Handmark is offering an application that will let you get news, scores photos and more in real time on your Andoid, Windows phone, Blackberry and iPhone. Winter Sports fans will certainly appreciate having this free application on their devices.
Winter Sports Live can be downloaded free here.
I’m more a summer sports and FIFA world cup fan. Hopefully, there will be a similar application for these events.
Mark your calendar as Microsoft will hopefully steal the show at the Mobile World Congress with the announcement and public demo of Windows Mobile 7. While I don’t expect to see any hardware for the new O.S to be showed, it will nonetheless be interesting to see what Microsoft has devised to counter Google’s Android and and Apple’s iPhone. This is going to be fun. No stomping Mr. Ballmer 
Point your browser to http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/windowsphone/ to watch the press conference.
The event will start at 6:00pm local time.
Google Buzz lets you post information on places you visit. for example, you may share your thoughts about a great restaurant and point it’s location in Google Maps. Buzz is tightly integrated with Google Maps and Gmail. The latter lets you invite followers from your contacts. This did not work for me. It did display some folks from my contacts, but they had the wrong email address. Hopefully they will fix that soon.
Buzz seems to be a cool product and it works with Android and WinMo. Not sure if Google Maps 4 has been released for WinMo, but Buzz can be accessed through the browser by going to Buzz.google.com. Watch the video below or go to www.google.com/buzz to learn more.
Users have reported that Windows 7 was displaying a message “considering replacing your battery” on laptops. The blogosphere obviously went abuzz urging Microsoft to recognize a bug in Windows 7. Microsoft responded on the Windows 7 engineering blog through no other than Steve Sinofsky, the Windows president. This is what Mr. Sinofsky wrote to explain the issue:
“Essentially the battery was degrading but it was not evident to the customer until Windows 7 made this information available. We recognize that this has the appearance of Windows “causing” the change in performance, but in reality all Windows 7 did was report what was already the case.”
Then he goes on to provide a list of points that contributed to their understanding of the reports. Read the complete article on the Windows 7 Engineering blog.
Owners of the Nexus One will receive an over-the-air update on their phones soon. The update not only fixes some issues with the phone and brings some more functionality:
Google Goggles
Google Maps 3.4
Pinch to zoom functionality
3G connectivity.
Learn more on the official blog of the Nexus One:
http://googlenexusoneboard.blogspot.com/2010/02/new-software-update-for-nexus-one.html
Sent from my HTC Touch Pro 2.
I noticed a new update for the Touch2 on HTC's website: http://www.htc.com/www/SupportDownload.aspx?p_id=291&cat=0&dl_id=858
"This update allows for your MP3 to be set as ringtones for incoming calls."
If this is important to you, remember to keep the update handy as you will need to re-apply it after a hard reset.
Sent from my HTC Touch Pro 2.
The highly anticipated slate-type device has been revealed to the world by Steve Jobs yesterday. I must admit that it is the first time that an Apple product gets my attention to the point that I’m planning on actually buying the device. With prices starting at $499, it’s worth considering. Why? Well, it’s thin as opposed to the devices in that category; Has wifi and, most importantly, 3G connectivity. And here are the specs:
Weight: 1.5 pounds
Display: 9.7 inch with multi-touch; 1024×768 resolution
Connectivity: Wifi, UMTS/HSDPA;Bluetooth.
For more specs, check it out here.
All you need to know about the iPad including Steve Jobs keynote and videos can be found here and here.
What do you think about the iPad? Is it worth the purchase now or wait for 2.0 to come out or Apple to drop prices?
In order to participate, you must be the owner of an iPhone and of course, a Windows phone.
That said, to participate, just play the game on the device in "time quad" mode and publish the result on SPB website. The contest will last from 12:00 PM GMT January 20 to February 8 at 12:00 PM GMT.
3 players will be awarded with the following prizes:
1. Amazon certificate worth $150.
2. Amazon certificate worth $100.
3. Amazon certificate worth $50.
More prizes will be offered by SPB.
To learn more, visit www.spb.com/pocketpc-software/quads/contest.
Good luck and have fun.
Sent from my HTC Touch Pro 2.
The idea of this new website is to share what's on his mind, share information from trips, talks with world leaders, experts in various fields including namely, philanthropy, science, environment etc. The website address is www.gatesnotes.com.
Also, you may want to follow Bill Gates on Twitter:
Sent from my HTC Touch Pro 2.
So, you are already familiar with Microsoft's MarketPlace for Windows Phone. What about a similar app that let you download and install free apps to your device?
OpnMarket from Freewarepocketpc.net is one free application for downloading free software for your Windows phone in one place. It does have the same look and feel like MS MarketPlace. I'll post a short review soon.
Download a free copy from www.freewarepocketpc.net/opnmarket/
Sent from my HTC Touch Pro 2.
