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Symbian Guru released the new version of its security software which helps protecting the phone from theft and unauthorized access. Phone Guardian 3.0 bursts with new features, among which we highlight:
- Added aGPS support, allowing users to trace their mobile phones more precisely
- New SMS commands
- Added an option to start Phone Guardian not only by clicking on the icon, but also using the previously set secret combination
- SMS can now be sent to up to 3 numbers
Like with previous version, Phone Guardian locks the phone automatically, after SIM change and on receiving of the lock SMS. Phone unlock is possible only with the right application password.
More information is available on SymbianGuru’s website.
Imagine watching a movie trailer from a poster or viewing a product’s web site from its packaging.
With Microsoft Tag, your phone’s camera can open web pages, view personalized messages, and more. Think of a tag as a bar code and your camera as a reader. Best of all, you can easily create your own tags for free! Place one on your business card or in your e-mail signature so your contact information can be stored automatically.
Watch a demo here: Microsoft TAG DEMO or get your own TAG here: Microsoft TAG
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
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer spoke about the Windows Mobile 6.5 upgrade for next in this raodmap talk, while visiting Australia to the Liberation Day.
Windows Mobile 6.5 is currently being readied for device partners who should receive copies within the next month. It’s possible that 6.5 could be ready in 2009 Q1.
And we may be lucky at get the Zune software on the this version of Windows Mobile.
link: neowin.net
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 of us expected the next verion of WinMo to be 7, but a slip-up by a Motorola executive this week that Microsoft’s next version of Windows Mobile isn’t Windows Mobile 7, but is actually Windows Mobile 6.5.
Read more here: ZDnet Mary-Jo Foley
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
House members in the next Congress could get Apple’s iPhone as their newest communication gadget.
The Chief Administrative Office (CAO), which oversees the communications systems for the House, has begun testing a small number of iPhones within its ranks to see if they are compatible with the working needs of lawmakers and staff.
“The reason we’re trying them out is because we heard a lot of people wanted the option to have them,” said Jeff Ventura, a spokesman for the CAO.
read more here: TheHill.com
Steve Ballmer confirms Zune software coming to Windows Mobile Platform in a interview with CIO.
CIO: Why has Microsoft developed Zune?
Ballmer: At the end of the day, one of the big trends is that all content is going digital. And if we don’t have the software and services that are useful, helpful and valuable for the consumption of music and video, we are sort of not really a player.
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Now, we built the Zune hardware with the Zune software – and what you’ll see more and more over time is that the Zune software will also be ported to and be more important not just with the hardware but on the PC, on Windows Mobile devices, etc.
Read the full interview on the CIO website here
Microsoft wants to combine multiple WinMo into a single “unwired” system.. Sounds really cool.. 
So in the future we’ll be able to place some WinMo’s on a table and use them as a “big screen”.
Read more here on UNWIRED.COM
And if you want read the US patent application.
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