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  New Windows Mobile UI images leaked out

• Optus brings mobile device remote data wiping to SMBs

  By Spandas Lui | 06 September, 2011 12:32

  Optus has launched its OfficeApps Mobile Security product for SMB customers which has the ability to remote lock, wipe and reset passwords for mobile devices.

• SA police launch mobile Web app

  By Julia Talevski | 19 July, 2011 16:46

  South Australia Police has become the first police service in Australia to launch its own mobile Web app.

• Connect2Field invests $500,000 in partner marketing funds

  By Hafizah Osman | 01 April, 2011 16:01

  Application software vendor, Connect2Field, has recently introduced its partner program and a $500,000 marketing and integration fund, specially designed for small service businesses.

• Windows Mobile Growth Strong, Won't Match Android: IDC

  By Shane O'Neill | 10 September, 2010 02:34

  Microsoft's Windows Mobile OS will regain some of the smartphone market share it has lost recently - but will still be in last place in 2014, according to research firm IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker.

• Rhomobile upgrades development-as-service platform

  By Paul Krill | 08 September, 2010 22:07

  Rhomobile will announce Wednesday version 2.0 of its development-as-a-service platform for building smartphone applications.

• LogicalTech picks Pyxis Mobile

  By Spandas Lui | 20 August, 2010 12:41

  LogicalTech, has become a reseller for mobile enterprise application platform vendor, Pyxis Mobile.

• Microsoft to open direct retail outlets in Oz?

  By Julia Talevski | 21 July, 2010 10:00

  Microsoft is taking its direct retail model global and hasn’t denied it will open a self-branded store in Australia.

• Microsoft's new enterprise mobile OS coming this year

  By Agam Shah | 18 June, 2010 05:31

  Microsoft will release a new mobile OS for enterprise handheld devices later this year as it tries to simplify the Windows Mobile upgrade cycle for customers, the company said Thursday.

• Windows Mobile healthier, more common than many think

  By David Coursey | 20 December, 2009 06:31

  That Windows Mobile is "on life support" must come as news to the 7.23 million users of Microsoft's smartphone operating system. While the smartphone OS is in jeopardy, I don't see a situation nearly so dire.

• Windows Mobile 6.5: New features worth tapping into

  By Shane O'Neill | 07 October, 2009 09:31

  The release of Windows Mobile 6.5 is not the complete overhaul that users have been demanding. For that the smartphone-using public will have to wait for Windows Mobile 7, scheduled to release in the last quarter of 2010.

• What's inside the Windows Mobile marketplace?

  By JR Raphael | 07 October, 2009 09:07

  You can stop holding your breath now: Windows Mobile 6.5 is here. Oh, come on -- I know you've been just dying to get your hands on Microsoft's new mobile OS, haven't you? Anyone? Hello?

• Windows Mobile 6.5 won't fix Microsoft's mobile woes

  By Tony Bradley | 02 September, 2009 07:14

  Microsoft has announced that the next incarnation of Windows Mobile, version 6.5, will hit the streets on October 6. Obviously, Microsoft would like it to be a huge success and reclaim some of the lost smart phone market share, but the real prize lies in Microsoft embracing other mobile operating system platforms.

• Windows Mobile needs identity to attack Android, iPhone

  By Jared Newman | 21 August, 2009 03:24

  Microsoft will reportedly push two mobile operating systems at once in an effort to battle Google's Android and Apple's iPhone, but are two heads better than one?

• Microsoft should develop for other mobile platforms

  By Tony Bradley | 11 August, 2009 10:46

  Microsoft will release the next incremental upgrade of the Windows Mobile platform this Fall, but for many analysts and experts it seems like the new Windows Mobile OS is virtually dead on arrival. Microsoft has done little to raise the bar for mobile devices, and often seems to fall short even in just trying to catch up to competing products.

• Smartphone OS smackdown: WebOS vs. the world

  By Harry McCracken | 05 June, 2009 23:27

  Does the world need another smartphone operating system? Apple's iPhone OS is still booming; Google's Android is increasingly promising; and three longtime contenders--Microsoft's Windows Mobile, RIM's BlackBerry OS, and Symbian's S60--are undergoing serious renovation to keep up with the times.

• One way to build mobile-friendly apps for all devices

  By Bob Brown | 23 May, 2009 04:20

  Adam Blum, CEO of startup Rhomobile, says 90% of the programs being written with his company's open source mobile application framework are by ISVs and the other 10% by enterprises, but over time he'd like to see those percentages reversed.