We are pleased to announce our partnership with RACO Industries on Solution Packs.  Solution Packs are complete, end-to-end applications built around ITScriptNet Omni, that incorporate portable Data Collection programs, a PC Application for Database Maintenance, reporting, and configuration.  We have been working very hard to complete these applications, and we will be posting more information on the coming weeks.

We have just posted a Maintenance Release for ITScriptNet V2.4.  This update adds clients for the Dolphin 9900 and Dolphin 7600 GSM, both Windows Mobile 6 clients.

The Knowledge Base article is here.

To top off this great day, our phone system is having problems.  We are having it serviced, but in the meantime your best way to contact us today is by email.  We are sorry for the inconvienence.

We just updated our VirusScan to the latest DATs, version 5354, and the false positive detection of Swizzor is gone.  Please update your VirusScan to the latest DAT files to solve this problem.

The release of the McAfee VirusScan 5353 DAT files yesterday introduced a problem.  These DAT files are falsely detecting some of our ITScriptNet Omni programs as containing a Trojan, Swizzor.gen.c.  Of course, our programs are not infected and this is a false positive.  We have contacted McAfee about this matter, and hope to have it resolved soon.

In the meantime, You can add an exception to VirusScan to have it ignore these files or the ITScriptNet installation directory.  You may have to reinstall ITScriptNet if McAfee is configured to automatically delete detected files.

We haven't posted much lately, but we have been hard at work!  We'll have news very soon on our new Solution Packs, new ITScriptNet features, and a website relaunch.  Keep watching this space for more!

Following the announcement of Windows Mobile support for the Pegaso, Datalogic has announced that the Kyman is now available with Windows Mobile 6.  This device can have a GPRS/EGDE radio for wide-area communications.

Motorola (formerly Symbol) has announced the MC75, which is a Windows Mobile 6-based update to the MC70 series device.  Features include GPRS/GSM radios, GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth and IrDA.  Here are more details on the specifications.  If Motorola keeps compatibility with the Symbol Mobility Developer Kit (SMDK) as it has in the past, then our ITScriptNet client should work out-of-the-box.  We will update as we are able to test.

Following the announcement of the 7600 with Windows Mobile 6, Honeywell has just announced the Dolphin 9900.  This is the next generation device in the form factor of the 9500, and also runs Windows Mobile 6.  We are attending the 9900 kick-off event today in Palm Beach, FL.  Our ITScriptNet client for both the 7600 WM6 and the 9900 will be released with V2.4a(7) in a few days.

Honeywell (Hand Held Products) has announced the availability of the Dolphin 7600 with GSM.  This also upgrades the Dolphin 7600 to Window Mobile 6.  We are pleased that the ITScriptNet OMNI client and several Ready-To-Go^TM Applications are pre-loaded on the 7600 to give users a good out-of-the-box experience.

Microsoft has released a new update to the Windows Live Search program for Windows Mobile.  Interesting new features include:

• Localised Weather
• Web search from inside the program
• More Traffic coverage.
• Map contacts

We've discussed Live Search before here and here.

The Datalogic Pegaso is now available with Windows Mobile 6 and E-GPRS capabilities.  Previously, the Pegaso was only available with Windows CE 5.0.  Our Falcon 4410 Windows Mobile client should run on this device, but we will get one in to test.

We've run into an issue with Code 93 barcodes on Motorola / Symbol devices.  By default, Code 93 is not enabled on these devices.  To enable it, you must use the Advanced Symbology Settings.  The interesting issue is that enabling both Code93 and EAN/UCC Composite causes the device to accept all symbologies instead of just those two.

Honeywell is purchasing Metrologic, adding to the purchase of Hand Held Products.  It's too early to know how the two groups will be integrated, if at all.  Metrologic makes a line of hand held scanners, and a few mobile computers.  Only one is Windows CE based, the SP5700.

At the Embedded Systems Conference today, Microsoft announced plans to rename Windows CE along with other products.  The new name for Windows CE, starting with what would have been CE 7, will be Windows Embedded Compact.  This release is scheduled for 2009.

The April 2008 ITScriptNet Product and Sales Training is underway in Orlando.  If you were unable to attend, we will post links to the training materials in the next few days.

We've been informed that a firmware update is available for the Symbol MC35 that upgrades it to Windows Mobile 6.  Note that there is a fee for upgrading from Windows Mobile 5 to 6.  Contact your Symbol Rep for more detail.  We'll upgrade our device to make sure that the Windows Mobile 5 client for ITScriptNet continues to work.

Do you remember when we mentioned that the US Census Bereau was using a Windows Mobile device for collecting the 2010 census data?  Well it turns out the project has not gone well, and will be scrapped.  Its too bad - its an interesting application with biometrics, wireless communication, etc.