• Dean Bubley talks about the part of RIM’s strategy most folks overlook- fwiw, my wife loves BBM, too.
• Apple enters the mobile search rodeo with the acquisition of Siri
• How to enumerate files on a Windows CE-based device from the desktop- Christian Helle gives the details on this oft-asked RAPI functionality.
• Abhinaba enlightens us about the shared heap in .NET CF 3.7- This is a nice change from CF 3.5.
• João posts about the HTC G sensor- Also note his new blog URL.

And no one saw that coming from HP…

• HP buys Palm for $1.2B- wow!
• Michael Mace shares some thoughts on HP/Palm
• OpenNETCF migrates their Windows Mobile 6 Mobile Ink library to CodePlex – More on library usage here
• ARM-based chips in servers

• First look at Firefox Mobile on Android – LifeHacker brings us this pre-alpha preview of the product code named ‘Fennec’
• Use Uri fragments for WP7 page navigation – Nick Randolph shows us how we can leverage this technique for passing single values.
• HTC licenses Microsoft Patents for Android- This gives HTC broad coverage under Microsoft’s patent portfolio
• Apple acquires chipmaker Intrinsity – Who have been rumored to be behind the A4.

• Learn to fix your device- at ifixit.com via LifeHacker
• BlackBerry 6- Check out the videos from WES at BGR
• The Perfect Mobile Device Doesn’t Exist- Quick essay from James Kendrick layout some mobile device truths.
• Getting Blur and DropShadow to work in the Windows Phone Emulator- Shawn Oster from the Silverlight team gives us some tips.

• A Windows Phone 7 device and several Android devices leak from Dell- via BGR.  The WP7 device looks a little dodgy; they mention Windows Mobile 7, and it looks like a Zune screen. Hmm.
• A rumor is afoot that Apple will acquire ARM- This would be a ‘good for Apple, bad for the industry’ move, I think.
• Creating a LINQ Data Provider for WP7- Alex Yakhnin posts part 1

Going back to just bullet points..

• Pocket PC / Windows Mobile turns 10 today
• 23-minute KIN Demo- via coolsmartphonenews.com
• Lessons from the Fall of Palm- Michael Mace discusses five lessons learned.
• SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP2 released- Several important changes to be aware of, check out the team’s post
• Multi-touch SDK for resistive screen devices-  via XDA