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Ahh the joy of Windows Mobile. The ability to adjust, tweak, and customize has been nothing new to us. In knowing this Asus decided to join the fun. Asus has launched Glide, designed to give Asus Windows Mobile devices a face lift.

Glide looks promising and might bring competition to HTC

A few days ago Microsoft announced RemoSync for Verizon wireless customers witch gives customers access to Microsoft Exchange. RemoSync provides access to Microsoft Exchange Servers making email, calendar and managing contacts a hundred times easier. All this easiness comes with a $10 fee per month. Good news is they say you don

There has been a big debate over which is better when it comes to maps. Some say Google Maps while others live in Live Search. Google is trying to change that and take the number one spot with the 2.2 update. Moments after Microsoft released their Live Search update, Google followed suit and added cool new features like favorites, public transportation directions, and center point on the map.

The new 2.2 will give users the ability to track bus and train schedules. With these ridiculous gas prices google maps could be a great tool in our never ending battle to fight the pump.

I gave it a spin and have to admit the pages seem to scroll a lot better than they did in the previous maps. I also fell in love with the favorites. I automatically added my house, work and family members as favorites making it easier to search in certain areas.

Sure enough, the on-again, off-again, on-again saga that is AT&T's deal to offer "free" high-speed wireless access at Starbucks has hit another snag.

This time it's T-Mobile that's objecting, filing a lawsuit claiming it has dibs on wireless access at the (ahem) "mom-and-pop coffee shop" through 2009.

The conduct of Starbucks has caused T-Mobile monetary damages and such damages will continue should Starbucks continue its breaching conduct," T-Mobile said in the legal papers.

But in the meantime, AT&T customers still can get their surf on as they fuel up, with a few caveats, of course.

The many conveniences of Wi-Fi There are a number of complimentary and paid Wi-Fi options, whether you need to check your email, download files for your next meeting, or just surf the Web in coffeehouse comfort.

• Complimentary Wi-Fi for Starbucks customers When you register your Starbucks Card and use it at least once a month, you'll receive two consecutive hours a day of complimentary Wi-Fi, courtesy of AT&T.
• Complimentary Wi-Fi for AT&T DSL customers AT&Ts more than 12 million DSL customers already qualify for free Wi-Fi at their neighborhood Starbucks.
• Competitive pricing for paid Wi-Fi All other customers can receive two consecutive hours of Wi-Fi access for $3.99.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sat down with the Washington Post this week and promptly told the nation's No. 6 newspaper that it will be out of the "paper" business within the next 10 years.

Hardly shocking news.

Where it gets weird is when he spoke about the mobile side of the MSFT world.

Ballmer said there still aren't enough cellphones equipped with decent Web browsers. If there's one thing the iPhone has proven, it's that "nobody wants mobile to be a separate world."

Maybe that's a sign that Redmond's finally taking mobile browsing seriously. And if anyone knows about Pocket IE's shortcomings, it's bound to be The Man himself.

And given that an in-depth study all 71 pages of it commissioned by The Associated Press shows that mainstream media may be starting to understand the importance of mobile browsing and RSS feeds (and, yes, the word iPhone appears a few times), there's hope that Microsoft could finally look to make PIE more than just a default browser and enter the same browsing league as the big boys.

If you're one of the lucky ones who already has a WM 6.1 device, are looking at buying one in the future or have - ahem - procured one in some other way, the Microsoft Mobile Team Blog offers instructions on how to customize the sliding panel homescreen.

It takes a bit of work with the same home.xml file found in other WM standard builds, as well as some registry tweaks, but nothing more sinister than that. The bad news is that, as yet, the most you can do is re-order the panels, adjust how alerts appear in panels, and play around with images. They do say that they'll be letting us know more about creating panels in the near future.

As always, before diving into the guts of your device, be sure to back up your information. Or don't, if you like working without a net.