I am currently working on a comprehensive guide to Microsoft’s Direct Push Technology based on my own experiences (I wanted to say struggles, but if I said that you probably wouldn’t read it anymore would you?) getting Microsoft Exchange 2003 SP2 and my HP rw6818 to talk push mail. The topics and coverage are more […]

KeyControl is an extremely configurable Winamp hotkey plugin KeyControl is an extremely configurable Winamp hotkey plugin that makes it possible to access Winamp and control it through your own system-wide hotkeys. Standard functions such as Play, stop, skip track, fast forward are all supported. There are also more interesting ones such as system […]

I thought long and hard not about the contents of this article, but about the title. While sure to generate some controversy, this is what I believe to be the case. My personal opinion is that the current implementation of Direct Push overall is better than RIM’s BlackBerry device where it comes to […]

From the earlier section "When nudge comes to shove: How push is Direct Push", we talked about three methods of retrieving Email available to Windows Mobile 5.0 devices onwards – by polling, Direct Push, or manually. All three methods of retrieving your Email ride on top of your standard mobile technologies such as GPRS, […]

It might not be immediately obvious to the beginner; but there are actually three primary ways for retrieving your Email on a Windows Mobile 5.0 MSFP device. Depending on your data plan, preference and requirements, this flexibility is actually pretty useful.

The push mail that this guide focuses upon is implemented using a Windows Mobile 5.0 device with the Messaging and Security Feature Pack (MSFP) together with a Microsoft Exchange 2003 SP2 server. For additional information about whether you have the minimum requirements, please refer to the pre-requisite stated in the next section of this guide.
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I think it would be fair to credit the popularization of the term ‘Push Mail’ to Research in Motion’s (RIM) ubiquitous BlackBerry device. For those living in a cave in Afghanistan for the last few years, push mail refers to the automatic receipt of Emails – implicitly assumed to be a handheld device, as […]