Jason Langridge’s Mr Mobile Blog

I’m over in Las Vegas at the Mobile and Embedded Developer Conference 2007!

The pre-conference starts today with the main conference starting tomorrow!

I’ll be blogging from the conference but there is an MEDC blog HERE too.

I’ve got 3 sessions to deliver at MEDC.

ITP204 - Top 10 Features of Windows Mobile© 6 for Enterprise Customers
Level: 200

Session to highlight the key benefits of Windows Mobile for Enterprise customers outlining benefits in the overall platform as well as the experience for the mobile information worker.

Timeslot:5/2/2007 8:30-9:45

Room:Venetian G

ITP205 - Top 10 Security Concerns of Going Mobile (And How to Overcome Them)
Level: 200

Windows Mobile devices are becoming increasingly attractive to organizations due to their portability and capability. Security however is the number one consideration for planning any deployment. This session will provide guidance on how to overcome the top 10 security considerations and issues typically encountered by enterprise customers. You will learn about best practices, policies and technical guidance on how to ensure you can deploy Windows Mobile but help your Security team sleep at night.

Timeslot:5/2/2007 10:00-11:15
Room:Titan 2202-03

ITP202 - How Can You Deliver Mobile Email to Over 40,000 Users with Exchange Server and Windows Mobile© Devices?
Level: 200

This session will give guidance on how to successfully implement a large scale rollout of mobile devices. It will cover topics such as infrastructure requirements, scalability, deployment considerations, device provisioning and user training. This is an essential session for anyone looking to deploy mobile devices inside their organization.

Timeslot:5/2/2007 17:15-18:30
Room:Veronese 2404-05-06

If you are at MEDC 2007 make sure you say Hi!

If you aren’t here but like the look of the conference it’s being delivered around the World and of course it’d be great to see you at the European MEDC!

Uncategorized

Orange have just released the AKU3 download for Windows Mobile 5.0 for their popular Orange M3100 device.

One of the great features this update offers is Internet Sharing!

Check out my blog post on that

You can read more details about the update and download it HERE

Uncategorized

This year the Gumball Rally is again being sponsored by ALK and also HTC.  Each driver will be using a T-Mobile MDA Compact for finding their way across Europe and several thousand miles in just 7 days!

You can check out how the Photo Gallery as well as the MSN Celebrity Blogs HERE

Uncategorized

I’ve been exchanging email with the folks at SlingMedia for a while about why there isn’t a Slingplayer Mobile Client available in the UK….

Strangely the US Version works perfectly (as long as you can convince a US Colleague to buy it for you)

Well great news!  They’ve released a version of their client for the UK for Windows Mobile!

If you haven’t seen it before – SlingPlayer takes any output and rebroadcasts it via the Internet to your PC or Device!

You can get more details HERE

Uncategorized

One of the questions I often get is a method of synchronising the Notes inside Exchange.  I personally don’t use Notes as I use OneNote Mobile 2007 but it seems many people do.  (Plus OneNote Mobile doesn’t support sync over the air)

Adam contacted me about his application he’s written for piggybacking off Exchange Tasks sync and providing a Notepad application on the device.  So whilst it doesn’t really fix the problem.. it’s a neat workaround.

He’s providing the solution free for people to use if they wish…

You can get more details

http://skipmeamadeus.blogspot.com/2007/04/free-smartphone-notes-with.html

Straight to the download, prereqs (it’s a .net CF 2 app), and source code here:

http://www.selfmummy.com/notebarn

Uncategorized

BlueSky Positioning have announced a solution for devices that will allow you to add GPS to your device by having the GPS capability on the SIM card.

They claim there are no software or hardware changes needed for legacy handsets and the solution even includes a proprietary In-Sim Antenna.

You can check out more details either at The Register or Blue Sky’s…

Uncategorized

Ahead of next week’s Mobile Developer Conference Loke, Mike, James and Rob Tiffany have been having some fun showcasing the worst practices of presentations…

It’s hilarious!

Uncategorized

If you haven’t registered yet for this webcast there is still time to do so! 

You can get more details on the webcast that shares our how Microsoft internally deploy, manage and support Windows Mobile HERE

Uncategorized

Reuters recently reported that Text Messaging on Mobile Phones is having a damaging effect on grammar and punctuation.  This was following a review by the State Examination Commission in Ireland. 

WTHDTM ? CIO

If you are having trouble talking to the younger generation… try using this translation service… LINGO2WORD

Uncategorized

I recently found this interesting press release from M:Metrics which outlines Internet Web usage from Mobile devices.

What’s really interesting is that it highlights some really key differences between Web Browsing usage in the US and UK.

In both countries Google is the most browsed web site.  However in the UK it’s the Mobile Operator sites that rank highest whilst in the US it’s portals such as yahoo, msn and live that are most browsed.

The cynic in me thinks most of this could be down to the Operators hard coding the homepage to their site and T-Mobile use the Google.co.uk site as default but I thought it interesting all the same.

The other piece that shocked me was that the US was higher than the UK in Mobile browsing…  the other question is why the spike on a Tuesday in the UK???

Uncategorized