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The new Microsoft marketing campaign is Life Without Walls.

The slogan brings to mind Jeremy Bentham's panopticon prison without walls. Your punishment is your loss of privacy. Here's an earlier implemention.

TCP port 445 required for sharing

If BCM cannot connect to a shared database on another machine, but you can ping the machine and sqlcmd can connect to the database, then check that TCP port 445 is not blocked by a firewall. That port is used for NETBIOS traffic and that's how Windows detects other machines.

More here.

News in the sync with other devices topos

CompanionLink Software for Business Contact Manager Synchronization With BlackBerry, iPhone and Palm OS Devices.

BCM SDK

The BCM v3 SDK docs move around, without automatic forwarding.

Today they are here: Business Contact Manager for Outlook Developer Guide.