • Allow for StrongName keys greater than 1024 long. • To improved logging of finalizer activities to enhance product supportability. • Allow log files to be read at runtime.

  • Mobile Number Portability (MNP) in Japan

    Mobile number portability created winners and losers in only two months - the main business challenge for Japanese operators is to avoid a price war. KDDI is the clear winner in the first round, DoCoMo suffers a setback, and SoftBank did better than expected. Today we released the 23rd edition of our JCOMM-Report - about 250 pages of overview and analysis of Japan's telecom sector. KDDI gains 524,000 subscribers in Oct & Nov 2006. DoCoMo for the first time ever since it was founded experienced a net loss of subscriptions. KDDI gains 600,000 new EZweb subscribers, Japanese operators earn much from mobile internet - subscription data show even better results for KDDI 's EZweb.

  • Finland-Japan Ubiquitous Society Conference

    October 27, 2006 the Finland-Japan Ubiquitous Society Conference was held in Tokyo. Tero Ojanpera, Exec VP and CTO of NOKIA, gave an overview of NOKIA's vision of communications, other speakers and panelists included Juho Lipsanen, Finland CEO of TeliaSonera, KDDI Chairman Murakami. The day before I briefed and had a long discussion with the top management team of TeliaSonera-Finland. Panel discussion with TeliaSonera CEO Juho Lipsanen and KDDI-Chairman Murakami.

  • ACCESS CEO Toru Arakawa (Oct. 6, 2006)

    Toru Arakawa, CEO and Founder of ACCESS, gave a keynote speech at this years CEATEC show in Makuhari on October 6, 2006, outlining ACCESS strategies. ACCESS is the maker of NetFront browsers and other software at the core of DoCoMo's i-mode . ACCESS acquired PalmSource and is developing the Access Linux Platform (ALP) based on the PalmSource acquisition. With ALP, ACCESS is planning to deliver a full software stack for mobile phones based on Linux. In his speach Toru Arakawa outlined company strategy also beyond mobile phones to multimedia home centers. Looks to me like ACCESS is shaping itself to compete with APPLE and Microsoft both in the mobile phone and the home entertainment markets.

  • Ericsson Strategy & Technology Summit Tokyo

    Eurotechnology's CEO was invited to attend Ericsson's Strategy & Technology Summit in Tokyo on November 15, 2006. Ericsson's CEO, Carl-Henric Svanberg, Ericsson CSO - Chief of Strategy, Japan-CEO Rory Buckley and other Ericsson top management presented Ericsson's strategy and vision. About 100 investors and investment bank analysts were invited to attend. I was given the opportunity to share the lunch table with CEO Carl-Henric Svanberg and had a fascinating discussion. With some of the largest and most advanced mobile investments, Japan's mobile market is one of the most important markets globally for Ericsson. Recently Ericsson won major contracts from SoftBank and eAccess/eMobile.
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