DigiTimes–the Taiwan-based news site whose scoops are always right except when they’re very, very wrong–has a story up today about Microsoft’s plans for its Windows Mobile phone OS. It says that that the company will formally announce Windows Mobile 6.5 on October 1st (hey, didn’t that already happen?), will add a new version with a better touch interface in February of next year, and will keep version 6.5 on the market at a low price even after it releases Windows Mobile 7.0 in the fourth quarter of next year.
It sounds complicated, but it also sounds plausible given how much catch-up Microsoft has to play to get back in the phone OS game. (It’s kind of staggering that it doesn’t plan to have Windows Mobile 7, its first full-blown iPhone OS rival, ready until around three and a half years after the first iPhone appeared.)
Anyhow, as a follow-up to yesterday’s BlackBerry T-Poll, let’s do one about Windows Mobile:
[UPDATE: The contest is over–thanks to everyone who entered. We’ll announce a winner shortly; if you have a comment here, you’re in the drawing.]
Ed Oswald is Technologizer’s most prolific, longest-serving blogger who isn’t named Harry, which is pretty good evidence that he’s deeply interested in personal technology. If you know Ed, then you’re aware that he’s as interested in politics as he is in tech. Now he’s combined these two passions into a new blog called 
BlackBerry maker RIM is a remarkably successful maker of handheld devices and has been so for a very long time–but it doesn’t get a fraction of the press given to that phone-industry upstart Apple. Today, however, RIM is the subject of multiple upbeat stories. An analyst says 
Just a quick reminder: I’m hosting a Webinar on small business security tomorrow, Wednesday, August 19th at 2pm EST. I’ll cover real-world security tips and strategies, especially those that can help prevent problems from happening in the first place. I’ll also field questions from the audience.
I’m not sure if I’d rate Facebook’s iPhone app as one of my favorites, but it’s definitely among those that I admire most–it’s an ambitious and thoughtful recreation of much of the social network in phone-sized form, and it feels both like Facebook and an iPhone app. Facebook has submitted a new version to the iPhone App Store, and AppAdvice has a 
There is a place where the people of planet Earth were profoundly grateful for Windows Vista. A place where the iPhone’s Safari eliminated the need for native third-party apps. One where Palm’s Foleo made history, Circuit City fired its way to success, and both eBay’s acquisition of Skype and the AOL Time Warner merger ranked among the most brilliant corporate decisions in history.
TomTom’s long-awaited–relatively speaking–GPS navigation software for the iPhone is