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SYWARE, Inc. Related:

• News: SYWARE Inc.'s Visual CE Wins Smartphone and Pocket PC Magazine's 2008 Best Software Awards.

• News: Visual CE and Associated Tools Introductory and Intermediate training classes scheduled for December 11 and 12, 2008.

• Technical Tip: Background Image for a Form

Mobile Industry Related:

• Article: Microsoft Reiterates That It Will Not Make Handsets

SYWARE News: SYWARE Inc.'s Visual CE Wins Smartphone and Pocket PC Magazine's 2008 Best Software Awards.

Visual CE Professional Edition has won Smartphone and Pocket PC magazine's "Best Software Award 2008" in the database category for the fifth year in a row! Once again, it has been selected by the award's international panel of industry experts as the Pocket PC database software offering the best features and value. The annual Smartphone and Pocket PC magazine Best Software Awards help users select software that best suits their Windows Mobile Pocket PC and Smartphone needs by honoring companies that produce outstanding software. This year over 90 Smartphone and Pocket PC magazine experts from around the world considered over 10,000 Windows Mobile products to determine the winners in 150 categories. Learn more about the awards and winners here.

SYWARE News: Visual CE and Associated Tools Introductory and Intermediate training classes scheduled for December 11 and 12, 2008.

The introductory and intermediate Visual CE and Associated Tools training classes have been scheduled for December 11 and 12, 2008 at the Marriott Boston North in Woburn MA. The introductory class is appropriate for someone who has never written a program before, but is comfortable with computers, or someone who has used desktop database development systems, such as MS Access, and wants to start developing similar applications for Pocket PCs. The intermediate class offers detailed instruction on using Visual CE and other SYWARE tools to create mobile data entry applications. The tuition is $299 for either day of instruction or $499 for both days. Each class is a full day of instruction and includes a continental breakfast, box lunch, and afternoon snack. A limited number of rooms are available at the Marriott. Contact SYWARE sales to reserve your spot. Details, including course outlines, are available here.

Technical Tip from "Dr. DeeBee": Background Image for a Form

Visual CE allows you to specify the background color of the form (using the FORM | COLOR command in the development environment), but you might want to use an image (such as a company logo) as your background instead. Starting with release 11 of Visual CE, you can use an Image Control to display a background image.

Mobile Industry Article: Microsoft Reiterates That It Will Not Make Handsets

Despite the presence of Google's Android phone and Apple's iPhone, Microsoft's group product manager for Windows Mobile, Scott Rockfeld, remained adamant that Microsoft has "no plans to build our own phone". To read more on this topic check out this article from Silicon Alley Insider.

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