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Microsoft says it is responding to the fierce competition in the phone market by retooling and beefing up its mobile operating system–and by putting it on fewer devices.
The reason that Microsoft is limiting the number of phones with the operating system is because, Tood Peters said, the company does not want to have its efforts diluted over too many devices.
“I’d rather have fewer devices and be more focused,” he said. That way “we get better integration” between phone and operating system.
Read the full interview with Todd Peters (vice president of marketing in the Microsoft Windows Mobile Division) in The New York Times BITS
Do you have to many memory sticks in the bag, Kingston just released a solution. The new Kingston Datatraveler 150 with a storage capacity of 64GB… 
wow… the only minus (besides the price) is the missing support for Windows ReadyBoost 
It’s not cheap, expect to pay $177 for this gadget. Read more at SlashGear or the Kingston Press Release
USB 3.0 will be unveiled next Monday, and so far the new specs for the protocol look incredible, promising 25GB transfers in a mere 70 seconds. To put that in perspective, the same transfer would take 13.9 minutes with the current USB 2.0 protocol and 9.3 hours on USB 1.0. Looks like the future of wired syncs and backups is bright and blazing
Again they lost a USB stick with important data in UK. Read the full story here on GHACKS
If only they used AFARIA from Sybase iAnywhere 
Afaria can be used to crypt information on USB devices and to crypt data on Mobile Devices, Laptops and Desktops.
Read more about Afria here at Sybase iAnywhere web, and if you wan’t to know more about Mobile Device Management.
here is a free podcast Mobile Device Management for Dummies from Sybase.
Most people have seen Microsoft Surface… and now Microsoft has announced the SecondLight table… it’s like the Surface table but just with more Magic.
Like when Microsoft launched Surface this technologi is really cool, and I WAN’T it….
Check out the video here: youtube.com or read about here: PC Magazine
Epson Imaging Devices Corp has developed a Photo Fine HR transflective amorphous silicon TFT (a-TFT) liquid crystal display (LCD) for use in mobile devices. Photo Fine HR (high reflect) enables both high visibility and low power consumption on a wide range of indoor and outdoor enviroments.
In other words at last a screen you are able to use outside in bright daylight, witout it drains the batteries in your device.
Read more here: techon.nikkelpb.co.jp
Microsoft Office Labs offers you Touchless.
Touchless enables touch without touching by using a webcam to track color based markers.
Get a Demo or the SDK here, or read more: Microsoft Office Labs: Touchless
Fast forward for mobile broadband |
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Phone firms, chip makers and PC manufacturers are uniting to push mobile broadband on laptop computers. The alliance will build wireless modules into laptops to make it much easier to use the gadgets on future high-speed services. Laptops with the wireless chips built-in will bear a service mark which shows they will work with the third and fourth generation wireless technology. The branded laptops should be on shop shelves in 91 nations by Christmas. |
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This logo denotes a laptop fitted with high-speed wireless
Read the fulle story here: BBC NEWS Technology
The web site Hack A Day has a DYI project called Web Server on a business card. Really nice…. SPACE saving.
Get infomation on how to DYI on: Hack A Day
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