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msmobiles.com Podcast 62 (size: 33.6 MB, format: MP3)

In this episode: latest news and stories about Windows Mobile powered cell phones:

- what to do: wait for phones with Windows Mobile 5.0 or to buy Windows Mobile 2003 phone?

- lack of ActiveSync in Windows Mobile 5.0

- rumors about successors to HTC Magician (the first mini-Pocket PC phone from HTC): HTC Galaxy and HTC Wizard

- free SIM unlock utility for Orange SPV C500

- latest state of things with HP iPAQ Mobile Messenger and why you shouldn’t buy it

- using Skype over cellular networks

- other news and opinions about latest stories about Windows Mobile phones

msmobiles.com Podcast 61 (size: 20.7 MB, format: MP3)

In this podcast Brian Lipschultz, president and CEO of Pulse, talks with us about the future of voicemail, video, and 3D mobile applications and more…

Visual voicemail is a growing trend that leverages camera and videophones to add 3D interactivity to voice mail and messaging services on mobile phones. Major voicemail system providers such as Comverse, Lucent, OpenWave, and MQube offered demos of the technology this year at 3GSM and CTIA.

Pulse, the creator of Veepers, technology that brought animation and voice to still images for Internet web sites, has brought this technology to the mobile space. By turning a digital photograph into a three-dimensional animated image of a person, animal or object that can be manipulated to do and say anything, mobile operators have a vital new source of subscriber revenue generation and subscribers have a platform for personalized information delivery and m-commerce. Using text-to-speech technology, Veepers characters can speak in any language or with any accent.

Pulse leverages its Veeper’s technology through a telco-grade integrated content management system, to create a range of personalized, automated content applications and services by transforming digital photographs taken on mobile camera-phones and other sources into emotive three-dimensional animated images. Consumers can instantly build personalized characters and content that can be used with MMS, chat, email, visual voicemail, video ring-tones, interactive wallpaper, and other web-to-mobile applications.

msmobiles.com Podcast 60 (size: 32.9 MB, format: MP3)

This podcast contains interview with Roman Korolik - Managing Director of SecureGSM company that makes SecureGSM - a program for Pocket PC phones that prevents eavesdropping on phone calls.

Information from SecureGSM follows.

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SecureGSM is designed to combat eavesdropping and interception by providing Military Grade security for mobile phone conversations and messaging.

SecureGSM utilises unique world first technology to make true, secure communication available in a software only package, which runs on Microsoft Windows Mobile enabled Communicators and Smartphones without affecting their original functionality.

The SecureGSM software is built upon our SecuStream technology and is a WORLD FIRST product of its type to run natively on Windows Mobile Phone Edition Devices.

SecureGSM features robust, 256 bit, triple cipher, layered encryption based on AES, Twofish and Serpent ciphers. Any one of these encryption algorithms is considered unbreakable by today’s standards and the triple layer ensures that encrypted data is future proof.

If any one of the encryption algorithms is broken, or found flawed in the future, it is not possible to obtain data to decrypt or compromise the remaining layers or chains.

SecureGSM hosts a unique asymmetric key generation engine, which is hardware optimised for extremely fast key generation. Private and public keys are generated per session and subsequently destroyed (unrecoverable) upon termination of link.

A 4Kbit public key infrastructure based on the widely endorsed Diffie-Hellman algorithm ensures encrypted data is safe and secure.

Calling party identity verification procedures are implemented as protection form “man in the middle” attacks with our unique Identity Verification Module as well as comprehensive procedures to ensure keys or foreign data have not been injected or substituted by a third party.

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msmobiles.com Podcast 59 (size: 31.8 MB, format: MP3)

Finland - a country of Nokia.

Nokia was created and is headquarted in Finland and all major decisions within Nokia are taken in Finland. Nokia is number one mobile phone manufacturer and vendor in the world so maybe

Here is what C.I.A. says about Finland:

Finland was a province and then a grand duchy under Sweden from the 12th to the 19th centuries and an autonomous grand duchy of Russia after 1809. It won its complete independence in 1917. During World War II, it was able to successfully defend its freedom and resist invasions by the Soviet Union - albeit with some loss of territory. In the subsequent half century, the Finns made a remarkable transformation from a farm/forest economy to a diversified modern industrial economy; per capita income is now on par with Western Europe. As a member of the European Union, Finland was the only Nordic state to join the euro system at its initiation in January 1999.

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msmobiles.com Podcast 58 (size: 24.0 MB, format: MP3)

In this podcast we present audio interview with Mike Burch, CTO of Abidia - makers of Abidia Wireless - a program that lately was released in totally new redesigned version 3.0:

Abidia Wireless enhances eBay Auctions with effortless, anytime, anywhere, access via wireless handheld and mobile phone devices; featuring customizable real-time synchronization with an eBay account, wireless searching, cached browsing, wireless bidding, and the ability to effortlessly supervise auction listings on-the-go. Abidia Wireless is currently available to registered users for Windows Mobile-based Pocket PC’s, Windows Mobile-based Smartphones, Palm Powered devices, BlackBerry Wireless Handheld devices, with support for Symbian Series 60 Platform, Symbian UIQ Platform, and Java enabled (J2ME) mobile phone and wireless device editions coming soon.

We apologize for sound quality problems in the 2nd half of the interview - you may need to regulate volume in your MP3 player from time to time while listening!

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msmobiles.com Podcast 57 (size: 34.5 MB, format: MP3)

Symbian cartel was constructed with single idea in mind: to prevent Microsoft from succeeding in cell phone industry. Microsoft with Windows Mobile tries to enter cell phone industry but Microsoft fails badly: Symbian still has over 80% of market share globally and even more than 90% in some markets.

Here is how Symbian describes itself:

Symbian is a software licensing company that develops and supplies the advanced, open, standard operating system – Symbian OS – for data-enabled mobile phones.
Symbian was established as a private independent company in June 1998.

Headquartered in the UK, it now has more than 750 staff with offices in Japan, Sweden, UK and the USA and a development centre in Bangalore.

… however it is just superficial information not revealing the truth.

Please listen to this podcsat to learn how Windows Mobile can defeat Symbian.

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msmobiles.com Podcast 56 (size: 30.1 MB, format: MP3)

This podcasts includes: Keynote speech of Bill Gates from MEDC 2005 : even podcasts were mentioned !

Yes, even word “podcasts” was used in this keynote speech, albeit not by Bill Gates himself but by one of Microsoft employees, who were presenting within frame of this keynote - in short demonstrations - various new capabilities of Windows Mobile and Visual Studio 2005.

In this news item we present some highlights from this keynote plus whole keynote as a podcast (MP3 file downloadable to your MP3 player of choice):

Highlights:

• this keynote took place during MEDC 2005 conference on Tuesday, May 10, 2005, 9-10 a.m. PDT, in Las Vegas, USA
• not only Windows Mobile but also embedded Windows - Windows CE and Windows XP embedded are discussed
• Windows Mobile 5.0 is being introduced for the first time. The official release of information about Windows Mobile 5.0 at the website of Microsoft was withhold until this keynote speech
• in presentations in this keynote speech - presentations made by various Microsoft employees - the HTC Universal Pocket PC phone is used in operation. HTC Universal offers VGA display (640x480 pixels), 3G/UMTS/GSM radio interfaces plus full Qwerty keyboard and built-in Wi-Fi. HTC Universal was presented with Windows Mobile 5.0 running in it.
• Samsung i300 - a Microsoft Smartphone powered by Windows Mobile 5.0 for smarpthone was also presented. This phone has built-in hard disk of size: 3GB.
• new fantastic emulators of Windows Mobile have been presented. These emulators emulate not only operating system but also processor - so they are binary compatible with all existing ARM applications ! In other words: you can run binary existing ARM in your PC in an emulator of Windows MObile 5.0 ! This is incredibly important for developers, but may be useful also for end users.
• new APIs of Windows Mobile 5.0 have been presented in demonstrations. For example using location API in combination with SQL Mobile of Outlook to set appointments from application into Outlook Mobile and further to Outlook in a desktop PC.

Here is how Microsoft describes this keynote:

Bill Gates Keynote from the Microsoft Mobile & Embedded Developers Conference in Las Vegas

At the Microsoft Mobile & Embedded Developers Conference in Las Vegas, Bill Gates’ keynote announced the launch of Windows Mobile 5.0 and the company’s long-term development strategies for mobile applications and embedded operating systems.

To view webcast (video recording) of this keynote click here. Once transcript of this keynote will be available we will update this news item with a link to this transcript!

In meantime you can download podcast with this whole keynote here (format: MP3, size: 30.1 MB) - you can put it to your MP3 player of choice and listen to this keynote wherever whenever you wish. URL to RSS feed of all msmobiles.com Podcasts is here - you can find ther interviews, latest news and other audio recordings in form of podcasts. Phrase “even podcasts” can be heard at 25:56 (25 minutes, 56 seconds after start) in this podcast.

msmobiles.com Podcast 55 (size: 7.77 MB, format: MP3)

Answers to questions asked over Skype voice mail box plus podcast from Microsoft about upcoming MEDC conference discussed.

Links to stories mentioned in this podcast:

Dave Ciccone’s podcast is here - it discusses mainly iPAQ Pocket PC devices, but also all other Windows Mobile issues.

SIM Unlock of E200 and other Orange SPV phones is available commericially here. See also our interview with owner of this company, that offers this SIM unlock service, here.

Podcast feed of Microsoft’s official podcast from MEDC conference is here:
http://www.microsoft.com/winme/MEDC/MEDCPodcast.xml.
More information about this podcast is here. It starts tomorrow (May 9, 2005) and it will cover the MEDC 2005 conference where revolutionary Windows Mobile codename Magneto will be releaved!

ActiveSync - synchronization software for Windows XP to connect Windows Mobile phones to PC, is here.

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msmobiles.com Podcast 54

Latest news about Microsoft powered cellphones.

Some stories covered in this podcast:

Motricity (PocketGear.com / Smartphone.net) increases commission and more rips off more money away from developers.

About Nokia N91 - the competitor to Samsung i300 MS Smartphone. Nokia N91 has built-in hard disk.

Audiovox SMT 5600 available at Cingular in USA.

Push email feature in MS Exchange.