Bart Czernicki had good post recently titled Silverlight 3 - Where is Silverlight Mobile? I thought a lot of the comments he made were spot on.  We have been lead up the garden path by the mobile team and in particular Amrit Chopra who has been announcing Silverlight for Mobile for 3 years now.  In fact I was expecting that he would announce it again at Mix year and then deliver nothing again!  Turns out he took a back seat in the 6.5 overview instead and no significant news on Silverlight Mobile was forthcoming. In my opinion though,...

Sorry Microsoft but you lose this battle (in the same way that Google beat UPS in David Platt’s classics Sweden story). Using your mobile to find local information and directions is really useful; I have both Live Search and Google maps installed on my TyTn II.  Live Search has recently added the ability to find your location without a GPS – using triangulation or your IP address I assume.  Google maps has had this for a while.  So imagine this situation:  I live in Kent, UK, both apps find me fairly accurately without using the GPS, which is great.  The TyTn...

We know from Mix 08 that Microsoft are bringing Silverlight to the Nokia S60 as well as for Windows Mobile, but I was surprised to see that RedFiveLabs already have a Net60 framework that provides CF on S60. There have just released version 1.1 which includes: support for Visual Studio 2008 (CF 2.0 Smart Device Projects). the Net60 Launcher tool used to execute .NET executables directly from device. RedFiveLabs.Mobile.dll providing managed APIs for SMS, telephony, audio, GPS & vibration. managed support for OpenGL (suitable for game development). new WinForm controls such...

This is pretty neat and gives us some advanced glances at how Live Mesh will work and how Windows Mobile 7 will look.  Exciting! Cheers Ian   Technorati Tags: Mesh,Windows Mobile 7

Apple just announce MobileMe for push email, contacts and calendars for data in the cloud.  Interesting stuff - but the logo?  Hmmm.....   ==   Cheers Ian Technorati Tags: MobileMe,Windows Me

Todd helpfully re-published the Windows Mobile Silverlight roadmap recently.  It does not make exciting reading.  In amongst news of Impressive Google Android Apps, (and here) a T-Mobile Android phone this year (from HTC) and endless twitter about iPhone and 3G, the road map is hardly going to light any fires.  Here's my take on the Windows Mobile roadmap in general, followed by my hope of a glimmer of light for all us WM developers and users... Windows Mobile 6.1 was just released - really nothing to write home about - threaded SMS is nice but there is not much...

If you are getting into LINQ - then this free, copy and run app, is a great way to play with it. It's a companion to C# 3.0 in a Nutshell but it is valuable without the book, and comes with 200 samples! Recommended!   Cheers   Ian Technorati Tags: Linq,LinqPad,C#,Nutshell