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April 10, 2012
February 23, 2012
Migrating Phone 7 applications to Windows 8
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February 8, 2012
Phone 7, Mango, Windows 8, Windows 8 on ARM, Apollo (Phone 8)... phew!
It is hardly two years since Microsoft had showcased Windows Phone 7. The SDK came out in September 2010. In Asia the availability of Phone 7 has just completed an year and we have already had a version upgrade to Mango (7.5).
On desktop/tablet side, Windows 8 developer preview was first made widely available in Build Conference in September 2011. The beta is expected anytime soon and then later this year the final release of this product.
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February 2, 2012
Location Based Services Value Chain
Location Based Services (LBS) are increasingly becoming
popular especially in the consumer market. Due to inherent capability in
devices to provide the user location and penetration of smartphones, Location
based products and services are readily adopted by the consumers and
enterprises as well.
Location Based Services take the geo-spatial data as an
input from the resource or a device and provides the services that are relevant
to that location. Multiple approaches can be used to locate a resource and
provide the context based service to the user. In this Blog I will limit my
discussion to the Device-Centric approach in which the LBS Provider gives the
app to the subscriber, who then uses it to check-in at a specific location.
Check-in is the term commonly used to refer the arrival of a user at a particular
location.
December 26, 2011
Immersive Experiences with Microsoft Technologies
In Immersive Technologies Track we are working on some exciting technologies related to data visualization, touch, gesture and augmented reality. The main products on our radar are Phone 7, Surface and Kinect. We recently published a technology roundtable newletter sharing some insights of our work. You can get to the newsletter from here.
Comments are welcome.
November 14, 2011
Silverlight 5
I had talked about Silverlight 5 earlier here and here. Though Silverlight is still used to build RIA apps for the web and is the platform of choice for Phone 7/7.5 development, Microsoft has not been very forthcoming on its future.
According to Mary-Jo Microsoft is about to release Silverlight 5. This is good, but it is also clear that Silverlight no longer retains the status of platform for cross device compatibility. That has been taken over by HTML 5.
September 28, 2011
Phone 7 upgraded to 7.5
Just last week I had talked about the Mango update was expected in a week or so and am glad to have it deployed on our device. As expected this update is versioned as 7.5. The update experience was pretty seamless.
The issue is that all of the applications that we had deployed earlier (built on version 7.0) are marked as revoked and need to uninstall them. The developer account also got locked and need to unlock this. And the market place is also finally accessible in India as well.
September 22, 2011
Mango Release
After seemingly never ending wait, the time finally has almost come. A colleague pointed out to this update on Phone 7 blog, which says that we should hope to see the update being rolled out to existing devices in a week or two. Am eagerly waiting for it, to deploy the Mango SDK based applications on the updated device and finally see them work (there is only so much we can get on emulator)
September 12, 2011
Tombstoning in Phone 7 (Mango version)
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