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2010 the year of smartphone speech recognition?

paulfo — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:37:56 GMT

‘ 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....(read more)

Poll: UK MSDN Flash 10th March

paulfo — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:11:11 GMT

This poll is offered to subscribers of the UK MSDN Flash newsletter. If you’re not receiving the newsletter sign up here !...(read more)

MIX: Windows Phone sessions full abstracts published

paulfo — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:38:24 GMT

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 ....(read more)

TechCrunch: In Mobile, Fragmentation is forever. Deal with it

paulfo — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:46:05 GMT

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...(read more)

Microsoft Research Natural User Interface projects

paulfo — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:02:59 GMT

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...(read more)

Windows Phone Gaming and Rich apps

paulfo — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:29:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Ramping dev skills for Windows Phone 7 Series

paulfo — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:27:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Augmented Reality games with real world drones!

paulfo — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:04:41 GMT

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...(read more)

Are Widgets worth it?

paulfo — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:05:31 GMT

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...(read more)

engadget shows LG Windows Phone 7 Series

paulfo — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:35:20 GMT

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!...(read more)

VBUG4THOUGHT – SPRING CONFERENCE Thurs 29th April 2010

paulfo — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:33:02 GMT

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...(read more)

Poll: UK MSDN Flash 24th Feb

paulfo — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:21:58 GMT

This poll is offered to subscribers of the UK MSDN Flash newsletter. If you’re not receiving the newsletter sign up here !...(read more)

Windows Phone Marketplace updates

paulfo — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:18:58 GMT

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...(read more)

Copying files to Windows Azure Blob Storage

paulfo — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:57:25 GMT

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...(read more)

More Windows Phone 7 Series

paulfo — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:21:00 GMT

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...(read more)