Concluding a rather lengthy beta (or at least it seemed lengthy to those impatiently waiting for it), Sling has finalized its SlingPlayer Mobile for Palm OS for retail. With Windows Mobile 5, Windows Mobile 6, and Palm clients now all widely available, carriers may want to get cracking at shoring up those HSDPA and EV-DO towers, because we have every intention of watching this football dude again and again.

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SHAPE Services has announced beta versions of its IM+ Skype for mobile phones supporting Java, and Symbian S60 and Palm OS devices. This application will enable phone calls and messaging in Skype system in any cellular networks without active Wi-Fi. There was the version of IM+ Skype for BlackBerry released in May. There is also IM+ for MSN/Yahoo/ICQ/AOL/Jabber/GoogleTalk messengers.
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About a month ago we wrote about upcoming beta tests of a new Opera Mini version codenamed Dimension. But the tests haven’t been announced yet. The Dimension developers team has shared some details on product’s capabilities. The browser will be based on a completely new code, which will make it faster, clearer and simpler in use. Being small and fast Opera Mini Dimension will support more web-standards.
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The availability of Microsoft’s push e-mail service last week is the company’s latest move to establish Windows Mobile 5.0 as the platform of choice for mobile users.

Interest in Windows Mobile 5.0 has grown steadily, and it now attracts far more developers than any rival mobile operating system. This should improve the likelihood of IT directors being able to buy line-of-business mobile applications for the Microsoft platform. More than 10,000 developers are currently working on applications for Windows Mobile 5.0.

Part of the reason for this developer momentum is Microsoft’s programming model. Nick Jones, vice-president at analyst firm Gartner, said, “Every device using Windows Mobile 5.0 has the same interfaces, but that is absolutely not the case with other operating systems, such as Symbian.”

According to Microsoft, companies that develop for Windows Mobile will be able to use the same skills they already have for desktop Windows development. Staff with Visual Studio and .net Framework languages, such as C# and Visual Basic, can develop for Windows Mobile.

The launch of Microsoft’s .net Compact Framework 2.0 last autumn gave Windows Mobile developers improved managed code application programming interfaces (APIs) to simplify mobile development projects, plus a number of new APIs for Windows Mobile.

Future releases of Windows Mobile are expected to appear annually, with patches and upgrades issued more frequently. Microsoft is committed to ensuring that 95% of applications have backward compatibility on its platform.

Jones said, “One of the great strengths of Windows Mobile is that it has a single owner in Microsoft. Therefore it is a relatively consistent platform, even when devices are produced by different manufacturers. Although it is being forced to support greater diversity of devices, we expect Mobile to remain far more consistent and backward compatible than the Java operating system.”
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According to Berg Insight’s market forecast, after 2012, the number of smartphones running on Linux might outrun that of Symbian smartphones. The experts claim that in 2012 will still be the market’s best with a 44% share, whereas Linux will have 41% and Windows Mobile - 6%.
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Augmentra has released an update to its ViewRanger application - version 2.3. This application allows handling the navigation department of smartphones running S60. As the manufacturer claims, ViewRanger is a perfect solution for everyone fond of travilling and geocaching, at that it can manage both inbuilt receivers and those connected over Bluetooth.

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The new program for jealous wives and husbands, and as other people liking another’s secrets was published. The program is developed by company Retina-X Studios and is capable to work on smartfon’s Windows Mobile in spy a mode, Windows Mobile Task Manager it will not show. The program passes intercepted SMS messages and history of calls to the specified server, thus, the curious “comrade” who has established{installed} the program on phone of “victim” can easy read all SMS correspondence and look through history of phone calls not having access to a mobile phone. It is enough to take once in hands phone what to install the program and all. Legality of use of the given program without the prevention of this of the owner of phone where she is installed causes greater doubts, it is more correct completely illegally, in fact the person never learns that watch it, and this infringement of his personal rights and freedom.