Latest News from Reed Shilts

WindowsMobile Share of Smartphone Sales and Traffic

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:15:00 EDT

Some interesting numbers about worldwide market shares of Smartphones (not dumbphones since those are so uninteresting to me). Both handset market share and web "traffic" shares are discussed.

Using Web Services in a PocketBuilder Application

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:45:00 EDT

A shortcoming of PocketBuilder 1.x and 2.x has always been the difficulty in accessing Web Services. This shortcoming had always irritated us, but the limitations of the PocketPC and the size of the traditional PowerBuilder approach prevented us from providing an adequate traditional solution. We have a sample up on CodeXchange that wraps a simple API around the free 'Pocket SOAP' client, but that had its own limitations and we were never really satisfied with it.

PocketBuilder RoadMap Update

Wed, 16 May 2007 17:15:00 EDT

A major update (but not requiring a migration) will soon be looking for some beta testers. I was hoping to start the beta program right after Easter, but PB-11 and UL-10 kept sucking time away from PocketBuilder-centric activities.