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AvantGo will shutter it’s service on June 30th, and it’s a sad end to an era. 

For those of us “veteran” Pocket PC users, AvantGo was one of the first ways we captured news items and articles from various sites to read at our leisure on our Pocket PC’s.  I recall when (back in the early years of this decade)  I’d be sitting on a plane, tethered with a cable to my Motorola StarTac phone, doing one last sync of AvantGo before they closed the door to the plane!  I thought I was the man, reading web clips from the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and numerous other sites! 

But times have changed, and now with robust browsers, fast data connections, podcasts and RSS feeds, AvantGo has gone the way of the dodo bird.  I had not used AvantGo in years, but it’s always sad to see something that provided such a great service fade off into the sunset.  I felt the same way when Mapopolis folded.  Developing apps & services sure can be brutal…