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Following on from my rant on the widgets , Richard Wong – venture capitalist and guest TechCrunch blogger – makes the point with more finesse, although we disagree in technology beliefs. In his post ‘ In Mobile, Fragmentation is Forever. Deal With It’ , Wong lays out the issues of the mobile marketplace and why we aren’t going to see it simplified with ‘common standards’. He also spells out how to approach a mobile application project in a pragmatic manner. Here are the first two items from his list...
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There is a really interesting write up of several MSR projects in the topic of natural user interfaces over on the Research.Microsoft.com site. One project I’m very interested in is led by Desney Tan, a senior researcher in the Visualisation and Interaction for Business and Entertainment (VIBE) group. Tan is working on providing ‘mobile natural user interfaces’, which he demonstrated with his project called ‘NUI with Physiological Sensing’. The demo has two parts. One utilizes electromyography—the...
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Shout it from the roof tops Windows Phone 7 Series application development uses Silverlight and XNA!! If you’re a .Net developers today – you just became a Windows Phone developer, able to deliver rich applications with Silverlight and amazing games with XNA. Charlie Kindel summarises the latest Windows Phone 7 Series announcements on his blog post here . The Twitter Q&A from the announcement is here . Most frequently asked questions: Windows Phone 7 Series is not backwards compatible to Windows...
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So you now really want to learn Silverlight and XNA to be ready to build applications for the coolest new phone on the block? Here is a list of resources to get you going: XNA: Setting up XNA Games Studio on your machine . You can install the current version of XNA on your Windows PC today. This isn’t the Windows Phone 7 Series compatible version but it does allow you to learn XNA by building applications for Windows and Xbox 360 (it supports Zune too but I’ll assume you don’t have a device to run...