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 […]
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Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, United States that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions. Established on April 4, 1975 to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800, Microsoft rose to dominate the home computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems.
Microsoft would also come to dominate the office suite market with Microsoft Office. The company has diversified in recent years into the video game industry with the Xbox and its successor, the Xbox 360 as well as into the consumer electronics and digital services market with Zune, MSN and the Windows Phone OS. The ensuing rise of stock in the company’s 1986 initial public offering (IPO) made an estimated three billionaires and 12,000 millionaires…
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 […]
Read more →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 […]
Read more →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 […]
Read more →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. […]
Read more →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 […]
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