Windows Phone 7 RTMs

September 1, 2010

Terry Myerson, CVP @Windows Phone, announced over on the Windows Phone blog that Windows Phone 7 has been released to manufacturing today. Congratulations to the Windows Phone team— let the fun begin! It sure has been a long wait, and unlike traditional hardware/software products, where RTM means you can probably download or purchase them on [...]

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Exchange 2010 SP1 Has Left The Building

August 25, 2010

Microsoft has just announced the release of Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1. SP1 adds some much-requested features to Exchange 2010. Here are some of the major changes (although it’s a long list of major and minor improvements, see Released: Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Beta or What’s New in Exchange 2010 SP1): Online Database and [...]

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Shekhar Kapur: A Blackberry addict discovers grassroots enterprise in India

August 9, 2010

Sethu Sethuraman, a professional photographer friend who moved back to India a few years ago, recently forwarded me this amazing story about India’s grassroots enterprise. The writer, Shekhar Kapur, is a critically acclaimed film director and producer. I can’t remember how many Windows Mobile, BlackBerry and iPhones I’ve cycled through over the past few years, [...]

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BlackBerry faces ban in UAE, Saudi Arabia, to cooperate in India

August 2, 2010

It appears to be an increasingly monitored world for mobile devices, as governments across the globe rev up their efforts to snoop into mobile messaging. UAE’s The National reports the country’s Telecommunications Regulatory Authority has said that BlackBerry Messenger, BlackBerry E-mail and BlackBerry Web-browsing services in the UAE will be suspended as of October 11. [...]

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Jailbreaking is for fugitives: US Govt sanctions unlocking of cell phones

July 26, 2010

The U.S. government has ruled to defeat what many of us thought of as the high-handedness of Apple and its wireless carrier of choice, AT&T — you can now legally unlock your iPhones! More than a million users have unlocked their iPhones, a practice that’s commonly known as jailbreaking. However, jailbreaking has negative connotations. One [...]

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Renewing Certificates: DigiCert impresses again with customer service

July 22, 2010

Have you had a service that uses SSL/TLS, such as Outlook Web App (OWA), Exchange ActiveSync (EAS), AutoDiscover, or perhaps just a web site, impacted due to an expired certificate? Validity of digital certificates must be monitored, just as we monitor domain name registrations and renewal dates. Overlooking the fact that certificates expire and need [...]

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Windows Phone 7 Reaches Technical Preview, Early Reviews Pour In

July 19, 2010

Terry Myerson, CVP – Windows Phone Engineering, announced in a blog post (interestingly posted on a Sunday) Windows Phone 7 has reached a “meaningful milestone”— what the team calls technical preview. Over the next few weeks, thousands of prototypes from Asus, LG and Samsung will make their way to developers. However, although in the home [...]

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iOS 4.0.1 Includes Exchange ActiveSync fix

July 15, 2010

Image courtesy Engadget: The iOS 4 issue wit Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) which resulted in iPhone 4 and other iOS devices running the OS not being able to sync with Exchange Server (see Apple fixes issue with iOS 4 and Exchange ActiveSync), has been fixed in iOS 4.0.1. Earlier Apple released a configuration profile to change [...]

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Jobs Knew: Form over function decision resulted in antenna mess

July 15, 2010

Unfortunately, the obsession with magical industrial design and good looks trumped over engineering and functionality. Another day when form defeated function. Or as some would say, beauty lorded over brains. And the rest is history. With all the brouhaha surrounding the iPhone 4 antenna issue, you can’t be blamed for thinking why the brilliant engineers [...]

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Real-World iPhone 4 “Grip of Death”

July 14, 2010

The iPhone 4 antenna issue seems to have taken a life of its own, and acquired a slew of nicknames in the process— “Grip of Death”, “Apple’s Vista”, “Antenna-Gate”, and “Hold Different” to name a few. Consumer Reports’ verdict accompanied by what’s perhaps the best video demonstration of the iPhone 4′s antenna design flaw makes [...]

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