Mobility

Traditionally laptops have been the lower-performance compromise you make for leaving your desktop. Lenovo has changed that paradigm by producing this monster machine. With the first Quad Core Extreme CPU ever on a laptop, an NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700 (with 1GB video memory), RAID 0 or 1, and 8GB (!) of…

Yesterday at Tech-Ed EMEA, Microsoft announced the emulator for Internet Explorer Mobile 6, which will be the next browser for Windows Mobile phones. You can download the emulator here and give it a try with your favorite sites. Featured include full rendering, AJAX, Flash Lite, and Flash…

Gizmodo mentions the Windows Mobile SlingPlayer has been updated. This update covers compatibility for a number of newer handsets including the HTC Touch Diamond, and Touch Pro. This new version includes support for higher resolutions including 640x480, 800x480, 400x240, and 320x320. In…

Windows Mobile's Loke Uei Tan points out that Qik has an update for 27 new phones, including 18 HTC-based phones like the HTC Touch HD.  If you haven't used Qik, it's a way to stream live video to the web from a portable device. Other new features in this update are the…

Today in the keynote, Steve Ballmer talked about Life Without Walls. A big part of that is mobility, Greg Sullivan stops by to show us the latest devices, user interfaces, apps, and a peak into the future of IE Mobile.

ZDNet has an interesting story about hardware solutions for the Presidential Crackberry obsession. It turns out Obama may not have to give up his PDA after all, there are some secure options out there based on Windows. The article doesn't specify what flavor of Windows, but I'm going to guess…

Today Skyfire has released a new version of their browser for Windows Mobile. Skyfire is a mobile browser that gives you the most feature complete way to view the web on your phone as it would look on your desktop PC. This means YouTube, Hulu, Flash 10, Silverlight 2, Quicktime, AJAX, it's all in…

ISV Summer Campaign : Mobility Scenarios Take advantage of this special about mobility scenarios to dive a little deeper into one of the hot topics of the moment during the summer months. We have information geared to fit in with your busy schedule. Only have 30 minutes or half a day to spare?…

This video demonstrates some of a great ways that Windows 8 is designed for mobility from instant reconnect to cost-aware networking. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/01/20/engineering-windows-8-for-mobility.aspx