Archive for March 16th, 2010
Mar
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At MIX10, Joe Belfiore showed off more details of Windows Phone 7 Series operating system that hasn’t been shown publically before. Obviously being a phone, one point of focus was the actual calling experience. Making a call brings up an overlay that sits on top of the previous screen faded out, a nice touch over replacing
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Mar
16
At MIX10 Windows Phone 7 Series team are handing out a very special picture book all about our favorite user interface, Metro. There is 47 pages full of beautiful text and icons that explain where Metro comes from, what Metro represents and what guide Metro: No Comments » - Posted by DG
Mar
16
“The first online display advertisement — a simple, clickable image — appeared online over 16 years ago. Fast forward to 2010. You're likely to see display ads — image, text, video and rich-media formats — on most of the websites that you visit. These ads are crucial to the Internet. They provide information about thousands of
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Mar
16
With so many different types of websites adopting OpenSocial it has become clear that a "one size fits all" approach isn't appropriate for the OpenSocial spec. “Modularity was a key goal in OpenSocial 1.0 iteration, allowing implementers to pick and choose elements of OpenSocial. OpenSocial 1.0 also defines extension points so containers can add functionality not
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Mar
16
At MIX10 where Windows Phone 7 and Silverlight 4 became the best match since peanut butter and chocolate! Mike Harsh joins John Papa to demonstrate the WP7 device and the tooling used to create apps for it. Mike covers the phone, how to write a Silverlight app for it, how to run that app in the
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Mar
16
At MIX10, Microsoft announced Silverlight 4 RC. In this webcast, John and Adam discusses some of the most impactful features in Silverlight 4 RC and review the concept behind the new two-day Building Business Applications course. You can also check 60+ page whitepaper that covers full feature list of all the new
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Mar
16
At MIX10, Todd Brix revealed that Microsoft will be delivering a Windows Update-like service for all Windows Phone 7 Series phones. The update service in WP7S is designed to give users improvements to operating system quickly and reliably. It’ll be prioritized first on delivering performance, stability and performance improvements and when appropriate, both in terms of
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Mar
16
At SXSW, Twitter introduced a new platform called “@anywhere” that’ll allow web sites to integrate Twitter features more easily. It’ll launch with 13 big brand partners. When the new platform is launched, you'll start noticing the ability to Tweet from some of the web's most trafficked sites. Twitter says web developers can just drop a few
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Mar
16
Facebook appears to have started enabling users to generate custom two-dimensional QR codes. By looking at the embedded screenshot, there’re two types of QR codes: a personal barcode or a “status QR barcode”. This also seems to appear on Facebook Fan Pages. Judging from the tweets about this, the QR codes don’t seem to
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Mar
16
Microsoft launched three new webcams: LifeCam HD-5000, LifeCam HD-5001 and LifeCam HD-6000 for Notebooks, with “TrueColor Technology,” a groundbreaking new image processing technology that provides superior color and brightness in even the worst lighting conditions. TrueColor Technology automatically adjusts the picture quality to provide a more colorful video whether out on the porch with bright sunshine
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Mar
16
Hitwise is reporting that Facebook is the ‘most visited site’ in the U.S. last week, topping Google for the first time. Facebook.com received 7.07% of all internet visits during the week that ended on March 13th, with Google getting 7.03%. Facebook also saw a 10% increase in search volume query in the month of February, a
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Mar
16
Google Message Security has received the Reader Trust Award for Best Managed Security Service. “At Google, we think about the user experience in all that we do, so we’re especially honored to receive this award from the Reader Trust Voting Panel, which consists of security and technology experts from large, medium and small enterprises
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Mar
16
Yahoo! Labs invite to join a new experiment called “Predictalot,” a game that takes NCAA tournament pick ‘em to entirely new extremes. “Here’s how it works. You can invest virtual points on almost any prediction you can think of about the men’s college basketball tournament, like “Duke will advance further than Texas,” or “Every
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Mar
16
At MIX10, Microsoft revealed that the application deployment on Windows Phone 7 Series will be limited to only the Marketplace. An obvious point of concern from this announcement is the fact that Microsoft will inherit more “control” over what applications can be deployed to end-users. Microsoft said “they’ll publish criteria for WP7S developers that they claim
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Mar
16
At MIX10, Microsoft released an early list of companies and developers working on apps for its upcoming Windows Phone 7 Series devices. On stage at Mix, the company showed a Netflix application that will let people use Windows Phone 7 Series devices to watch streaming content from the movie service's
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