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‘ Speech technology on cell phones getting better..’ states the Silicon Valley’s Mercury News . Microsoft’s Tellme Mobile Speech group leading the way with automotive and mobile phone speech recognition technology.
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If you are chomping at the bit to learn about Windows Phone 7 Series development you’ll be pleased to know the full session abstracts are now published on the Mix site .
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Parrot a French company, has created a quadricopter with near military grade algorithms for flight stability enabling it to compensate for breezes and shifting air currents. The drone can be controlled over a wifi network via iPhone and iPod touch devices...
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I attended the Screen Yorkshire hosted Vodafone AppStar developer day in Sheffield yesterday. It was an interesting day on many fronts but not how the organisers might have hoped. 50’ish people attended the afternoon presentations – at least one taking...
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engadget has photos and a brief video of LG’s Windows Phone 7 Series device. Details are here . Points of interest: Slip out keyboard, small size, me like!
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Don’t miss out on the VBUG4THOUGHT spring conference. Booking is already open! http://www.vbug.co.uk/Events/April-2010/VBUG-4Thought-Spring-Conference-Birmingham.aspx Heritage Motor Centre, Gaydon, Warwicks CV35 0BJ With the imminent release of Microsoft...
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Todd Brix has published a new blog post talking about the current status of Windows Phone and some planned upgrades going forward. Its only been a year since Windows Phone marketplace was announced and 4 months since it has been up and running (where...
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I’m compelled to share with you my simple program for copying files into Windows Azure blob storage. Now you may already have this sussed – it isn’t that cutting edge – but when I searched for examples I found such a range of out dated Azure material...
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If you want to get into the detail of Windows Phone 7 Series here are the top resources: Presspass demos from today's press conference Insight into our strategy: http://www.windowsphone7series.com/news/News2 Engadget’s Live Feed: http://www.engadget...
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All the detail including interactive demo is at http://www.windowsphone7series.com/ Looking so cool, the live twitter feed is positive about the UI :-) Using key Microsoft products and services to help deliver a compelling user experience; Windows...
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It is really exciting to be so close to a product launch, but even more so when you anticipate a good product. The VS2010 team have really pulled out all the stops. Not just in feature implementations, but more importantly in listening. I don’t remember...