At least one site has managed to avoid having to make changes to their article about the new WM2005. Back in early January, Neowin.net featured screenshots of the upcoming WM2005. Shortly thereafter, they pulled them down at Microsoft’s request. But the story had caught on and even before Neowin.net could pull it down, other sites were featuring the information. But […]
January, 2005
Vajas’ line of SD, MMC and MS carrying cases
Vaja makes some pretty awesome carrying cases for various PDAs. Just ask Marc over at iPAQabilities.com and he’ll start singing their praises. Now, you can also get cases to carry your SD, MMC and MS storage cards. The i-Volution line offers two cases: One to carry 2 SD / MMC cards, the other to carry 4 SD cards. In the […]
Paparazzi-proof cameras?
HP has submitted a patent for technology that would blur faces in any images captured by the camera if the subject of the photo used a “image inhibitor module”. Essentially, the user of this module would signal to nearby cameras that the wearer does not want to be photographed. If a picture was taken, the image-analysis software of the camera […]
More rumours of a Cingular iPAQ h6300
First it was Marc over at iPAQabilities.com reporting that Cingular was about to offer the iPAQ 6300 (one camera model and one camera-free model). Now it’s iPAQ HQ’s turn to report that sources at Cingular have told them that they should begin offering the HP iPAQ h6300 Pocket PC Phone Edition smartphone around the end of February. As with Marc’s […]
Care for another memory card standard?
A consortium of Taiwanese companies is proposing yet another memory card format. Fortunately, the new format might have a few things going for it: It will be compatible with SD and MMC formats (with additional drivers), it will offer twice the speed of USB 2.0 and will be cheaper to produce. It will also consume only one-third or one-fourth the […]
PIE Vulnerabilities
It’s not enough that Internet Explorer is patched nearly every month. Now, Airscanner has revealed that Pocket Internet Explorer (PIE) is also vulnerable and can be exploited to compromise sensitive data such as usernames and passwords. The potential for exploiting these vulnerabilities are restricted only by an attacker’s imagination. However, Pocket IE is not as powerful as its big brother, […]
Update on computer woes
Good news! My primary computer is back up and running! After some initial bad news that I might be without a computer for up to 2 weeks, I got the awesome news today that my local computer dealer had been able to find a solution that would avoid that scenario. Many thanks to David and the folks at eSkynet for […]
Want to clone your PocketPC device?
Spb Software House has announced the release of Clone, a tool that allows you to to clone and restore applications, files and registry settings onto several Pocket PC devices. Essentially, if your enterprise has to set up a number of devices with a standard software image, with Clone, all you have to do to set up a number of Pocket […]