Expert: Ben Stanley

As reported in this article, PocketGear is about to shut its doors forever and its parent company, Motricity, is moving its operations from my current home state of North Carolina to Washington State.

Several mobile device enthusiasts, including our own Eric Pankoke, have created a new website called My World of Handhelds. The site covers mobile devices of all types, including Windows Mobile devices. Look for mobile news, reviews, hardware profiles, as well as information about up and coming developers in the future.

The rise of email and other forms of instant electronic communication has eroded our respect for many of the conventions that we traditionally adhered to when writing paper letters and has introduced several new bad habits into the way we communicate with one another on a daily basis. Those of us who use mobile devices to communicate are especially susceptible to bad email habits because the size limitations of these devices encourage lazy habits and because mobile device users tend to be busy, always-on-the-go types.

In response to this phenomenon, I've decided to compile 5 rules of email etiquette.

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The developers over at MoreGames Entertainment consistently create games of the highest quality. Thankfully, they don't waste their abundant talents creating sudoku clones or solitaire collections. Instead, all of their games are either original, first of their kind for the platform, or refreshingly new takes on old staples.

Their latest game, Nanobotz, continues this tradition by building on the familiar artillery duel subgenre.

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Unlike fellow blogger Mike Riley, I had a lot of difficulty deciding what my favorite "cool" applications for Windows Mobile were. For starters, I'm still not entirely sure what the term "cool app" means. After giving it a few minutes' consideration, I've decided to focus on those applications that supplement Windows Mobile's core functions. In other words, the list that follows includes those applications which I believe perform indispensable functions that Windows Mobile itself would provide in a perfect world. Microsoft has already lost those who only care about prettiness to the iPhone (good riddance!). The core of Windows Mobile users have always consisted of power users who need and demand functionality, not glitter.

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