[Rooster Cogburn]

Does anyone out there have an HTC Hero (Droid) and use HTC Sync to sync with outlook on an XP machine?

I got the phone and absolutely love it. about a day or 2 in HTC sync just stopped working. The error said something about the program being corrupted. We have tried to uninstall and reinstall and tried other versions and no luck. When we uninstall, it still leaves some of the regestry elements installed.

There are a bunch of forum messages out there on the web with folks having this same issue and can't get HTC to help. It seems that they don't care about XP users since they just put out a patch to fix the issue for Windows 7 users. It seems to have something to do with service pack 3 and one other windows update noone can pinpoint.

I am trying to get us on exchange soon, but I haven't been able to sync for close to a month. So, help before I have to switch back to a windows mobile device.

Oh yea, my carrier's tech support folks have been worthless on the issue.

[adam42381]

Reinstall the program, if possible, then download the free version of Revo Uninstaller and use it to uninstall the program and delete any related files. It should get rid of any hidden files that were installed with the program. Once you do that try installing again and see if that fixes the issue.

[Sly Fox]

I can't think of a good reason to still use Exchange. Paging Scorcho.

[Rooster Cogburn]

It would allow me to sink over the air instead of using the cable to the PC. Unless you know something I don't.

[Sly Fox]

Gmail and its associated clients are better and free. Make the switch especially now that you are in the Android family.

[Rooster Cogburn]

Gmail and its associated clients are better and free. Make the switch especially now that you are in the Android family.

I really am not comfortable giving google my calendar and all my contacts. Plus I need to use work e-mail not g mail

[El Scorcho]

I can't think of a good reason to still use Exchange.

Exchange is still Microsoft's flagship product, IMO. It is the best product they've ever made and it really works well (with competent operators).

I'm not familiar with how Exchange sync'ing works on the Android platform, though. On Windows Mobile and the iPhone it actually uses Microsoft's ActiveSync client with gives you a lot of advantages. For example, if I lose my iPhone I can log into my Webmail account at LU and click a button that will send a push command to the iPhone to reset itself and do a total wipe.

I also like all of the over-the-air sync'ing of contacts, calendars and the push mail stuff. Since I have an account at LU, it's all free to me.

On the other hand, I only use Exchange for business use. So.

I don't think any of that meant anything. Carry on.

[ALUmnus]

it really works well (with competent operators).

Ahhahahaha!

[Sly Fox]

I really am not comfortable giving google my calendar and all my contacts.

But you feel fine with sharing same info with Bill Gates. Hmmmmm

Plus I need to use work e-mail not g mail

I get that. But businesses across the nation are making the move right now from Exchange to Gmail. So the move may not be in your distant future. I know the firm I work with is loving the transition.

[ALUmnus]

I really am not comfortable giving google my calendar and all my contacts.

But you feel fine with sharing same info with Bill Gates. Hmmmmm

http://biggovernment.com/capitolconfide ... claughlin/

According to a post on Google’s Official Blog at the time, Buzz was touted as a service that was built “right into Gmail, so you don’t have to peck out an entirely new set of friends from scratch… Buzz brings this network to the surface by automatically setting you up to follow the people you email with and chat with the most.”

And therein lies the problem… Almost immediately, Buzz was lambasted for taking huge liberties with Gmail users’ privacy. By default, the Gmail contacts of each new Buzz user were made publicly available in their Google profiles for the world to see. The Buzz-o-sphere even included “follow” links, which meant that any prying snoop could harvest the contact lists of other Buzz users as well.

Well, now we’ve learned that one of those who apparently got swept up in the Buzz privacy imbroglio was none other than Andrew McLaughlin, the controversial Deputy Chief Technology Officer in the Obama White House who was formerly Google’s top lobbyist.

McLaughlin works in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and is in charge of all Internet policy for the Administration. The two key components of OSTP’s mission are the creation of an “Open and Transparent Democracy”, and ironically, “Safeguarding the Privacy of Every American” by … “holding businesses accountable for violations of personal privacy.” (More on this in a moment.)

McLaughlin’s Buzz profile (which he quickly made private after his contacts were exposed) is enlightening to say the least. It includes a treasure trove of movers and shakers in high-tech, Internet public policy, and venture capital circles.

But it includes much, much more. At least 28 of the folks Google Buzz pulled from McLaughlin’s Gmail contact list are employed by…Google! And, as you can see from the screenshots below (captured before he made his contact lists private) McLaughlin’s Gmail appears to include a “who’s who” of Google senior lobbyists and lawyers from across the globe:

McLaughlin says that Buzz’s privacy flaws “violate my sense of expectations.” “What should I do” he asks. Turn off Buzz? “Any other ideas?” Whoa! That’s some serious “holding businesses accountable” talk there. With a former Googler holding businesses accountable for privacy violations, Eric Schmidt must be quaking in his boots!

The exceptionally close relationship between Google and the Obama Administration is no secret. But it does raise questions when Google’s former top lobbyist, now serving in the executive office of the president, is using his former employer’s private email and social networking tools (Gmail and Buzz) to communicate privately with bunches of Google lobbyists and lawyers. What are they communicating privately about? Perhaps “shaping policy that affects Google’s rivals”?

It raises additional questions when a government employee (McLaughlin) who is specifically charged with “holding businesses accountable for violations of personal privacy” is using the very tool that violated that privacy to communicate privately with the lobbyists of the company that developed the tool in the first place.

This may all be much ado about nothing of course, and perhaps McLaughlin deserves the benefit of the doubt. But were it another administration’s close relationship with a corporate supporter – GWBII and Halliburton come to mind – you can bet that there would be hell to pay.