A new feature in Windows Media Player 12 on the latest leaked build of Windows 7 has been discovered by Zack Whittaker on ZDNet. The new feature is called “Allow Internet Access to Home Media” and is tied to your Live ID when activated. It’s currently unclear as to how exactly this might work, but it sounds like something similar to Orb where as you leave your home computer on and are able to log …
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Designer & web developer since the mid 1990's starting on the DEC intranet. User experience consultant since 1998. Photographer since 1995. Tech journalist since 2002.Fediverse Profile
New System Center Mobile Device Manager Resources Available
System Center Mobile Device Manager. The name is really long and nobody knows what it is, but in terms of enterprise mobility management features, it’s 10 years beyond anything else! At least that’s what Patrick Salmon of Enterprise Mobile tells me, and I believe him. There was some talk of MDM at the MVP Summit last week and its lack of marketing. It seems to be the consensus that if IT administrators knew about all …
Continue readingMore Meat or More Fluff in Windows Mobile?
Which do you want to see more of in future versions of Windows Mobile? Meat or Fluff? Meat would be the kind of stuff that really fills you up. We’re talking about something really useful that totally and surprisingly makes your life easier. Something that you might think to yourself afterwards, “How did I ever live without this before?” Something like Windows Vista’s auto-searching Start menu would fit this category. The Fluff is the stuff …
Continue readingWindows Mobile MVPs and Their Phones
During the recent Microsoft Global MVP Summit this week, Todd Ogasawara of Mobile Devices Today took brief video interviews of a number of the Windows Mobile MVPs during a break and asked which phones they were carrying. That guy at the 4:46 time sure is a snappy dresser (yes…that’s Adam Lein!). Originally published on Pocketnow on March 6, 2009. More News Archive articles from the Pocketnow archive.
Continue readingimate 810F vs. Sham Wow!
The UnwiredView.com has an impressive video of imate’s infomercial-style demonstration of the rugged 810F Windows Phone. The phone continues to function despite being submerged in water, coffee, orange juice, ketchup and salt. Dropping it on the floor and stepping on it doesn’t phase it either. As a bonus, you’ll also see a nice security feature in the phone as well as the ridiculously small Centurion qwerty Windows Phone that imate is also developing. Unfortunately there …
Continue readingSony Vaio P: Kinda Like the Win CE HPCs of Yesteryear
Pocketables.net has been doing some coverage on the new Sony Vaio P Ultramobile PC AKA Netbook AKA Subnotebook AKA Ultraportable laptop lately. There’s an unboxing, a set up, size comparison, 3G SIM slot, and some performance measurements. This device reminds me of the old Windows CE Handheld PC devices some of us used to carry around almost 10 years ago, except it looks a lot better and it runs full Windows Vista. Of course, when …
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