Windows Phone 8 inside VMWare

    More than a month ago some Microsoft guy in Asia made a terrible mistake and the LKG25 of Windows Phone 8 SDK leaked to the web. As I am not one of the lucky people that are the development program (as Mary Jo Foley suspected in a tweet and I believe it is true) I was more than happy when I got my hands onto the leaked version. At start I wanted to start blogging about the news that Windows Phone 8 will bring, but then I decided that...

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Samsung announces new Windows 8 devices

The new Windows 8 devices announced by Samsung includes a smartphone, a tablet and two versions of notebook. Samsung has announced several Windows 8 ATIV devices at a conference in Berlin, Germany. They include two notebooks, a tablet and a smartphone that will be a part of Samsung's new brand for its Windows-based devices. The smartphone, called the ATIV S, will run the Windows Phone 8 operating system with a 1.5 gigahertz dual-core processor....

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Wireless companies prepared for Isaac's impact on mobile networks

During hurricane season, consumers and businesses and are encouraged to have an emergency plan prepared and assemble an emergency kit. (Photo courtesy of C Spire Wireless) Hurricane Isaac, which has now been downgraded to a tropical storm, made landfall along the Louisiana Gulf Coast and wireless carriers were ready to ensure your mobile devices would work as conditions worsen or if wireless networks were threatened. This year's hurricane season...

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Verizon Wireless gets a nod for providing the best network quality

The quality of your wireless service is probably not top of mind as you go about everyday tasks of making calls, texting, reading emails and Web surfing. But the wireless companies certainly have it on their minds and Verizon Wireless just got a nod from J.D Power and Associates as providing the best network quality in Mississippi for calls, messaging and data usage. It was a regional pat on the back for the highest wireless quality in five regions,...

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Get all field values in a document

Sometimes for debugging I am required to check all the field values in a document. It can get tiresome (and boring). So for this purpose I had created a small formula code snippet that would loop through all the fields in a document, get its values and put it in an email to the current user. I simply put this in a toolbar button of my Notes client and its good to go. Here's the code:Continue reading...

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Microsoft goes square, bold colors with new logo design

Microsoft has ditched its wavy logo design for the square look. The new design incorporates four squares with different colors and ties in with Microsoft's new direction with Windows 8, their mobile initiatives and gaming devices. According to a Microsoft top official, the new look "signals the heritage but also signal the future - a newness and freshness." It took 25 years for Microsoft to make a drastic change in the logo design, but they have been slowly moving in a direction of simplicity with recent choices for typefaces, a clean uncluttered...

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Reading Windows registry from Lotus Notes using formula

I can't remember what exactly I was searching for when I ran into this question on N/D 8.5 forum which introduced me to the function @RegQueryValue. Basically this function allows you to read the Windows registry.So if you want to read CPU information on a particular machine then you would write code as:@RegQueryValue("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE"; "HARDWARE\\DESCRIPTION\\System\\CentralProcessor\\0"; "ProcessorNameString")Unfortunately I couldn't find any function to write registry val...

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Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 could earn respect among tablets

I believe Samsung Electronics of America might have a winner with the new Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet, which was announced on Wednesday and available for purchase the next day. That's about the shortest roll out of a product that I've seen. So let's get right to it. The iPad is standing ready to defend any challenger and the Galaxy Note 10.1 just might be a threat, or at least earn a lot more respect than some of the other challengers like the Galaxy...

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Starbucks chooses Square for mobile payment transactions

Sometime this fall, your favorite Starbucks will be accepting mobile payments using the popular Square system for customer transactions. Square uses a free credit card reader for smartphones and allows anyone to accept credit cards anywhere using iPhone and Android apps. The coffee shop powerhouse will use Square's "Pay with Square" app for transactions. Customers also will need to download and set up an account on their smartphone. Starbucks hopes...

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Review: HTC One V from C Spire Wireless is one good bargain

I usually carry my regular smartphone in my right pocket and whatever phone I'm reviewing for this column in my left pocket. Then it's a matter of how often I reach in my left pocket for the review phone to read email, run an app, check social networks, surf the Web, take a photo or shoot video. I've been carrying the HTC One V from C Spire Wireless for a couple of weeks and I've been reaching in my left pocket quite often. I like this phone for...

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Google Wallet moving to the cloud with new security features

I predict that very soon, we'll all be using our smartphones to pay for merchandise at various retailers. It'll become as common pulling out cash or a credit card. The folks behind Google Wallet have been steadily marching toward this goal and recently released a "cloud-based version of the Google Wallet app" that'll have more support for credit and debit cards. The card vendors include MasterCard, Visa, Discover and American Express. According to Google, this new version also includes includes a feature to remotely disable your mobile wallet...

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