Category: Pocketnow

The Unwired and WMpoweruser are reporting that Windows Mobile 6.5 will support a new “widget” application type based on HTML, CSS and Javascript programming languages which will use the new Internet Explorer Mobile rendering engine. “Widgets – which are a kind of zipped HTML files containing JavaScript and graphics files (similar to Windows Vista Gadgets) – can be launched straight from the Windows Mobile 6.5 start menu.” While unconfirmed, one would think widget developers will …

Microsoft’s embedded mobile device operating system of choice used to be something called Windows Compact Edition. Everything from thin clients, netbook sized devices, and PDAs used to run Windows CE with a Windows 98 style user interface. In 2000, the “Pocket PC” operating system was released to compete with the Palm OS. The Pocket PC OS was essentially a new easier-to-use more-simplified shell running on top of the Windows CE core. But you know… that …

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 …

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 …