Bologna (Italy) October 22, 2002 - CNetX today announced that Pocket SlideShow, the popular PowerPoint viewer for Windows Powered handheld devices is adding support for Microsoft Windows Powered Smartphone software. The application will be demonstrated today at the integrated launch of the Orange SPV Windows Powered Smartphone in London.

Pocket SlideShow is a powerful PowerPoint presentation viewer for handheld devices. Thanks to Pocket SlideShow users can keep their favorite Microsoft PowerPoint presentations right in their pocket, and enjoy full-screen slide shows, with optimized display and animations.

The Smartphone Edition of Pocket SlideShow is extremely compact and it is specifically tailored to take advantage of the unique multimedia capabilities of the Microsoft Windows Powered Smartphone, thus further extending the ability to review presentations anytime/anywhere. [...]

Redmond - October 23, 2002 - Action Engine Corporation today announced it has signed a licensing agreement with Orange SA, one of the world's leading mobile communications companies with more than 40 million customers worldwide and operations in 21 countries. As part of the agreement, Orange has licensed Action Engine's Mobile Web Services Platform and has embedded it onto the new Orange SPV mobile phone powered by Microsoft Windows Powered Smartphone software.

Action Engine's browserless Mobile Web Services Platform delivers the first easy way for mobile operators and enterprises alike to [...]

Together with the Smartphone 2002 launch yesterday, Microsoft also officially released the latest ActiveSync version 3.6 which includes - beside the Smartphone 2002 support - also some improvements for Pocket PC and Pocket PC Phone Editon:

Microsoft ActiveSync 3.6 is the latest synchronization software for Microsoft Windows Powered Pocket PCs and Smartphones. ActiveSync 3.6 includes all the significant improvements brought to you in ActiveSync 3.5: it is easy to install and use while offering the best levels of reliability. If you had not already installed ActiveSync 3.5, ActiveSync 3.6 will also bring you up to date with compatibility to Microsoft Office XP and Windows XP. [...]

21 October 2002 - Symbian has officially announced that Samsung will use its OS in a range of smartphone products. Samsung's first Symbian handset will be a 2.5G smartphone using Nokia's Series 60 interface.

Samsung is planning further Symbian OS models for 2.5G and 3G networks, including both GSM- and CDMA-based standards. Symbian added CDMA support to its OS earlier this year and Samsung announced that it was licensing Nokia's Series 60 in August 2002. Samsung is the world's third largest handset manufacturer and one of the fastest growing.

"Symbian has demonstrated its ability to deliver leading edge technology, stimulate [...]

JOURE, Netherlands, October 22, 2002 - ALL-locations today launched two applications at the launch of the first Microsoft Windows Powered Smartphone in London: the Smartphone version of the well-known GPRS Traffic Counter, and the ALL-explorer 2.4 Smartphone Edition.

The ALL-locations GPRS Traffic Counter 3.0 Smartphone Edition is a unique tool that allows Windows Powered Smartphone users to keep track of the costs they make when using a GPRS connection, thus avoiding surprises when the bill of the operator comes. "With GPRS you pay for data traffic, not for airtime. This is a different experience that people have to get used to, the GPRS Traffic Counter helps people by showing them what the actual costs [...]

Microsoft today released the Smartphone 2002 SDK and also introduced Mobile2Market:

Build innovative mobile applications. Bring your applications to market. Download the Smartphone 2002 SDK and join Microsoft Mobile2Market a comprehensive program for the certification and market delivery of mobile applications designed for Windows Powered mobile devices. [...]

Pen&Internet and RACO team up to offer riteMail handwritten email application and service on T-Mobile’s Pocket PC Phone

riteMail gives T-Mobile smartphone users a natural, pen-based alternative for sending quick messages and drawings to multiple platforms [...]

Within the next 14 months (until end of 2003) you can win every month one of the finest Socket Communications accessories here at PPCW.Net - starting in November 2002.
Socket Communications supports PPCW.Net with this raffle which means for you 14 chances to win. Every month you can get one of the coolest communication accessories available for your Pocket PC and Pocket PC 2002:

• 10/100 Ethernet CF Card
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How it will works, all details and so on I will post here within the next few days. But you can start thinking about what you want to get if you win. Just as much: you have to do nothing else than registering that you want to win! :-)

Thanks to Socket Communications for this support of PPCW.Net and its readers! Stay tuned for more information!

Cheers ~ Arne

San Francisco, CA - October 21, 2002 - For the first time, two nationally syndicated television entertainment newsmagazines will make video highlights available daily to millions of PDA users around the world. Working in a unique cross-promotional partnership with Mazingo.Net, The Mobile Entertainment Network, Telepictures Productions' syndicated newsmagazines "Extra" and "Celebrity Justice" will provide daily video highlights to members of the Mazingo Network’s worldwide mobile audience beginning today. Fresh video will be delivered automatically to Mazingo subscribers who select the shows.

According to Mazingo CEO, Brooks Haden, "Mazingo is all about video news and entertainment on the go. Now with these video highlights, we can extend the terrific brand of daily news from 'Extra' and 'Celebrity Justice', to a whole new audience, the mobile consumer. Best of all, it's delivered automatically everyday to Mazingo users who select the 'Extra' [...]

EzWAP 2.5 will includes new features from the WAP 2.0 specification: MMS, WPKI, Provisioning.

EzWAP 2.5 places Mobile Internet information and services in the palm of your hand. Pocket PC 2002 Phone Edition software-based devices and next-generation phones based on the Microsoft Smartphone 2002 platform which run our EzWAP client offer easy and secure access to relevant Internet/Intranet information via wireless networks. Simply install EzWAP on your device and then you can browse Mobile Internet sites as easily as you currently browse HTML sites using a standard web browser. You can also create, send and receive MMS messages. Enhanced messages containing graphics, sound and text are as simple to create as a PowerPoint presentation. EzWAP 2.5 improves security thanks to its WPKI functionalities and Smart Card integration onto enabled devices.

EzWAP 2.5 is based on EZOS' MoByKit, our platform-independent toolkit that is available for manufacturers of electronic appliances who want to integrate Mobile Internet technology quickly into their particular platforms. [...]