Nicholas Rayner

This week I was lucky enough to receive a HTC Shift on loan. When I first got a chance to play with the HTC Shift at Microsoft Tech-Ed in 2007 I was wowed by the ability of running Windows Mobile and Vista on the one device with an in-built HSDPA Modem (even 12 months ago HSDPA modems were rare) Once...

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This morning I just took delivery of a brand new HTC Touch Diamond The Touch Diamond is the latest phone from device maker HTC . The Diamond sports an updated version of TouchFlo, HTC’s new UI which is similar to the iPhone UI. After playing with the device today, there are some good things and some...

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Today Dell released the much anticipate multi-touch drivers for their Latitude XT . The new driver’s unleash the power of the capacitive touch screen that shipped with the XT. I’ve been using my XT everyday since January and love it, but have been waiting on these drivers ever since I opened the box...

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Yesterday one of Windows Server 2008’s best feature, if not the best, RTMd!! Hyper-V is a hypervisor based virtualization technology and a key role in Windows Server 2008. Head over to the Hyper-V site and grab the download and update your WS2008 boxes. I’ve done the update on my home server and will...

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Last night I was going through my video collection looking at the Ink Shows from GottaBeMobile.com (the best Mobile Computing site there is!) and I came across a video from CES 2008 that I didn’t remember seeing. The Ink Show was on some software to come from and English Software Company Ergo who were...

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Last week it was discovered the National Australian Bank was spamming selected Australian Blogs to use them as a FREE promotional tool for their new SMS banking service. You can read the full article here and discuss it here...

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Today Microsoft have released the next version of Origami Experience, version 2.0. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Origami, it is a software suite that is built on-top of the operating system and is specifically designed for Ultra Mobile PCs (PCs with screens smaller than 7 inchs). Microsoft...

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Last Friday I was talking to a friend who told me that their Grandparents had been without a Telstra landline service for 6 days, they were also elderly and both suffered medical conditions that they need access to Emergency Services if their condition deteriorates. After tweeting this & this less...

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Last night I got to see some official information on this one and it’s pretty amazing. The HTC Touch Pro has the same style as the HTC Touch Diamond . The Touch Pro is basically the Touch Diamond with a slide out keyboard with a very small increase in thickness. Having got some time with the Touch Diamond...

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At last week's SBTUG , my first! Catherine Eibner presented on the new MERGE keyword in SQL Server 2008 Check her her slides on slideshare ....

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