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Monthly Archives: February 2007

Well, at least people will stop calling it the "Axiom"

Found this on Mobility Site:
What about the Dell Axim?Bad news here. The rumor I posted about last week is the verdict. Once the current Dell Axim offerings are gone, they are gone.

Source: Mobility Site: Dell Rumor Update - RIP Dell Axim
Dell seems to be giving the Axim the, uh, axe.
I can’t say I’m all [...]

ActiveSync 4.5 officially released

Non-Vista users: ActiveSync 4.5 is finally out of beta! 
• Faster file transfer speed and photo sync via Outlook are only available for Windows Mobile 5.0 powered devices. • Remote PC Sync (via WiFi or LAN) has been removed due to Enterprise customer feedback around security issues. • Customers using Microsoft Exchange 2003 Service Pack 2 [...]

xda-developers ROM image archive will be taken down

xda-developers, a popular site for tweaking all sorts of HTC devices, posted this from a Microsoft lawyer today. 
I do know XDA-developers.com is home to many device enthusiasts; however I’m not in a position to debate the legitimacy of any specific piece of software hosted by this site. We have received feedback from several sources on [...]

Why Windows Mobile 6 Standard devices still need Documents To Go

Source: Documents To Go for Windows Mobile 5 Smartphone: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF on your Motorola Q, Samsung BlackJack & T-Mobile Dash
Documents To Go is the first and only mobile office editor for Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone edition on the market today. Now you can view, edit and create Microsoft® Word, Excel and PowerPoint® [...]

Touchscreen the reason for no skinny Treos?

Source: Form vs. function: Palm won’t follow fads, CEO says - MarketWatch
“We think that will be a greater driver of purchases in the future,” he told MarketWatch in the interview. “We don’t want to follow design fads.”
While Colligan acknowledged that phones have become “a bit of a personal status symbol,” he stressed [...]

Please bear with me, the content is coming…

After last week’s big announcement and promise of daily content, so far we’ve seen… nada. And while I don’t consider these excuses, I do have some reasons for the silence.
I could blame my lack of productivity on drowning in 3GSM coverage, my sleep apnea sleep-deprived need to sleep about 12-14 hours a day, or scrambling [...]

New Home, New Look, Same Jeff

After eight years, I’m shuttering Writing On Your Palm. I’m in the process of moving all the WOYP content over to JeffKirvin.net; the blog posts are already here, the columns are soon to follow, then illustrations from the old site. By the end of this weekend I expect all the useful content from WOYP to [...]

Doing it right this time

During my recent layoff from writing, I had time to take a good hard look at my writing career and make some key assessments. And one thing quickly became clear.
I’m full of shit.
In particular, as it pertains to “reinventing” publishing. Yes, the publishing industry has some pretty severe problems. As pointed out in Book Business by [...]