Microsoft has announced that upcoming Windows Phone 7.5 Refresh code named as “Tango” will have low profile 256 MB devices which would make Microsoft’s entry in to mobile market by delivering low cost Windows Phone devices. All existing Windows Phone devices are having 512 MB RAM, considering the mid-range or low entry market Microsoft has… Continue reading
Category: Windows
Windows is a 1980 thriller starring Talia Shire, Joseph Cortese and Elizabeth Ashley, directed by Gordon Willis.
Emily Hollander (Shire) is the subject of a lesbian obsession at the hands of Andrea Glassen (Ashley), her next-door neighbor. As Emily begins dating detective Bob Luffrono (Cortese), Andrea overflows with jealousy, spying on Hollander through her own window.
The film was the subject of many protests from gay rights activists who accused the film of being homophobic and resorting to hateful stereotypes of lesbians.
Announced: Windows Server 8 is now Windows Server 2012
Microsoft has announced the name for upcoming Windows Server 8(which is BETA now, and you can download it through MSDN Subscriptions) and it will be called as “Windows Server 2012” . Windows Server 2012 includes a number of new features or feature changes. It would be purely a Server for Cloud and User interface similar… Continue reading
Microsoft announces Windows Azure Media Services
Microsoft announced new cloud based media services (called as Windows Azure Media Services)and guidance to better enable content providers and customers to tap into the power of cloud computing, at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) 2012 conference. Windows Azure Media Services is a cloud-based PaaS solution that enables you to efficiently build and deliver… Continue reading
Windows Phone Development–Choosers and Launchers
While doing windows phone application programming you will come across some requirements such as: a. “Selecting a contact from contact book” b. “Open up Camera, take a photo and upload or use the photo” c. “Open a link in Web Browser” How you can achieve these typical tasks? Answer is pretty simple Windows Phone SDK… Continue reading
Windows Phone 7.5[MANGO] and Windows Phone 7.1 OS
Microsoft has released Windows Phone 7.5 on Sept 27th 2011. The Operating system itself been initially been called as “Windows Phone 7.5” code named as “Windows Phone MANGO”. The underlying operating system version is Windows Phone 7.1, even though it is been marketed as “Windows Phone 7.5”. There is been lots of confusion among people… Continue reading
Windows Phone "Tango" to be renamed to Windows Phone 7.5 “Refresh” and Windows Phone 8 for the future
Microsoft’s announced upcoming Windows Phone OS code named as Windows Phone “Tango” to be renamed to Windows Phone 7.5 Refresh. This is inline with Microsoft’s cloud feature specific Windows Phone OS called as Windows Phone “Apollo” or Windows Phone 8. Windows Phone 7 “Tango” a.k.a Windows Phone 7.5 REFRESH The upcoming Windows Phone update… Continue reading
Introducing Monocross – A cross-platform MVC pattern for mobile development in .NET/C# and Mono
I am evaluating different cross platform mobile development solutions. This is just a quick introduction to a framework I came across. What is cross platform mobile applications? A mobile application developed in such a way that it will work or run on most of the mobile platforms such as Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Blackberry etc.… Continue reading
Mobile Application Development
Mobile Applications are rapidly developing segment in the global mobile sector. Developing mobile applications targeting different mobile platforms such as Windows Phone, iOS, Android, Blackberry and Bada(Samsung’s Proprietary OS) is the trend setter now. Quoting from Wikipedia Mobile application development is the process by which application software is developed for small low-power handheld devices such… Continue reading
Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1 Updated to Final
Microsoft has released final version of Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1 which includes the support for Windows 8 and 256 MB devices for debugging. (previously I blogged about the release of CTP version of the same here) Windows Phone… Continue reading
My Hands On with –Windows 8 Consumer Preview, Visual Studio 11 and SQL Server 2012
Recent days there has been some amazing releases by Microsoft such as long awaited Windows 8 Consumer Preview with lots of changes since Windows 8 Developer Preview. Windows 8™ is latest operating system by Microsoft – is mainly targeting Tablet and touch enabled devices which can hold the windows 8 operating system. Windows 8 consumer… Continue reading