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• This blog is moving... me too!

  This blog is moving to http://www.markwilson.co.uk/blog/ Read More... Posted 12 August 2005 17:30 by mark.wilson | 1 Comments Filed under: Miscellaneous/General, Microsoft, Industry News, Cool Stuff/Geeky, Tips and tricks, SharePoint, ISA Server, Windows Platform, Macintosh, ISP, SQL Server, Networking, IIS, Office Products, Open Source/Low Cost Software, Security, Exchange and Outlook/Outlook Express, Mobility, Systems Management, Virtualisation, Messaging, *nix, Integration, Web Browsers, Apache, Web Development, Inane Waffle

• Finally, I'm starting to understand the possible uses for a camera phone...

  For a few years now, it's been becoming increasingly difficult to buy a mobile phone handset which was both stylish and a good phone without also getting a whole load of distractions (games, camera, etc.). Now, I have a smartphone (a Nokia 6600), which Read More... Posted 27 July 2005 21:28 by mark.wilson | 0 Comments Filed under: Miscellaneous/General, Mobility

• Using a mobile phone to help out in a crisis - with ICE

  I've received this from a couple of sources and it seems to be both genuine and a really good idea. Since last Thursday's attacks in London , this campaign has gained a lot of momentum and many people will already have received e-mail about this but just Read More... Posted 12 July 2005 11:01 by mark.wilson | 1 Comments Filed under: Miscellaneous/General, Mobility

• The mobile networks didn't collapse

  Following yesterday's atrocities in London , it was widely reported that the mobile phone networks collapsed under the strain of those caught up in the chaos trying to contact their friends, family, work colleagues and vice versa. In a statement from Read More... Posted 08 July 2005 07:43 by mark.wilson | 0 Comments Filed under: Miscellaneous/General, Mobility

• Pocket MSN... so that is what happened to MSN Messenger on Windows Mobile 5.0

  Keni Barwick commented recently that he was worried about MSN Messenger having gone AWOL from Windows Mobile 5.0 . The answer it seems is Pocket MSN . Microsoft wants to charge a one-off fee of £10.99 to use MSN Messenger on a mobile device. As I Read More... Posted 09 June 2005 16:06 by mark.wilson | 0 Comments Filed under: Windows Platform, Mobility

• Windows Mobile 5.0 - why it shouldn't be ignored

  Keni Barwick has been blogging lots about Windows Mobile 5.0 (formerly codenamed Magneto) so now it's my turn to chip in with my own view of why this update to the Windows mobile platform should not be ignored. According to Microsoft (citing a December Read More... Posted 07 June 2005 01:02 by mark.wilson | 1 Comments Filed under: Windows Platform, Mobility

• Crazy ringtones - could skins for smartphones be the next big thing?

  It had to happen - with music single sales falling and downloads incorporated into the official UK music charts (since 17 April 2005) one day a ringtone-derived music single (the inevitable evolution of a music single-derived ringtone) would outsell a Read More... Posted 27 May 2005 22:57 by mark.wilson | 7 Comments Filed under: Miscellaneous/General, Mobility

• Sending SMS messages from within Outlook

  A couple of months back, my colleague James Simmonds wrote about a free Microsoft Office SMS Add-in (MOSA) which allows the sending (but not receipt) of text messages from within the Outlook 2003 client (in this context, SMS is Short Message Service - Read More... Posted 08 February 2005 18:14 by mark.wilson | 0 Comments Filed under: Office Products, Exchange and Outlook/Outlook Express, Mobility, Messaging