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SBS 2008

Microsoft has announced the general availability of Windows Small Business Server 2008 (SBS 2008) and Windows Essential Business Server 2008 (EBS 2008). The move is expected to bring enterprise-class server technology to small- and medium- class businesses.

“Around the world, small and midsize businesses are the engine that drives economic growth and opportunity,” said Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft. “To help these businesses succeed, Microsoft has focused on creating integrated, affordable server solutions that are optimized to meet the needs of companies with limited IT resources. Small Business Server and Essential Business Server deliver a comprehensive set of capabilities that will help small and midsize business thrive and grow.”

Being that 90% of the global workforce and 50% of worldwide GDP comes from small- and medium-sized businesses, bringing them this technology should have a positive impact on an economy already yearning for efficiency and cost-saving tools.

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Press Release: Bell announces new Smartphone Combo Plans

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Bell today announced new Smartphone Combo Plans that provide Bell Mobility clients across Canada with 25% more minutes than competitor smartphone plans!

MISSISSAUGA, Ontario, Nov. 20 2008 — Bell today announced new Smartphone Combo Plans that provide Bell Mobility clients across Canada with 25% more minutes than competitor smartphone plans.

Wade Oosterman, President of Bell Mobility:

Smartphones are leading the growth in Canadian wireless and Bell is eager to accelerate that popularity further still with new industry-leading rate plans for our broad range of RIM BlackBerry and Windows Mobile smartphones. With 25 per cent more calling than competing carriers’ plans, smartphones just got better with Bell.

Until December 31, new Bell Mobility clients who sign a three-year contract can choose between three Smartphone Combo Plans, starting at $45 per month. All plans include conference calling and call waiting.

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For $45 per month, subscribers get 250 minutes of anytime local calling, unlimited evening and weekend local calling and the choice of either: unlimited incoming calls; nationwide Fab Five for unlimited calling and texting with five favourite contacts across the country; or an extended
evening clock for unlimited local calling starting at 5pm. Clients also get 500MB of data for personal email, Instant Messenger and Internet use.

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For $70 per month, subscribers get 500 minutes of anytime local calling, unlimited evening and weekend local calling, the choice of either: unlimited incoming calls; nationwide Fab Five calling and texting; or an extended evening clock for unlimited local calling starting at 5 pm. Clients also get
unlimited personal email, Instant Messenger, Internet surfing and text messaging.

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For $100 per month, subscribers get 1,250 minutes of anytime local calling, unlimited evening and weekend local calling, unlimited personal email, Instant Messenger, Internet surfing and text messaging along with call display and message centre express voicemail.

Bell Mobility offers clients the hottest 3G smartphones - including the BlackBerry Curve, HTC Touch Diamond, HTC Touch Pro and upcoming BlackBerry Storm 9530 - all of them operating on the fastest and largest 3G network across North America.

For more information on Smartphone Combo plans from Bell Mobility, visit bell.ca/wireless.

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AOL announces AOL Sync beta testing for WinMo

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AOL has just announced the availability of AOL Sync for beta testing!

AOL Sync allows users to sync up Microsoft Outlook and their AOL Calendar and Address Book with a wide range of mobile devices, including (and, of course, most importantly) Windows Mobile!

It offers two-way “over the air” synchronization so users can make real-time updates to their calendar and list of contacts over the cell network.

The new service is powered by open source mobile push email and sync provider, Funambol. Having recently redesigned and opened up its home page, AOL continues to turn to openness and open source for mobile sync.

AOL Sync is device- and carrier-independent, meaning AOL users can now leverage the open MobileWe capabilities from Funambol and its world-leading mobile developer community to sync their calendar and contacts with more than 1.5 billion devices worldwide.

For more information, check out the following sites:
AOL Corporate Blog
AOL Mail Blog
Funambol CEO Blog

Wanna be just like Super Mario?

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…then you should check out BeMario!

The program works with the Samsung Omnia and HTC Touch Diamond GSensor to set off the “Jump” or “Coin” 8-bit Mario game sounds when you jump in real life.

The file includes the theme song to Super Mario Bros too so you can set it as your ringtone!

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Free Windows Mobile weater app by VITO Technology

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Windows Mobile

The weather on a mobile device is by far the best way to absorb that type of information. The worst is having to watch television for your news broadcast. It takes ages for your city to show up, and the weatherman feels the need to fill your head with useless statistics like “northerly winds are crossing the Canadian shield with a slight humidity patch.”

Weather 1.2 by VITO Technology is available for free. The app features a an icon called Winterface, which will display either the current temperature or weather condition so you can know either at a glance. Weather 1.2 can display the weather for up to 10 cities and requires simple swiping gestures on the screen to move from one city to the next. Additional cities are only three taps away.

When added to Winterface, the icon will display either the current temperature or weather condition so you can know your weather conditions at a glance - that’s a nice touch. Weather 1.2 can display the weather for up to 10 cities and requires simple swiping gestures on the screen to move from one city to the next. Adding a city requires only three taps for this finger-friendly app.

Weather 1.2 is a simple and clean interface that may be a welcome addition on your Windows Mobile device. Get it here for free!

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Alltel launches the HTC Touch Pro

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Alltel has jumped on the bandwagon and added the HTC Touch Pro to their smartphone line up. The popular device is going for $279.99 (on contract, of course) with a $100 rebate.

Not many differences with this version but a tweak to the TouchFLO 3D UI from the carrier.

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Assign multiple applications to one hardware button with HButton

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Windows Mobile

HButton allows you to assign multiple applications to a hardware button. By default, the Windows Mobile operating system only allows one application to be assigned to a hardware button. Once you’ve installed the app, it allows you to apply 5 actions to a long hardware button press.The application is very user friendly in the sense that as you hold the button, a list of potential actions show up in a cycle mode. Once your action is highlighted, you just release the hardware button to perform the action.

The app works with WinMo Professional 5 or later and Version 2.3 can be downloaded here. Once you’ve downloaded the app, go to Start>Settings>Personal>Buttons and assign HButton to any of your hardware buttons.

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Pandora Radio set to finally arrive on Windows Mobile

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May not be true

Pandora Radio is the incredibly popular streaming radio program that makes intelligent guesses as to what songs you would like to hear based on preferences. The software was supposed to come embedded with the new LG Incite on AT&T, but a few Incite owners have said this isn’t the case. It could be that the promotion was prematurely made public before carriers could load the software. Stay tuned because Pandora will be available to download for other devices in the near future.

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Review: CorePlayer Mobile v1.2.5

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In the beginning, there was an awesome media player for Windows Mobile called ‘BetaPlayer‘. It could handle all kinds of audio and video codecs that the mobile version of Windows Media Player couldn’t. Eventually BetaPlayer turned into TCPMP (The Core Pocket Media Player), a freeware media app. And it was truly awesome. Then, all of a sudden, TCPMP dropped support for files downloaded from iTunes for legal reasons, and TCPMP became a little less useful. From this, the commercial CorePlayer was born. CorePlayer allows developers to collect some revenue and pay licensing fees for proprietary codec support.

I’ve been using CorePlayer for quite some time now and I love it. It does everything I want it to do: movies, video clips, audio files, YouTube, podcasts, JPGs, FLV files… and tonnes more.

QUICKLIST:

System/OS/Device Requirements: Pocket PC 2000, Pocket PC 2002, Pocket PC 2003, Pocket PC 2003 SE, WM5, WM6, WM6.1
Price: $29.95 ( 20% off for the month of November with coupon code “WMCoolOpen”!) Free trial also available.
Company: CoreCodec, Inc.
Download: Available at our store for only $29.95!

KEY FEATURES:

YouTube support, with built-in browse and search
BlueTooth Stereo (A2DP) and Remote Control (AVRCP) support
Programmable Hotkeys
Supports over 15 Languages
Media library (Manage your RSS Feeds, playlists, podcasts, bookmarks)
Podcast Support (Standard and Enhanced)
Streaming support (HTTP, UDP, RTP, RTSP, RTCP, SDP, Unicast, Multicast)
IPTV/DVB-H/DVB-SH Ready
Audio: MP3, WMA, AAC, MKA, WAV, OGG, Speex, WAVPACK, FLAC, MPC, AMR, GSM, ADPCM, ALaw, MuLaw, MIDI
Video: WMV, CoreAVCï¿½ (H.264), AVCHD, MKV, MPEG-1, MPEG-4 part 2 (ASP), DivX, XviD, MJPEG, MSVIDEO1
Images: JPG (420, 422, 440), BMP, PNG, GIF, TIFF
Containers: FLV, Matroskaï¿½, ASX, ASF, TS, PS, M2TS, 3GPP, MOV, AVI, MPEG-4, NSV
GPU support: Intel 2700g, ATI Imageon, Qualcomm QTv
CoreUI / Universal Skins (Custom interface)

VERDICT:

There are a number of ways to watch YouTube videos on your mobile phone, but CorePlayer is the coolest and easiest way I’ve found, hands down. It uses minimal memory, runs very smoothly, the mp3 player shows album art, allows both mp3 and aac equalizer usage, and it can play back 700×600 DivX avi files without dropping any frams which is very cool.

The only problem I actually encountered with it was that the download did not include a help file, which would have been very useful. But there are plenty of resources online that provide help and CoreCodec themselves offer an email helpline to those in need. So it’s not all bad news on the help front.

RATING: (out of 5)