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IBM's Reading Lounge is promoting a new book by Steve Makofsky titled Pocket PC Network Programming. It is written for the introductory programmer and shows you how to build network aware apps. However, you'll probably have to muddle through some pages of OSI structure (blahh! I had enough of that in Networking Essentials ) . Anyway, might be a good place to start if you are wanting to create a Pocket PC app that will work on the Internet. The book begins by focusing on how to write Internet-oriented applications. These first chapters do an excellent job of presenting the theoretical aspects of networking -- the OSI model for instance -- as well as more tangible protocols, such as WinInet and the Winsock API. From there, the author gets into Windows-specific interfaces and utilities. Here the reader learns how to use shared drivers and printers through a network, and to communicate with serial and infrared interfaces. The remote access capabilities of the Pocket PC are then covered, which includes dialup network communication and the Connection Manager. Building on this, the reader can also expect to gain insight into the Pocket PC Phone Edition, learning how to send and receive Short Message Service (SMS) messages and communicate with a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card. The SIM API section was revelatory to me. Did you know, for example, that a SIM card contains a mini-file system in which each file has a number instead of a name? Makofsy also dedicates a chunk of the book to specific APIs, including how to synchronize with a desktop computer, the Pocket Outlook Object Model, and the Mail API. Finally, the book wraps up with an overview of the new .Net Compact Framework.
) . Anyway, might be a good place to start if you are wanting to create a Pocket PC app that will work on the Internet. 
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