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Windows Mobile 6.1 was just announced at CTIA yesterday. A bunch of us got together to record a video demoing most of the new features in Windows Mobile 6.1. Check out this 40-minute video that shows:

Cool devices, including the T-Mobile Shadow, HTC Tilt, Pantech Duo, Moto Q9
The new Sliding Panel home screen (aka “Bronze”)
All new [...]

We’re really excited to announce that the new Windows Mobile Line of Business Solution Accelerator 2008 has been released to the web and can be found here http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=428E4C3D-64AD-4A3D-85D2-E711ABC87F04&displaylang=en at the Microsoft Downloads site.  Having the best mobile development platform and tools is more important now than it’s ever been before and that’s why we’ve delivered this [...]

Today Adobe announced a series of changes to its emerging web applications platform. The changes include:
–The next version of the mobile Flash runtime will be free of license fees. Adobe also confirmed that the mobile version of the Air runtime will be free.
–Adobe changed its licensing terms and released additional technical information that [...]

There’s so much hype in the mobile industry that I’m always reluctant to use a word like “shocking,” but nothing else fits Nokia’s announcement today that it will support Microsoft Silverlight.
If you missed the press release (link), Nokia said that it’s going to make Microsoft Silverlight available for all of its mobile platforms — Series [...]

Summary: The business of making native apps for mobile devices is dying, crushed by a fragmented market and restrictive business practices. The problems are so bad that the mobile web, despite its many technical drawbacks, is now a better way to deliver new functionality to mobiles. I think this will drive a [...]