Windows Media Player Control is now available for Microsoft's
Pocket Internet Explorer (IE) browser, allowing digital-media
playback directly from a Web page viewed with Pocket IE on the
company's Pocket PC 2002 platform.
The ActiveX control will also let Web developers and corporate
users create customised wireless digital media applications for
devices running the Pocket PC 2002 platform, allowing the same
play, pause, stop and information retrieval functions available
through Windows Media for desktop PCs.
Content can be downloaded and played back, or streamed live with a
wireless or wireline connection, the company said.
With its new wireless media functionality, Microsoft hopes to
bolster support for the Pocket PC 2002 platform, which is battling
head-to-head with other handheld platforms.
