slydial is a voice messaging service that enables consumers to connect directly to someone’s mobile voicemail... pretty sly huh?

Moneyquote: "I’m sure Steve Ballmer has the whole situation under control, and everything is proceeding exactly according to Microsoft’s plans to achieve their stated goal from May 2008 for Windows Mobile to account for 40 percent of the global smartphone market by 2012."

Fuck you, RIM.

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Bye bye, Windows Mobile.

I love a happy ending.

Moneyquote: "T-Mobile and Danger, the Microsoft-owned subsidiary that makes the Sidekick, has just announced that they’ve likely lost all user data that was being stored on Microsoft’s servers due to a server failure. That means that any contacts, photos, calendars, or to-do lists that haven’t been locally backed up are gone. Apparently if you don’t turn off your Sidekick and make sure its battery doesn’t run out you can salvage what’s currently stored on the device, otherwise you’re out of luck: Microsoft/Danger is describing the likelihood of recovering the data from their servers as “extremely low”."

Moneyquote: "The release of Windows Mobile 6.5 has been mostly overlooked, lost amid all the other mobile news this week: the Verizon/Google Android deal, Palm’s major WebOS developer announcements, and Adobe’s Flash developer tools for iPhone OS.

Microsoft’s irrelevance in today’s mobile space is nothing short of a spectacular failure. Worse than the mere fact that Windows Mobile 6.5 is a total turd is that no one is surprised, and no one cares."

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This is actually good news. Microsoft needs to focus on one platform to develop a coherent, cohesive strategy to compete in the mobile space. As of now, they're working on three different platforms -- Zune HD, Pink and Windows Mobile. All different, that don't play together and target different segments of mobile space.

Moneyquote: "To put it another way, handset manufacturers have done more in the last two years to improve Windows Mobile than Microsoft has, which borders on pathetic. In the time since Windows Mobile 6.0 came out in February of 2007, Apple has released the iPhone—three times. Palm has created the Pre, with its totally new webOS. Android has come into being, and grown into something wonderful. RIM has created a touch phone and a revamped BlackBerry OS. For these companies, the world has changed. And Microsoft? They eked out some performance enhancements and a new homescreen in 6.1, and executed a gaudy facelift for 6.5. This is what they've done to Windows Mobile."

While many of these concepts look beautiful, they look very difficult to use.

"Canada's telecom giants are fighting a pitched battle to keep Globalive out of the wireless pool. But CEO Anthony Lacavera and his Egyptian partner are determined to bring competition to the industry. Is this the beginning of the end for the cozy wireless establishment?"