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Another year, another CES keynote from Bill Gates... But this year is different... For this year it's the last time we see bill be uncomfortable infornt of the stage and do rubbish jokes with famous people who have quite clearly been paid to be there with him... Bless...   Though I guess I'd love to be up on stage and be paid ...

Today a fellow Conchango technology team member Pryank Rohilla (start blogging mate!) let me know about OpenAJAX alliance meeting up in California at the Microsoft's office to discuss how to bring common AJAX standards to mobile devices. (Link) This is a good thing for me since Internet Explorer Mobile, aka PIE, on Windows Mobile 6 devices ...

I was asked by a client recently if there was a way to sync the company's public folders with other Windows Mobile users... Hmmm I said... Nope, sorry... This is something that has been somewhat of a problem with ActiveSync from what I can tell for a while now. With Microsoft not including this feature in ActiveSync it has closed the door on ...

It's been a while now since I came back from Vegas and the MEDC conference there. Yet one of the things that keeps running through my head about the event. The Silverlight demo on a Windows Mobile. This was a great show of the cross platform ability that Silverlght can bring to users and developers alike. But the thing that keeps bugging ...

In the last 5 weeks I've spent 3 weeks in the US of A. The first week was at the MEDC at the Venetian in Vegas and the rest doing 9 parks in 14 days with three kids (4,6 and 7) in Florida. I need a holiday to get over it! Anyway, I hired a car in Florida and promptly sent of making my way to the parks safe in the knowledge that I knew ...

who'd have funk it... link me then - linky 

The blogosphere is alive today with news of the HTC Touch smartphone. I'm an unashamed fan of Windows Mobile but I won't be buying myself one of these. Why not? Because I don't believe that touchscreens are a killer feature for mobile phones. Touchscreens have been with us for some time now (I had a Windows Mobile touchscreen ...

It was very apparent to me that this years keynote was an attempt to explain why MS has moved the Windows Mobile division into the Entertainment & Devices Division.One fact that I didn't know was that 90% phones bought by individuals and brought into the enterprise... Next came the video’s of add’s from around the world ...

After registering I attended the now legendary Jim Wilson Pre Con. Jim’s knowledge on the mobility subject is excellent and that coupled with his presentation style helps to pass a whole day without actually noticing the time! That coupled with some nuggets that I'll share with you at somepoint...If I haven’t already passed his ...

 Avoid Boxing,use generics... See here http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/effectivecspart1.asp#item3 Also if the method has a IDisposable, then clean it up after... (the GC will get rid of it, but we don't want the GC to do it if we can)