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January, 2009 Edition
 

Thank you for reading the SYWARE, Inc. monthly newsletter, which provides updates on our mobility products, offers tips, and highlights industry-related articles and resources.

SYWARE, Inc. Related:

  • News: SYWARE Support Policy Clarification
  • News: SYWARE Newsletter Archive Now Available Online
  • News: SYWARE Inc.'s Visual CE Wins Smartphone and Pocket PC Magazine's 2008 Best Software Awards.
  • Technical Tip: Generating File Names for Export Files

Mobile Industry Related:

  • News: Google Brings Street Views To Windows Mobile


SYWARE News: SYWARE Suport Policy Clarification.

Our official support policy is 30-days free tech support and after that we charge on an hourly basis ($100 / hour). In reality, as long as you have the current release, we will answer your questions (within reason). When you contact us for support, please be prepared to let us know where and when you purchased your license so we can check for support eligibility. Thank you for your cooperation.

SYWARE News: SYWARE Newsletter Archive Now Available Online.

Looking for an old copy of a SYWARE newsletter? Miss a copy one month? All the SYWARE newsletter's from the last few years will soon be online. The newsletters for 2008 are currently available and we will be posting the older ones shortly. Take a look at the SYWARE newsletter archive.

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.

Technical Tip from "Dr. DeeBee": Generating File Names for Export Files

By default, when Visual CE does an OPTION | EXPORT, the name of the export file is the name of the table with a .TXT extension. If you export a second time, the new export will overwrite the previous one. You might want to export periodically but not lose your previous exports. Here's how to do this.

Mobile Industry News: Google Brings Street Views To Windows Mobile

Google has added support for Street Views in its Google Maps Mobile. In addition to the traditional 2-D maps, it allows you to see a actual images of the location you are looking for. Read more about this here.


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