From the Trend Micro website:

"Trend Micro™ Mobile Security is designed to protect data-centric mobile devices such as smartphones against viruses and short message service (SMS) spam."

Available for free but the product will expire on June 30, 2005 September 30, 2005 30 days after installation. Who would ever have thought a few years ago that he would have installed an antivirus software on his phone??

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BTW: In a previous post on my blog you'll find links to several antivirus products that you can use on your home desktop PC for personal use only.

Update (July 3, 2005): Trend Micro now has a new version for download that will expire on September 30.
Update (March 27, 2006): The free version has been replaced by a 30 day trial version.

Did you notice that all speakers of the MSDN Event on December 2nd are bloggers?

• Bart De Smet: http://blogs.bartdesmet.net/bart/
• David Boschmans: http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/davidb/
• Rudi Larno: http://blogs.msdn.com/rudi_larno
• Peter Himschoot (Regional Director): http://blog.u2u.info/DottextWeb/peter/
• Gunther Beersaerts: http://blogs.msdn.com/guntherb

A couple of weeks ago, Yves Kerwyn asked Jelle Druyts as a co-speaker for a TechNet Evening session on InfoPath. Some time before that, Jan Tielens already appeared on the TechNet Evening floor too.

Of course, there are the more famous names: Patrick Tisseghem and Rédo (especially known in the French speaking community).

Hey are you blogging too? Do you live in Belgium? Send me the URL for your blog; it won't hurt you... Just drop it in the comments or follow the instructions on the MSDN Belux bloggers page.

On top of the regular technical sessions, the Microsoft Belgium Developer & IT Pro Days 2005 also have a major community part. During the entire conference, there will be a big community booth (more details about that booth later). And during the evening of February 1st, the event's floor is reserved for the community.

One of these community sessions is organized by .NET community member and agile development adept Bernard Vander Beken. He wants to organize so called "Lightning Talks". These Lightning Talks are a series of 5-minute talks by different speakers on various Microsoft related subjects. You can tell Bernard that you want to give a 5-minute presentation on the Bernard's website: http://jawn.net/talks/.

Please note that the community evening is only open to people that are registered for the event.

I don't know if other countries have this, but Belgians can now register to receive Microsoft Security news through MSN Alerts. Now you can receive security-related messages through MSN Messenger, Windows Messenger and even on your mobile phone.

More information and subscription:

• Dutch: http://www.msn.be/alerts/microsoft
• French: http://www.fr.msn.be/alerts/microsoft

From the website: "During this session we will give you detailed insights in the new features and functionality of Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 which will be released beginning of next year. We will show you practical examples on what has changed and will demonstrate how to benefit from these in your organization."

Note that this session will be given on Tuesday instead of the regular Wednesday! Registration can be done here.

Other sessions:

• December 1: Streamlining complex paper based administrative processes with BizTalk and Microsoft Office
• December 8: Overview of the Windows XP and Office 2003 Desktop Deployment Solutions Accelerator

Every attendee of the MSDN Event on December 2nd will receive a very cool DVD containing even more cool products that all integrate very nice in Visual Studio .NET 2003. What would you think about:

• A full version of ActiveReports for .NET
• AmberPoint Express
• CodeObject
• DeKlarit
• Sax Communication, Community Edition

And much more... 67 products (full versions, trials and demo's) in total. Great stuff! Register now for the MSDN Event and get your own copy by attending the event: http://www.microsoft.com/belux/nl/msdn/events/msdnevent.mspx.

Of course, you'll also get some great content:

• SQL Server 2000 Notification Services (this is not Reporting Services, for those that might be confused)
• Upcoming Patterns & Practices' Enterprise Library - A Sneak Preview
• Developing applications with Authorization Manager in Windows Server 2003
• Practical real-world examples for using XML features in Office System 2003

Metablogging the InfoPathHelper .NET library from Jelle Druys that adds offline support to InfoPath forms.

My Wix overview article (written in Dutch) for the .NET Magazine is now available for download. Belgians can register for a free subscription to the .NET Magazine at http://www.microsoft.com/belux/nl/msdn/community/netmagazine/default.mspx. Please note that the magazine is only available in Dutch. (Reason is that it is actually published by our colleagues in The Netherlands, but you'll find many Belgian authors in the magazine too...)

On December 2nd, we will have another MSDN Event for Belgian and Luxemburg. It will take place in Kinepolis, Brussels. IMHO, we have some extremely interesting content; but I guess everyone says that about the events they work on, not?  :) Anyway, we will have sessions on "Enterprise Library", "Using Authorization Manager", "SQL Server Notification Services" and real-world examples of using "XML features in Office".

More information on MSDN Event "Unleashing the Potential of the Microsoft Platform" and registration is available on http://www.microsoft.com/belux/nl/msdn/events/msdnevent.mspx.

This is what we've been working on the last few weeks:

And finally the website is live at http://www.dev-itprodays.be. Oh, almost forgot to mention that Bill Gates will give the opening keynote!

Today Master Chief arrived at Microsoft Belgium. With his height of 2 meters, he's standing in the lobby where he is protecting the ladies of the reception desk. Quite cool. I hope I'll be able to post some pictures of this soon...

If you want to win such a "life size Master Chief", you'll have to attend the "Halo 2 Mission Party" on November 12 in the Ancienne Belgique (Brussels) where you can win one. It is a private event and there's only a number of people that will be able to get in.

Check out the instructions on how to get in at this party by clicking the banner.

Microsoft EMEA (EMEA = Europe, Middle East and Africa) gives you the possibility to order the MSDN Web Developer Kit (shipping and handling costs apply) or to download parts of this kit.

MSDN Web Developer Kit
Flexible, multipurpose and effective: Developing web applications has never been easier than in the .NET environment. We’d like to offer you the chance to evaluate how your development projects could benefit from the unique advantages of .NET through our Web Developer Kit. Read on to find out how...

Here are some direct links:

• Belgium (Flemish)
• Belgium (French)
• The Netherlands
• United Kingdom
• All other countries, visit this page.

Ok, this is probably a little over the edge, but... Happy 49th Birthday, Bill Gates!

It is important for people to know what resources are available to them. Also in the IT industry you'll see that people that know their way around the web, that know some of the peers, have a head-start of others.

One of the side-projects that I've been working on lately was to make developers, system and applications administrators, etc... aware of the technical communities. Yesterday, on the SQL Server Day event, we first brought this little project into the public: a sort of postcard, with a cartoon by the Belgian cartoonist Quirit. This a small version of the cartoon:

We'll distribute this card (and other successors too) on different Microsoft events. But you can also see and download a bigger version of this cartoon on http://www.microsoft.be/communities. Because you live and breath IT, don't you?

So you live and breath IT?
Well then, join Microsoft's technical communities.

You get to share ideas and solutions, you get to pick the brains of other IT fanatics, experts, peers and Microsoft employees. By far the best way to stay ahead of the pack.

http://www.microsoft.be/communities
Live IT. Love IT.