Interoperability Promoted With Bluetooth-Compliant Hardware

REDMOND, Wash. - Oct. 30, 2001 - Microsoft Corp. today announced that the Bluetooth SIG Inc. has qualified the Bluetooth implementation in Windows CE .NET, the next version of the Windows CE operating system, as compliant with the

That's what I want to see, new drivers for a CF or PC card - free of charge! Anycom released now the new drivers for their Bluetooth CF and PC card.

This time it's for Windows 95B, 98, ME, NT4.0, and 2000 but not for Windows XP and Pocket PC which might be released later next month.

However, if you are also using your Bluetooth card with your Notebooks, you should download the update since it fix some bugs with Windows 2000 which runs smoother now!

Some days ago (RUMORS: SD sized Bluetooth card) I wrote about the SD card sized Bluetooth card we can expect within the next month, now the Sacramento Palm User Group posted the first pictures I've ever seen of it:

Accelerating Wireless Solution Development

3-5 December 2001, Municipal Palace of Congresses, Madrid.
The first Microsoft Mobility Developer Conference 3-5 December, Palace de Congresses, Madrid will be Europe's premier event of the year for technical professionals to get the most comprehensive information and training about creating and deploying complete, end-to-end wireless applications and services - for today and tomorrow.

Wayback launched! This is such a cool archive, it saved more than 100 terabytes of web pages since 1996. I also found some of my old sites... :-)

The Internet Archive Wayback Machine

We all know the Power Toys for Windows CE and also for Windows XP – Microsoft released now, one day after the launch of XP by itself, the Power Toys for XP with some amazing features you should miss; if you plan to upgrade

Well, while I'm waiting that Expansys delivers my device I was looking around the web for more information about the T68 and found this interactive Flash demonstrations of the phone.

While I was trying and

On Tuesday, October 23rd at the Professional Developers Conference, Bill Gates announced that the next generation of the Windows CE operating system, formerly code-named "Talisker," will be called Windows

Casio launched the first PDA service to offer rich media content and services for business and pleasure.

"With some personal digital assistants (PDAs), you get a choice of several different services that make it easier to go about your business. With others, you can choose lots of different

As Apple Confidential reports, Steve J. will present the iWalk today for the public:

The iWalk - as the new mysterious device is called that is going to be announced on Tuesday 23rd of this month - has advanced considerably over

Seems that the rumors about the "Isaac" I've posted on Saturday are right!? If so, I know for sure one of my next devices - however, this site will not become a iWalk site but wait a minute, why not... ;-)

Cheers ~ Arne

Get up to speed on GPRS rollouts, devices, applications and services all week right there.

My fellow PocketPC.com writer Frank McPherson had and interesting comment about GPS and using it's bundled software. He took a trip through the US and was forced to change between the maps of Pharos' Pocket Navigator:

"I took the Pharos Navigator with me to guide us on the trip,

Well, since Jason and Andreas posted their thoughts about the Ericsson T68 something happened.

BTW: I'm glad to see that also Americans like Jason have now closer looks about GSM/GPRS technologies. ;-) As mentioned before, Expansys UK seems to be the first shop who have it's hands on the T68. On Friday I got the following E-Mail from

Do you wonder what GPRS is able to provide right today or on the closer future? TheFeature have an interesting overview.

Cheers ~ Arne

Application developers have come up with some clever ways to make use of the new GPRS networks.

Raise a family of cyber sea monkeys.

As a source told me, there is a project running at Apple which code name is "Isaac". Well, as we know, Newton's first name was Isaac and there was a PDA from Apple years ago which called "Newton"... Okay, it's a rumor only but makes sense for me.

How ZDNet reports, there are some rumors of a device which Apple will presents on 23. October:

TheFeature, one of my preferred online magazines about the mobile Internet, have a great article today about the mobile revolution from Mark Mayne:

GPRS has not been the success the European operators originally predicted:

Harmony 802.11a Family enables a new era of high speed wireless mobility

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Oct. 8, 2001 - Proxim, Inc, the leader in wireless broadband networking, today announced the availability of the first

Okay, it’s not Pocket PC but it’s wireless and therefore it can become a Wireless Pocket PC competitor (or not ;-)

Handspring official speaks now about their latest project, the Handspring Treo

Product Features Handspring Treo is one incredibly compact communicator that combines everything you need to stay connected, organized and in-touch no matter where you are.

Full featured mobile phone

• Dual-band World Phone
• Integrated dialing from PhoneBook
• Instant Lookup—find any name in a few keystrokes
• Speed dialing
• 3-way calling
• Personal speakerphone
• Headset jack and included headset
• Call history
• Vibrating and system sound mute modes
• External ringer switch
• GPRS upgradeable upon availability

Palm OS Organizer

• Smallest Palm OS organizer yet
• Fastest Palm OS processor available
• 16 MB memory
• Fully compatible with Microsoft Outlook
• HotSync cable for USB synchronization with computer

PDACrawler takes wireless search capabilities beyond WAP!
MyMobileStuff.com(BETA), a first mover in wireless Web directory services, announced the availability of the first Web crawler for handheld devices. Through the use of its proprietary Web crawler, called PDACrawler, MyMobileStuff.com can search the Web for wireless HTML content. In true Web crawler fashion, PDACrawler indexes links associated with a particular query. It then ranks the links by how high the search word appears in the document. Current

Today, after a long trip through TNT (from Taipei to Frankfurt to Munich, through Munich, through Munich, through...) I received my test sample of Haicom's CF card sized and it's amazing what the package includes:

MY DOCS ONLINE introduces wireless interface for Pocket PC, enabling document management, expanded file storage and fax capability. Users can wirelessly download files, view files, and send files as attachments or as faxes — extending the power and reach of the Pocket PC

Naples, FL. – October

As previous announced here, now it is official! The Pocket PC User Group Tour 2001 is coming into a city near you!

Whether you had the opportunity to catch the Microsoft Mobile Experience Tour this past spring or not, we hope that you'll join us for the fall Microsoft Mobile

Today, with the launch of Pocket PC 2002, Microsoft re-launched their Pocket PC site at PocketPC.com (where I contribute as an author for Tips, Tricks, Reviews and Columns).

If you are going to this years Oktoberfest (or "Wiesn" how we call it here in Munich ;-), don't miss to meet the "Siemens Girls" with the latest Wireless Pocket PC! I met them yesterday evening while I was there and it's so cool:

Some real good news for you, the visitors of Pocket PC Writer Net, from Scott of SCOTT eVEST:

Hi Arne

I wanted to share some of the exciting news happening here at TECHNOLOGY ENABLED CLOTHING LLC- the SCOTT eVEST is featured in this month's Playboy!

Also,

Today NTT DoCoMo launched the world wide first commercial 3G network. FOMA (Freedom Of Mobile Multimedia Access) is available in phase one as a packet based wireless

Today Matsushita officially announced in Tokyo it's development of new SD cards with an increased capacity up to 256 and 512 MB. Until today the maximum capacity of available SD cards is 128 MB only which is far away from the capatities CF cards already provides.
This announcement is just in

You have heard a lot about möbius the last couple of weeks, Andreas from business anyplace have his own view:

Möbius 2001 - the True Story
I guess you already have read all sorts of reports from the Microsoft conference Möbius 2001. Well, I have decided to post the real pictures of

Elad Yakobowicz from pocketnow.com just informed me that the AnyCom Bluetooth CF card, I've already reviewed, is available in the US now - shipping started today!

Good news if you own a Ericsson T39 and you connect it with your Pocket PC to use GPRS. Pertti just sent in this info:

Hi, upgrade your T39 to version R2M =>
you can connect/reconnect to GPRS (from your Pocket PC).
There is no need to reboot anymore!

Good news if you own

Jeff Kirvin from Writing On Your Palm wrote a great column about the transition from Palm to Pocket PC:

"For those of us trying to make the transition from the Palm to the Pocket PC, this might help. My column this week is about finding Pocket PC alternates for all the programs I used

Introducing the Wireless Networker from Symbol Technologies. Now today's popular PDAs can connect with Wi-Fi 802.11b wireless LANs for high-speed, cable-free communication to

Corey pointed me this services which sounds interesting - specially the synchronisation:

You should consider writing a review of Virtually There access to travel information. I use it all the time. It allows you to download information once your trip is purchased directly into Outlook.

Back to the new Socket Bluetooth card:

As I posted before the MySQL database crash, I tested the Socket card in Redmond with my AnyCom card. Chris Münch, one of the PocketPC.com authors had two, one pre-release and one final-release Socket card and I had my AnyCom cards with me.

First

Haicom Taiwan just send in any time yesterday their latest product announcement.

Dear Sir,

If you are a developer and want to step into the Bluetooth development now, your may give the Anycom Bluetooth Early Adoter Program a look.

[i]Benefits:
[*] Opportunity to shape Anycom product offerings through feedback [*] Access to Product Managers for technical assistance [*] Ability

Marc Zimmerman sent in this interesting CNET.com article regarding Microsoft wireless strategy for MSN:

[i]Microsoft will give its 20 million e-mail users in Europe access to messages via their mobile phones, the company said Thursday, unveiling a new alliance with European mobile operators.
The

How E-Plus (the 3rd German GSM operator and a share of KPN Netherlands) said in an interview this week, it will introduce the I-Mode technology beginning next year in Germany. I-Mode is a competitive technology to the WAP standard and was developed by NTT DoCoMo in Japan.

As I?ve heard from

All Bluetooth cards I had currently reviewed on My Personal View are AnyCom cards. A lot of you asked me if the cards are still available in America which I didn’t knew.

Grahame from Australia just sent me this info:
[i]You may already know this but - I`ve been in contact with Anycom

Leonard Fischer from USA Today wrote an interesting story about Microsoft`s Portrait on yesterday`s USA Today wireless edition:

[i]Indeed, Portrait represents a small step toward the day when we`ll be making video calls from Dick Tracy-style wristwatch communicators that so far have worked

Conceptronic announced a CF-Card sized 10/100 Fast Ethernet LAN card to become available soon.

Here some details:
[*] CompactFlash 1.4 / PCCARD type II compliant [*] UTP RJ45 connection [*] NE 2000 Compatible [*] 10/100 Mbps (auto-negotiation and full duplex) [*] Diagnostics LED indicator:

Toshiba is ready to introduce a 128 MB SD Card. The new card should be available from now for around 150 US$. Later this year, Toshiba also plans to bring out a 256 MB SD-Card. Already available are 8, 16, 32 and 64 MB SD-Cards. The newest cards will also works with Toshiba`s latest announced Pocket

Jason, over from Pocket PC Thoughts have a cool picture from a "IBM prototype of PDA".
It doesn`t seems to be a real device, even if it was announced by Lee Green, Director, Corporate Identity and Design for IBM as

Ellen Beeman sent in this funny article:

[i]`Arne, here`s an amusing article about wireless etiquette at high-tech conferences! It`s interesting to watch how society (and what`s considered polite and impolite behavior) evolves as we use these new technologies, like wireless email!
Best,

Jan Ole Suhr from mobileways (btw: this guy already developed a WAP Gateway by himself in 1999 - he is a real wireless guy) gave me that hint, I still tried before for sure: