In April 2005, PPCW.Net was relaunched as the::unwired with a brand a new sleek design and improved features but from the content side, the::unwired will stays the same what PPCW.Net was before: your place "where mobility meets wireless". Stay mobile, stay connect, stay up-to-date.

the::unwired was founded by Arne Hess, a wireless mobility insider and is owned and maintained today by Arne Hess and Unwired-I.Net, Arne's consulting company, focused on interim product-, project management and business development.

the::unwired is continuing in the long tradition of forerunners (all of them founded by Arne Hess):

• "Arne's Windows CE.Net" (1998)
• which became "MobileNet.de" (1999)
• and merged with "Unwired-I.Net" (2000 - Arne's Blog when 'Blogging' wasn't born)
• to "PPCW.Net" (previously known as Pocket PC Writer.Net) (2001)
• and is known now as the::unwired (2005)

What started as an online help and tutorial for Windows CE based H/PCs (Handheld PCs) and later P/PCs (Palm-sized PCs), became the ultimate platform for mobility and wireless during the last years and is focusing today on news, pre- and reviews, thoughts and tutorials about the wireless industry, Windows Mobile Pocket PCs and Smartphones as well as it includes a strong growing user community. From 2003 to 2005 it also included an exclusive online shop for Windows Mobile based Pocket PC Phone Edition devices and Smartphones.

Since 1993, Arne worked in different Marketing positions as product manager and business developer, latest for o2 Germany where he was the responsible Senior Product Manager and Business Developer for o2 Germany's WAP and mobile data services as well as other data centric Value Added Services. Before, Arne passed through several stations in the GSM industry in different positions as a Product Manager and Product Marketing Manager.
From April 2000 - the release date of Microsoft's Pocket PC platform - Arne was one of several international contributing authors for Microsoft's PocketPC.com web site and since spring 2002, Arne is recognized by Microsoft as a Most Valuable Professional for Mobile Devices (MVP); an award - given by Microsoft every year - for ongoing support of the community.
Last but not least, Arne was the lead author of four German Pocket PC books, published by Data Becker and Microsoft Press in 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004.To Be Updated :-)Daniel Simnacheris is a 28 years old a Master of Computer Science from Germany and working since 1999 as a Consultant for a small Business-Intelligence-Company.
He has started to work with PDAs since he owned his first Palm M100 and switched to the Windows Mobile platform when the Compaq iPAQ 3835 came out, which he still has. Following the iPAQ Daniel used many different Pocket PCs and Smartphones and his actual devices is a Qtek S200. To Be Updated :-) Thomas Chan lives in San Francisco, California. His primary profession is in the area of VoIP software development but he loves technology and gadgets, especially high tech bargains. Anything from home electronics, personal computing, mobile devices to mobile entertainment, he has keen interests in. His primary mobile device is a T-Mobile MDA, which he uses as a phone, PDA, portable GPS, audio and video player, internet access device and pics viewer.
Thomas wishes to share with all of you his interests and experience in mobile devices.