Over at the OrigamiProject.com forums grimster posted that the Q1 will be eligible for a free Vista upgrade. This will depend on the purchase date of the Q1. Not sure where grimster got this information, but we'll follow the thread and see.

UPDATE: News out of Korea, Q1 is Vista Certified.

RESOURCE: Vista on the Q1

According to Reuters, the Microsoft Zune could be launched in Europe by the end of 2007.

"Reindorp said Microsoft was not yet ready to officially announce when it would launch the service in Europe but it could possibly be out before the end of the year."

A couple sites have been testing the song sharing capabilities of the Zune. From their initial results it appears that the Zune will not share over 50% of the songs. This inability to share is not a problem with the Zune, rather the problem appears to be a DRM issue. It's pretty interesting to see how many songs on some labels will not be allowed to be shared.

UPDATE: 

Some of you may know me from my other blog (wwwCoder.com) which is aimed at ASP.NET developers. So the following is of interest to me.

Microsoft has released the Windows SideShow .NET Framework Components 1.0 Beta. This allows .NET developers to write their own tie in to SideShow. You can download the beta here.

Here's our weekly highlighted items of the week:

• Zune Takes 10%
• Vista Media Center Online Content Now Available
• More CES Coverage: Xbox 360 iPTV

According to NPD Research, the forth quarter sales figures are in and the Zune took 10.2% of the MP3 player market. The iPod earned a 72% share of the portable music player market.

StyleTap Inc., announced that the preview version of StyleTap Platform for Windows Smartphone is now available.

StyleTap Platform enables the world's largest base of mobile applications - the estimated 30,000 applications written to run on Palm OS® - to run on Windows Smartphones, including the new Motorola Moto Q™, the T-Mobile Dash™ and the Samsung Blackjack™.

StyleTap Platform for Windows Smartphone enables most Palm OS applications (including multimedia applications and games) to run, unmodified, on any device running Windows Mobile® 5.0 for Smartphone. The software comes with everything needed to download and run Palm OS applications, and supports cut ...

A new feature in Vista is the ability to add flash memory like a USB flash drive to your PC and use it for virtual memory (emulating a hard disk drive) for fast data retrieval.

Over at ZDNet blogs Ed Bott has a great review of various tests he performed on USB flash drives to see how they stood up against the standards for ReadyBoost use.

One of the big drawbacks of the Samsung Q1 is the lack of pointer capabilities on the joystick. Currently you can move the pointer with the joystick, but the movement as anything but smooth. It appears work is being done by a member of the OrigamiProject.com community. The software it still early in the development phase, but there looks to be hope.

Check it out and download...

Spb Software, maker of software applications for the Windows Mobile platform announced the launch of new content site for Windows Mobile users called Spb Club ( www.spbclub.com ). The idea of this website is to provide Pocket PC users with quality content they can use to empower and personalize their Pocket PC.

Some of the features of the site are:

* Programs
* Games
* Free ringtones
* Free Pocket PC themes
* Free SMS-tones
* Free skins < ...

Imagine my surprise when I hooked up my Zune to my Media Center PC only to learn that the Zune will not sync my recorded TV. This was upsetting, my guess is since we're in between Vista and XP, once Vista is launched we'll be able to sync with the Vista Media Center.

All was not lost for me however. I also happen to have an XP Media Center PC (with two TV cards), which we use to connect to other TVs via Extenders. Since my current Extenders will not work on Vista, I have to keep my Media Center running XP.

After searching the web, I found dCut which is free application that will ...

2007 is going to be the year of SideShow. SideShow enables a small screen display for your notebooks, and other devices that show summary information from the main PC.  Developed by Microsoft and part of the upcoming Windows Vista OS, SideShow is sure to make a splash this year.

Asus is one company jum ...