With Crossbow just around the corner, it looks like Microsoft will be changing the naming scheme for Windows Mobile products. Now instead of Smartphone, Pocket PC, and others you'll have variations from Windows Mobile. For example, Smartphone may be replaced by "Standard", Pocket PC Phone could become "Professional". This method of naming falls in line with their desktop OS naming scheme.

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Virtual Earth Mobile is a powerful Windows Mobile-based application that allows you to access and interact with the maps and information provided by the Windows Live Virtual Earth Web Service. The latest version of Virtual Earth Mobile, contains new features including a support for dragging maps with the stylus and a support for text-based directions. This version also includes bug fixes.

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Maybe you remember this application, Microsoft Portrait enables video communication using your Windows Mobile device. I thought for a while this was dead, but it looks like it's not. Last week Microsoft Research posted an update to the software to support Windows Mobile 2005.

It has integration with MSN Messenger allowing you to place a call from your buddy list.

According to the Unwired, the Samsung i760 from Verizon will be running next version of the Windows Mobile OS (codenamed Crossbow). The phone will be released in the second quarter of this year.

Great my i730 is end of life this year as well, time for an upgrade.

StyleTap Inc., announced that the preview version of StyleTap Platform for Windows Smartphone is now available.

StyleTap Platform enables the world's largest base of mobile applications - the estimated 30,000 applications written to run on Palm OS® - to run on Windows Smartphones, including the new Motorola Moto Q™, the T-Mobile Dash™ and the Samsung Blackjack™.

StyleTap Platform for Windows Smartphone enables most Palm OS applications (including multimedia applications and games) to run, unmodified, on any device running Windows Mobile® 5.0 for Smartphone. The software comes with everything needed to download and run Palm OS applications, and supports cut ...

Spb Software, maker of software applications for the Windows Mobile platform announced the launch of new content site for Windows Mobile users called Spb Club ( www.spbclub.com ). The idea of this website is to provide Pocket PC users with quality content they can use to empower and personalize their Pocket PC.

Some of the features of the site are:

* Programs
* Games
* Free ringtones
* Free Pocket PC themes
* Free SMS-tones
* Free skins < ...

SpectraLink Corp. , has extended its Wi-Fi telephony capabilities to third-party mobile devices by introducing the NetLink Softphone (NetLink SP) application. The NetLink SP application allows voice-enabled mobile devices to function as full-featured business telephones integrated with an enterprise telephone system. NetLink SP operates as a thin client, offering optimized performance both over the wireless LAN and on the handheld ...

USA ePay announced the availability of Wireless ePay for Windows Mobile.

The software interacts via Bluetooth to USA ePay's W-ePay SC30 device. The W-ePay SC30 is an all-in-one swiper and printer for credit card processing. This device allows USA ePay wireless merchants to switch between different mobile devices and still keep the W-ePay SC30 for processing; cutting out costs for new equipment.

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It appears that some earnest user/developer of the Windows Mobile platform decided that new iPhone interface was slick enough to place on Windows Mobile and developed one.

If you're running phoneAlarm for Windows Mobile 5, you can download and install this skin for your phone.

More information and the download

Being an XM subscriber this is gain for me. Today the developers of SelectRadion announced users can get podcasts, Internet radio, as well as XM Radio Online channels can be accessed with their software.

A free 10-day fully functional trial is available for evaluation prior to purchase at www.selectradio.com.

The companies announced today they plan to begin offering the Sprint Mobile Broadband Smart Device MOTO Q(TM) by Motorola later this month in Sprint business sales channels and online at http://www.sprint.com/ . Sprint is expected to begin offering the MOTO Q in all channels including Sprint Stores in mid-February.

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Here's a nice little freebee application called TxtMan for your Windows Mobile device. It enables you to send text messages and have them listed like an IM application.

The software is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution.....license, so you can download and install it at no cost (non-commercial).