Pradeep over at wmpoweruser.com has published an email that is being sent out to the (apparent) legions of developers jumping ship from WebOS to Windows. The email is from Brandon Watson, top man at Microsoft’s Windows Phone developer relations. You have to hand it to Microsoft: They really do know what they’re doing when it [...]
I’m sure there’s a lot of executives reading who wouldn’t mind the contract to build 300 apps for Nokia. Alas the opportunity has been snapped up by Canadian firm, Polar Mobile. Congratulations chaps. The focus for Polar is obviously Windows Phone — and this news demonstrates Nokia isn’t hanging around. Microsoft has already made good [...]
Here at Uplinq 2011 we interviewed the well-known mobile blogger Jeb Brilliant, who runs aBrilliantBlog. We asked Jeb to give us his perspective on the Uplinq event and the latest Nokia announcements. More from Jeb
Here’s the full release from today’s announcement from Nokia regarding their definitive agreement with Microsoft: Espoo, Finland and Redmond, US – Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) today announced the signing of a definitive agreement on a partnership that will result in a new global mobile ecosystem, utilizing the very complementary assets of both [...]
Jay Greene over at CNET posted a useful overview of Microsoft’s latest activities with Windows Phone. Microsoft offered today its most detailed look yet into the next version of Windows Phone, code-named Mango, at the companys annual show for Web and phone developers. via Microsoft gives details on next Windows Phone OS | Microsoft – [...]
I was very interested to meet with Gideon Clifton, CEO at upcoming taxi-bookings service, TaxiStop. Gideon was at the BlueVia-Microsoft event to talk about the how TaxiStop is leveraging a plethora of Microsoft and BlueVia technologies to deliver its new service. I’m rather excited at the prospect of using TaxiStop to book my taxi journeys [...]
At the Microsoft-BlueVia event in London yesterday, Soujana Bhumkar, CEO of Cooliris was there to discuss how his company makes substantial use of both Microsoft and BlueVia technologies. I asked him to give us an overview of the LiveShare service and tell us about how he uses BlueVia/Microsoft to support his business. Over to Soujana:
I’ve been following the growth and success of the phenomenon that is TweetALondonCab for some time now so it was brilliant to be able to capture co-founder Richard Cudlip on camera today at the Microsoft-BlueVia event. Richard was there to talk about his organisation’s new arrangement with the upcoming Taxi service, TaxiStop (see the next [...]
At the Microsoft-BlueVia event in London today, I met up with Ron Stevenson, Product Manager at Schakra to find out more about their GoGoStat service and to learn more about how they plan to integrate BlueVia into their offering. Here’s his video:
BlueVia, Telefonica’s global developer platform has taken yet another step forward today. They’ve partnered with Microsoft to integrate BlueVia’s SDK directly into the Microsoft .NET Framework, Silverlight and Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. Over 6 million folk develop with these Microsoft tools so now network integration for almost any application is just a click-away. This is [...]
The chaps over at WPCentral picked up this video highlighting a new series of Windows Phone 7 video ads coming soon from Microsoft. The ads are particularly smart. They highlight some of the smart features of the operating system that help you get stuff done quickly. Complete with on-screen stopwatch. Believe it or not, WP7 [...]
How prescient was my post last year for April Fools Day? It had the headline: Microsoft’s $100 billion Nokia acquisition: Absolutely unbelievable! It ruffled a few feathers during the morning of the 1st of April. The story was slightly believable. You know, you could imagine Microsoft buying Nokia. But it’d have been a big gamble. And [...]
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