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British telco BT has signed an agreement with Canadian wireless solutions provider Research In Motion (RIM) to become Europe’s first mobile virtual network operator to sell BlackBerry wireless communications solutions.

The deal is to enable BT to offer BlackBerry to its corporate customer base. The BlackBerry handhelds are to be co-branded BlackBerry and BT.

Developed and manufactured by RIM, BlackBerry offers BT’s customers secure, always-on, wireless access to their corporate e-mail and data, via a BlackBerry handheld with integrated phone, SMS, internet, calendar and organiser capability. BlackBerry’s ‘push’ technology also means customers don’t have to periodically connect to their e-mail to check for new messages as messages are automatically routed to the handheld. BT is initially offering the BlackBerry 7230 and BlackBerry 7730 handhelds….

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If you're a fan of Astraware games, then we've got good news for you! For the next 14 days, starting today, Astraware will be offering a stunning price for a single title each day. Therefore, you only have 24 hours to buy the title at the low price. I just checked Astraware's website and they are offering the classic Bejeweled for a low price of $7.95.

In addition to the 14 day sale, as a sidenote, Astraware has also released the PopCap Games Pack 2. This is a great bargain if you're looking to buy multiple games at once.

As a final note, Happy New Years to everyone! We will have more reviews, news, and articles this year so stay tuned.

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Two Stunads and Co is having a Christmas sale.  If you buy Spacetime, the graphing calculator for the Pocket PC, you will get the game Realms for free.  You will save a total value of $15.

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“In conjunction with today's U.S. availability of the Microsoft Windows Mobile-based Smartphone, Handmark, the number one publisher of consumer software for handheld devices*, announced that they will launch five productivity applications for Windows Mobile software for Smartphones. The Windows Mobile-based Smartphone introduces anentirely new mobile phone experience through the integration of smart software and small, stylish handsets, all within an experience that is familiar to Windows users.”

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“Based on the success of the iPAQ Lil' Syncs and enhanced stylii, we have
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What do you get when you put Spb's creative programmers in a room with a bunch of Pocket PCs? A Pocket PC Supercomputer! As a part of our continuing research at Spb Software House, we have assembled and tested a computing cluster based on Pocket PC devices. Twelve Pocket PC devices have been joined in a cluster to perform distributed calculations - the devices share the load of a complex calculation. The concept was to compare the performance of several Pocket PC devices linked into a cluster with the performance of a typical Pentium II-class desktop computer.

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I was informed about this auction site. I've noticed that there are not too many auction listings, but this would probably be a good place to check out if you're looking to buy a used PDA.

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“Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices is showing off a reference design for a PDA based on its Alchemy Au1100 processor running Linux at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in San Francisco, according to the company…The chip is available in three versions, running at clock speeds of 333 MHz, 400 MHz, and 500 MHz, and includes a MIPS32 processor core, an on-chip LCD controller, a 10/100 Ethernet controller, and a USB device and host controller, according to information on AMD's Web site.”

Source: Yahoo

The staff at PPCzone would like to thank all our readers and those who have supported our site. As our way of showing our appreciation we are having our first contest sponsored by Handmark Inc. We are giving away 5 free copies of great Handmark games: Monopoly, Scrabble, and Tetris.Since we have a fairly small community, there is a very good chance of winning.

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Are you looking to replace the default blue theme on your Pocket PC? Check out these great sample high quality themes from Microsoft that you can download.

Source: Microsoft