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You must all know that I recently changed my old N90 for a brand new & shiny Samsung SGH-i600 which is running Windows Mobile 5 (and hopefully soon WM6). I had a challenge for my free time this week : enabling push email… and man that was tough ! I firstly tried Consilient service. I installed it 20 times, tried every setting .. never could retrieve one single email :(.
Then I read some documentation explaining that in order to get push email you should use ActiveSync with an Exchange server. Noprob : I registered cortado ASP Exchange server for 5$/month and forwarded my gmail email to that account. Took me 24hrs + 5 mails to support to have my account working and never got the “mobile” access to work.

Finally … I was toying with MSN Messenger installed on the mobile as I wanted to chat with my tech team busy releasing a project (and my wife had taken my Mac…) and it just happenned ! Hotmal turned in and started doing push email in a new mailbox that appeared on the home screen of my device ! Couldn’t believe it was so simple and it really does the trick : real push email + messenger ! Just had to forward my gmail email to hotmail and set the “reply to” to my wavestorm email and voila !

YATTA !

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I stopped by tagmypod showroom earlier today and had a very pleasant moment with Phuong around his business ideas. Basically he has a big machine with a high performance laser inside that can slightly burn the surface of any kind of material and use that to draw any kind of shapes on it. Look on the picture how awesome my mobile phone case looks ;). Currently it’s marketed as a B2C service, so if you want your gear tagged with your preferred logos or symbols rush to their showroom ;).

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Taken on my terrace with Stephanie and Bruno around.

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Just read on deviceforge that NEC USA has been introducing a first line of connected projectors. Basically those devices run Windows Mobile 6 and use Vista built-in VNC protocol to show the same image on the projector as displayed on the PC - the protocol is called RDP (remote desktop protocol). This works either in WiFi infrastructure or ad-hoc mode as stated in MSDN documentation and is supported by default in WM6.

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Second Life is getting into our minds… but you’ll have to wait till September to know what we are really using it for Till there you can drop by on Niobe see how our ship-HQ looks like!

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Lenovo has announced the very first laptop with buit-in UWB :

The T61p notebook, which will be available July 17 starting at $1,814, also offers ultra-wideband (UWB), according to Tom Ribble, director of ThinkPad product marketing for Lenovo.

reports news.com.
Can’t wait to check out the user experience around this new technology… how hard the pairing is, how hard it is to manage the devices… up to now wireless technologies have really been a pain for the end user, and indeed techies rather do high speed than high-usability…

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Awesome… just discovered AjaxLife, an Ajax based viewer for Second Life. That means that from your preferred browser you can now browse Second Life worlds ! Sometimes I’m just amazed at what can be done with a set of scripts ;). Ok you don’t have the 3d graphics but still you can teleport to some place and chat with the guys around. Next step I hope is VRML rendering !
Through metaversed

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Very nice article this week in l’Usine Nouvelle about Web 3, and of course WaveStorm is highlighted! Here are a few quotes (in French, sorry):

« Le web 1.0 a connecté les PC, le web 2.0 les gens, le web 3.0 reliera les objets », assure Alexandre Casassovici, le cofondateur et P-DG de WaveStorm, une start-up française. Dotés de connexion sans-fil de type Wi-Fi, Bluetooth ou ZigBee, consoles de jeux, décodeurs de télévision ou téléphones mobiles devront être capables de s’échanger des contenus et d’accéder aux services de n’importe quel appareil connecté. « Une console de jeux portable permettrait par exemple de récupérer les vidéos stockées sur le PC et de les lire sur un téléviseur », explique Alexandre Casassovici.
Mieux, les réseaux qui se créent entre les objets continuent à fonctionner lorsque la liaison internet est rompue : les machines parlent directement entre elles via des liaisons sans fil.

Check on the website for the full version!

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CSG Dinner (3)
Originally uploaded by Altaide.

Very nice evening yesterday with good friends, should happen more often ! Too bad Rodrigo and Jeff weren’t with us, we missed you guys !

Apple just released an introductory guide for developers to create Iphone-enhanced mobile applications focusing mainly on “Understanding User-iPhone Interaction, Using Standards and Tried-and-True Design Practices, Integrating with Phone, Mail, and Maps, Optimizing for Page Readability, Ensuring a Great Audio and Video Experience, Knowing What Safari Supports on iPhone”. This shows that the Safari browser has been significatly enhanced and bound to the phone abilities… creating for instance the “tel” href link commanding the dial function. It’s a bid odd though that Apple hasn’t included a Flash player in it .. maybe Adobe was too greedy

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