Satter Ramblings

Kaleidescape Wins!

This is excellent news for the home theater crowd. Kaleidescape is the maker of an innovative DVD system. They were getting sued by DVD Copy Control Associate, DVD CCA.

Autodial Conference

You might be like me and have a lot of conference calls. Typically you end up dialing a 800 number and then a pin code. Have you ever wished you could one click a conference call when you are on your SmartPhone?

Mobile Threats

It looks like the mobile security and anti-virus market is heating up. A new version of Symantec's Mobile Antivirus product is set to be released in May and turn it into a Mobile Security suite.

Apple TV

I am very disappointed with Apple. The new Apple TV is not a breakthorough nor does it even have the capability that most other set top boxes have.

Thank God for Compact Framework 2.0 SP2

So I have been looking for a memory pressure issue with an application running on Windows Mobile and Compact Framework. The applicaion was going "live" for expanded testing on April 2nd with 1500 testers. We knew we had a memory issue but finding it was nearly impossible until Compact Framework 2.0 SP2.0 come out.

Smart Device Projects

Have you ever wondered why items are in a particular order in Visual Studio? Check out this blog entry by Ryan O'Neill.

Mobile Blogging

Super geek alert. This blog entry is done using the Windows Mobile blogging software for Typepad. It is pretty basic bu to just o some quick news item, very cool. It even integrates in with my camera.

New Security Whitepaper

Jason Langridge has post a new white paper on Windows Mobile security. This will be posted to Technet at some point.

Compact Framework 2.0 SP2

The Compact Framework team has announced the availability of Compact Framework 2.0 SP2.

Shells and SSCE at MEDC

So due to the popularity of the Shell/Kiosk related articles, I will be presenting a session at MEDC 2007 on this topic.