Microsoft Tags are a method of communicating electronic information to mobile devices via physical printed or visual media such as print advertising, billboards, product packages, information signs, in-store merchandising, and video images. Basically you point your phone’s camera (with the tag reader application running) at a tag and the software instantly loads the information associated with that tag. Originally, Microsoft Tags were a series of colored triangles in a square separated by white lines. The …
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Syncing from Windows Media Center to your Windows Mobile Phone
While we covered how to sync your Windows Phone with Windows Media Center a while ago, Microsoft has now posted a video demo by Mike Seamon about this. The video also comes pre-loaded in Windows Media Center’s “Learn How” section in an attempt to make this feature more discoverable to the average user. Watch the video demo here. Originally published on Pocketnow on May 4, 2009. More How To articles from the Pocketnow archive.
Continue readingWindows 7 Automatically Installs Sync Software
Next week, the Windows 7 Release Candidate is going to be released to the public, while this week the private beta testers have gotten their hands on it. You’ll be happy to hear that Windows 7 makes it a bit easier to set up and sync your Windows Mobile device. All you have to do is plug your Windows Phone into a Windows 7 computer with a USB cable and Windows 7 will automatically detect …
Continue readingTouch Diamond on Heroes
If you’ve been watching Heroes on NBC, you may have noticed something interesting on the season finale this week. Noah Bennet has upgraded his phone to the Sprint Touch Diamond, from the Palm Treo 800w he’s been using. I’m not sure that was a wise decision, since the Touch Diamond doesn’t have a hardware keyboard or quite as much one-handed usability and speed as the Palm Treo 800w, but we also discover that Noah’s adopted …
Continue readingWhy Would You Buy an Android Netbook?
According to Lance Ulanoff of PC Magazine in his article titled Windows 7 Starter Won’t Open Any Doors for Android or Linux, Android has about as much of a chance with competing in the netbook market (and desktop computing market) as Linux does, and that’s a very slim chance. Ulanoff mentions how many people are thinking that Microsoft’s crippled Windows 7 Starter Edition (made for netbooks) will open the doors for Linux and Android to …
Continue readingSpb Mobile Shell 3.0 Now Available
The people at Spb have released some of the best Windows Mobile interfaces in the industry. We saw a preview of the new Spb Mobile Shell 3.0 at Mobile World Congress 2009. Over the past couple of weeks Pocketnow had been given the privilege to test out the prerelease. The only statement we can make is, “Amazing!” Spb Mobile Shell 3.0 incorporates some of the best features around; excellent touch response, smooth animation, very finger …
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