There's a superb article on Silicon.com about the Windows Mobile Smartphone trial that UK retailer Marks and Spencer are putting in place. Not sure about the sub-heading though "Mobile email not pants for execs". Check out the article at http://networks...

The date is confirmed - we'll see the Community Tech Preview of Exchange SP2 next week :) Wooohooo Check out Harold Wong's Blog Site : Exchange 2003 SP2 Community Technology Preview available for Download for more details including caveats related to...

Infomill, another great UK partner for Windows Mobile, has teamed up with Corgi to offer CORGI Parts Arena . The product allows engineers to view complex documents such as enginnering manuals on a Windows Mobile Pocket PC (or Smartphone!) in amazing detail...

For those who couldn't make it to the live webcast, the recording can be viewed here: https://www119.livemeeting.com/cc/microsoft/view?id=MB9CF5 Paul Flaherty did a great job explaining the ins and outs of troubleshooting Exchange Activesync. If you...

Well mine is on order from those fine chaps at eXpansys and I think this could be very close to the killer device for me. The i-mate K-JAM is pretty similar in dimenions to the exisiting Jam/M500/MDA Compact but has Windows Mobile 5 and a keyboard - along...

Back in November Microsoft released Service Pack 2 for Exchange Server 2003 to the web and the Messaging & Security Feature Pack for Windows Mobile 5 to the OEMs. Many people have asked me since then when the tool for the remote wiping of devices...

Well I know Jason has been blogging about his new Pocket PC Phone Edition - the HTC Wizard - and I decided I should do the same. This is a fantastic device that has pretty much everything you need - the once excpetion vs. the Universal is 3G which is...

Global Contact Access is just one of those applications that makes you think - "why did it take so long?" We've had this application internally here at Microsoft for some time and I've been waiting forever for it to be released knowing that for many it...

The Exchange product team have blogged that they expect to release a customer technology preview of SP within a couple of weeks. Check out Harold Wong's Blog Site - we'll be sure to shout it from the rooftops when it hits as you'll get a look at Direct...

Now available to download here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=DB3813C5-B0FA-4230-813B-902ACA775ADA&displaylang=en Note the following caveats: This release is not intended for production environments and should only...

I know many of our mobile partner community are out there connecting Windows Mobile to SBS so though you may like to kno wthta th e The Official SBS Support Blog is now live. "This site will host technical articles and discussions regarding a wide variety...

Hardly a week goes by now when I don't hear of or find another new industry or application for Windows Mobile. One of my favourites to date is Pocket Cow Manger which allows agronomists to gather their field based data (pun intended) on a Pocket PC and...

Just in case you wanted to see the O2 XDA Exec really close up!

Though I'm not a huge fan of the word "gadget" this is a great new blog on gadgets...though not quite what you traditionally think of when you hear that word! check oy the Microsoft Gadgets blog

This site has been around for a while in several guises but never well publicised, at least in the UK. The My Windows Mobile Site allows you to configure your Windows Mobile devices "over the air". This is something I uused to demo like mad when we first...

Okay, apologies for going off topic again but I thought you may like to know that XBOX 360 day in the UK is going to be Dec 2nd. Start saving those pennies and informing Mr S.Claus :)

Our friends over at Westcoast have a great newsletter that hopefully you receive already but if not check out their site They have a great offer on the HP 6515 Pocket PC Phone Edition which includes GPS in the unit. They also offer special pricing for...

One of the areas I've been a real advocate of this year has been our ability to bring partners together to build ever better solutions based on Windows Mobile. TBS has long been a leader mobility and has a great history of deploying Windows Mobile solutions...

I've worked with Vodafone for a long time on Windows Mobile and it's a pleasure to now see a range of devices bearing a Window Mobile OS on their UK site . The QTEK 8020 smartphone is there along with the QTEK2020i Pocket PC Phone Edition and the VPA...

O2 are now listing the Samsung i300 Smartphone ont their coming soon pages. This device has a 3GB hard disk - and no restrictions on how many music tracks you can store til you hit that 3gig limt!

Another great validation of the partnership approac this week - TBS announced a partnership with Anite Mobile that allows the latter to take the TaskMaster Field Mobility solution in to local and central governments, complementing Anite's Enterprise Mobility...

Earlier this week I put together a short webcast about the forthcoming Messaging & Security Feature Pack for Windows Mobile 5.0 and Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2. If you want to view a recording of the webcast you can get to it here: https:...

Check out the new article posted on MSDN for some high level information about what developers can achieve with Windows Mobile 5. It is a great read, even if you are not a developer, to get a feel for what can be achieved on the devices and how simple...

Jonathan over at Sentient sent me this great Skido cartoon recently - good fun and if you do any kind of sport, you should check this application out. Running on both Smartphone and Pocket PC, the SportsDo range of products utilises GPS to provide realtime...

This is a pretty interesting report if you're deploying Exchange and/or thinking about connecting mobile devices to Exchange - with SP2 of course this becomes even more compelling. Enough about my favourite topic for now though :) The scope of this Radicati...