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10/14/2004
Visual Byte presents live Microsoft Executive Circle Webcast!

Visual Byte presents on MapPoint Location Server during this half hour live webcast titled: Do You Know Where Your Business Assests Are? This is one in a series of Executive Cirlce webcasts directed at business leaders who are looking for insight into smart ways to use technology to improve their business.

10/12/2004
Better Measure
selected again as a finalist in Pocket PC
Award Nominations


Pocket PC magazine’s, Board of Experts has once again selected “Better Measure” as a finalist in the Unit Conversion category in this years Best Software Awards. This means our product was one of the 2 top vote-getters in this category, and may possibly be the winner.

09/15/2004
Visual Byte presents on Mobile Design at VSLive!

Dwayne Lamb of Visual Byte presented a session on "Best Practices for Designing Mobile Applications" at the Orlando VSLive!  

09/01/2004
Visual Byte launches new community web site for mobile developers.

Visual Byte launches Mobidogs.com, a community site for developers working on mobile device applications. The site has a number of sections dedicated to a variety of mobile topics like MapPoint, Embedded and Games development as well as dedicated sections for both Windows Mobile Pocket PC and Smartphone development issues. The site provides a comprehensive list of information and links to help developers quickly find information on the important issues that will help them during the entire life cycle of development through to marketing of their mobile applications. Mobidogs.com complements VBDogs.com, a similar community effort that Visual Byte launched ten years ago and which has been a sucessful and respected resource for the VB developer community for the last decade.

08/19/2004
Better Measure
and Mortgage SIM 2.0 both get Pocket PC
Award Nominations


"Better Measure" and "Mortgage SIM 2.0" have both been nominated by the Pocket PC magazine staff and their Board of Experts for Best Software Awards.

07/12/2004
Mortgage SIM 2.0 for SmartPhone announced


PRESS RELEASE

This week, Visual Byte announced the release of Mortgage SIM 2.0 for the Windows Mobile Smartphone 2003 platform. This latest addtion to our mobile device line of products carries the Microsoft Mobile2Market Designed for Windows Mobile logo and is available through a number of online software distributors and directly from our website.

05/06/2004
Visual Byte presents on Mobile Design at VSLive!

Dwayne Lamb of Visual Byte presented a session on "UI Best Practices for Mobile Development" at the Canadian debut of VSLive! held at the Toronto Congress Centre. VSLive! moved its annual Midwest conference from Chicago, Ill. to Toronto, Ont. this year, where it co-located with Microsoft Mobile DevCon to deliver an impressive assortment of sessions and tracks on the latest technologies concerning developers. 

05/05/2004
Visual Byte presents on MapPoint Location Server (MLS) at MDC

Dwayne Lamb of Visual Byte presented "A First Look at the Microsoft MapPoint Location Server" in Toronto at the Canadian Mobile Developers Conference held at the Toronto Congress Centre.  MapPoint Location Server is a new enterprise server product that is now part of the MapPoint Web Service and provides companies an in-house platform for integrating the mobile location of their people and assets into their line of business solutions.

12/05/2003
.NET Show features Visual Byte Presentation on Mobile Design

The episode of the ".NET SHOW" that aired this evening featured Dwayne Lamb of Visual Byte presenting on "Mobile Development - Application Design and UI Considerations for Mobile Devices". The show was broadcast to televisions across Canada over the national YTV specialty network as part of the third session of the popular technology series, .NET TV.
As of late January 2004 the presntation is now available as streaming video from http://msdn.microsoft.com/canada/tv/
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10/14/2003
Visual Byte presents on Mobile Design at International IT Conference in Toronto

Dwayne Lamb of Visual Byte was asked by WowGao Inc. to present a session on "Design and UI Principles for Successful Pocket PC & SmartPhone Applications" at the International IT Conference held at the Toronto Congress Centre.

09/26/2003
Better Measure
selected as a finalist in Pocket PC
Award Nominations


Pocket PC magazine’s, Board of Experts has selected “Better Measure” in the “Utilities—Unit Conversion” category as a finalist in the Best Software Awards 2003. This means our product was one of the 2 top vote-getters in this category, and may possibly be the winner. Being a finalist is an extraordinary accomplishment. It means experts from throughout the world selected our software as among the best from an average of 10-30 products in the category.

08/05/2003
Better Measure
and ICon Ship both get Pocket PC
Award Nominations


"Better Measure" and "ICon Ship" have both been nominated by the Pocket PC magazine staff and their Board of Experts in the "Utilities-Unit Conversion" and the new "Developer Installation and Distribution"categories respectively for Best Software Awards.

06/26/2003
Visual Byte presents on Mobile Design at MDC

Dwayne Lamb of Visual Byte was asked by Microsoft to present a session on "Application Design and UI Considerations for Mobile Devices" at the Canadian Mobile Developers Conference held at the Metro Convention Centre in Toronto. The session was well attended and seemed to inspire a wide variety of enthusiastic questions from the audience. Approximately 500 developers came out to attend the day-long Microsoft Developer event that also featured a keynote presentation by Mike Wehrs, a Director of Technology at Microsoft Corporation.

06/12/2003
Currency Measure 1.0.1002 released

Visual Byte has released a minor version upgrade to our popular currency conversion utility. Currency Measure

06/12/2003
Better Measure 1.0.1003 released

Visual Byte has released a minor version upgrade to our extreamly popular all purpose conversion utility. Better Measure

05/22/2003
Currency Measure 1.01 Passes Logo Tests


This week, Visual Byte was notified that another one of our applicatins has been recognized by the Microsoft Mobile2Market initiative. Currency Measure now joins Better Measure in the growing number of Visual Byte applications to carry the “Designed for Windows for Pocket PC Logo”

09/09/2002
Better Measure
Hot Download
of the week


Nitin Gupta, Pocket PC magazine's well respected "New Products Editor/ Internet Marketing Manager" recognizes our best seller Better Measure as his "Hot Dowload" of the week.

08/28/2002
Currency Measure 1.01 released

Visual Byte is pleased to anounce the release of their new currency conversion utility. Currency Measure offers a quick and easy way to do currency conversion on your Pocket PC.

08/21/2002
Mortgage SIM
gets Pocket PC
Award Nomination


"Mortgage SIM" by Visual Byte Inc., has been nominated the Board of Experts as a Best Product in the "Calculator" category for Pocket PC Magazines.

07/01/2002
Microsoft Welcomes
Visual Byte as a
Microsoft Certified Partner

Visual Byte is pleased to be officially welcomed by Microsoft as a new Microsoft Certified Partner. The benefits available to us as members of this select program will provide us more timely and direct access to information that will enable us to provide higher quality and more comprehensive services to our clients.

06/27/2002
Better Measure 1.01 Passes Logo Tests


PRESS RELEASE

This week, Visual Byte became the first company to successfully submit and pass a Pocket PC application with the certification process managed by Handango who is a partner in the Microsoft Mobile2Market initiative. "Better Measure ” will soon be one of the first Pocket PC applications to carry the “Designed for Windows for Pocket PC Logo” announced by Microsoft in late April of this year. Clint Patterson, vice president of product marketing for Handango says, "We're glad to be working with Microsoft to promote the benefits of certification to our more than 8,000 Handango Software Partners and bring additional exposure to great, certified apps like Visual Byte's Better Measure."

05/3/2002
Better Measure 1.01 released

Visual Byte is pleased to anounce the release of their new unit conversion utility. Better Measure offers a quick and easy way to do unit, currency and temperature conversion on your Pocket PC.

05/3/2002
Temp Measure 1.0 released

Visual Byte is pleased to anounce the release of their free temperature conversion utility. Temp Measure provides an easy way to convert temperatures between the five different methods of temperature measurement.

03/25/2002
ROI Stock Trade SIM 1.0 released

Visual Byte is pleased to anounce the release of their new trade simulator tool. ROI Stock Trade SIM offers a powerful way to examine trading alternatives and commissions with virtually any broker.

11/27/2001
Loan SIM 1.0 released

Visual Byte is pleased to anounce the release of their new loan simulator tool. Loan SIM offers a powerful way to examine payment options on virtually any standard debt or loan.

11/05/2001
Visual Byte web site encorporates online E-Store driven by Handango

Visual Byte today launched new online shopping support to allow customers to purchase and download our products directly from our site. Handango provides back end support to ensure shopping security and provide our customers with high quality transaction support.

10/22/2001
ICon Ship 1.0 released

Visual Byte is pleased to anounce the release of a new developer tool for eVB developers. ICon Ship is a utility that helps developers of Pocket PC software distribute their applications with their own icons.

09/26/2001
Mortgage SIM 1.0 released

Visual Byte is pleased to anounce the release of their new mortgage simulator tool for realestate agents, lenders and homebuyers. Mortgage SIM offers both Canadian and US Pocket PC users a powerful way to examine their mortgage payment options.

09/14/2001
BackUp and Strip 1.0 released

Visual Byte is pleased to anounce the release of a new developer tool for eVB developers. BackUp and Strip is a utility that helps developers of Pocket PC software release smaller .vb files for distribution.

09/12/2001
Morris 1.0 released

Visual Byte is pleased to anounce the release of Morris 1.0 for the Pocket PC. Morris features remote play via Infrared, Interenet, Wireless and Lan connections. There are 5 computerized opponents that range in difficulty to challenge the Pocket PC player.

09/07/2001
Microsoft welcomes Visual Byte into Mobile Solutions Partner Program

Visual Byte today joined Microsoft's Mobile Solution Partner Program to continue to develop our expertise and market connections in the Mobile software market.

09/02/2001
Morris Beta 2 tops 1000 downloads in only 10 days.

The number of downloads of the Beta version of Morris continues to grow as it very quickly passes through the 1000 mark today.

08/24/2001
Morris Beta 2 released.

Visual Byte announces the release of the second Beta version of the popular board game "Morris".
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