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Live Mesh coming to Windows Mobile this week!

October 28, 2008 | By Surur

One of our readers alerted us to the news that a new Live Mesh beta is coming this week, and that this release will finally bring a Windows Mobile client.

Live Mesh provides downloadable software for PC’s and a service on the Web that provides access to all your files and various web applications from whatever device you are using. Examples would be having your photos automatically synchronized between your mobile phone, desktop and digital photo frame, and also then being able to view your photos online from any web browser wherever you are.

Live Mesh is going into open Beta over the course of this week and includes several new features that enhance the experience by giving users more control, increased reliability, and improved performance. Next year, Live Mesh will be utilized in the next major release of Windows Live.

Instructions for accessing the Windows Mobile client will be made available from the Live Mesh blog later in the week.

Thanks Mark Roddis for the tip.

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Microsoft teases with Live Mesh driven Windows Mobile accessible BBC iPlayer

October 28, 2008 | By Surur

Microsoft announced today that it’s making the Live Mesh service – which synchronises data across all your PCs and phones – available to third-party applications. One of the first applications to take advantage will be the BBC’s iPlayer. The BBC’s head of online media, Anthony Rose (ex-Kazaa), demonstrated a prototype version of the player at Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference today.

It featured a Silverlight-driven desktop application that automatically synchronised shows downloaded on one PC with all the other devices on the person’s Mesh network, including Macs and mobile phones.

“When I take out my cell phone, the programme has already been synched,” Rose said. “And when I press the play button on my smartphone, it automatically picks up from where I left off [on the PC].”

Microsoft also demonstrated examples of Live Mesh being integrated into other desktop applications.

One photo-sharing application allowed people to edit their photos on their home PC and have the edits automatically update on those of friends and family. Photos taken on a Windows Mobile phone could also be instantly added to a holiday album, for example, and instantly sycnhronised with friends and family.

Microsoft is encouraging developers to integrate such features into forthcoming apps.

Live Mesh clients already exist for the desktop, but have not been released yet for Windows Mobile devices. They should however arrive well before Windows Mobile 7.

Source:PCPro

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Windows Mobile 7 shows up in Microsoft commercial (again)

September 14, 2008 | By Surur

We have had brief glimpses of this video showing Windows Mobile 7 before, but this time the video is available in high resolution, giving us a pretty good view of the Windows Mobile 7 today screen.

Most of the screenshots that were leaked 9 months ago are confirmed in the picture, and some things can be discerned from the video. The most obvious one is that the Sliding Panels interface from Windows Mobile Standard devices will also be showing up in Windows Mobile Professional phones. The video also has a brief demo of how Live Mesh will work on Windows Mobile, and it looks pretty good.

One can see the bigger input method selector, battery meter under the soft keys, and of course the sliding panels

See the Youtube video here.

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Live Mesh applications – Live becomes very interesting

September 8, 2008 | By Surur

iStartedsomething.com is reporting that they were able to get a demo of future Live Mesh functionality, and of where Microsoft intends to go with the Live Mesh operating system. Angus Logan – Senior Technical Program Manager for Windows Live Platform – gave them a quick look into applications running on the Live Mesh platform.

The showed of a shopping list application running in the browser when visiting the Live Mesh site, and also the same “web” application running on the desktop looking like a normal application, running in a “chromeless” Internet Explorer web page. Because your data is constantly synchronized you will be able to use the application even when off-line. In this way this clearly competes with Google Gears, with the same functionality.

Where of course this gets interesting for Windows Mobile is that Live Mesh is also coming to Windows Mobile, as is IE6, meaning even Windows Mobile will be able to run the same web applications as on the desktop, and when supported by technologies like silverlight these applications could be pretty functional.

LiveMesh client for Windows Mobile showed off

September 3, 2008 | By Surur

A native Windows Mobile client for Live Mesh has been shown off at the Microsoft TechEd Australia 2008 conference keynote running on a Palm Treo Pro.

During the short demonstration, the presenter took a photo with his mobile phone which then wireless synced with the Live Mesh computer. At present the Live Mesh can only be accessed via the browser when on your Windows Mobile device.

The keynote presenters, Dr. Neil and Amit Mital teased spoke of a broader vision of unified device management to remotely manage health, status, location and capability of devices; unified application deployment with synced configurations and settings for those applications; and finally unified data management across any device.

They gave an example of syncing a Zune to your Live Mesh cloud, vs your local PC, which seems rather ambitious. The Live Mesh client for Windows Mobile is expected to arrive within a few months.

Via Istartedsomething.com

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Live Mesh now Windows Mobile accessible

July 17, 2008 | By Surur

Following on the expansion of the closed Live Mesh beta to the general public, Microsoft has now also opened up a mobile site usable by more limited browsers like Pocket IE. The site, at M.Mesh.com is still not the full folder sync that has been promised, but does make the full cloud interface accessible on the move, allowing to to create, access, and delete folders, and also to upload files. Special provision has been made to upload pictures, and when you upload pictures a special Mobile Pictures folder is automatically created.

So far the project seems to be progressing smoothly and rapidly. I still cant wait for the full mobile client, which promises a mobile device that’s automatically backed up and with the content accessible from anywhere.

Via LiveSide.net

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