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I’ve been working with UK XNA MVP Charles Humphrey on project ZuneRay. ZuneRay is a raycasting engine built by Charles’ for the Zune HD using XNA 3.1. With Windows Phone 7 Series in the pipeline we used the Zune HD as a target test platform with the intention of porting it to WP7S once the tools became...

‘ 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.

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...

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 holiday from work to do so. But despite an enormous...

This article on TechCrunch Europe really got me excited, so I jumped over to the UK site immediately. Although still running the site is clearly getting pounded as perf sucks. However, this move can only serve to increase the volume of mobile applications as back room devs across the land look for a...

At Over The Air 09 my overnight coding challenge was to make a modern location aware version of the cult classic ‘whack-a-mole’. It was to go like this: hit play, and a map of your immediate 50 square metres appears on your device with you at the centre. Very quickly there after, moles start to appear...

I had two sessions to present at Over The Air 09 . The first was all about the new Widget runtime included in Windows Mobile 6.5 . The runtime brings a Microsoft implementation of W3C Widget support to Windows Mobile for the first time. Our implementation is coupled with the launch of our very own mobile...

I’ve set myself a small challenge. I am attending the Over The Air event this Friday/Saturday. in theory, I’m manning the Microsoft stand and delivering a couple of sessions while I’m there. But, this is a codeathon event, so along with all the other delegates I thought I’d give myself a challenge to...

I’ve been lucky enough to obtain my very own HTC Touch Pro2 running Windows Mobile 6.5 :-) Its been awhile since new gadgets landed on my desk – so to say I am keen to play with it, would be an understatement. It is also exciting to be back in the world of mobile development. I did a fair amount in the...

The next version of Windows Mobile could be available on new devices as soon as Oct 6th. Devicewire are already taking pre-orders for the HTC Touch2. Although the probably the first Windows Mobile 6.5 device in the UK, it doesn’t have any of the cool new hardware I’m looking forward to; namely accelerometer...