Posts Tagged ‘Windows’

Windows Live Mobile gets a makeover

Thursday, December 11th, 2008

A blog posting has just appeared from the Windows Live Mobile Team uttering there are new happenings to its mobile phone portal. Wahoo!

They’ve updated their Windows Live site for mobiles with all new features and services that weren’t even around for the beta users, those cheeky wee people.

Aim your phone at http://mobile.live.com to check out what’s what and run up your data tariff so much that you’ll have to sell a family member just to pay the bill off.

They’ve updated, reworked, and tweaked Windows Live Mobile Home to now include Photos, Profiles, People, and Spaces – all with nothing to actually download to your phone.

Services match and mirror what goes on in the full blown version too. With the likes of your personal status messages being updated on the mobile client then changing on the desktop.

Before hand really only very basic Hotmail and Messenger were available for handset users, now they’ve almost enabled the familiar desktop functions for your phone. There’s even a promise of an updated mobile Hotmail version on the way in the next few months. Hurrah!

They’ve released two updated version, one for the PC and another for the phone. With a view to learn what you can actually do on you mobile, with the likes of Alerts and SMS services on the ‘puter.

On the computer, aim your browsers to the exact same address - http://mobile.live.com, to find out what’s what.

For more on the blog-post see here, or just go and visit the mobile site and try it out for yourself.

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SPB Software brings Online Games to WinMo Platform

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

SPB Software, one of the leading development houses for Windows Mobile applications and games have just recently announced a suite of online games and are calling them ‘Sp Online Games’.

Currently, the house is offering four instant online games along with a chat service. Using this service, one can play the games in realtime with virtually anyone in the world. The games currently offered include Checkers, Hexagon and Reversi and can be launched within 30 seconds. One may even continue an interrupted game from where it was left off. The players also have a customizable user profile, including pictures, name of handset and type and even the network.

This was originally a part of Spb Online and already has thousands of players registered on the network. The realtime chat enables the users to interact with fellow players on the network.

The online games software ins compatible with Windows Mobile 5 and later professional and standard devices. It’s available for purchase for $14.95 at http://spbsoftwarehouse.com and there’s a free 15-day trial available for those interested.

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Microsoft finishes ‘cool, fun’ Danger deal

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Microsoft has finally completed its buy of smartphone software maker Danger. Now part of the Redmond fold, Danger will be part of the Premium Mobile Experiences team, a group within the Mobile Communications Business of the Entertainment and Devices Division at Microsoft.

Apparently, according to Microsoft, acquiring Danger will let it “deliver cool, new, fun mobile experiences”. Cool and fun aren’t words I’d associated with Windows Mobile in a million years - can you be fun if you’re part of a team in a unit within a unit within a unit - but fingers crossed Danger can do something about making Windows Mobile a little bit more intuitive and, who knows, maybe take Microsoft out of its business mobile straightjacket.

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NFC coming to Windows Mobile with Sirit deal

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

RFID company Sirit has struck a deal with Microsoft that could see NFC - the so called ‘tap and go’ mobile payment system - coming to Windows Mobile devices. According to the twosome, Microsoft will use Sirit’s embedded software and technology to speed up NFC adoption for Microsoft-powered handsets, as well as developing applications to support contactless payments.

Microsoft said it intends to develop application programming interfaces (APIs) and other support to give mobile makers and applications developers a hand with producing NFC-enabled devices.

NFC is typically associated with mass market consumer devices rather than the more business-y Windows Mobile device - could this be a sign Microsoft is willing to follow BlackBerry and get a little more consumer? Either way, the Sirit deal it sounds like good news for Windows Mobile users.

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