“MobiMate. . . announced the release of WorldMate 2006 Professional Edition for Windows Mobile. The award-winning business travel service now supports Windows Mobile 5.0, and features a complete overhaul of the Real-Time Flight Status service, now covering over 75 leading airlines and provided as part of the subscription. Another service added is weather imagery, featuring detailed, animated weather satellite and radar imagery. . . WorldMate is…

“Opera Software and Willcom INC today announced that the Opera Mobile? browser will be offered on the new Sharp W-ZERO3 Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 handset in Japan. The Sharp W-ZERO3 is the first Windows Mobile 5.0 device in the Japanese market, and also the first device to ship with Opera Mobile 8.5 for Pocket PC.”
Darius has posted on the W-ZERO3 in…

As spotted on PocketGear is Amazing Mahjong, described as an “addictive tile matching game with more than 25 challenging layouts, colorful tile sets, detailed rules, etc.”…

Sudoku Pack 2.0 contains “thousands of high quality grids to challenge your logic skills, whether you are a beginner or expert.”…

As seen on Handango is Smack The Santa, a “stylus-tapping knock ‘em out action game in the tradition of Whack The Weasel.”…

Pulse Interactive has released two expansion packs to their X50v-only Quake adaption. In Scourge of Armagon you “arrive back at your home base on Earth, but it’’s not all blue skies and butteflies. Apparently, not all Quake forces have been subdued…”…

“Now readers of the Bible interested in Jewish traditions have a comprehensive and mobile resource. The Jewish Study Bible reflects both contemporary biblical scholarship and the richness of Jewish tradition.”

Handmark uses the Olive Tree Bible software for their content, which is free. The Jewish Study Bible by Oxford is $39.99 and requires 4MB of space either on the device or on a storage card. It is available for both the Pocket PC and…

“Here in the User Assistance team in the Mobile and Embedded Devision, we’re looking for a programmer/writer to help create the reference documentation that developers depend on. If you love Pocket PCs and Smartphones, and have proven programming and writing skillz, you should definitely get in touch with Celeste De Guzman (celested at microsoft dot com) immediately. We have a vacancy for a full time position, based in Redmond, WA.”
The full…

South Korean vendor rolls out first Pocket PC with built-in broadcast TV receiver.

“Hold on to your BlackBerries. Wireless email giant Research In Motion has taken a big hit in its long running legal dispute with NTP, and now faces the prospect of paying more than a billion dollars to get itself out of trouble…On Wednesday, Judge James Spencer of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia refused to delay the proceedings any further, or to hold the companies to their previous settlement. The decision means…

If you have an HTC Universal device, like the JasJar or 02 Exec, you can now add CTRL and ALT key functionality to the device.
It also includes support for IME characters for Japanese users and from the update log on that page, is constantly being tweaked and updated. It is a free download….

“In my recent “Where’s My RAM” entry, I explained why you tend to see a difference between what the WM5 device reports as “Total” RAM and what you know the device actually has. In other words, “Why does my 64M RAM device say it only has 50M?” In the comments for that entry people asked about the reported “In Use” numbers. “In Use” shows how much of the total RAM the system is using right then. The general consensus among the commenters was that…

Here’s a list of various Pocket PCs listed in Pricegrabber’s database, and the lowest price on each model. Clicking through to the vendor selling the product helps support this site, so if you’re interested in learning more about the product, click. Here are the five most popular Pocket PCs and their prices according to Pricegrabber searches:
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Microsoft is offering a hosted messaging solution for small and mid-size companies that aren’t willing to install and maintain an in house messaging solution but want to move beyond POP3 accounts from outside providers.
There are a number of new features in the current release, including enhancements for mobile devices, like direct push email, remote device wipe and other enhancements brought by SP2 for Exchange. To take advantage of those…

“The VLC media player is an amazing piece of software. In its most basic form it is a lightweight media player that can play almost any audio or video format you throw at it. VLC is also multiplatform in the most extreme sense of the word; it can run on Windows, OSX, Linux and PocketPC / WinCE handhelds along with other systems. VLC works great as a streaming server and video transcoder too. We used VLC to move Tivo recordings to an iPod before,…

“The game makes use of the everyday infrastructure of wireless networks around a city to create a game environment. The object of the game is to locate the eponymous Yoshis, which are actually secured wireless networks, represented as small furry creatures. Each Yoshi asks the player for a particular kind of fruit. Players must then grow and retrieve these fruits from plantations, which are actually unsecured wireless networks. Upon feeding the…

“The first PDA with a built-in GPS was the Mio 168, released in late 2003 with a SiRFstarII module (originally with the ST firmware and then the Xtrac v2 firmware) and a flip-out antenna. It met with a lot of success, particularly in Europe. Not a lot of activity on the PDA GPS front until this summer with the arrival of the Yakumo Delta X and of course of the HP hw6515 reviewed in detail here. This is where the MyGuide Holux GPSmile G60…

“Mio Technology, a subsidiary of Mitac International, on November 29 unveiled its new GPS-enabled PDA phone, the A700, which will be available worldwide in mid-December at prices ranging between US$597-746. The A700 will specifically target users in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan as the model features built-in Chinese-version maps of cities in China and Taiwan, according to company president Samuel Wang. The A700 will also be the company’s first…

“I’ve noticed a few other websites knocking up reviews for handsets recently and I thought, “Hmm.. how can we go one better?” Then I came up with the answer. Instead of just reviewing the Orange SPV M5000 or the o2 XDA Exec, how about we review both of them. Then, to make things even more interesting, let’s do a 3G video call between the two of them - just to see how they cope. Both reviews are pretty similar as they’re essentially the same…