This is an interesting read on a Google perspective on Mobile computing and the future.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/future-of-mobile.html

The excerpt that interested me the most was…

Sensors everywhere: Your phone knows a lot about the world around you. If you take that intelligence and combine it in the cloud with that of every other phone, we have an incredible snapshot of what is going on in the world right now. Weather updates can be based on not hundreds of sensors, but hundreds of millions. Traffic reports can be based not on helicopters and road sensors, but on the density, speed, and direction of the phones (and people) stuck in the traffic jams.

In my current consulting role, I see interaction with weather sensors, traffic data and other things dealing with transportation.  The thought that we could have devices (like your phone or other connected devices) have a cloud mentality and provide that data back in a collected form to state and local DOT or SHA could be very valuable.  But ultimately the long haul problem will be making heads or tails out of the huge flow of data, but that is what Google is good at right?

Final question though….

Will you like your device talking to other devices?

What if your shower radio started talking to the toaster and the phone about how good you sing in the shower?  What if they started sharing that info with the neighbor’s blender?  Hmmmmm

Well after suffering with this for the past couple weeks and now it getting worse, I had to find a fix for what appears to be a common problem.

Good out Pocket Outlook will list (both on Today if you show your unread count there & in PO).

So even when there was zero unread or even any mail at all in the Inbox, it would still show X unread.

My problems started out with just “1 unread” for about a week. Then it went to 2, 3, 5…. you get the picture. It was getting worse and very annoying.

Anyhow, after some digging found the perfect little Windows Mobile tool to fix it:

Relmerator – FixUnreadCount v1.0

Drop the exe on your Mobile device, run it.. and all your email, sms, mms, etc mail accounts will be fixed up. At least it did for me. I read it didn’t work for some folks, but I will say a thank you very much!

Updated the site so that it should now be viewable on most mobile devices.

This is complements of a create WordPress plugin from (Andy Moore – WordPress Mobile Plugin)

Have tested it on several devices (all Window Mobile based though) and a couple emulators. Things looks good thanks Andy’s plugin.

I love these days when things just work.