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• iPhone 3G does not capture 17 percent of the US market for cell phones

  It’s interesting to me how people contort Apple market share figures to make them look better than they really are. If Apple’s market share of, say, the PC industry isn’t high enough, we’ll just use the US figures without mentioning that’s what happening... Posted Oct 07 2008, 11:48 AM by pthurrott with | with 83 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Windows Mobile, Smartphone, Mobile, Commentary

• GoDaddy.com Launches New Hosted Microsoft Exchange

  Here we go: This is, I believe, the first reasonably priced hosted Exchange service. Here’s the official press release: GoDaddy.com, the world's largest domain registrar and largest hosting provider in North America, and Microsoft Corp. today announced... Posted Oct 07 2008, 12:22 AM by pthurrott with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: Microsoft Office, Windows Mobile, Smartphone, Mobile, Cloud computing, Microsoft Servers

• The Cell Phone Wars

  Slate has an interesting comparison of Apple’s very closed model with the iPhone and Google’s very open model with Android: In the two months since the App Store's launch, Apple has rejected several programs for seemingly arbitrary reasons that it... Posted Sep 26 2008, 11:47 AM by pthurrott with | with 89 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Windows Mobile, Internet, Smartphone, Mobile, Cloud computing, Developer

• NuevaSync: OTA iPhone/Google Sync

  I wasted a silly amount of time today trying to get Windows Live Contacts/Calendar to sync with MobileMe (and the iPhone) via Outlook and the new Outlook Connector 12.1 beta. (Long story short: While you can, in fact, make your Windows Live data store... Posted Aug 03 2008, 03:06 PM by pthurrott with | with 57 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Windows Mobile, Mobile, Cloud computing

• Windows Mobile update

  So I wrote a little news story today noting that Microsoft missed its target of selling 20 million Windows Mobile licenses in its fiscal year 2008, which ended June 30. Here’s the company’s take on this news: We are excited to announce that Windows Mobile... Posted Jul 31 2008, 02:53 PM by pthurrott with | with 218 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Windows Mobile, Mobile

• Microsoft tries to throw some cold water on iPhone

  Computerworld has some interesting information about Windows Mobile vs. Apple's iPhone: Companies -- lots of them -- are still buying Windows Mobile smart phones, and Microsoft doesn't want to let iPhone mania make them forget. During Microsoft's... Posted Jul 21 2008, 10:31 AM by pthurrott with | with 33 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Windows Mobile, Smartphone, Mobile

• Windows Mobile Apps

  Microsoft EMEA tries to prove that Windows Mobile doesn't come up short against the iPhone and the iPhone Application Store but really just ends up proving that Microsoft can't do anything on the Web these days without first promoting Silverlight... Posted Jul 17 2008, 10:58 AM by pthurrott with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Windows Mobile, Mobile

• Gary Krakow is off his rocker, blames MSFT for iPhone battery woes

  Nice to see someone else going after the mainstream media for unfairly blaming Microsoft for something, in this case—get this—the iPhone 3G's poor battery life. Head's up, guys. Push kills battery life, no matter where the service comes from.... Posted Jul 15 2008, 03:24 PM by pthurrott with | with 53 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Apple, Windows Mobile, Smartphone, Mobile, Cloud computing

• Windows SideShow for Windows Mobile Developer Preview, and an idea for actually using SideShow

  This this is interesting. Since fairly early in the Windows Vista beta, Microsoft has been touting a Vista feature called Windows SideShow, but the required hardware has never really appeared in any mass market product, though the odd laptop with an external... Posted Jun 13 2008, 10:40 AM by pthurrott with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Mobile, Mobile, Vista, Commentary

• Put Windows Live on your Windows Mobile phone

  The Windows Vista Blog is promoting (a new release of?) Windows Live for Windows Mobile: Windows Live for Windows Mobile is now available to download for your Windows Mobile phone. Windows Live for Windows Mobile lets Windows Mobile users sync their email... Posted May 14 2008, 11:24 AM by pthurrott with | with 39 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Windows Mobile, Mobile, Commentary

• Smart phone numbers

  In an article about Microsoft's smart phone hopes and dreams, some interesting numbers are revealed: Around 118 million smartphones were sold last year, according to market researcher Canalys. Symbian captured 67 percent of the OS market. Microsoft... Posted May 13 2008, 12:27 PM by pthurrott with | with 44 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Windows Mobile, Google, Mobile

• What's the deal with Windows Mobile?

  Watching Microsoft twist in the wind as the iPhone steals its thunder in the smart phone market is interesting and, I think, instructive. As was the case with the digital media market, where Apple swept in with its iPod devices and iTunes software, Microsoft... Posted Apr 02 2008, 02:39 PM by pthurrott with | with 34 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Windows Mobile, Mobile

• REDFLY: Utility of a Handheld PC, but with the latest OS

  This is exactly why I'm excited about the REDFLY as well: I was a big fan of the Handheld PCs, like the Jornada 680, because they gave me a large keyboard and display to write, surf, and be productive on the go with a long battery life. The major... Posted Mar 24 2008, 07:32 PM by pthurrott with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Mobile, Mobile, Cloud computing

• Microsoft won't launch iPhone rival

  Something tells me that Apple won't come out of this thinking they just dodged a bullet: Microsoft will not launch a product that competes directly with Apple's iPhone, Chairman Bill Gates said in an interview with Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine... Posted Jan 09 2008, 12:15 PM by pthurrott with | with 18 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Zune, Windows Mobile, Mobile

• Firefox Mobile

  Finally, Mozilla is waking up to the opportunities of mobile computing with the sort-of-because-it-happened-in-a-blog-post announcement of the company's plans for this space: People ask us all the time about what Mozilla's going to do about the... Posted Oct 15 2007, 07:45 AM by pthurrott with | with no comments Filed under: iPhone, Windows Mobile, Internet, Alt. Windows, Internet Explorer, Mobile