PSHUG May Meeting Summary

The Puget Sound Handheld Users Group (PSHUG) holds a meeting on the fourth Tuesday of each month at Microsoft's Redmond campus to discuss mobile software, services and new devices. Here is a summary of what was discussed at this month's meeting:

Xbox Live Anywhere - https://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/may06/05-09E32006BriefingPR.mspx
- The new service announced at E3 to integrate Xbox Live into mobile devices and PCs was discussed.

- A video of Bill Gates’ announcement was shown as well as screenshots of the communication working between a Tornado and Xbox 360 (on a private Xbox Live server).
- The HTC STARTRK (Flip-phone style Smartphone similar in size to the RAZR) was shown and Xbox Live Anywhere was demonstrated on the device with features such as looking at what other players are doing, their rankings, etc.

Digital Cameras

- Discussed new dual-lens cameras that offer up to 10x zoom without a big lens.

Office Live - https://officelive.microsoft.com/
- Web-hosting and simple design service offered by Microsoft for small businesses.

- Services are all free during Beta and post-beta they will still have a free hosting service.

 
- Includes domain, e-mail accounts (at your domain) and a simple way to design a basic website.

URGE – https://www.urge.com/

- Demo of the music service offered with Windows Media Player 11 through MTV and Microsoft.
- Challenged members to name a band with an album not available, all artists were found!
- Showed that downloaded content can be used on “Plays for Sure” devices with DRM support.

Look for details on the June meeting to be announced soon, we hope to see you there!

-Phil