Following our movie theme today we would like to pass along a fun little contest being sponsored by Palm. With Samuel L Jackson’s new flick Snakes on a Plane flying a comfortable holding pattern in theaters this week PDAToday has been authorized to run a contest to give away two tickets to SOAP.

The Sprint Palm Treo plays a small but pivotal appearance in the film.

To enter all you need to do is send us a picture your Palm Treo featuring a picture of a snake and/or plane on the screen. We will post the winner and possibly a couple of runners up. Send your entries to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) Don’t have a Sprint Palm Treo? (insert clever Sprint sales pitch here) Actually that’s not a problem, we will also accept pictures from non Palm devices all you hve to do is click here then send us your non Palm pics. Sorry our sponsors made us do that

Unlike our Tom Cruise/Robert Smith spoof earlier, this is a real contest and tickets will be mailed directly from Palms’ PR firm to the winner.

Good luck and dont get bit!

PSHUG.org March Meeting, 3/28/2006

This month, your chance to vote for our new board, or run for office yourself! 
Also, a great guest speaker, Anil Dhawan, the Program Manager for Connectivity on Windows Mobile.  He leads a team that defines the user interface for Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and cellular technologies on Windows Mobile devices.  Anil represents Windows Mobile in the Bluetooth SIG and also maintains a blog on the topic: http://blogs.msdn.com/anil_dhawan .
Agenda

• ActiveSync with Bluetooth: How to setup and sync a mobile device using Bluetooth, with troubleshooting.
• Guest Speaker: Anil Dhawan Anil has been featured in several Channel9 webcasts involving Bluetooth and will be sharing his thoughts on the technology as well as demonstrating some cool stuff!
• Networking, Open Discussion and Pizza
• Elections! Members will vote and our new President and board will discuss plans and goals with the members

Meeting Sponsor: MVOX Electronics Inc. mVox has given us an MVOX MV900 bluetooth handsfree speaker phone for our monthly drawing. http://www.mvox.com/mv900.html
Date/Time:
Tuesday, 3/28/2006
7:00 PM
Location:
Microsoft RedWest Building E – Emerald Room
Redmond, WA
Turn off 148th Ave NE at NE 56st St. (look for the traffic light and the “Microsoft” sign)
It’s just a little farther down 148th from the PSHUG Nov. and June location, the same location as the Feb. PSHUG meeting.
Map:
http://members.microsoft.com/careers/mslife/locations/images/north_campus.jpg

With 2006 rapidly approaching we have been quietly prepping a Porsche 911 Carrera Targa for sponsorship. We will be starting slow with a few autocross and track days to get our feet wet for the 2006 season. Also we will use the Porsche for our new install proving ground for mobile products like GPS, Satellite Radio, Windows Media devices, etc.

So far upgrades have included a Fabspeed exhaust system, Bilstein sport shocks, Rennline triangulated strut brace and custom Steve Wong performance chip. So far we have reduced the vehicle weight to about 2800lbs.

Here is a video clip of the Dyno run we did at CarbConn a couple of weeks back. We ended up with 200 RWHP (rear wheel horse power). That works out to about 240 HP assuming about 15% drive train losses.

We are still looking for a couple additional sponsors for logo placement on the car, send us a note if you want to see your logo in our reviews photos and track videos.

Special thanks to Craig @ Rennstore for taking the video of our dyno run.